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The WNBA is more popular than ever, but apparently, a WNBA official thinks that players do not know how to manage it.
The columnist for USA Today, Christine Brennan, launched her new book, “On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s Sports” on Tuesday, and she highlighted behind the scenes of her back and forth with Dijonai Carrington who caused a hidden declaration of Women’s National Basketball Association in September.
Carrington pushed Caitlin Clark in a match earlier last season, and many on social networks thought that she could have done so on purpose and laughs thereafter.
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Washington’s mystical goalkeeper Brittney Sykes manages the ball against the sun on May 18, 2025, in Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. (Amy Abramson-Denhoff / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
In a decision, she described as “journalism 101”, Brennan questioned Carrington on the incident and if she lacked it later – she denied having made both.
However, another Clark rival, Dewanna Bonner, confronted Brennan a few minutes after his round trips with Carrington, said Brennan.
Bonner, who was Carrington teammate at Connecticut Sun at the time, approached Brennan, saying that she had “attacked” and “disrespectful” Carrington. She used the two accusations twice each.
Brennan then discussed the situation with Sun members, then head coach Stephanie White (who is now the Clark coach with Indiana fever), and a WNBA official, who said that his questions were “good”.
Brennan revealed that the manager of the WNBA had told him that as long as the questions are not “vulgar, gross or inappropriate”, so they pass the “test” of the official.
But then the official dropped a bomb on Brennan.
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 in the media is,” said the manager, according to the book. “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 the official “asked that their name is not used due to the sensitive nature of the issue”.
Neither the WNBA nor the WNBPA responded to requests for comments from PK Press Club Digital concerning the official feelings of the official.
In his book, Brennan also wrote: “A senior WNBA official told me” that it happens everywhere. Why are our players so surprised. Why are they not prepared for this? “”
Christine Brennan speaks on Siriusxm commercial radio “Beyond the Game: Tackling Race” on February 5, 2016, in San Francisco. (Images Kimberly White / Getty for Siriusxm)
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 been noticed in the court”.
