DiJonai Carrington Denies Intentionally Fouling

WNBA star DiJonai Carrington is denying that her flagrant foul on Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham was intentional, a declare that would require everybody on the planet to battle with imaginative and prescient and listening to and be unable to access on the spot replay in order to consider.

Carrington, of course, is the Chicago Sky participant who clotheslined Cunningham so violently that former NBA legend Bill Laimbeer might need winced. The laborious contact, which resulted in Carrington’s ejection from the sport, left Cunningham bloodied after her opponent’s arm struck her in the pinnacle and neck space during a fast-break layup attempt.

Let’s not fake DiJonai lacked motive for the borderline assault as properly. Sophie was getting a ton of press for being Caitlin Clark’s “enforcer” and had stirred up feelings in the LGBT-centric league by suggesting males do not belong in feminine locker rooms. Cunningham was getting the eye, and Carrington basically said, ‘Watch this.’

Speaking to reporters days later, Carrington described the play as unlucky and insisted she never meant to damage anybody. Tucked within her feedback was a thinly veiled risk.

‘‘It was unfortunate that I made contact with her in the way that I did, but it was never intentional,’’ she said. ‘‘And, look, it might happen again. That’s just how I play. I’m gonna always go all out. I’m not gonna just let an open layup occur. But, like I said, I’m never intending to damage anyone, regardless of the skin noise or whatever the scenario could also be.’’

Catch that? It may occur again.

DiJonai Carrington threatens to clothesline @sophaller in their next matchup, telling the Chicago Sun-Times “it might happen again.”

She already posted the date of their next matchup. Carrington assaulted a participant and is now threatening to do it again.

Will the @WNBA reply?

— Rusty (@Rusty_Weiss) August 11, 2026

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine that Carrington may be very overtly threatening to damage Cunningham again ought to the chance current itself. 

Shortly after the unique sport and her ejection, Carrington posted the date of the next Fever-Sky sport on August twenty third, signaling her obsession with Sophie was far from over. It also reveals she’ll be trying to make another assertion in that very particular sport.

8/23 😁

— dιjonaι carrιngтon♛ (@DijonaiVictoria) August 8, 2026

Not only is she blatantly making threats against Cunningham, but she is also preemptively attempting to blunt any backlash or punishment by suggesting the particular person she has attacked, and might assault in the future, is the beneficiary of “white privilege.”

‘‘I would just love consistency across the board when it comes to things like that,’’ Carrington continued in her feedback. ‘‘Whether it’s the foul that I commit, whether or not it’s the response or retaliation, I might just love for it to be constant across the board, regardless of the identify on your jersey or your pores and skin shade or the rating of the sport, whatever.”

Not sure where she’s going with this alternate model of actuality. My best guess is the incident involving Sophie deliberately fouling Jacy Sheldon last season. Sheldon was with the Connecticut Sun at the time. But if Carrington is crying about unequal treatment in that case, the information undercut her utterly. Cunningham acquired the precise same penalty Carrington did: a Flagrant 2 foul, an ejection from the sport, and a fantastic.

And, since the media is doing their best to run cowl for DiJonai, it could behoove them to keep in mind that Cunningham at least had the excuse that she was defending her teammate in Clark, who Sheldon had blasted in the attention earlier in that sport. If Carrington thinks sure gamers are getting unfair treatment, they may need to review all the bodily punishment Clark has absorbed in her short time in the league.

Give me a break.

If something, DiJonai being allowed to continue taking part in without a suspension and the WNBA refusing to denounce her incendiary rhetoric is proof that the privilege is all hers.

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