{"id":436885,"date":"2026-01-27T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:32:07","slug":"i-ruined-it-for-white-women-kelsey-plum-breaks-silence-on-viral-popcorn-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436885\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I ruined it for white women&#8217;: Kelsey Plum breaks silence on viral popcorn video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2024, Kelsey Plum went viral without really meaning it.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the latest Post Moves podcast with Aliyah Boston and Candace Parker, Plum revealed the inside story of her &#8220;popcorn incident&#8221; at a Final Four game between Paige Bueckers&#8217; UConn Huskies and Caitlin Clark&#8217;s Iowa Hawkeyes nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only reason this happened was because the camera guy kept coming back, and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;What are you coming back for?&#8217; Plum said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kelsey Plum relives the famous popcorn incident \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S1oIaASayn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/S1oIaASayn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Post Moves with Candace Parker &amp; Aliyah Boston (@PostMovesShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PostMovesShow\/status\/2015937803679662167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 27, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/fever-caitlin-clark-wings-paige-bueckers-will-meet-again-sooner-anyone-expected\/eee1b8080e575e25530ea98b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fever&#8217;s Caitlin Clark and Wings&#8217; Paige Bueckers will meet again sooner than anyone expected<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plum, a two-time WNBA champion who won the Wooden Award during her NCAA career at Washington, made an assortment of faces to the camera as she munched on a bucket of popcorn. Only later did she realize that fans online had &#8220;cooked&#8221; her over the antics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ruined it for white women after this,&#8221; the Los Angeles Sparks guard humorously told Parker and Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sportingnews\/status\/1776427102142620117\" rel=\"nofollow\">original video<\/a> has over 110 million views on X. Fans probably won&#8217;t ever let her forget about it.<\/p>\n<p>More basketball news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In April 2024, Kelsey Plum went viral without really meaning it. Appearing on the latest Post Moves podcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-436885","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\/436885","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=436885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}