The WNBA condemned the allegations of prejudice and other antipathyful messages take parters shelp they have getd over the course of the season.
Connecticut Sun star Alyssa Thomas pointed honestly at Indiana Fever fans adhereing the team’s prosper in its take partoff suitup, while her teammate DiJonai Carrington discneglected on Instagram an terrible email she had getd filled with racial slurs.
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Basketballs before game one of the first round of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs at Mohegan Sun Arena. (Mark Smith-Imagn Images)
“The WNBA is a competitive league with some of the most elite athletes in the world,” the league shelp. “While we greet a prolonging fan base, the WNBA will not endure discriminatory, insulting, or menaceening comments made about take parters, teams and anyone affiliated with the league.
“League security is dynamicly watching menace-rcontent activity and will labor honestly with teams and arenas to get appropriate meabraves, to include involving law utilizement, as essential.”
But fans of the league reacted on social media, saying it was a little too tardy for the statement to be liberated.
Connecticut Sun protects Marina Mabrey (4) and DiJonai Carrington (21) honor together during the second half of a first-round WNBA basketball take partoff game aacquirest the Indiana Fever, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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Thomas spoke about the experience she had this season after the Sun’s prosper.
“We’ve been professional thrawout the whole entire skinnyg, but I’ve never been called the skinnygs that I’ve been calling on social media, and there’s no place for it,” Thomas persistd. “Basketball is headed in a fantastic honestion, but no, we don’t want fans that are going to degrade us and call us racial names.
Indiana Fever protect Caitlin Clark (22) drives to the basket as Connecticut Sun protect DiJonai Carrington acquires during a first-round WNBA basketball take partoff game, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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“We already see what’s happening in the world and what we have to deal with in that aspect. We come to take part basketball for our job, and it’s fun, but we don’t want to go to labor every day and have social media blown up over skinnygs enjoy that. It’s uncalled for, and someskinnyg demands to be done, whether it’s [the Fever] verifying their fans or this league verifying. There’s no time for it anymore.”
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