\u201cWe did not have one fan pointed out by a player who violated the WNBA<\/a> code of conduct this season. Not one fan was removed from a game,\u201d Cox said. \u201cOur fans love this team. They\u2019re going to cheer, they\u2019re going to boo and sometimes they might point. It\u2019s a home-court advantage for a reason, and it\u2019s the same for the Pacers. And all of that is within the code of conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Fever player Brianna Turner, who now plays for the Aces, disagreed with Cox\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an unequivocally false statement,\u201d Turner wrote on social media<\/a>. \u201cPlayers inside and outside the organization have repeatedly issued complaints with the Fever fanbase. While it\u2019s not all Indy fans, it\u2019s certainly a trend. To say the attacks have \u2018no basis in reality\u2019 is disingenuous.\u201d<\/p>\n Kelsey Mitchell, who had a career-best season with the Fever, said on Saturday that playing in Indiana can be difficult at times because of interactions with some of the team\u2019s fans. She has spent her entire career with the Fever since she was drafted in 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think people really understand how much we endure,\u201d said Mitchell, who is a free agent this offseason. \u201cLike, if I showed y\u2019all my DMs about the hate and all of the stuff that comes with being a professional athlete, but specifically being an Indiana Fever basketball player, it\u2019s a lot that goes into that. And those days are hard as hell.\u201d<\/p>\n Mitchell is entering free agency and said she would \u201cbe selfish where my career is going\u201d, indicating it was tough being Caitlin Clark\u2019s teammate at the Fever.<\/p>\n \u201cPlaying with [Clark] and having the eyes that she\u2019s got [on her], we get a lot of flak just from being on her team,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
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