A very neon green sex toy landed on the court Thursday as Sparks guard Jihyun Park stepped to the free-throw line. One night later, three more hit the floor at a Sky game. The same crypto group is claiming both.
The group says it won’t stop until the WNBA “defines what a woman is by biological sex.” That’s a new reason for an old stunt: last year the same crypto traders admitted they were tossing sex toys onto courts to draw attention to their meme coin.
That coin is Green Dildo Coin, whose $DILDO token launched alongside an NFT collection in late July 2025. Its backers described the throwing campaign as a coordinated marketing ploy to boost the token’s visibility and trading volume, and during a seven-hour X Spaces livestream they claimed to have paid people to throw the toys — offering an extra $500 if one “stuck upwards” on landing. Despite the attention, the project’s X account has fewer than 900 followers and its Telegram group just over 1,000.
Thursday’s object flew in front of Park with 2:59 left in the third quarter. A referee stopped the game. Angel Reese stood up from the Dream bench and pointed out the thrower in the crowd, and Sparks center Cameron Brink kicked the item off the court. The man was arrested and will be banned for life from all WNBA, NBA and affiliated league games.
The next night, at least three items were thrown during the third quarter of Chicago’s 73-70 win over Golden State, and players waited while arena staff cleared them. Friday’s ION broadcast never mentioned it, cutting instead to Sydney Taylor’s game-winning threes in the final moments.
Sky guard Natasha Cloud called the throwers “lame as f—” after the game. “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,” she said. “That hate is unwarranted. It’s not factual. It says more about the internal struggles of that individual than it ever will say about the collective group.” Taylor called it “corny.”
In 2025, six sex toys were thrown across six games in a two-week stretch before the trend died out. This round, the group is inserting itself into the debate over transgender athletes in women’s sports, posting on X that it will “make a mockery of the league before ‘transgender’ athletes do it themselves.”
No transgender women play in the WNBA, and none ever have in league history.
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