There are plenty of ways to get attention at a WNBA game. Wear an outrageous outfit. Bring a giant sign. Scream “DEFENSE!” until the person next to you starts reconsidering their seating choices. Or, apparently, buy a green dildo and throw it onto the basketball court.
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For reasons that remain difficult to explain without several follow-up questions, men have once again been tossing sex toys onto WNBA courts. Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud has now had enough—and she delivered her response with the kind of bluntness that makes a postgame press conference considerably more entertaining.
Her verdict? Let’s just say the dildo throwers may not be sending the message they think they’re sending.
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The WNBA’s Green Dildo Is Back, Because Apparently We Needed This Again
The bizarre stunt became a recurring spectacle during the 2025 WNBA season, when green sex toys were thrown onto courts in multiple games. The incidents attracted viral attention and were linked to a cryptocurrency group promoting a memecoin, although the people behind the campaign described the stunts as a joke. Then things got quieter.
Unfortunately, the green dildo apparently refused to stay retired. On Thursday, a green sex toy landed on the court during the Los Angeles Sparks’ game against the Atlanta Dream. A day later, multiple sex toys were thrown onto the court during the Chicago Sky’s matchup with the Golden State Valkyries.
Se trata del segundo partido consecutivo que han tenido que parar la WNBA de baloncesto en Estados Unidos. Hombres misóginos contrarios al deporte femenino han lanzado juguetes sexuales con forma de pene a las jugadoras. pic.twitter.com/gLSOrGN6Ux
— Fonsi Loaiza (@FonsiLoaiza) August 22, 2026
At this point, the WNBA has somehow been forced to deal with a category of spectator behavior that nobody could have reasonably included in the original league handbook.
“Please don’t throw objects onto the court” is normally a fairly universal sporting-event rule.
“Please don’t throw your sex toys onto the court” feels like something that should never have needed to be added.
Natasha Cloud Is Not Impressed
After Chicago’s 73-70 victory over Golden State, Cloud addressed the spectacle and took particular aim at the men responsible.
“Y’all lame as [expletive], sorry mom,” Cloud said via Awful Announcing. “In most of these occasions, it’s men. I want you to know that is the gayest thing that you can do, is to go to a store, a sex shop, buy a dildo, come to a women’s game, to throw the dildo on the court. That is the gayest [expletive] that I’ve ever heard. I’m a firm believer in anyone that has so much problem with a certain marginalized group, just come out and say that you’re a part of our marginalized group, because that hate is unwarranted. It’s not factual.”
“And it says more about the internal struggles of that individual than it ever will say about the collective group. The men that are throwing it, it also shows that you are weak, like extremely weak. And it says a lot about how you feel about women. You don’t care about the disruption of the game, you all lame as [expletive], you all gay to us. We see it. Keep throwing them if you just want to keep telling us you’re gay.”
It is difficult to imagine a more effective way to make a green dildo the least interesting part of the conversation.
Cloud’s larger criticism was about the people behind the stunt and what she sees as their attitude toward women. The sex toys may be the prop, but the disruption is the point—and Cloud clearly isn’t interested in treating it as harmless comedy.
The Internet, Naturally, Had Notes
Because this is the internet, the conversation immediately took a detour. Some critics focused on Cloud’s use of “gay” and accused her of using homophobic language. Others pointed to the context of her remarks and her own LGBTQ identity. The controversy quickly became its own conversation alongside the original incident.
And suddenly, everyone was having a much more complicated conversation than “maybe don’t throw sex toys at professional athletes.” Honestly, the green dildo has been through enough.
A green sex toy was thrown onto the court during the WNBA game between the LA Sparks and Atlanta Dream. pic.twitter.com/q4GpmbSfpA
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 21, 2026
Cloud’s comments also highlighted the absurdity of the stunt itself. If the intention is to mock women’s basketball, spending money on a sex toy, bringing it into an arena, waiting for the right moment and launching it onto a professional basketball court requires a level of commitment that seems oddly incompatible with the idea of not caring about the sport.
That’s not indifference. That’s event planning.
The Players Have Better Things to Do
The biggest problem with the stunt is that it isn’t happening at some random pickup game; it’s happening during a WNBA game, with professional players trying to compete. WNBA players deserve to play without having sex toys interrupt the action, while fans are trying to watch the game and officials are trying to keep everything moving.
WE ALMOST HAD A FOURTH DILDO THROWN AT A WNBA GAME 😭
It hit a child instead. pic.twitter.com/f94ZglsEVo
— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) August 6, 2025
A sex toy landing on the court turns the attention away from the basketball and toward whoever decided that their evening needed a particularly bizarre plot twist. And the players still have to get back to work. Cloud’s final message was particularly pointed:
“Keep throwing them if you just want to keep telling us you’re gay.”
There is, admittedly, a certain elegance to turning an attempted insult into an invitation to keep embarrassing yourself. Because if the goal is to make the WNBA look ridiculous, the dildo tossers may want to reconsider the target.
The players are playing basketball. The fans are watching basketball. The game keeps going. And the people throwing neon sex toys onto the court are the ones explaining themselves.
At this point, the green dildo isn’t really the punchline. The person throwing it might be.
Source: The Comeback