By now, the world has heard what happened during Saturday’s WNBA game between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever. But just to recap: Late in the first quarter, as the Fever’s Sophie Cunningham drove toward the basket for a layup, the Sky’s DiJonai Carrington struck her across the head and neck, clotheslining her and sending her crashing to the floor. It was a deliberate move from an aggressive player.
Officials ruled the hit a Flagrant 2 foul — a serious foul “involving excessive or unnecessary contact” — and immediately ejected Carrington from the game.
[Indiana went on to win 90–86.]
Incredibly, after committing a hard foul on Cunningham, Carrington blamed her ejection from the game on white privilege. She posted the following message on her Threads account: “WHITE PRIVILEGE @indianafever”
Below, Cunningham responds angrily to Carrington: “You dumba** b*tch! Why the f*** would you do that?”
This was not unusual behavior for Carrington. Fox News reminded readers that during the 2024 WNBA Playoffs, “Carrington delivered a brutal blow directly to the eye of then-rookie sensation Caitlin Clark.”
Let’s not forget Carrington poking Caitlin’s eye out and no call made. https://t.co/IyOVYiinkG
— Greg Bryan (@HardHatNation) August 9, 2026
Following the game, Cunningham stated the obvious: Carrington’s flagrant foul was intentional. She said, “Clearly, I think it was like unnecessary. I’ve never really spoken to her and have no beef with her, but I guess she has some pent up stuff. So get your s— off. That’s fine. I can take it … Yeah, it’s intentional.”
Cunningham’s “enlightened” coach, Stephanie White, saw things differently. She told reporters, “Yeah, I mean, look, it was a hard foul. I don’t think that DiJonai [Carrington] intentionally came out to get her across the neck like she did. But it did happen and I thought it was the right call.”
But she didn’t stop there.
“You know, one of the things about Nay [nickname for Carrington] is that she’s gonna play her butt off, man. She’s gonna compete. Nobody’s gonna go walking in for a layup. And so, I don’t oppose the hard foul. But I also don’t think that she intentionally went for the neck.”
This is the same coach who defended Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas after she punched Caitlin Clark in the throat in June.
She also refused to rule out allowing biological men to play in women’s sports, saying recently, “I just don’t feel like exclusion is an answer, and I think that we need to have deeper, more layered conversations.”
White was either gaslighting or else she is so deeply committed to her woke ideology that such responses have become almost reflexive. Unfortunately, she is hardly alone.
One X user made an astute observation: “The WNBA is what the entire country would be like if run by white liberal women.” Except for leaving out the word “affluent,” he’s not wrong.
Another called for the insanity to stop. He attached a meme that read: “The WNBA wouldn’t even allow Rosa Parks on the bus today if a white man identified as a black trans woman and took her seat.”
Like White, Carrington is steeped in the woke ideology that swept through American culture in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. That she would invoke “white privilege” after committing a deliberate violation speaks volumes.
More accurately, Carrington’s attack on Cunningham was a case of “black privilege” — aptly defined by the X user below as “the ability to break any law in society and still remain the victim.”
https://x.com/FacistColonizer/status/2086208079591329966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Nevertheless, not only did Carrington rationalize her willful misconduct, but she doubled down, issuing an ominous warning to Cunningham about what awaits her the next time their teams meet: She posted the date of the game along with an emoji depicting a beaming face with smiling eyes.
Classy lady.
And here she is in all her blonde glory:
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