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Aug 16, 2025
AP FILE PHOTO – Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) passes round Las Vegas Aces guard Kelsey Plum through the second half of a WNBA basketball recreation on Could 25, 2024, in Las Vegas.
Los Angeles Sparks star Kelsey Plum stated she was joking when she took a verbal shot at Caitlin Clark and her workforce on the All-Star Recreation final month, feedback that drew vital pushback.
“I made a extremely unhealthy joke,” Plum stated on Sue Hen’s “Hen’s Eye View” podcast that dropped Friday.
Plum stated she was attempting to have enjoyable with Staff Clark on the All-Star Recreation in Indianapolis on July 19 when she stated Clark’s facet didn’t present up for that morning assembly to debate collective bargaining settlement talks. The union and the WNBA are within the midst of negotiations, and all of the gamers within the All-Star Recreation wore T-shirts that learn, “Pay Us What You Owe Us,” together with Clark.
Plum stated on the post-game information convention the gamers determined that morning to put on the shirts, however “zero members of Staff Clark have been very current for that.”
There was particularly a giant blowback on social media towards Plum, who stated her intention was to deliver levity to a severe subject however misinterpret the room.
“I used to be making a joke they have been hungover although our workforce nickname was ‘Hungover,’” Plum stated. “I used to be like, ‘At the very least we made it.’ Clearly, we have been all on the identical web page. All of us wore the shirts. We’re all unified. I believe if something I used to be extra discouraged as a result of I felt like (the feedback) took away from the second of what we have been attempting to do.”
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