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WNBA is more popular than it has ever been, but apparently a WNBA official thinks the players do not know how to handle it.
USA Today Paltist Christine Brennan launched her new book, “On her game: Caitlin Clark and Revolution in Women’s Sports,” On Tuesday, and in it highlighted behind the scenes in her over her back and forth with Dijonai Carrington, who received a scornful statement from Women’s National Candball Players Association in September.
Carrington stabbed Caitlin Clark in a game earlier last season, and many on social media thought she may have done it on purpose and laughed about it afterwards.
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Washington Mystics -Guard Brittney Sykes handles 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 step she described as “Journalism 101,” Brennan Carrington asked about the incident and whether she made fun of it later – she refused to do both.
However, another of Clark’s rivals, Dewanna Bonner, Brennan confronted just minutes after her back and forth with Carrington, claimed Brennan.
Bonner, who was Carrington’s teammate of Connecticut Sun at the time, approached Brennan and said she had “attacked” and “respected” Carrington. She used both accusations twice each.
Brennan then discussed the situation with members of the sun, then-head coach Stephanie White (who is now Clark’s coach with the Indiana fever) and a WNBA official who said her question was “fine.”
Brennan revealed that the Wnba official told her that as long as questions are not “vulgar, rude or inappropriate,” then they pass the official’s “test.”
But then the official fell a bomb on Brennan.
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“Unfortunately, most of our players have zero idea of what real media exposure is,” said the official according to the book. “They don’t know what real coverage is, they’ve been shielded in college, and then they come to WNBA without knowing what real questions are. Frankly, our players just don’t get it.”
Brennan said the official “requested that they were not used because of the sensitive nature of the problem.”
Neither WNBA nor WNBPA have responded to Pakinomist Digital’s requests for commentary on the official’s reported feelings.
In his book, Brennan also wrote, “A top wnba -official told me ‘This is happening everywhere. Why are our players so surprised. Why are they not prepared for it?’
Christine Brennan speaks on Siriusxm Business Radio broadcasts “Beyond the Game: Tackling Race” on February 5, 2016 in San Francisco. (Kimberly White/Getty Images to Siriusxm)
Brennan said Carrington also questioned journalists, including himself, the next day, claiming that they “talked S —” about Nalyssa Smith, her partner, who just as happened to be on the fever. Brennan claimed that the other two journalists simply discussed “a bit of a fever strategy that had just been noticed on the field.”
