Source: No discipline for A'ja Wilson over fan confrontation - ESPN
Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson will not face any further discipline over her confrontation with a fan during Tuesday's Game 2 against the Indiana Fever, a source told ESPN on Thursday.
The ruling means Wilson will be fully available for Thursday's decisive Game 3 in the Aces' first-round series against the Fever.
With just over four minutes left in the fourth quarter, 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 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 away Wilson, as did Las Vegas' Kierstan Bell, who left the bench to do so.
The source noted that Wilson remained in the designated court area during the incident and did not step into the stands. The officials gave Wilson a technical foul but concluded no ejection was needed, and the league followed in ruling that no other penalties would be given.
The fan was escorted out of the arena bowl but was allowed back in and took his seat, with the Fever saying 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.


