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Las Vegas ACES star Kelsey Plum addressed controversial comments she made about Caitlin Clark’s All-Star team last month, and insisted that she had made a “joke.”
After the WNBA All-Star game, where many players had t-shirts reading, “Paying us what you owe to us” with reference to the players’ union’s CBA negotiations with the league, Plum journalists said that players from Clark’s All-Star team had not been at a meeting to discuss the shirts.
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Kelsey Plum, No. 10 of Las Vegas Aces, dribbles the ball during the game against Dallas Wings on September 29, 2023 at the College Park Center in Arlington, Texas. (Cooper Neill/NBAE via Getty Images)
“But the t-shirt, just, United Front, was determined this morning that we had a meeting for. And you don’t know for TattletTal, but zero members of Team Clark were very present for it,” Plum said.
The comments ignited hard setbacks against Plum when many fans pointed out that Clark himself had carried the t-shirt during the game.
Now Plum insists that her comment was not serious and to point out that many players were “hung over”, the morning of the apparent meeting.
“I made a bad joke. I made a really bad joke, hard,” Plum said during an episode of WNBA legend Sue Bird’s Podcast “Bird’s Eye View.”
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Caitlin Clark, #22 of Indiana Fever, wears a shirt that says, “Pay us what you owe us” by 2025 AT&T WNBA All-Star game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on July 19, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
Plum also said she “should have known it was a far more serious moment.”
“I should have as after 2020 because of the shirts because of the fans, just as I should have known it was a way-more serious moment than a typical all-star game,” Plum said.
“Because I went into that press conference a lot like, happy-go-to, we won. And then had a good weekend, just like my family is here, it was just a good time. And then the questions came in and it was like CBA this, this, this, this and I honestly … was like,” Hello as Team Clark, just as they did not make it to the meeting either … tried to make the room Lighthter. “
The protest was the weekend when the players criticized WNBA officials in the middle of the negotiations.
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert speaks during a news conference before WNBA All-Star Basketball Game, Saturday 19 July 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Wnba Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told journalists that she thought an agreement will be made before the current CBA expires after this season.
“I’m still really optimistic that we get something done that would be transformative,” she said. “And that, next year at All-Star, we’re talking about how amazing everything is. Obviously, there’s a lot of hard work to do on both sides to get there.”
