said Plum, according to Awful Announcing.<\/a> \u201cI made a really bad joke. Tough one. Hindsight is 20\/20. Because of the shirts, because of the fans, I should have known it was a way more serious moment than a typical All-Star Game. I went into that press conference very happy-go-lucky, we won, had a great weekend. My family was here; it was just a great time. The questions came in, and they were like CBA, this, this. And honestly, I was like, \u2018Hey, Team Clark, they didn\u2019t make it to the meeting either.\u2019 Just making a joke to make the room lighter.<\/p>\n\u201cI was making a joke that they\u2019re hungover, even though our team nickname was hungover. So at least we made it. Obviously, we\u2019re all on the same page. We all wore the shirts, we\u2019re all unified. If anything, I was more discouraged because it took away from the moment of what we were trying to do. You don\u2019t even get to respond. And if you do, you seem defensive. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t even say anything. I was like, alright. So, you just have to let it go, thick skin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans reacted to Plum on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one believes this, she clearly was motivated by animus towards Clark,\u201d one fan wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m no big Caitlin fan, but imagine if golf treated Tiger Woods like women\u2019s basketball has treated Clark. Golfers would be a lot less rich, that\u2019s for sure. WNBA has a golden goose, & female basketballers have taken to jealousy & bitterness to make the whole sport look awful,\u201d someone else added.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one will remember Kelsey when she retires. Clark is getting a statue someday and historians will chronicle how she pushed women\u2019s sports further along,\u201d another fan wrote.<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll be interesting to see if Clark responds to Plum\u2019s attempt to clear the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever All-Pro point guard Caitlin Clark has been the face of the WNBA since entering the league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[8730,46521,49,735,48,2803,631,632,82,630,1872],"class_list":["post-75908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2025-wnba-all-star-game","tag-awful-announcing","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-indiana-fever","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-all-star-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75908","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=75908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}