{"id":799284,"date":"2026-07-13T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799284\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:54:17","slug":"why-did-betnijah-laney-hamilton-throw-shoe-at-marina-mabrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799284\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Betnijah Laney-Hamilton Throw Shoe At Marina Mabrey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24089067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Marina-Mabrey-Betnijah-Laney.jpg\" alt=\"Marina Mabrey and Betnijah Laney-Hamilton\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Eric Bolte-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jul 12, 2026; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Toronto Tempo guard Marina Mabrey (3) reacts and New York Liberty guard-forward Betnijah Laney-Hamilton (44) reaches for the ball during the first half at the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n<p>While all the recent news surrounding Caitlin Clark and Alyssa Thomas may lead you to believe that the\u00a0WNBA\u00a0either does not have or does not enforce its rules, we can assure you that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/wnba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> made it extremely clear on Sunday that one thing that you\u00a0cannot\u00a0do is throw a shoe\u00a0at your opponent, no matter how physical the game has been.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for New York Liberty veteran\u00a0Betnijah Laney-Hamilton, she found that out the hard way after she was ejected for launching a shoe at guard Marina Mabrey\u00a0in a 93-91 loss to the Toronto Tempo.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Status alert: Betnijah Laney-Hamilton has been ejected Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>She threw Jonquel Jones\u2019 shoe at Marina Mabrey.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xv8a0RDxKL\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xv8a0RDxKL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Underdog WNBA (@UnderdogWNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnderdogWNBA\/status\/2076415050747715764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Betnijah Laney-Hamilton Claims She Didn\u2019t Mean To Hit Marina Mabrey With Shoe<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Laney-Hamilton met with members of the media and explained what happened to cause the incident and subsequent ejection.<\/p>\n<p>Call it plausible deniability if you want, but she actually came up with a pretty strong defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never intentionally try to hit someone with a shoe, especially while they\u2019re not looking,\u201d she said. \u201c(My) teammate was without a shoe, so I did my best to try and get it to her. Unfortunately, it did hit someone.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI know just by the way that things were going throughout the game that it can look a certain way, but that\u2019s just not something that I would personally do \u2026 especially in a moment like that where (the) game is on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York forward Jonquel Jones had lost her shoe prior to the sequence, and Laney Hamilton claims she was simply returning it.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ace24000\/status\/2076471969462046752\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">side angle<\/a> does appear to show Laney-Hamilton launching the shoe across the court, so she\u2019d have to have pretty great aim to have hit Mabrey on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mabrey did not seem overly amused by the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m working on not being rage-baited,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do we think? Is this WNBA shoe-gate? Or was it just an unfortunate mistake? 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