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- A sex toy thrown onto the court during a WNBA game halted a game for a third time
- The third incident took place during a Tuesday, Aug. 5, game between the Indiana Fever and the Los Angeles Sparks
- The first two incidents occurred on July 29 and Aug. 1
For the third time in a week, a sex toy thrown onto a court has interrupted a WNBA game.
During the Tuesday, Aug. 5 game between the Indiana Fever and the Los Angeles Sparks, an object identified as a sex toy was thrown onto the court.
“Oh, look out. Something just came onto the floor. An object just flew in as the free throw is being made. It looked like that hit a player, too,” a commentator said during the moment. A referee quickly halted the game to remove the object in a video shared on X.
The toy appears to have hit Fever player Sophie Cunningham. The Sparks won, 100-91.
The first incident occurred on July 29 during a game between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream. In a clip shared on X at the time, sports announcer Morgan Ragan said during a replay, “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.”
“We’re not exactly sure where it came from,” she continued, as a timeout was called and the game was paused. “No room for any of that type of activity. And no one’s picked the object up yet, you guys.”
Security, referees and team representatives could be seen discussing the incident on the sidelines, as the camera zoomed into the green object — which could be clearly identified as a sex toy — for a brief moment.
“Oh my gosh, okay. Okay, inappropriate,” Ragan said, as the object was identified. “Get them out of here, whoever it is [that threw it].”
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During the Valkyries’ Aug. 1 game against the Chicago Sky, 7 minutes and 42 seconds into the third quarter, a person threw an unexpected object onto the court of 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.”
“stop throwing dildos on the court… you’re going to hurt one of us,” Cunningham wrote on X after the Aug. 1 incident.
The owners of the three sex toys have yet to be publicly identified, but if the arenas did, the owners could have been immediately removed from the court per the WNBA’s 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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