Former Indiana Fever guard Sydney Colson is joining the controversial conversation surrounding the gaslighting about how toxic the Indiana fan base actually is. Frankly, she and other players have had enough. Last week following the Fever’s exit from the playoffs, Indiana players Aliyah Boston, Kelsey Mitchell, and ex player Brianna Turner spoke about how toxic the fans can be, which include some admitting they were harassed whenever the team was losing.
General manager Amber Cox went on the defense and said that the attacks on the base “have no basis for reality, and they need to stop.” Colson, who is a WNBA darling thanks to her charismatic personality and presence – both off the court and on – spoke about the incident that seemed to ignite yet another fire under the feet of the fans. During the latest episode of “Unsupervised,” a podcast she shares with former teammate Theresa Plaisance, both discussed how they were in the arena on Sept. 29 when Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson got into a heated confrontation with a Fever fan on the sidelines. So let’s also keep this in reality, 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 and it’s a problem.”
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