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The Indiana Fever have been officially put on blast by a member of their 2025 roster.
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During the Fever’s opening-round series with the Aces, a fan was at the center of a heated incident with A’ja Wilson. The four-time MVP had a problem with the fan pointing at her in the late stages of the fourth quarter.
After the Fever’s season came to an end, general manager Amber Cox defended the team’s fan base and the “attacks” they’ve dealt with from the media.
“The attacks on our fanbase have no basis in reality, and they need to stop, especially with members of the media,” Cox said. “I’m talking about media who have never been to a game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Every organization in the league, every organization throughout professional sports, all the way down to youth rec leagues, have to deal with occasional bad behavior from spectators. And anyone who crosses the line in an arena or online needs to be held accountable. I want to be really clear about that. There is a line, and people need to be held accountable if they cross it.”
Those comments from Cox didn’t sit well with Sydney Colson, who played for the Fever during the 2025 season.
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“We have done little to nothing to address the problems that have happened within Gainbridge Fieldhouse and in arenas where the Fever are playing,” Colson said on her podcast, via Awful Announcing. “My thing is, you can’t control how people might respond to a highly charged situation where they might be triggered. Whether you think it makes sense or not, A’ja felt, and she said in the postgame, ‘I didn’t like how he was pointing, looking at me.’ And neither did his wife.”
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While Colson isn’t calling Fever fans racist, she believes dismissing the drama on the court enables others to display awful behavior in the future.
“Nobody said that the man who pointed is racist. But what I painted for you was an environment of a culture that’s continuing and not being addressed. And people are being told that things are not ‘based in reality,’ even though players are documented and on record saying what they’ve experienced. So now, it’s a slap in the face to Black players who are in the organization right now, who have been in it, who are possibly going to have to be in it,” Colson continued. “We didn’t say that these individual people are racist, but this environment is not discouraging people from showing up and being hateful, racist, homophobic, sexist, any of those things. It’s a problem, and it’s not new. And there’s a common denominator, and we need to stop acting like this is not based in reality. Because it is. Stop acting like, man, this is social media — until it’s not. Like, man, let’s use our brains.”
Regardless of who becomes the next WNBA commissioner, it’s imperative they put the safety of the players at the forefront.
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This story was originally published October 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM.