DiJonai Carrington cant wait for Sophie Cunningham rematch after white privilege flagrant foul controversy

DiJonai Carrington is already looking forward to Aug.23, when the Sky and the Fever will meet for the first time since Carrington was ejected for her flagrant 2 foul against Sophie Cunningham on Saturday and wrote “WHITE PRIVILEGE” afterward in a Threads post.“8/23,” Carrington wrote on X on Saturday, with a beaming face with smiling eyes emoji at the end. With around two minutes left in the first quarter, Cunningham attempted a layup in transition and was fouled from behind by Carrington, which prompted Cunningham to get up from the court and shove Carrington before Fever teammate Makayla Timpson intervened.Initially called a shooting foul, the referees upgraded it to a flagrant 2 foul — meaning it was “unnecessary” and “excessive,” according to the WNBA rulebook — after review to signify an ejection for Carrington, who’d collected eight points in four minutes at the time, in the Fever’s eventual 90-86 winBut the fracas continued off the court with words afterward, as Carrington shared her “white privilege” post on social media before Cunningham told reporters that “this has nothing to do with race.”“Last year, I did the same thing,” Cunningham said, “and I got kicked out.

And I deserved to be kicked out.There’s no reason even to play that card.”Cunningham also told reporters that she doesn’t have any “beef” with Carrington, who was playing in just her fifth game of the season after recovering from a foot injury, “but I guess she has some pent-up stuff.”“It was a hard foul,” Fever head coach Stephanie White told reporters of the Carrington foul.

“I don’t think that DiJonai intentionally came out to get her across the neck like she did, but it did happen, and I thought it was the right call.”Cunningham’s comments from a July ESPN article about transgender athletes in women’s sports have caused plenty of tension in and around the WNBA the last few weeks, and the WNBA said that a task force next week...