{"id":32537,"date":"2025-07-29T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32537\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:31:10","slug":"wnba-fan-ejected-after-mocking-player-for-losing-wig-during-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32537\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Fan Ejected After Mocking Player for Losing Wig During Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5q\">An unexpected timeout was called in the July 26 matchup between the Phoenix Mercury and the Washington Mystics when Phoenix guard Kahleah Copper experienced a mishap midgame that was quickly shared across social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5t\">Late in the third quarter, with the Mercury on offense, Copper made a sharp move around a teammate&#8217;s screen to get open. But as she drove toward the perimeter, her wig got stuck on Mystics guard Jade Melbourne in the chaos, slipping off and falling to the floor.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A WNBA player\u2019s wig fell off and they ejected a fan for \u201cmaking fun\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA is SOFT \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4hG2tIgE4a\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4hG2tIgE4a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BricksCenter (@BricksCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BricksCenter\/status\/1949914584695054461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5z\">Copper quickly turned around and grabbed the hairpiece and headed towards the locker room as officials paused the game and called a timeout. \u201cOh no,\u201d the games broadcaster said on the call, reacting live as the moment unfolded. \u201cOh no, oh no, she\u2019s going to head to the back. Oh no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">The moment was out of the ordinary and while most in attendance did not make a spectacle of it, one fan apparently mocked the situation. Copper\u2019s teammates had gathered around officials pointing out the offender.<\/p>\n<p>Fan Tossed From Arena For Mocking Kahleah Copper After the Guard Loses Her Wig in the Game<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/01k1bepxv7yg5fpr4fan.jpg\" alt=\"Copper\" title=\"Copper\" width=\"7184\" height=\"4041\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"6e\"\/>Jun 27, 2025; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Phoenix Mercury guard Kahleah Copper (2) runs the court against the New York Liberty during the first half at Footprint Center. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images | Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">\u201cThey made fun of her for the situation on the floor,\u201d the refs and officials can be heard saying to each other and arena security confronted the man and escorted him out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WNBA star Kahleah Copper\u2019s wig falls off mid-game \u2014 and fan gets ejected for mocking her <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fRYOGvlsIv\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/fRYOGvlsIv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sn2WupWcOx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/sn2WupWcOx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Post Sports (@nypostsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypostsports\/status\/1950204585840148492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\">This was not the first slip-up Copper had with her hairpiece though. During the 2024 Paris Olympics, Aces star A\u2019ja Wilson was seen helping Copper adjust her wig after a spill she took in a game overseas.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">Wilson responded to a tweet shared online calling her \u2018\u201ctop tier\u201d for helping her Olympic teammate saying, \u201cWe don\u2019t play about that over hereeeee.\u201d Copper\u2013\u2013appreciating the support\u2013\u2013then reacted to Wilson\u2019s post saying, \u201cA realllll oneeeeeee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A\u2019One behavior from A\u2019ja Wilson. So glad Kahleah Copper is okay. \ud83e\udef6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ParisOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ParisOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xV77wMSLNW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xV77wMSLNW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 On Her Turf (@OnHerTurf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnHerTurf\/status\/1818789234733727865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 31, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6x\">Despite the interruption in Sunday\u2019s game, Copper returned to the court composed and locked in. She helped the Mercury extend their lead to double digits by the end of the third quarter. Phoenix went on to close out the game with an 88\u201372 win.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Reading:<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unexpected timeout was called in the July 26 matchup between the Phoenix Mercury and the Washington Mystics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-32537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}