Crypto Pranksters Target WNBA with Sex Toys

Mon, Aug 11, 2025
by CapperTek

What is the connection between cryptocurrency and sports? On a superficial level, it seems like none. Apparently, crypto creators, in their attempt to find more platforms for promoting their products, use sports events to attract attention.

Sports events are being used not only to make money from sponsorship, but players are also using their knowledge on betting sites to gain a profit. But for better odds and fewer restrictions, the majority of online players choose sites outside the UK and not listed on GamStop. But which betting sites are not on GamStop? Mostly the ones who operated on international terms.

In the case of cryptocurrency creators, we are not talking about integrated ads on stadium screens. This is about pranks that can be considered a “smart promotion move”. 

Disturbing events had happened during the WNBA games in multiple states around the US. On July 29, Sparks' home win over the Indiana Fever. During the first half, after Kelsey Plum of the LA team shot a free throw, a sex toy was tossed on the court and landed near the feet of Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. 

The event had led to the arrest of Delbert Carver, who tossed a sex toy and was charged with disorderly conduct, public indecency/indecent exposure, and criminal trespass. 

Despite the arrest, it seems that the group that stands behind the Green Dildo Coin does not see these stunts as something disrespectful or dangerous. According to one of the streamers connected to the group, the meme coin is something that should make people laugh, and that was the main idea behind the incident: to think outside the box and be more creative in product presentation. 

Another arrest had followed in Phoenix, after an 18-year-old man threw the sex toy towards the seat in front of him, striking a spectator in the back. The man told police that it was a prank trending on social media. 

Multiple incidents have happened in Atlanta and Chicago. Players have said that throwing the toys at games is disrespectful and potentially dangerous. The WNBA representatives responded to the pranks with a one-year ban and prosecution from law enforcement for every spectator who throws objects onto the court. 

One of the coin creators, in his interview with USA Today, claimed, "Creating disruption at games is like, it happens in every single sport, right? We've seen it in the NFL, we've seen it in hockey, you know ... fans doing random things to more or less create attention. "We knew that to get a voice in space ... we had to go out and do some viral stunts to save us from having to pay that influencer cabal, sacrifice our souls and the fate of the project."

Previously, the same group of crypto creators had made a "statement" by placing sex toys on the Wall Street Bull statue in New York. The memecoin's value has grown more than 300 percent in the past seven days, according to USA Today. 

Sophie Cunningham, Fever star, responded through her X page, "Stop throwing dildos on the court … you’re going to hurt one of us.” 

Sparks coach Lynne Roberts expressed her frustration, “It’s ridiculous, it’s dumb, it’s stupid. It’s also dangerous, and player safety is No. 1. Respecting the game, all those things. I think it’s really stupid.”

Cheryl Reeve, Lynx head coach, sees the incident as a continuation in the history of “the female sexualization”. “This has been going on for centuries, this is the latest version of that. And it is not funny, and it should not be the butt of jokes on any radio show, or in print, or in any comments.”

WNBA Players have expressed their concerns as well. As liberty player Isabelle Harrison responded, “This is like, let’s be professional here. I get the jokes, and things can be funny, but it just gets to a point. I don’t take this lightly,” she added. “What my job is, it’s not a joke. I know a lot of other players feel like that, too. So we just need to take it more seriously.”

The crypto group that took responsibility for the pranks claimed that the two men who have been arrested are not connected with them. They also added that the pranks do not mean that they “dislike women's sports”.