Aces' Wilson T'd up for confronting fan in Game 2 loss to Fever - ESPN

INDIANAPOLIS — Aces center A'ja Wilson received a technical foul after confronting a fan at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Tuesday night during a 99-89 loss to the Indiana Fever in Game 2 of their first-round series.

The incident happened with just over four minutes left in the fourth quarter after Indiana's Sophie Cunningham was called for a foul on Wilson. As Cunningham protested the foul, a fan seated behind the baseline stood up and pointed at Wilson.

Wilson then stepped toward the fan and said, «You don't point at me, you don't point at me.» As the fan started to sit back down, Aces players Cheyenne Parker-Tyus, Chelsea Gray and Jackie Young came over to pull Wilson away, as did Las Vegas' Kierstan Bell, who left the bench to do so.

The fan was escorted out of the arena bowl but was allowed back in and took his seat.

In a statement released later Tuesday, the Fever said arena security spoke with the fan involved as well as witnesses and allowed him to return because «there was no violation of the Fan Code of Conduct.»

In the Aces' postgame news conference, Wilson called the fan's actions «unacceptable» and said she was surprised he was allowed to return to his seat.

«I try to play my game… but if I am just walking, just got the foul, I'm chilling and I see a man come at me, taking steps toward me and pointing at me, I don't give a damn what you said,» she said. «I don't give a damn how you said it, the tone. That is unacceptable. You don't step toward me. You never should sit and point at me. That there is unacceptable.»

Wilson said she apologized to her teammates for receiving a technical, «but it's just certain things that I'm not going to allow anymore.»

«You don't know me at all,» she said. «To come and step toward me