{"id":16326,"date":"2025-07-22T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16326\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:53:07","slug":"caitlin-clark-trolls-kelsey-plum-amid-wnba-all-star-game-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16326\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Trolls Kelsey Plum amid WNBA All-Star Game Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEED TO KNOW<br \/>\nCaitlin Clark is letting Kelsey Plum know how she feelsThe Indiana Fever star left a message in the comments of Plum&#8217;s post recapping the WNBA All-Star GameLast year, Plum aggressively guarded Clark in the game<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/caitlin-clark-8640752\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> is having a little fun at <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/sports\/kelsey-plum-recalls-lack-of-representation-for-girls-when-she-was-growing-up\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Plum<\/a>\u2019s expense!\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> On the same day that the Los Angeles Sparks guard drew ire from fans when she called out members of Team Clark for missing a WNBA All-Star meeting, the Indiana Fever star poked fun at Plum in her Instagram comments.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cThank u for the Nike ad,\u201d Clark, 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMUM3CvtDtG\/?img_index=1\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in response to a glam photo of Plum<\/a> in which she posed in front of a Nike swoosh.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Plum, who sported a leather-like top, green wide-legged pants and a Loewe handbag, is an Under Armour athlete, while Clark is endorsed by Nike.\n<\/p>\n<p> Kelsey Plum and Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Miller\/Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The WNBA phenom\u2019s response to Plum\u2019s post came hours after the latter appeared at a postgame press conference alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/sabrina-ionescu-balancing-2024-summer-olympics-with-wnba-season-exclusive-8658889\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Ionescu<\/a>, who played for Team Clark.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Plum said that players taking the court in their \u201cPay Us What You Owe Us\u201d shirts was &#8220;a very powerful moment&#8221; that had come together just that morning.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_17-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;As players, we didn&#8217;t know that that was going to happen,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was a genuine surprise. The t-shirt, as a united front, was determined this morning that we had a meeting for.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Then, Plum added, &#8220;Not to tattletale; zero members of Team Clark were very present for that.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_23-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Ionescu rolled her eyes and responded: &#8220;That needed to be mentioned.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_27-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> While Clark did not play in this year\u2019s game due to an ongoing groin injury, she and Plum also had a run-in at last year\u2019s All-Star Game.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_29-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HaterReport_\/status\/1947050512374714709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1947050512374714709%7Ctwgr%5Ee95b19d84d66269e98975ef758b695e5ed9f4a2f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fwnba%2Fcaitlin-clark-kelsey-plum-all-star-video\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow\">In footage from the 2024 game<\/a>, Plum can be seen aggressively defending Clark, pestering her in a full-court press not usually seen in exhibition games.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Caitlin Clark is letting Kelsey Plum know how she feelsThe Indiana Fever star left a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-16326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}