{"id":547377,"date":"2026-01-27T18:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/547377\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:23:22","slug":"i-ruined-it-for-white-women-kelsey-plum-breaks-silence-on-viral-popcorn-video-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/547377\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I ruined it for white women&#8217;: Kelsey Plum breaks silence on viral popcorn video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/news\/kelsey-plum-breaks-silence-viral-popcorn-video\/a8a2c941b8c48132000bae0f?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&#039;I ruined it for white women&#039;: Kelsey Plum breaks silence on viral popcorn video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8216;I ruined it for white women&#8217;: Kelsey Plum breaks silence on viral popcorn video<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2024, Kelsey Plum went viral without really meaning it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the latest Post Moves podcast with Aliyah Boston and Candace Parker, Plum revealed the inside story of her &#8220;popcorn incident&#8221; at a Final Four game between Paige Bueckers&#8217; UConn Huskies and Caitlin Clark&#8217;s Iowa Hawkeyes nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only reason this happened was because the camera guy kept coming back, and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;What are you coming back for?&#8217; Plum said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/fever-caitlin-clark-wings-paige-bueckers-will-meet-again-sooner-anyone-expected\/eee1b8080e575e25530ea98b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fever&#039;s Caitlin Clark and Wings&#039; Paige Bueckers will meet again sooner than anyone expected;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fever&#8217;s Caitlin Clark and Wings&#8217; Paige Bueckers will meet again sooner than anyone expected<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plum, a two-time WNBA champion who won the Wooden Award during her NCAA career at Washington, made an assortment of faces to the camera as she munched on a bucket of popcorn. Only later did she realize that fans online had &#8220;cooked&#8221; her over the antics.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ruined it for white women after this,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/los-angeles-sparks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Sparks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> guard humorously told Parker and Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sportingnews\/status\/1776427102142620117\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:original video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">original video<\/a> has over 110 million views on X. Fans probably won&#8217;t ever let her forget about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More basketball news:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I ruined it for white women&#8217;: Kelsey Plum breaks silence on viral popcorn video originally appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":547378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1491,233,21899,1495,1379,5610,1488,2471,62,9767,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-547377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-aliyah-boston","9":"tag-caitlin-clark","10":"tag-candace-parker","11":"tag-fever","12":"tag-iowa-hawkeyes","13":"tag-kelsey-plum","14":"tag-los-angeles-sparks","15":"tag-paige-bueckers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uconn-huskies","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115968462338084439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}