Hopefully what’s next is years of irrelevance and the rest of the league treats them like the pariahs they are. They continue to explicitly court racists and transphobes to join their fanbase

Two years ago, then-Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas specifically pointed to an element of racism in the responses. "In my 11-year career, I've never experienced the racial comments from the Indiana Fever fanbase. It's unacceptable, honestly," Thomas said. "There's no place for it. We've been professional throughout the whole entire thing, but I've never been called the things that I've been called on social media."