{"id":85952,"date":"2025-08-16T00:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85952\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:06:06","slug":"kelsey-plum-says-she-was-joking-about-caitlin-clarks-team-at-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85952\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Plum says she was joking about Caitlin Clark&#8217;s team at All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/los-angeles-sparks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kelsey-plum-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Plum<\/a> said she was joking when she took a verbal shot at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> and her team at the All-Star Game last month, comments that drew significant pushback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">\u201cI made a really bad joke,\u201d Plum said on Sue Bird&#8217;s \u201cBird&#8217;s Eye View\u201d podcast that dropped Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">Plum said she was trying to have fun with Team Clark at the All-Star Game in Indianapolis on July 19 when she said Clark&#8217;s side didn&#8217;t show up for that morning meeting to discuss collective bargaining agreement talks. The union and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> are in the midst of negotiations, and all the players in the All-Star Game wore T-shirts that read, \u201cPay Us What You Owe Us,\u201d including Clark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">Plum said at the post-game news conference the players decided that morning to wear the shirts, but &#8220;zero members of Team Clark were very present for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">There was especially a big blowback on social media toward Plum, who said her intention was to bring levity to a serious topic but misread the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">\u201cI was making a joke they were hungover even though our team nickname was \u2018Hungover,\u2019&#8221; Plum said. &#8220;I was like, \u2018At least we made it.\u2019 Obviously, we were all on the same page. We all wore the shirts. We&#8217;re all unified. I think if anything I was more discouraged because I felt like (the comments) took away from the moment of what we were trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-57f930c8=\"\">AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/WNBA<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Los Angeles Sparks star Kelsey Plum said she was joking when she took a verbal shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-85952","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\/85952","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=85952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}