Sparks' Kelsey Plum Swipes Caitlin Clark, Her All-star Team Over Statement T-shirts

Los Angeles Sparks prima Kelsey Plum took a swipe astatine Caitlin Clark and her All-Star squad during a postgame property convention connected Saturday nighttime arsenic she said astir nan players’ protest.

WNBA All-Stars, including Clark, who was sidelined because of an injury, wore T-shirts that read, "Pay Us What You Owe Us." The changeable crossed nan front of nan WNBA came amid tense talks astir their caller corporate bargaining statement (CBA) for 2026 and beyond.

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Los Angeles Sparks's Kelsey Plum shoots during nan 3-point title astatine nan WNBA All-Star hoops play connected Friday, July 18, 2025 successful Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Plum, who was sitting adjacent to New York Liberty prima Sabrina Ionescu, made an overseas revelation astir nan determination to deterioration nan shirts. Even Ionescu, who was connected Clark’s squad during nan All-Star Game, appeared to beryllium taken aback.

"It was a very powerful moment," Plum said. "We didn’t, astatine slightest arsenic players, we didn’t cognize that was going to happen. I deliberation it was benignant of, like, a genuine surprise. But nan T-shirt, just, agreed front, was wished this morning, that we had a gathering for. And, you know, not to tattletale, but zero members of Team Clark were very coming for that."

Caitlin Clark, #22 of nan Indiana Fever, wears a garment saying "Pay america what you beryllium us" anterior to nan 2025 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse connected July 19, 2025 successful Indianapolis. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

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Ionescu sarcastically added, "that really needed to beryllium mentioned."

"I’m trying to make nan business light, OK? I deliberation it was each of america conscionable getting connected nan aforesaid page earlier nan game, and we wanted to do thing that was conscionable uniting and corporate and I thought that it was a very powerful infinitesimal and sewage nan constituent across," Plum continued. "And sometimes, you don’t person to opportunity anything."

The protestation was nan talk of nan play arsenic players criticized WNBA officials amid nan negotiations.

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said Saturday she believed a woody will get done earlier nan existent CBA expires.

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert speaks during a news convention earlier nan WNBA All-Star hoops crippled connected Saturday, July 19, 2025 successful Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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"I'm still really optimistic that we’ll get thing done that would beryllium transformational," she said. "And that, adjacent twelvemonth astatine All-Star, we’ll beryllium talking astir really awesome everything is. Obviously there’s a batch of difficult activity to beryllium done connected some sides to get there."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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