A nationally televised WNBA playoff game between the Las Vegas Aces and Indiana Fever turned chaotic on Tuesday when Amazon Prime commentator Sydney Colson had to be physically restrained from reaching a spectator, after Aces star A’ja Wilson confronted a fan over a courtside remark.
The incident began when a fan pointed at Wilson and shouted, “It’s on you!” following a foul call. Wilson walked two rows into the baseline seating to confront him, drawing a technical foul for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Colson, a former Fever player now working as an Amazon analyst, left her courtside seat along with fellow analyst Theresa Plaisance, who also co-hosts a podcast with Wilson. As arena staff moved the two women away from the baseline, a fan in a red Fever shirt made a comment in their direction. Plaisance pointed back and called him a “little b***h boy.” Colson then pushed toward the fan while an Amazon staff member held her back, shouting on camera, “Who do you think you are? B—-, who the f— do you think you are?”
On the broadcast, Prime Video analyst LaChina Robinson said “something was said” to explain Wilson’s reaction, since she does not typically respond that way. Aces coach Becky Hammon told reporters she had never seen Wilson react like that and said she believed her star felt “deeply disrespected.”
Wilson defends her reaction
After the game, Wilson apologized to her teammates for drawing the technical foul but stood by her response to the fan.
“I don’t know if you guys know me, but I don’t get into the bulls—,” Wilson told reporters. “I try to play my game, keep it pushing. But if I’m just walking, because I just got the foul, I’m chilling, and if I see a man come at me, taking steps toward me and pointing at me, I don’t give a damn what you said. I don’t give a damn how you said it. The tone, that is unacceptable.”
Wilson also objected to the fan being allowed to return to his seat after a security review.
“And how he gets back in the game because they said he didn’t do anything? Of course he did, and that’s fine,” she said.
The Fever said arena security interviewed witnesses and determined there was no violation of the Fan Code of Conduct.
A pattern with Colson
Colson played for the Fever during the 2025 season before leaving the franchise, and has since made public remarks critical of her former team. In August, after Chicago’s DiJonai Carrington was ejected for a hit on Fever guard Sophie Cunningham’s neck, Colson posted on social media, “Love a trans foul,” a jab aimed at her former teammate.
Colson remained mic’d up for Amazon’s broadcast throughout Tuesday’s outburst. Neither Amazon nor the WNBA has announced any disciplinary action against her or Plaisance following the incident.
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