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 them to represent enslavement. It's the most racist thing I've ever seen."

This report comes hot off the heels of an earlier claim that racial slurs were shouted by fans during a game, which turned out to be false as there was no one watching the game.

At publishing time, Angel Reese had announced that another hate crime had been committed as someone had made her basketball orange, just like fascist Donald Trump.

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