{"id":33657,"date":"2025-07-30T06:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33657\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:22:12","slug":"wnba-players-react-to-sex-toy-thrown-on-court-during-valkyries-dream-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33657\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA players react to sex toy thrown on court during Valkyries-Dream game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA fans and observers lit up social media Tuesday night after someone in the crowd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1950384715963433011\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:tossed a neon green sex toy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">tossed a neon green sex toy<\/a> onto the court during a game between the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, first of all, it was super dangerous. And then when we found out what it was, I guess we just started laughing,\u201d Valkyries forward Cecilia Zandalasini said between snickers during a postgame news conference. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like that. I\u2019m just glad we worked through that situation. We stayed locked in, we stayed concentrated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Valkyries teammate Tiffany Hayes then asked a reporter during the news conference whether they knew what the object was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, one of our players almost got hit with it, so that\u2019s very dangerous,\u201d Hayes said, grinning and shaking her head, after the reporter responded affirmatively. \u201cWe persevered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred during the fourth quarter, with less than a minute left on the clock. Television cameras briefly zoomed in on the sex toy before cutting away to another shot. A security guard later appeared onscreen, donning gloves and removing the object with a towel while laughing.<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries went on to win the game 77-75.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6524350\/2025\/07\/30\/wnba-players-react-sex-toy-valkyries-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Athletic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta Dream, Golden State Valkyries, WNBA<\/p>\n<p>2025 The Athletic Media Company<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA fans and observers lit up social media Tuesday night after someone in the crowd tossed a neon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[732,49,48,24528,1612,82,25484,25483,630],"class_list":["post-33657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cecilia-zandalasini","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-sports","tag-the-valkyries","tag-tiffany-hayes","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33657","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=33657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}