CHICAGO, USA – August 8: Aliyah Boston 7 Indiana Fever is seen during the WNBA, Basketball Damen, USA game between the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever at the United Center on Saturday, August 8 in Chicago, USA PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxBRAxMEX Copyright: xShainaxBenhiyoun/SPPx Sportspressphoto_SPR202801 ©IMAGO/Sports Press Photo
The Indiana Fever’s loss to the Las Vegas Aces on Thursday may have ended their season, but the noise around the team and its fan base has hardly gone away. With A’ja Wilson’s confrontation with a spectator on Tuesday still dominating the conversation, an Aliyah Boston interview clip resurfaced this week, repackaged as current, presenting the Fever star as though she were calling out Indiana fans during her 2026 exit interview. However, WNBA reporter Robin Lundberg was quick to point out that there is more to the viral clip than meets the eye.
“This is an old clip you are presenting as current while pretending to be the good guy. It’s gotta be tough dealing with the nonsense no doubt, but so many on here are full of it,” Lundberg wrote on X.
The clip actually comes from Boston’s 2024 exit interview, when she was asked about Alyssa Thomas’ criticism of the abuse directed at WNBA players following the Fever’s playoff series against the Connecticut Sun. The original poster of the video has now gone back and admitted that they later realized that it was an old video. In her statement from 2024, Aliyah Boston acknowledged that Thomas’ comments were difficult to hear but contained some truth, while also making it clear that she would not place everything on Fever fans.
Her comments also reflected her own experience of being on the receiving end of that hate on social media, including from people who claimed to support Indiana. Aliyah Boston explained that the negativity eventually became one of the reasons she stepped away from social media, only for the tone to change once the Fever started winning and she began playing better.
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So, when the Fever fan base once again came under the spotlight during the 2026 WNBA playoffs, users began circulating that old clip as though Aliyah Boston had made those comments during her recent exit interview. One of the reasons the video resurfaced is the recent Kelsey Mitchell exit interview, where she opens up about the struggles of being an Indiana Fever player, constantly in the spotlight and the focus of severe fan criticism.
“So I think we as players endure a lot that people don’t necessarily really understand about, like showing up every day to compete for fans that may or may not like you, is hard,” Mitchell said.
The three-game battle between Indiana and the Las Vegas Aces was filled with moments that kept the Fever fan base under scrutiny. The biggest came in Game 2, when A’ja Wilson confronted a fan behind the baseline. The Aces star and the spectator exchanged words before Wilson’s teammates and officials intervened.
Still, the situation quickly spiraled beyond the arena as Indiana fans called for the league to punish Wilson for her actions. Under the WNBA’s player conduct policy, “any coach, player, or trainer who deliberately enters the spectator stands during the game will be automatically ejected.” But Wilson ultimately faced no additional punishment for the incident besides a technical foul during the game, and the tension carried into Game 3 as well.
Less than two minutes into the second quarter on Thursday, while battling for position in the paint, Lexie Hull and former Fever player Brianna Turner became tangled up. Turner went to the floor and pulled Hull down with her, but the officials charged Hull with the foul. And that decision became another flashpoint in an already heated series, adding to the frustration surrounding the officiating and the atmosphere inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
So, when the series ended and the Fever’s playoff run was officially over, the 2024 clip started being circulated on social media as though it were a fresh reflection from Aliyah Boston after everything that had unfolded over the previous few days.
This also comes at a time when Fever general manager Amber Cox has pushed back strongly against the broader criticism of Indiana’s supporters. Speaking at the team’s end-of-season news conference, Cox defended the fan base while acknowledging that spectators who cross the line should be held accountable.
“The attacks on our fanbase have no basis in reality, and they need to stop,” Cox said.
So while the Fever may have exited the playoffs, the debate over their fans—and how that fan base is being portrayed—appears far from finished.
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