{"id":149341,"date":"2025-09-11T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149341\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:27:11","slug":"kelsey-plum-reclaims-wnba-thirst-trap-crown-in-jorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149341\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Plum Reclaims WNBA Thirst Trap Crown in Jorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plum is in her first season with the Sparks<\/p>\n<p>PublishedSeptember 11, 2025 11:42 AM EDT\u2022UpdatedSeptember 11, 2025 11:42 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Kelsey Plum\u2019s versatility has been on full display during the LA Sparks\u2019 September slate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">To be clear, I\u2019m not talking about her on-court game, which ChatGPT tells me includes averages of nearly 20 points and six assists during the ninth month of the calendar year. Nah, I\u2019m talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/kelsey-plum-weird-fans-hotel-autographs-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Plum&#8217;s<\/a> ability to seamlessly walk into an arena sans bra on one night, in a Canadian tuxedo on another and, most recently, in a pair of jorts that would seem ready-made for Jonn Cena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">You don\u2019t become a four-time All-Star without the confidence to walk through the tunnels of Staples Center, or whatever it\u2019s called now, with your plums essentially out for the world to see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Sure, on the surface, these seem like standard pregame walks toward the locker room. But if you look deeper (and I encourage you to click your way through the carousel for a glimpse at the Canadian tuxedo), you\u2019ll see that this is Plum\u2019s way of reclaiming her spot atop the WNBA\u2019s increasingly growing mantle of player thirst traps. It\u2019s a spot Plum held for years until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/culture\/bikini-dance-video-any-indication-sophie-cunninghams-recovery-from-knee-surgery-going-well\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Cunningham did her best<\/a> \u201996 Brady Anderson and unexpectedly dropped bombs all across social media this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">With Cunningham on the sidelines due to a late August knee injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/wnba-kelsey-plum-backtracks-caitlin-clark-jab-backlash-joke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plum <\/a>saw her opportunity and announced once again \u2018The champ is here,\u2019 with the help of some denim. Yes, Plum&#8217;s reintroduction into Instagram thirst traps technically began on the last night of August, but don&#8217;t let the facts get in the way of a good story; this is a September to remember.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">On your toes, Sophie!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Case in point, Plum might have just brought back baggy jeans shorts. And don&#8217;t argue with me, they haven&#8217;t been relevant or accepted since the early \u201890s and only if a braided belt was included. But on Wednesday, Plum said \u2019hold my beer.&#8217; \u2026Actually, scratch that, she more likely said \u2018hold my Smartwater,\u2019 and rocked the Fred Durst out of some knee-length denim before a date with the Dallas Wings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">We&#8217;ve just witnessed a weeks-long pregame masterclass from one of the WNBA&#8217;s IG OGs. Your move, Sophie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Follow along on X @<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OhioAF\" rel=\"nofollow\">OhioAF<\/a> or email me: anthony.farris@outkick.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plum is in her first season with the Sparks PublishedSeptember 11, 2025 11:42 AM EDT\u2022UpdatedSeptember 11, 2025 11:42&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-149341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}