{"id":58654,"date":"2025-08-10T07:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58654\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:36:29","slug":"sex-toy-thrown-onto-court-during-wnba-game-for-3rd-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58654\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex toy thrown onto court during WNBA game for 3rd time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WNBA\u00a0has sent out a notice warning anyone who deliberately throws objects onto the court during league games could be arrested and banned from games for a year, after a sex toy was tossed toward players for the third time in a week.<\/p>\n

The latest incident happened during an WNBA game between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Indiana Fever on Tuesday. The object landed\u00a0in the lane during the end of the second quarter near Fever guard Sophie\u00a0Cunningham, who had earlier posted online asking fans not to throw the toys onto the court.<\/p>\n

Cunningham\u00a0jumped back in surprise when the object hit the ground\u00a0before the Sparks’\u00a0Kelsey Plum kicked it away.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the league said any object thrown onto the court or inside the arena could create a safety risk for players, fans and game officials.<\/p>\n

“The safety and well-being of everyone in our arenas is a top priority for our league,” the statement read.<\/p>\n

“In line with\u00a0WNBA\u00a0Arena 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.”<\/p>\n

Cunningham had\u00a0expressed concern on<\/a>\u00a0X\u00a0that one of the players would get hurt if people continued to throw objects during games.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s ridiculous, it’s dumb, it’s stupid,” Sparks head coach Lynne\u00a0Roberts said after her team won 100-91. “It’s also dangerous and players’ safety is No. 1. Respecting the game. All those things. I think it’s really stupid.”<\/p>\n

Plum added that she thought both teams did a great job “playing on, don’t give it any attention. The refs, too, I really appreciate them, too, [it] was just like, ‘Hey, let’s go.'”<\/p>\n

Repeat issue<\/p>\n

The first incident occurred in Atlanta late in the fourth quarter of the Dream’s game against Golden State in College Park, Ga. Authorities arrested the fan, who was ejected from the arena and set to face a one-year ban.<\/p>\n

On Friday, another sex toy was thrown in Chicago under a basket after a whistle was blown to stop play during the third quarter of Golden State’s\u00a073-66 victory\u00a0over the Sky. An official kicked the object aside before it was picked up and removed.<\/p>\n

It’s unknown if the fan who threw the object at the Sky game was arrested.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Sports reporter says issue is ‘very disturbing’:\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

\u2018Line has to be drawn:\u2019 another sex toy thrown on court during WNBA game | Hanomansing Tonight<\/p>\n

A sex toy was thrown onto the court during an WNBA game between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Indiana Fever on Tuesday, the third such incident which has impacted the league over the past week.<\/p>\n

Savanna Hamilton, a sports commentator and former Toronto Raptors sideline reporter, said some players initially made light of the incident when it seemed like\u00a0a one-time issue.<\/p>\n

“It’s very disturbing. At the end of the day, it’s their workplace and workplace safety matters … they could seriously actually get hurt. They could trip, on top of other reasons why that’s an inappropriate object to throw as well,” Hamilton told CBC’s Hanomansing Tonight on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“The WNBA has fought so hard to be taken seriously, to get where they are now … For it to be mocked,\u00a0not just once, not just twice, but now a third time and a potential fourth time, that’s where a line has to be drawn,” she continued.<\/p>\n

“The joke’s over.”<\/p>\n

According to social media posts, green toys were also thrown during\u00a0WNBA games in Phoenix and New York, but didn’t reach the court. The one at Barclays Center landed near a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA\u00a0has sent out a notice warning anyone who deliberately throws objects onto the court during league games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-58654","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\/58654","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=58654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}