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The Las Vegas Aces star, Kelsey Plum, approached the controversial comments he made about Caitlin Clark’s All-Star team last month, insisting that he had been making a “joke.”
After the WNBA stars game, where many players wore t-shirts that said: “We paid what you owe us” in reference to the CBA negotiations of the players with the league, Plum told journalists that Clark All-Star team players had not been in a meeting to discuss the shirts.
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Kelsey Plum, #10 of Las Vegas Aces, dribble the ball during the game against the Dallas Wings on September 29, 2023, at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas. (Cooper Neill/NBAE through Getty Images)
“But the shirt, fair, United Front, was determined this morning, that we had a meeting. And, you know, for Tattletale, but zero members of the Clark team were very present for that,” Plum said.
The comments lit a violent reaction against Plum, as many fans pointed out that Clark had been wearing the shirt during the game.
Now, Plum insists that his comment was not serious, and referring to many players were “hanging”, the morning of the apparent meeting.
“I made a joke. I made a really bad joke, difficult,” Plum said during an episode of the podcast of the Wnba’s legend Sue Bird “Bird’s Eye View.”
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Caitlin Clark, #22 of Indiana’s fever, uses a shirt that says: “We pay what you owe us” before the AT&T WNBA star game in Gainbridge Fieldhouse on July 19, 2025, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
Plum also said that “I should have known that it was a more serious moment.”
“It should have as the 2020 retrospect due to the shirts, due to fans, as it should have known that it was a more serious moment than a typical game of stars,” Plum said.
“Because I entered that press conference as, happy, we won. And then we had a great weekend, like my family here, it was a great moment. And so the questions came in, and it was like CBA this, this, this, and honestly … it was like, ‘Hello, like the Clark team, as if they did not get to the meeting … trying to try to do the lighter room.”
The protest was the weekend conversation when the players criticized WNBA officials in the midst of negotiations.
The WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, speaks during a press conference before the WNBA All-Star basketball game, on Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told journalists that she believed an agreement would be made before the current CBA expires after this season.
“I am still really optimistic that we will do something that is transformative,” he said. “And that, next year at All-Star, we will be talking about how good everything is. Obviously there is a lot of hard work to do on both sides to get there.”
