WNBA: Sabrina Ionescu & Jonquel Jones Slams Champion Kelsey Plum, Calls Her Classless

During the team’s exit interviews on Friday, New York Liberty star Jonquel Jones called remarks made by Las Vegas Aces guard Kelsey Plum during Game 4 of the WNBA Finals “classless.” In that game, Jones and the Liberty lost, ending their season, while the Aces won back-to-back crowns.

WNBA: Sabrina Ionescu & Jonquel Jones Slams Champion Kelsey Plum, Calls Her Classless

The shorthanded Aces, without two starters in Chelsea Gray and Kiah Stokes, trailed the Liberty by 12 points in the third quarter but could not finish the job. Plum provided a stern justification for the Liberty’s demise.

“I think we knew we hadn’t played our best basketball,” Plum stated. “We also knew that, as much as they’re a team, they’re not a team, if that makes sense. They’re really good individual players, but they don’t care about each other. And you can tell in those moments. They revert back to individual basketball.”

Unsurprisingly, Jones was not happy.

“She’s not in our locker room. She doesn’t know what goes on in our locker rooms and our huddles,” Jones said. “I think it’s easy to kick people when they’re down and you’re up. Honestly, to me, it felt kind of classless. You already won a championship, you get to celebrate with your teammates, you get to talk about things that your team did to be successful, and you choose to essentially just s— on somebody else and their team and what they’ve built all year. Yeah, for me, I don’t care anything for it, to be honest.”

After receiving backlash for her remarks, Plum claimed on social media that they had been misinterpreted. She then apologized to the players and the squad and said she was trying to move on.

“Since the media wants to do clickbait, I’m going to cut this drama out right now so we can move on and be in peace,” she wrote on the platform formerly known as Twitter. “What I said was taken extremely out of context.

Ionescu acknowledged on Friday that her hip injury sustained in Game 4 of the semifinals against the Connecticut Sun had an impact on her performance throughout the WNBA Finals.

Ionescu stated that she had an injection prior to Game 1 and Game 2 in Las Vegas “just to be able to play,” but she reiterated that there is no justification for her or the Liberty’s performance in the series, which they lost 3-1 to the Aces.

 

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