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Dijonai Carrington ended up in the headlines last season when she accidentally pushed Caitlin Clark in the eyes,
When she was questioned on this subject by Christine Brennan of USA TODAY, it turned into a war of words.
The women’s association for women’s basketball players has published a scathing statement, calling Brennan by name about an interview with Carrington that the union said that racist, homophobic and misogynist vitriol “online.
Brennnan asked Carrington, who was on the Connecticut sun at the time, if she intended to hit Clark in her eyes after the video, and that she and Marina Mabry, who recently pushed Clark on the ground in a game, made fun of the incident thereafter. Carrington denied both the truth.
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The Indiana Caitlin Clark fever goalkeeper rides the Connecticut Dijonai Carrington solar custody in Indianapolis, August 28, 2024. (APPO / Michael Conroy)
However, another of Clark’s rivals, Dewanna Bonner, confronted Brennan just a few minutes after his allem with Carrington, Brennan revealed in his new book “On his game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Female Sports”.
Bonner, who was his Carrington teammate on the sun at the time, approached Brennan saying that she had “attacked” and “missed” Carrington. She used the two accusations twice each.
Brennan said that she had tried to show up and even offered to boon the chance to listen to their exchange – but Bonner apparently wanted no room.
Brennan then declared that she had sent a text to the head coach of the sun Stephanie White, now the Clark coach with Indiana fever, to tell her about the situation, which she called “journalism 101”. She also declared in the book that a man responsible for the WNBA had told her that her questions were “good”.
Connecticut Sun Guard Dijonai Carrington Fouls Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark in Indianapolis, August 28, 2024. (APPO / Michael Conroy)
The suite of fever-wings’ moved to a 20,000-seat arena while Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, was preparing to compete
“Unfortunately, most of our players have no idea of what a real exhibition of the media has been,” admitted the manager to Brennan, according to the author. “They do not know what real coverage is, they were protected in college and then they come to the WNBA not knowing what the real questions are. Frankly, our players simply do not understand.”
Brennan said Carrington also challenged journalists, in particular herself, the next day, saying that they were “talking about Nalyssa Smith, his partner who was just fever. Brennan said that the other two journalists simply discussed “a little a fever strategy that had just noticed on the ground”.
Smith confronted Brennan, who told Smith that she had said nothing negative, but Smith said that she was “lying,” Brennan wrote in the book.
Bonner signed a one -year agreement with fever during the offseason, but was canceled after being reported that she had “no interest” to play for them.
The Indiana Caitlin Clark fever goalkeeper and the Sun Dewanna Bonner striker exchange words during the WNBA qualifiers, on September 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Connecticut. (AP photo / Jessica Hill)
Carrington and Smith seemed to joke about the incident that shoots in an Instagram video live in October.
