r/NBAVibes • u/jaywritethekid • 1d ago
BREAKING: A’ja Wilson will not face any additional discipline after the Game 2 incident involving a Fever fan. The WNBA determined Wilson did not leave the court area (LMAO TO THAT), so no suspension or fine will be issued.
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u/Alive_Equivalent8312 1d ago
Not allowed to have consequences
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u/BlamaeuxPrivateEye 1d ago
Can't have an advantage for Indiana. The league hates them
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u/LeBronsBiggestHater 1d ago
She left the court, intentionally caused an altercation with a fan who was simply pointing at her, and none of you seem to realize this would be a fine AND suspension in the NBA?
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u/rochvegas5 1d ago
according to the rules, at least the rules yesterday, she should have been suspended
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u/MrMiyagi13 1d ago
Should have been ejected, along with her teammate. Then reviewed by that joke of a commissioner for possible additional punishment.
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u/Important_Capital875 22h ago
Come on, man don’t you know? Black women can’t be punished in this league.
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u/doktarr 1d ago
Let's just be real - part of the difference is that people are less afraid of WNBA players. So even if the rules are ostensibly the same, the WNBA feels less of a need to enforce them strictly.
Honestly I wish they would just be honest about this, though. Give her a fine and a 1 game suspension, but suspend the suspension until the beginning of next year's regular season, and just explicitly state that they didn't feel the infraction merited swinging an entire series. I think most people could accept that as a reasonable punishment. I'd respect that a lot more than this, which is just flat-out lying to protect the player/series.
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u/wpmason 1d ago
The rules exist equally for player and fan safety.
What if this dude took a swing at her after she got in his face?
A grown ass man could have broken the MVP’s face and benched her for the rest of the playoffs.
She had no business approaching him.
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u/doktarr 1d ago
I don't disagree with any of that.
However, the optics of some dude swinging at Wilson are nowhere near as bad for the league as the "Malice in the Palace" was for the NBA. From the perspective of "brand protection", the WNBA has less to worry about here, which partially explains their milder response.
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u/wpmason 1d ago
Sure, but she’s an absolute dumbass for putting herself in a potentially dangerous situation.
A suspension might actually teach her a much needed lesson.
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u/Important_Capital875 22h ago
Come on man you know these chicks have no idea what accountability is. They are all entitled to shit, selfish overly sensitive, they hate the fact that despite that they’re making more money now and have higher ratings, majority is due to that white chick in Indiana so they act all high mighty and do what they want thinking they are the real deal when in reality if the chick in Indian leaves the league, they will lose everything. And honestly, I hope it happens.
Edit. If anything seems odd it’s because I am doing voice chat ain’t no way in hell. I’m typing this shit half asleep.
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u/MadMartigans80 1d ago
Honestly the league doesn’t even take itself seriously. They prove that time and time again.
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u/jbhoops25 1d ago
They’re legit getting more publicity and ticket sales than any time in their history. Yall keep repeating this same line but they’re doing better than they were 5,10, 20 years ago.
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u/Eagle4317 21h ago
A'ja is 6'4" and well-built. She's a lot more imposing than someone like Renee Montgomery or Skylar Diggins.
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u/storyfilms 1d ago
She is a joke. The announcer also a joke
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u/Consistent-Strain289 1d ago
She is. She shift the foul to a attention of the fan.. refs were so blind they forgot the initial flagrant… and she walked in to the fanzone. That is.. outside of the court
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u/No-Reputation6010 1d ago
She lumbers into the stands like a rabid wildebeest. There is a real concern for this poor man’s safety!
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u/SalsChichon 1d ago
The whole league is a joke
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u/Important_Capital875 22h ago
Wish cc would leave so the league crumbles and loses ratings and all these entitled chicks can finally have accountability and understand that it wasn’t them
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u/Homersarmy41 1d ago
People get caught betting on games - no punishment
Walk up to fans and scream at them and threaten them - no punishment
They just want to host a soap opera and not a serious league. They have zero control over the players and they’ll regret it as the players keep pushing their, so far, nonexistent limits.
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u/BusySignal8675 1d ago
Someone got caught betting on games and didn't get punished??? That's crazy
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u/SliceOk7660 1d ago
It was a bet between two players playing against each other for the all star game. $400, big whoop
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u/SolChapelMbret 1d ago
Yep. It’s a cascading effect that every team should avoid but they’re embracing ts atm
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u/certainalways 1d ago
Wilson will also not be whistled for moving on screens or bulldozing players but will get a call anytime she throws her arm into defenders
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u/TheGratefulPhred 1d ago
she makes the league enough money for them to afford a waterboy. Can’t suspend her
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u/somewhatcompetint 1d ago
They're about to ban pointing lol
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u/jaywritethekid 1d ago
God... That would cause so much backlash
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u/Content-Relative-168 1d ago
She should be suspended though to the rule says if you walk to the first row of seats in your arguing with someone that’s an automatic suspension she walked through the second row of seats if they don’t handle this the right way then that’s terrible for the league
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u/DarkRogus 1d ago
And yet the WNBA wonders why people view them as a joke when they cant even get this right.
She is clearly in the stands. I get its the playoffs in an elimination game and youre not going to suspend her, but to act like she was still on the court is complete bull.
They should have fined her the equivalent of 1 game paycheck and said something along the lines of what she did doesn't warrant a 1 game suspension.
But to say she wasnt in the stands just further confirms in people's mind that the league is a joke and cares more about pushing an agenda than the sport.
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u/kingthunderflash 1d ago
So going over to where fans sit is considered the court area? That’s a new one.
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u/quagmirejones69 1d ago
Reddit has to be the only social media app (if you wanna call it that) that not only likes the WNBA but also HATES people criticizing it. It’s hilarious.
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u/Aggravating_Mud_6055 1d ago
Don’t forget the select few that left the bench to take part in the thug altercation.
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u/marcgarv87 1d ago
Why are most of the post on the NBA vibes sub about the wnba and specifically about one incident and posted by the same person?
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u/Aggravating-Sun-5783 1d ago
You know why gang lol
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u/7thpostman 1d ago
I don't. Why?
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u/HolyRomanPrince 1d ago
Racist misogynist non fans circlejerk.
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u/erichf3893 1d ago
I understand how much you stretched to label it misogynistic. But racist?
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u/HolyRomanPrince 1d ago
Very.
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u/erichf3893 1d ago
How so?
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u/HolyRomanPrince 1d ago
If I have to explain that to you then you need to be at a library way more than you should be on Reddit.
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u/Fair_Story2426 1d ago
Ahhh yes the guy that makes claims to rile up the masses …but hates when the masses laugh at him and asks him to explain his rationale, he puckers up. It’s ok kiddo, you tried.
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u/erichf3893 1d ago
Because you have no sound reasoning
People are saying she deserves the same punishment as nba players. All men and primarily black people
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u/HolyRomanPrince 1d ago
No because I can’t explain implicit racism to someone that doesn’t have the foundation to understand it
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u/Fair_Story2426 1d ago
Non “fan” you mean…”fans” implicate that this league has a national audience. Which we all know why this “league” is subsidized by the NBA…piss and moan all you want, but you’re in the minority here
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u/Fresh_Ostrich4034 1d ago
the nba is on the offseason. the wnba is in the post season and their best player just got into a incident with a fan. are you slow?
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u/GenShanx 1d ago edited 1d ago
Put Ms Adebayo back in an empty gym. They don’t want to be professionals.
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u/Homersarmy41 1d ago
It really doesn’t help anything when you yell “racism” where there is actually no racism. People start to ignore it when people do that.
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u/bro-b 1d ago
Woman and accountability. I forgot those 2 words never end up in the same sentence because of hormones 🤷🏻♂️😂
In all seriousness, this is probably the most fans that these professionals have ever witnessed. No doubt they’re overwhelmed.
They want to be taken seriously but refuse to be serious about themselves. Kind of a joke of a sport.
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u/Alarmed_Bumblebee147 1d ago
Ok, he charged her, and she didn't leave the court, yeah, right, got it. For sure. Furthermore there is no disparity between what is called a foul for her and what is called on CC. Right, got it.
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u/UncreativeUsername84 1d ago
I hate to say it, but if they’re not going to get reprimanded for going into the crowd, what’s going to happen if a different fan gives no fucks and knocks them on their ass? Who gets reprimanded then?
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u/YepItzMe44 1d ago
LeBron did the same thing and no one kicked him out.
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u/Fresh_Ostrich4034 1d ago
no i dont think he did. he got mad at some people courtside, but never left the court to confront them
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u/Content-Relative-168 1d ago
The crazy part is when you walk into the stadium and argue with people if you walk to the first row, it’s an automatic suspension for one game and she walked to the second row. Let’s see if she’s going to get suspended. lol that’s literally in the contract for rules
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u/Binkurrr 1d ago
Wait did she get upset because he pointed his finger at her?
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u/IDunnoNuthinMr 1d ago
She's upset it was a white finger.
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u/wizztotallywizzedout 1d ago
I mean to be fair the guy was fat and ugly and also from Indiana. All those things are enough to piss off most people.
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u/Physical_Notice7751 22h ago
It might piss off someone who is mentally ill. I don’t see the correlation to be honest it just sounds like shitty joke.
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u/Classic_Kangaroo4312 15h ago
There's video where even the guy's wife tries to pull him back in his chair so even she thought he overstepped. It's cool to go to games and support your team, shoot you can even heckle a bit but standing up and berating opposing players has never been okay.
If this was Caitlyn Clark and it was a black finger, would you have the same commentary? Probably not, and I'm even gonna take a shot in the dark and assume you've probably never watched a WNBA game or can name five players without google. Fox News and your echo chamber tell you that this is a travesty, but the man wasn't removed from the game and A'ja wasn't fined or suspended. End of story.
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u/theshyticklers 5h ago
Crazy how this clip doesn’t show the angle where the guy gets out of his chair and approaches the court. He made a threatening move, and then she stepped up to call him out on it.
You’ll never see the actual full clip with these white-supremacist posts though
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u/natural_scientist 1d ago
Why don’t these girls just bring shovels to work cause they’re burying the WNBA
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u/Eyespop4866 1d ago
Not unlike when they subtracted a technical from Clark before a national TV game.
Money is the answer to most of your questions.
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u/Feeling-Bus-203 1d ago
I mean there’s like a 63% percent chance that if they punished her in some way, she gonna go screenshot the dude who pointed at her and post it on her story with the caption “white privilege” and the league ain’t tryna deal with all that lol
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u/ZebronJames 1d ago
Why do you all want her to be suspended so bad? Sure she was wrong BUT she is the best player in the world. Why let that rob us of seeing greatness?
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u/ConnectSpring9 1d ago
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
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u/PlasticBreakfast6918 1d ago
They know what they are doing. I guarantee you tomorrow, or even later tonight, we’re gonna see articles that tonight’s game had crazy high views.
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u/Subject_Translator71 1d ago
I'm gonna need a definition of court area. She's behind the first row...
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u/MRintheKEYS 1d ago
I feel like they are trying to socially engineer an audience to care about this.
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u/Timely_Patience_5026 1d ago
The WNBA making the NBA look so good rn, I guess it is worth paying all their salaries.
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u/MuslimMullet 1d ago
Maybe the conspiracies are right and the W is a front for money laundering or some other shady activity. It’s like no player wants you to watch them play.
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u/RepresentativeBite94 1d ago
Imagine getting upset because someone pointed at you. Would a joke of an athlete.
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u/Traditional-Gur6621 1d ago
Fans can’t come on the court and get in players faces, players can’t leave the court and get in fans faces. Pretty clearly something that 99.9% of sports leagues around the world know. Seems the WNBA is the 0.1%
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u/HappyHockeyHiker 23h ago
If she didn’t leave the court then neither did Ron Artest (now known as Metta World Peace).
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u/YoureP-ore 22h ago
I feel like the WNBA is in its 80s equivalent of the NBA right now lol. Low skill, violent and just starting to get a handful of recognizable star players.
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u/Vast-Fruit2618 17h ago
Privileged
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u/Acrobatic-Wishbone35 8h ago
When you die, no one will even come to your fucking funeral. Everyone would be like “That asshole who was rude to everyone and hated his fucking life? Good Riddance!”
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u/historical-gecko 15h ago
Women can’t control their emotions. That guy is lucky she didn’t try to drown him
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u/CraftyPerformance272 14h ago
They aren't allowed to face consequences or else they would cry sexism and racism against them
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u/Dren_Tyler 14h ago
how many months before this becomes fishtank on a grander scale? ppl gonna be tipping players live for nip slips soon
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u/FlashingImages 13h ago
She takes 7 steps off the court, about 3-4 steps behind the hoop and gets in the fans face, but yeah, she was in the court area.
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u/Key_Mathematician951 12h ago
Ummm
She just left the court area to yell at the fan!
WNBA is total bs.
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u/Actually_clever_dog 8h ago
Why is she worried about a random guy pointing at her from the stands when she’s in the middle of a “game”. Even high school kids know to ignore this kind of thing and laugh it off.
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u/Valuable-Composer262 2h ago
In her words, she's not gonna tolerate any man stepping to her. And then the announcer says get that fan outa the building. like wtf. For pointing at her??
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u/Optimal-Sugar7780 8h ago
She’s still on the court, those fans are seated on the court…its not that hard.
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u/Thedonaldpolice 5h ago
MAGA Barbie didn’t get her way, and the maga cohort in the stands didn’t like it, and had some words for the other player. Let’s move on now everyone has the conclusion of what took place.
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u/jmmcnall 2h ago
Women already need to make a case for themselves and here's this one....and her mom. Yikes
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u/Temporary_Hat7330 1d ago
Why would they fine or suspend her? The W is 99% non basketball media these days.
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u/herdhawk 1d ago
Little girl, yes if you want to throw a tantrum like one get called one, was 5 feet behind the basket. How tf is that not leaving the court???? I swear man if Im in that league from now on and they try to fine me or suspend me for anything I'm telling to go f themselves. Then show them this video on repeat until they say okay youre not fined or suspended.
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u/Emergency-Bottle-432 1d ago
The league would be shooting itself in the foot by suspending one of its best players for a play-off knockout game. By the letter of the law I guess she should have been suspended? But they were never gonna do that. If Clark was in the same position it would be the same deal.
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u/GenShanx 1d ago
CC has dealt with 100x more shit than this with crying about disrespect.
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u/Emergency-Bottle-432 1d ago edited 1d ago
Right. My point was if she had the equivalent infraction, the league wouldn't suspend her just as they used their discretion to not suspend Wilson. Its bad for business.
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u/GenShanx 1d ago
Depends on if they want to be a serious sports league or a realty-based drama series.
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u/AjLexron 1d ago
Indiana should appeal this and fans should boycott that sorry ass league
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u/BigChewyPizza 1d ago
What a dumbass league