{"id":868833,"date":"2026-08-23T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868833\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:50:09","slug":"latest-fan-thrown-sex-toy-incidents-reignite-wnba-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868833\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest fan-thrown sex toy incidents reignite WNBA controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conversations about the WNBA again \u201ccentered around a green sex toy that was thrown onto the court,\u201d as two incidents occured at games over the past several days. The first incident during the Dream-Sparks game Thursday night. The individual who threw it \u201cwas immediately apprehended by arena security and arrested.\u201d Then, Friday night, \u201cmultiple sex toys landed on the court\u201d in the third quarter of the Sky-Valkyries game in Chicago. Players \u201cstood on the court as arena personnel removed what appeared to be three of the items from the court.\u201d In 2025, the WNBA endured a two-week stretch in which six sex toys were tossed onto the hardwood across six games<\/a>. The group of cryptocurrency meme coin creators that claimed responsibility then \u201cis claiming responsibility for the latest disruption.\u201d This time, the group said that it is throwing sex toys \u201cfor a different reason, inserting itself into the debate swirling around the WNBA regarding transgender athletes competing in women\u2019s sports.\u201d The group said that it \u201cwill continue to interrupt games\u201d by tossing sex toys onto the court \u201cuntil the WNBA \u2018defines what a woman is by biological sex\u2019 or \u2018explicitly states that only biological women can compete\u2019 in the league\u201d (USA TODAY, 8\/21<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Sky G Natasha Cloud called the incident on Friday night \u201cweird,\u201d adding, \u201cThat hate is unwarranted.\u201d Cloud: \u201cIt says more about the internal struggles of that individual than it ever will say about the collective group (they have a problem with). And the men that are throwing it, it shows that you are weak. Like, extremely weak. And it says a lot about how you feel about women\u201d (USA TODAY, 8\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n

THE ATHLETIC cited a source as saying the individual who tossed the green sex toy onto the court during the Dream-Sparks game has been \u201cindefinitely banned from all WNBA, NBA and affiliated league games and events.\u201d The source mentioned that the WNBA \u201cplans to work closely with law enforcement\u201d to hold individuals accountable for throwing objects onto the court (THE ATHLETIC, 8\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conversations about the WNBA again \u201ccentered around a green sex toy that was thrown onto the court,\u201d as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-868833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868833","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=868833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}