Caitlin Clark didn’t have much patience for her sunbathing Indiana Fever teammates before Tuesday’s loss in Los Angeles.
With the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year sidelined due to a groin injury, Fever teammates Sophie Cunningham and Lexie Hull made the most of their pre-game time poolside, using TikTok to pitch for swimsuit endorsement deals.
‘We are off to our game tonight,’ was the message on Cunningham’s page. ‘Convince us there’s a swimsuit brand that wants to partner with two Indiana Fever mermaids.’
‘Swimsuit brands,’ Clark wrote, ‘plz comment ‘focus on basketball.’
Then, after giving swimsuit brands ample time to make an offer, Clark went in for the kill: ‘And no one responds.’
Indiana Fever teammates Sophie Cunningham and Lexie Hull enjoyed their pre-game poolside, using TikTok to seek swimsuit endorsement deals before their game against the Sparks
Caitlin Clark doesn’t have much patience for her sunbathing Indiana Fever teammates
Unfortunately for the Fever, their Tuesday outing in Los Angeles didn’t improve. They suffered a 100-91 loss to the Sparks, a game marked by an unwelcome interruption when a spectator threw a sex toy onto the court.
This incident in LA was the latest in a series of disruptions that occurred in Chicago and suburban Atlanta, where one individual has been arrested for allegedly throwing sex toys during WNBA games.
Cunningham had previously cautioned fans against throwing sex toys onto the court, yet during Tuesday’s game, one such item landed at her feet in the second quarter.
‘No way that thing actually hit me,’ an embarrassed Cunningham wrote on social media, adding: ‘I knew I shouldn’t have tweeted that.’
Cunningham also addressed the disturbing trend in her ‘Show Me Something’ podcast.
‘I was thinking about like, if someone threw that thing and like, first of all, the bounce that that thing had, if that smacks someone in the face, you know that’s gonna be plastered everywhere,’ Cunningham said.
‘I just know how things go viral now. And I just know that thing like, even came from like the rafters or bounced and just slapped me right in the face. That would be what I’d be known for, for life. So I was just trying to protect all of our images.’
Cunningham and Hull sported black bikinis in the short clip, garnering a wave of responses online, including a scathingly funny comment from Clark
After giving swimsuit brands ample time to make an offer, Clark went in for the kill
Meanwhile, a Georgia man arrested for allegedly throwing sex toys onto the floor of two WNBA games last week was publicly identified Tuesday after being booked on multiple charges in an Atlanta suburb.
Delbert Carver, 23, was released from Clayton County Jail in Jonesboro on Sunday one day after being charged with disorderly conduct, public indecency/indecent exposure, and criminal trespass, according to online records.
Police say he was arrested after throwing a sex toy onto the court during the Atlanta Dream’s win over the visiting Phoenix Mercury on Friday. He also allegedly confessed to police that he was involved in a similar incident in Atlanta’s July 29 loss to the visiting Golden State Valkyries – a shocking moment that went viral last week and appears to have inspired copycats in Chicago and Los Angeles .
Carver was allegedly live streaming Friday’s incident in Atlanta before being apprehended.
‘This was supposed to be a joke and this joke was supposed to go viral,’ Delbert allegedly told officers Friday, according to an incident report provided to Daily Mail by the College Park Police Department.
