For the past two weeks, WNBA players have dealt with several incidents of fans throwing sex toys on the basketball court. In Ice Cube’s opinion, the people responsible should be barred from attending games. “Somebody doing that, man, should really be kicked up out the building and not allowed back in,” the rapper-actor tells REAL 92.3 LA. “I don’t know what people think they could get out of that.”
According to Cube, it’s beyond “foul” and “unnecessary” that the players have to experience this. Later, the Friday creator was asked about his reaction if this behavior were to take place at one of his BIG3 games. Cube made it clear that if one tries to pull a stunt like that, “somebody might have to put hands on them.”
“Not only put ’em out, but touch him up a little bit on the way out. Let him remember, let anybody who do some stupid sh*t like this know that it going to be consequences and repercussions,” he added.
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Cube wasn’t the only one to speak out; Indiana Fever player, Sophie Cunningham, claimed incidents such as this make the WNBA look like a “joke.”
“First of all, the bounce that thing had, if that smacked someone in the face, that’s going to be plastered everywhere,” Cunningham told the Show Me Something podcast. “I just know that if things go viral now. … If that thing even came from the rafters or bounced and slapped me in the face, that would be what I would be known for, for life.”
One of the perpetrators, 18-year-old Kaden Lopez, was recently arrested for throwing a green dildo on the court during the recent Phoenix Mercury and Connecticut Sun game.
The WNBA recently issued a statement declaring that any fan caught throwing objects on the court would be “immediately ejected and face a minimum one-year ban.” This punishment could also mean facing possible criminal charges. “The safety and well-being of everyone in our arenas is a top priority for our league,” the statement continues. “Objects of any kind thrown onto the court or in the seating area can pose a safety risk for players, game officials, and fans.”
