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- The Golden State Valkyries and the Chicago Sky faced off during a game on Friday, Aug. 1, at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago
- However, during the second half of the game, a patron threw a green sex toy onto the court
- This marks the second time this week a sex toy was tossed onto the court in the middle of the game
Another WNBA game was halted due to an object being thrown onto the court.
On Friday, Aug. 1, the Golden State Valkyries faced the Chicago Sky, and 7 minutes and 42 seconds into the third quarter, a patron threw an unexpected object onto the court of the Wintrust Arena in Chicago. The broadcast caught footage of a green sex toy being thrown on the sidelines just shy of the court, later shared on X.
The referee quickly blew the whistle, halting the game, and the announcer is heard saying, “Got a whistle away from the basketball.”
A second referee went over to the object and kicked it off the sidelines, and then another staff member went to pick it up with a towel to remove it from the vicinity.
This marked the second time a sex toy was tossed onto the basketball court. On Tuesday, July 29, during the Golden State Valkyries’ game against the the Atlanta Dream, a green sex toy landed on the court during the game’s final seconds.
“Something flies on the court actually from the crowd. And you can see the object… the green thing bounces and it goes to the sideline,” sports announcer Morgan Ragan said.
“We’re not exactly sure where it came from,” she continued, as a timeout was called and the game was paused. After the object was identified, she said, “Oh my gosh, OK. OK, inappropriate. Get them out of here, whoever it is [that threw it].”
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Following the second incident, Chicago Sky player Angel Reese wrote a cheeky X post and joked about Indiana Fever player, Sydney Colson, “hey @SydJColson, why do you keep throwing your mean green in different arenas…. it’s getting weird.”
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham also shared an X post: “stop throwing dildos on the court… you’re going to hurt one of us.”
The owners of the two sex toys have yet to be publicly identified, but if the arena had identified the perpetrators, they would have been immediately removed from the space due to the WNBA policy.
According to the WNBA’s Fan Code of Conduct on its website, “Guests who engage in fighting, throwing objects or attempting to enter the court will be immediately ejected from the arena.”
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