{"id":91536,"date":"2025-08-23T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91536\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:02:07","slug":"kelsey-plum-curses-in-live-tv-interview-after-hitting-game-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91536\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Plum curses in live TV interview after hitting game-winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WNBA teams to watch before playoffs<\/p>\n

USAT’s Meghan Hall and Sam Cardona-Norberg share WNBA wildcard teams to watch before the postseason is underway.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

Kelsey Plum hit a game-winning shot for the Los Angeles Sparks against the Dallas Wings.Plum’s postgame interview drew attention after she used an expletive while discussing the team’s defense.The Sparks are currently fighting for a playoff spot with nine games remaining.<\/p>\n

Last night’s WNBA contest between the Dallas Wings and Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> was one of the best this season, as Sparks guard Kelsey Plum<\/a> hit a bank shot as time expired, giving her team an 81-80 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another notable performance was that of Wings rookie guard Paige Buckers, who\u00a0set a WNBA single-game rookie scoring record<\/a> with 44 points on 17-21 shooting and became the first player in league history to shoot at least 80% from the field while scoring 40 or more points.<\/p>\n

But it was Plum who dropped the mic in her postgame interview<\/a> after scoring 20 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

“We got to play some (expletive) defense,” Plum said before walking off to the locker room.<\/p>\n

Dallas shot 48% for the game and made 11 of its 19 3-point attempts.<\/p>\n

Plum’s interview was broadcast live on television, allowing fans at Crypto.com Arena to hear her thoughts following a tough victory.<\/p>\n

Plum was asked about the playoff push the team is embarking on, and with nine games remaining, Los Angeles (17-18) is a half-game back of the eighth and final postseason spot.<\/p>\n

The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news \u2014 fast. Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA teams to watch before playoffs USAT’s Meghan Hall and Sam Cardona-Norberg share WNBA wildcard teams to watch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[62,3044,461,8452,49,48,7236,3459,1322,1321,26677,631,3043,632,44,1333,1345,8451,4658,20829,1334,12195,82,865,1320,1339,1461,10229,630,4134,4143],"class_list":["post-91536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ai","tag-angeles","tag-basketball","tag-bueckers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-wings","tag-enabled","tag-highlights","tag-kelsey","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-los","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-paige","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-plum","tag-positive","tag-sparks","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-story","tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-tx","tag-wings","tag-wnba","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91536","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=91536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}