Michael Reaves/Getty Images Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud had enough. After her team’s 73-70 win over the Golden State Valkyries on Friday, Cloud unloaded a two-minute, unfiltered response to reporters after multiple sex toys were thrown onto the Wintrust Arena court in the third quarter. This is the second straight night a WNBA game had been disrupted this way. Cloud, who dropped 17 points in the win, didn’t dodge the question. Instead, she used it to call out what she sees as a pattern of insecure men targeting women’s sports, and she did it without holding anything back.
Natasha Cloud calls out men behind WNBA sex toy tosses: ‘Shows you are weak’
“It’s lame as f–k. Sorry, mama,” Cloud told reporters before pointing out that “in most of these occasions, it’s men” behind the incidents. She didn’t stop at “lame.” Cloud went further, calling it “the gayest thing that you can do… to go to a store, a sex shop, buy a dildo, and come to a women’s game to throw the dildo on the court.” She also directly addressed the men responsible, saying “it shows that you are weak,” and framed the whole trend as a projection problem: “That hate is unwarranted… and it says more about the internal struggles of that individual than it ever will say about the collective group they have a problem with.”
A trend the league can’t shake
This isn’t an isolated blowup, it’s the latest chapter in a saga that’s dogged the WNBA since July 2025, when a neon green sex toy was first thrown onto the court during a Valkyries-Dream game in Atlanta.Days later, a similar object landed near Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham’s feet during a game in Los Angeles, prompting her own blunt warning on X: “stop throwing dildos on the court… you’re going to hurt one of us.” The WNBA responded by rolling out no-bag policies at select arenas and threatening offenders with ejection, a minimum one-year ban, and potential criminal charges. None of it has stopped the trend from resurfacing this season, with three separate incidents happening within the span of a week, including a repeat appearance at a Dream-Sparks game in LA, where Angel Reese reportedly spotted the perpetrator in the crowd before he fled.For Cloud and her peers, the joke has worn thin. What started as a viral, meme-able moment has evolved into a real safety concern, and, in Cloud’s telling, a mirror held up to the men doing the throwing.