A fan is facing the consequences after allegedly directing racial abuse towards Las Vegas Aces star Chelsea Gray.
Hilton Grand Vacations announced in a post to X on Tuesday that they have fired an employee accused of sending a racist DM to Gray over Instagram. In their post, Hilton Grand Vacations said that the person responsible violated multiple company policies with his alleged behavior.
“The person responsible for posting this information is no longer with the company,” the post by Hilton read. “His behavior was in violation of multiple company policies and does not reflect our company’s values in any way.”
Gray, a six-time WNBA All-Star and four-time WNBA champion, was involved in an incident with Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark during their game on Sunday. As Clark was defending her in the post, Gray gave Clark an elbow to the midsection in what many deemed to be a normal basketball play but that left Clark on the ground in pain (see the video here).
After the Fever went on to defeat the Aces by a final score of 109-75, Gray said on her Instagram Story on Monday that she had received a racist message from a fan. “You suck a– ugly a– n—-r,” the alleged DM read (profanity edited by LBS).
Gray did not blur out the name of the user who had sent her the message, and social media sleuths were then able to identify the man and contact his employer. Now Hilton Grand Vacations has terminated the employment of the man, only about some 24 hours after he was exposed publicly by Gray.
