Kelsey Plum Breaks Silence After Backlash Over Viral Caitlin Clark Diss

[ad_1] Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has been a straightforward goal for her fellow WNBA friends each on and off the courtroom.

Although she hasn't performed a sport in over a month whereas she recovers from a proper groin damage, Clark was within the headlines just lately for being on the receiving finish of a viral diss from Los Angeles Sparks guard Kelsey Plum.

Through the 2025 WNBA All-Star Recreation final month, Plum threw some shade Clark's approach when she known as out the reigning Rookie of the Yr and the remainder of the gamers on her All-Star roster for not displaying as much as a gamers' assembly by which they determined to put on black shirts with the message "Pay Us What You Owe Us" throughout heat ups to ship a message to the league's entrance workplace concerning their wage calls for for the following collective bargaining settlement.

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"It was a really highly effective second," Plum stated. "As gamers, we did not know that that was going to occur. It was a real shock. The T-shirt was decided this morning. To not tattletale: zero members of Workforce Clark have been very current for that."

New York Liberty guard and fellow All-Star Sabrina Ionescu, who was on Workforce Clark, joked that Plum did not must level that out, to which she replied: "I am simply making an attempt to make the scenario gentle, OK?"

Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever reacts throughout the sport throughout the sport towards the Chicago Sky at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on August 9, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever reacts throughout the sport throughout the sport towards the Chicago Sky at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on August 9, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Michael Hickey/Getty Photographs Within the weeks since Plum made these remarks, she'd been ridiculed and known as out by throngs of followers on social media who claimed she was jealous of Clark's star energy. However after staying silent on the incident, Plum just lately clarified what she actually meant by her feedback throughout a latest look on Sue Chook's "Chook's Eye View" podcast.

"Oh, I made a nasty joke," Plum admitted. "I made a extremely unhealthy joke. ... I actually was like, 'Hey, staff Clark, they did not make it to the assembly both,' simply making a joke, making an attempt to make the room lighter.

"I used to be making a joke that they have been hung over, though our [Team Collier] nickname was hungover. So I used to be like, 'Not less than we made it.' Clearly, we have been all on the identical web page, all of us wore the shirts, all of us have been unified."

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Clark was seemingly unbothered by Plum's remarks, selecting to ship a playful jab her approach on social media as an alternative after the All-Star Recreation ended relatively than make a giant deal out of what occurred.

Plum posted a photograph on Instagram celebrating All-Star weekend with the caption "What a weekend 🧡🧡🧡."

Clark responded by commenting "Thank u for the Nike advert," seemingly making gentle of the truth that Plum, who signed a multi-year sponsorship cope with Below Armour in November of 2022, occurred to be standing in entrance of an enormous Nike emblem in her pictures.