Aubrey Plaza tore her anterior cruciate ligament before attending the WNBA All-Star game

An unexpected knee injury didn’t keep actress Aubrey Plaza from her front-row seat at Saturday’s WNBA All-Star game, which the “White Lotus” star attended while icing her leg and using crutches. Plaza, 40, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament — a notoriously painful medical condition that sometimes requires surgery to repair — while playing “Knockout” at the Phoenix Mercury’s training facility earlier in the weekend, according to sports commentator Ryan Ruocco.

“My heart goes out to Aubrey Plaza,” Ruocco said over the loudspeakers at Phoenix Stadium, the site of this year’s All-Star game. “She came into this weekend with a healthy knee. She’s leaving with a torn ACL, thanks to a tough knockout at the Mercury Training Facility.”

Ruocco can be heard commenting on Plaza’s injury in a video clip of the game that the Seattle Storm shared on social media, in which the actor can be seen sitting courtside with at least one crutch and attempting to ice her knee with some help from soccer legend Megan Rapinoe and retired WNBA star Sue Bird, who were sitting next to her in the stands.

“The GOAT lends a helping hand to Aubrey Plaza,” the Seattle Storm captioned their social media post.

Plaza also shared several photos and videos from All-Star weekend on Instagram, including images of herself sitting on the court with Rapinoe and Bird, posing with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, and shaking hands with Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark, who played on the WNBA All-Star team alongside fellow fan-favorite rookie and former college rival Angel Reese. Plaza posted one photo in which she appeared to be lying down with her leg elevated, and another in which she held a WNBA All-Star edition basketball in her lap while apparently being pushed in a wheelchair.

The Emmy nominee didn’t explicitly discuss the nature of her knee injury, but she did appear to indicate that everything was fine with a thumbs-up to WNBA coach Cheryl Miller in the fourth quarter of Saturday night’s game, AZ Central reported.

Plaza has torn her ACL before, and that injury was also basketball-related. She was filming the 2016 documentary “The Pistol Shrimps,” about a women’s recreational basketball league in Los Angeles, when it happened, Plaza said in later interviews.

Saturday’s game was eagerly anticipated, especially since it marked Clark and Reese’s All-Star debuts. It ended in a victory for the WNBA team over Team USA, with Clark setting the All-Star Game rookie assist record, CBS Sports reported.