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WNBA is more popular than it has been, but apparently, a WNBA official believes that players do not know how to handle it.
The US Today’s columnist, Christine Brennan, launched her new book, “in her game: Caitlin Clark and the revolution in women’s sports”, on Tuesday, and in it, he highlighted the scenes behind the scenes of his round trip with Dijonai Carrington that caused a scathing statement of the National Women’s Basketball Association in September.
Carrington pushed Caitlin Clark in a game earlier last season, and many on social networks believed that he could have done it on purpose and laughed later.
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Washington Mystics, Brittney Sykes, drives the ball against the sun on May 18, 2025, in Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. (Amy Abramson-Denhoff/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
In a movement that described as “Journalism 101”, Brennan asked Carrington about the incident and if he made fun of it later, he denied having done both.
However, another of Clark’s rivals, Dewanna Bonner, faced Brennan just a few minutes after her with Carrington, said Brennan.
Bonner, who was Carrington’s teammate in the Connecticut Sun at that time, approached Brennan, saying that he had “attacked” and “not respected” Carrington. She used both accusations twice each.
Brennan then discussed the situation with the SUN members, the then head coach Stephanie White (who is now Clark coach with Indiana’s fever), and a WNBA official, who said her questions were “well.”
Brennan revealed that the WNBA official told him that, while the questions are not “vulgar, rude or inappropriate”, then they pass the “test” of the official.
But then, the official threw a bomb on Brennan.
The Connecticut Guard Sun Dijonai Carrington fails to the Indiana Clark fever guard in Indianapolis, August 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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“Unfortunately, most of our players have zero idea what is the real exhibition of the media,” said the official, according to the book. “They do not know what real coverage is, they have been protected in the university and then reach the WNBA without knowing what the real questions are. Frankly, our players simply do not understand.”
Brennan said the official “requested that his name be used due to the sensitive nature of the problem.”
Neither the WNBA nor the WNBPA have responded to the requests for Pak Gazette Digital comments on the official’s informed feelings.
In his book, Brennan also wrote: “A senior WNBA official told me ‘This happens everywhere. Why are our players so surprised? Why are they not prepared for it?'”
Christine Brennan speaks in Radio Business Siriusxm “Beyond the Game: Torchling Race” on February 5, 2016 in San Francisco. (Kimberly White/Getty images for Siriusxm)
Brennan said that Carrington also disagreed with journalists, including herself, the next day, claiming that they were “speaking S —” about Nalysa Smith, her partner who was in the fever. Brennan said that the other two reporters were simply discussing “a fever strategy that had just noticed in court.”
