{"id":44370,"date":"2025-08-04T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44370\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:40:08","slug":"wnba-disrupted-by-dildos-as-players-demand-higher-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44370\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Disrupted by Dildos as Players Demand Higher Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second time in one week, the WNBA saw yet another sex toy thrown onto the court during a game. On August 1, the Golden State Valkyries-Chicago Sky game was halted briefly in the third quarter after a green dildo was spotted under the basket.<\/p>\n

This follows a similar incident on July 29, when a dildo was thrown in the final minute of a Valkyries-Atlanta Dream game. Despite the distraction, Valkyries won both games, 73-66 against Sky and 77-75 against Dream.<\/p>\n

Sky\u2019s Elizabeth Williams called out the disrespect during the postgame press conference. \u201cI don\u2019t really get the point of it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s really immature. Whoever is doing it needs to grow up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the game, New York Liberty\u2019s Isabelle Harrison flagged the safety concern. \u201cARENA SECURITY?! Hello??!\u201d she said on X<\/a>. \u201cPlease do better. It\u2019s not funny. Never was funny. Throwing anything on the court is dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valkyries\u2019 Cecilia Zandalasini also called the incident dangerous. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like that,\u201d she said after the July 29 game. \u201cI\u2019m just glad we worked through that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to WNBA, an individual was arrested after the Valkyries-Dream game in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn line with WNBA Arena Security Standards, any fan who intentionally throws an object onto the court will be immediately ejected and face a minimum one-year ban in addition to being subject to arrest and prosecution by local authorities,\u201d a spokesperson from the league told CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The first half of the Friday game. Photo from Chicago Sky\/Facebook<\/p>\n

The dildo-throwing happens amid negotiations between WNBA players and officials for higher pay in their next collective bargaining agreement (CBA), especially as the league\u2019s popularity continues to soar.<\/p>\n

During warm-ups before the All-Star game on July 19, the players wore shirts that said \u201cPay Us What You Owe Us.\u201d Newsweek reports that the CBA meeting that week saw as many as 40 players trying to negotiate for higher pay with league officials.<\/p>\n

Some basketball fans online argue that the WNBA players cannot expect to earn as much as their male counterparts, as the women\u2019s basketball league does not make as much as the NBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the WNBA has seen significant growth in recent years. Last year\u2019s season saw the league\u2019s viewership increase by 170 percent from 2023, with an average of one million viewers per game telecast in 2024. Attendance also increased by 48 percent, with 2024 seeing a total of 2.3 million attendees across all games in the season, the highest in 22 years, according to the WNBA. The league\u2019s 11-year media rights deal with Disney, Amazon, and NBC, which takes effect in the next season, also promises to bring in an additional $200 million a year, according to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite this, players currently only earn 9.3 percent of the WNBA\u2019s revenue, a measly share compared to the average of 50 percent given to NBA players, according to the Times of India, which also reported that the next CBA talks are set to happen before the WNBA playoffs begin in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second time in one week, the WNBA saw yet another sex toy thrown onto the court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-44370","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\/44370","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=44370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}