Overview
- CNN published an excerpt from Christine Brennan’s forthcoming book recounting her Sept. 2024 exchanges with DiJonai Carrington and DeWanna Bonner over an eye-poke incident involving Caitlin Clark.
- The WNBA Players Association had condemned Brennan’s line of questioning as a deliberate provocation that fueled racist, homophobic and misogynistic vitriol online.
- An unnamed WNBA official defended Brennan’s questions as appropriate and criticized players for having little experience with rigorous media exposure.
- DiJonai Carrington took to X this week to accuse Brennan of fabricating her ‘talking shit’ confrontation and describe it as ‘defamation of character’.
- The renewed spotlight on these disputes underscores widening tensions in player-media relations as the league grapples with the fallout from Caitlin Clark’s high-profile arrival.