{"id":50430,"date":"2025-08-06T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50430\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:28:08","slug":"wnba-player-admits-her-request-to-stop-throwing-dildos-on-the-court-didnt-age-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50430\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Player Admits Her Request To Stop Throwing Dildos On The Court &#8216;Didn&#8217;t Age Well&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A social media request posted by Indiana Fever guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/caitlin-clark-sophie-cunningham-wnba-brawl_n_68558be7e4b06f37ceed15da\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sophie Cunningham;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sophie Cunningham<\/a> has apparently aroused the wrong kind of attention for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WNBA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WNBA<\/a> star.<\/p>\n<p>After someone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/dildo-wnba_n_6889b1e5e4b07dfa117e9d28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:threw a neon green dildo on the court;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">threw a neon green dildo on the court<\/a> during a July 29 game between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries, it inspired another person to hurl a different green dildo under the hoop at the Aug. 1 game between the Golden State Valkyries and the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>An official kicked the contraband aside before it was removed, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/whereisthebuzz.com\/sophie-cunningham-struck-by-flying-sex-toy-mid-game-no-way-that-thing-actually-hit-me\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Where Is The Buzz.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Where Is The Buzz.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cunningham took to X, formerly Twitter, to make a fairly reasonable ask to WNBA fans:<\/p>\n<p>It was a legitimate request for sure, but somebody ignored it<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sparks-sex-toy-262247e155bdc42388a1319c3c1ac433\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:during Sunday\u2019s game against the Los Angeles Sparks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">during Sunday\u2019s game against the Los Angeles Sparks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of the second quarter, someone tossed a green dildo toward Cunningham, who jumped back in surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Opposing player Kelsey Plum kicked the product back into the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Although Sparks coach Lynne Roberts called the dildo toss \u201cridiculous,\u201d \u201cdumb\u201d and \u201cstupid,\u201d Cunningham was seen laughing about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham later made an Instagram story where she remarked, \u201cno way that thing actually hit me. I knew I shouldn\u2019t have tweeted that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also made a self-deprecating post about her previous request:<\/p>\n<p>After a man suspected of tossing the dildo at the Golden State-Atlanta game was arrested on Saturday, the WNBA warned that\u00a0\u201cany 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 href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/45901403\/wnba-fan-accused-throwing-sex-toy-faces-multiple-charges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to ESPN.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to ESPN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A social media request posted by Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has apparently aroused the wrong kind of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[732,49,48,726,1612,34441,2803,631,34443,632,10879,82,630,34442],"class_list":["post-50430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-sky","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-green-dildo","tag-indiana-fever","tag-kelsey-plum","tag-legitimate-request","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-fans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50430","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=50430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}