It's just a tool.
Author: beebee Planet
When Americans watch the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) league, they are not only there to watch the game but also to see the antics.
The basketball going into the hoop is just the prelude; the real climax is when the props hit the ground.
Betting on whether there will be props thrown during the game, when they will be thrown, and what color they will be… has become the hottest new betting line for sportsbooks.
The trend of throwing props onto the WNBA court began on July 29 of this year.
During the game between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream, a fluorescent green prop fell from the sky to the center of the court.
The issuer of a meme coin—DILDO—quickly claimed responsibility for the incident.
The DILDO team admitted that throwing props onto the court on the day of the coin's launch was a deliberate marketing strategy.
Their logic is just as you might think: look, the green prop symbolizes a long green candlestick, indicating a rise in coin price.
This genius plan was very effective.
In just 24 hours on the day of its launch, the trading volume of DILDO on Uniswap exceeded $1.3 million.
After the incident gained traction, DILDO surged from a low of $0.00018 to a high of $0.00222 on August 9, skyrocketing tenfold in just a few days.
The appearance of sex toys during WNBA games is related to the "pranks" of the cryptocurrency community.
Don't underestimate the prop; when it bounces, it's like a carp leaping over the dragon gate.
According to Google Trends data, since July 29, interest in searching for "green fake penis" in the U.S. has increased by 3,700%.
Even Donald Trump Jr. shared a picture of his father throwing a green mysterious toy from the White House to the court, joining the discussion.
The prop is plastic, cold, and smells of silica.
But it caught the attention of the wealthy.
Some in the audience screamed, some recorded videos, and some bowed their heads in prayer, as if it were a divine revelation.
In reality, it was just a leftover from a plastic factory, but gamblers have given it the weight of fate.
Will another prop be thrown at a WNBA game before August 10?
Polymarket, the largest prediction market operator on the internet, quickly sensed the opportunity to bet on props.
They swiftly launched bets on "WNBA court props."
The betting options include but are not limited to: whether someone will throw a prop during the game, the color of the prop, who will touch it first, and which half of the court it will land in.
Polymarket Sports
Breaking: Now you can bet on what color the next WNBA prop will be.
Will the next prop thrown into the WNBA court be green/yellow?
Probability 50%
So, a few days later, on August 1, during the game between the Golden State Valkyries and the Chicago Sky, another prop was indeed thrown.
Polymarket user "gigachadsolana" bet $13,044 20 minutes before the game, wagering that someone would throw a prop during that night's WNBA game.
Fifteen minutes into the game, the prop arrived as expected.
This user pocketed over $6,000.
Props thrown during WNBA games brought profits to prediction market traders.
After the game was interrupted on Tuesday, an anonymous prediction market user made over $6,000 in profit.
Many suspected that the prop thrown that night was done by this user themselves, calling them a "shameless opportunist."
Because if you accurately predict what color prop will appear at what minute, and then bring one into the court to throw it yourself—that's not gambling, that's market manipulation, what's the difference from a scam?
This is a collapse of integrity!
After all, according to the betting list, you can throw whatever you want.
This prop has been trying to get itself thrown onto the court for years.
But regardless, from the Chase Center to Wintrust Arena, from Barclays Center to Crypto.com Arena… throwing props at WNBA games has clearly become a trend, and now almost every game has someone throwing them.
You can throw in New York, you can throw in Chicago, and you can throw in Oakland.
As long as there are people playing, there are bets being placed, and there are props being thrown.
"Mom, how did we get so rich?"
"Your dad placed a hefty bet and guessed the color of the prop thrown onto the court during the WNBA game."
After multiple prop-throwing incidents, Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham tweeted: "Stop throwing props on the court… you will eventually hurt one of us."
Four days later, she was hit by a flying prop.
In the U.S., the final destination of props is no longer the bedroom, but the court.
Stop throwing fake penises on the court… you will hurt one of us.
This is not a good thing.
They said that thing couldn't really hit me. I knew I shouldn't have tweeted that.
The popularity of women's basketball in the U.S. has been rising sharply in recent years.
According to ESPN, WNBA viewership has increased by 20% compared to last year.
In 2024, the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship attracted more viewers than the men's tournament for the first time in history.
Naturally, sportsbooks will not miss this huge market.
A WNBA player warned fans to stop throwing props, only to be hit by a flying prop.
Recently, there have been multiple incidents of props being thrown on the court, disrupting the order of the games.
Although Polymarket has been banned in the U.S., many Americans are using VPNs to access their services.
On the platform, the betting amount for props in a single game has already exceeded $1 million.
Polymarket's competitors, such as BetOnline and Kalshi, also offer similar flashy betting options.
WNBA demands fans to stop throwing props on the court.
BetOnline's odds details are as follows:
Green: -150 (popular option)
Purple: +250
Pink/Red: +400
Black/Brown: +525
White/Beige: +550
Blue: +550
Rainbow: +900
So far, the betting amounts on prop-throwing have exceeded those on the games themselves.
Another sex toy thrown during a WNBA game seems to have hit Sophie Cunningham.
The WNBA has yet to put an end to these sex toy pranks, which have disrupted games for over a week.
In this world composed of generative artificial intelligence and big data, the boundary between reality and illusion has become absurdly nonexistent.
If you think this story was generated by AI, no one can blame you, but at least it shows that you have a bit of abstraction in you; otherwise, the platform wouldn't have pushed it to you.
Why do people throw sex toys at WNBA players during games?
Unfortunately, all of this is real.
You now not only have to understand the madness of Americans betting their $3,000 monthly salary on underdog teams, but also why they throw plastic human organs high into the air, letting them fall like a meteor shower onto the basketball court.
Throwing props elsewhere might be a prank, but in America, throwing props is a gambler's victory.
It has become a spectator ritual.
When they throw the props, their eyes shine; they are borrowing luck from the gambling gods.
Gamblers throw the fake props into the air like a rain dance, hoping it will explode, the sound of which is the ringing of high odds.
Throwing fake penises during WNBA games has become a trend. We need to talk about it.
On August 5, during the game between the Fever and the Sparks, someone threw a sex toy onto the court. This was the third time it had happened in a week.
As long as the fake prop arcs through the air, its landing is louder than an air raid siren.
The New York Liberty's home game was delayed by 40 minutes, with spectators initially suspecting a terrorist attack.
Later, the police announced that a drunken spectator had brought three fake props in a plastic bag and stormed the court.
In fact, this betting method has quickly evolved to not discriminate between leagues or genders.
Since becoming an unavoidable commercial reef in WNBA arenas, fake props have become the brightest buoy in the ocean of American sports commerce.
Recently, the National Football League (NFL) has also started to get in on the action.
Sports betting analysts on X have been tweeting the most: "Tonight, a blue prop will be thrown! Follow me, and you won't get lost."
The athletes are the worst off; they have to play while dodging falling props.
What they fear most in their careers is not a sudden disaster, but a sudden prop.
Just as you’re about to shoot a three-pointer, a prop lands at your feet.
The audience immediately erupts: "Hit! 1 to 12!"
The cheering is louder than a buzzer-beater that takes the lead.
The police have intervened, and security has chased people away.
But gamblers don’t care.
They say throwing props is not a crime, but an art.
They believe that once the prop takes off, the bet has a soul.
Eighteen-year-old Kaiden Lopez appeared in court for allegedly throwing fake props during a WNBA game.
Now, checking for props at various arenas is stricter than checking for guns.
But you can't blame the props, just like you can't blame the wind for blowing a thatched roof askew.
The wind is not at fault; the fault lies with the person who built the house poorly.
The New York Police Department is looking for the man who threw a sex toy during a New York Liberty game at Barclays Center, which hit a 12-year-old girl.
Don’t think of the prop as too noble, nor too filthy.
It’s like a wrench or a screwdriver—heroes when fixing a motorcycle, criminals when smashing a neighbor's window.
The prop is neutral.
After all, it’s just a tool.
Its morality depends on the person wielding it.
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