Overview

• Kaden Lopez, 18, was arrested on August 6 after throwing a neon-green sex toy at the Phoenix Mercury–Connecticut Sun game, striking a spectator and his nine-year-old niece and facing assault, disorderly conduct and public display of explicit material charges.
• Delbert Carver, 23, faces disorderly conduct, public indecency and criminal trespass charges for tossing a similar toy onto the court at the Atlanta Dream–Golden State Valkyries game on July 29.
• The league enforces immediate ejections, one-year bans and local prosecutions for any fan who intentionally throws an object onto the court.
• Green Dildo Coin has claimed responsibility for orchestrating the stunts to promote its memecoin, while Polymarket users are wagering on whether another toy will land during a game.
• Players and coaches have condemned the disruptions as dangerous and disrespectful, and security experts warn that nonmetallic screening gaps make such pranks difficult to detect.