{"id":38362,"date":"2026-08-11T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=38362"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:04:39","slug":"dijonai-carrington-breaks-silence-on-sophie-cunningham-drama-bringing-white-privilege-concerns-to-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=38362","title":{"rendered":"DiJonai Carrington breaks silence on Sophie Cunningham drama, bringing &#8216;white privilege&#8217; concerns to WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p>DiJonai Carrington denied that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/08\/sports\/dijonai-carrington-ejected-after-hard-foul-against-sophie-cunningham-in-wild-scene\/\">her flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham<\/a> was intentional, while remaining coy about her \u201cWHITE PRIVILEGE\u201d post that she wrote on social media over the weekend when she spoke with reporters in Seattle on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carrington called it \u201cunfortunate\u201d that her attempt to deny a layup by Cunningham \u2014 during the Sky\u2019s loss to the Fever on Saturday \u2014 occurred the way it did, while noting that it has always been her style of play.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was unfortunate that I made contact with her in the way that I did, but it was never intentional,\u201d she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/chicago-sky\/2026\/08\/10\/dijonai-carrington-says-white-privilege-post-goes-beyond-flagrant-foul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>. \u201cAnd, look, it might happen again. That\u2019s just how I play. I\u2019m gonna always go all out. I\u2019m not gonna just let an open layup happen. But like I said, I\u2019m never intending to hurt anybody, regardless of the outside noise or whatever the situation may be.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"40282066\"><br \/>\n\t<default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><default:path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/default:svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40282066\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-136861782_d7fa01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever is fouled by DiJonai Carrington of the Chicago Sky.\" 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The call ended Carrington\u2019s night early and has created a wave of controversy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her cryptic post on Threads after her ejection only added to the situation, and when given the chance to address the meaning behind it further, Carrington declined to elaborate on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI already spoke with people who potentially will have the agency to create the change that I\u2019m hoping comes about from not just this incident, but ones in the past and that are obviously going to be coming up in the near future, probably,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carrington has spoken to the WNBA, although from the sounds of it she was not encouraged by the talks and expressed a desire for consistency \u201cacross the board\u201d when it comes to the way things are called.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s the foul that I committed, whether it\u2019s the reaction, the retaliation, I would just love it to be consistent across the board regardless of the name on your jersey or your skin color or the score of the game, the stakes, whatever,\u201d she said. \u201cI would love there to just be consistency when it comes to all of that. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re there yet. That\u2019s something that I\u2019ve talked to the league about as well. 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