{"id":539922,"date":"2026-03-23T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539922\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:56:09","slug":"fresh-off-a-historic-40-point-performance-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539922\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh off a historic 40-point performance in the \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">Fresh off a historic 40-point performance \u2060in the finals of the\u00a0Unrivaled\u00a0season,\u00a0WNBA\u00a0player Kelsey Plum is taking a different shot: an\u00a0AI\u00a0twin.\u00a0 Fans \u200ccan now voice \u200bcall with a digital version of the Los Angeles Sparks star. Plum \u200bannounced the twin on her personal Instagram account on March 6, asking her \u2060AI self for advice on her \u2060ponytail and coffee versus energy drink.\u00a0 Plum \u200bis the first professional female athlete to launch a verified \u2060AI digital \u200btwin. It\u2019s \u2060a move that\u2019s\u00a0earning plaudits\u00a0as a way for women in sports to \u2060take control \u200cof their image and expand their reach.\u00a0 \u201cThe opportunity to have a twin \u200cthat can connect with fans, \u200cwith young people, people that love basketball, people that are just\u00a0interested\u00a0in sports. The range \u200bis endless,\u201d Plum says. \u201cIt\u2019s \u200cwhere we are in society, and I think you are either \u200bgonna get with \u2060it or \u200bget lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: Fresh off a historic 40-point performance \u200bin the \u2026<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">Reporting by HoopsHype \/ Hoops Hype<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">USA \u200cTODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off a historic 40-point performance \u2060in the finals of the\u00a0Unrivaled\u00a0season,\u00a0WNBA\u00a0player Kelsey Plum is taking a different shot:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-539922","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\/539922","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=539922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}