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Updated · Yahoo Sports · Aug 11

DiJonai Carrington Posts 26-6-5 Line in Sky Loss, Matching Sophie Cunningham's 2022 WNBA Feat

Updated

Updated · Yahoo Sports · Aug 11

DiJonai Carrington Posts 26-6-5 Line in Sky Loss, Matching Sophie Cunningham's 2022 WNBA Feat

Q: Why did the WNBA decline to suspend DiJonai Carrington despite her Flagrant 2 foul and controversial social media post?

The WNBA appears to have declined a suspension because, under its rules, Carrington’s Flagrant 2 already carried the automatic in-game penalty: ejection. The league reviewed the play, upheld the Flagrant 2, but announced no further discipline, which usually means it did not find grounds to add a postgame suspension beyond the standard punishment. Nothing in the available reporting indicates that Carrington triggered an automatic suspension threshold, such as accumulating the number of flagrant-foul points or technical fouls that mandate a one-game ban. By contrast, the league has suspended players in other cases when a review found more severe conduct or when automatic thresholds were met. In Carrington’s case, the public record shows only the ejection was enforced. Her social media post also does not appear to have fallen under a clearly defined automatic suspension rule. Multiple reports noted the WNBA does not have a specific public policy that automatically suspends players for this kind of post, even though the message drew sharp criticism and league scrutiny. Carrington later said her “WHITE PRIVILEGE” comment was being misinterpreted and was not meant to claim the foul call itself was racially motivated. So the practical answer is that the league treated the foul as punishable by ejection, not suspension, and did not publicly determine that either the contact or the social media post warranted extra discipline under its existing rules.

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Carrington returned from last weekend's ejection with a season-best 26 points, six rebounds and five steals in Chicago's 97-88 loss to Seattle.
That line made the 28-year-old the first WNBA guard to hit those numbers since Sophie Cunningham did so in 2022, extending attention on their recent clash.
The storyline intensified after Carrington drew a Flagrant 2 for swiping across Cunningham's face against Indiana, then posted "White Privilege" on social media.
Carrington later said the post was not about Cunningham, while the WNBA imposed no further discipline and allowed her to play Monday.