INDIANAPOLIS, IN — The WNBA has officially launched an investigation into a possible hate crime following a formal complaint by Chicago Sky player Angel Reese, who claimed that an orange metal noose was found on the court.
"There were two of them!" Reese said. "One on each side of the court. It was so racist and terrifying. I avoided them at all costs."
Investigators have speculated the strange orange metal nooses were actually what some people call "baskets" and that the whole point of the sport was to throw balls into them. However, that explanation was deemed as vaguely sexist and dismissed.
"If they're just 'basketball hoops' then how come I've never put a basketball through them?" Reese argued. "They're obviously orange nooses to represent Trump, and there's a white net underneath