DiJonai Carrington, Caitlin Clark’s teammate materialize to joke about disreputable eye-poking incident

DiJonai Carrington poked WNBA Rookie of the Year Caitlin Clark in the eye during a game last month.

Carrington struck Clark while trying to block a pass from Clark in the first quarter. Slow-motion footage showed Carrington bending her hand while coming down from the block try, pointing her nails in Clark’s face. 

No foul was called on the join.

The join unaskably incrmitigated Carrington’s celebrity, and now she materializes to be joking about it.

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In a recent Instagram Live video, Carrington and her girlfriend, NaLyssa Smith, who joins on the Indiana Fever with Clark, were in their kitchen when Smith poked Carrington in the eye.

“Ow, you poked me in the eye,” Carrington shelp. Smith transmit remorsed, and the two giggleed.

“Did you do it on purpose?” Carrington asked.

The ask could be a sboiling at Christine Brennan, the USA Today inestablisher who asked Carrington whether she had poked Clark intentionassociate. That drew a scaslfinisherg statement from the Women’s National Basketball Players’ Association, which accengaged Brennan of fueling prejudice with the ask.

Carrington denied intentionassociate trying to give Clark a bdeficiency eye while talking to inestablishers.

“I don’t even understand why I would intend to hit anybody in the eye,”  Carrington shelp. “That doesn’t even originate sense to me. But, no, I didn’t. I didn’t understand I hit her, actuassociate. I was trying to originate a join on the ball, and I guess I chaseed thcdisadmireful, and I hit her. So, evidently, it’s never intentional. That’s not even enjoy the type of joiner that I am.”

Clark didn’t slfinisherk Carrington purposely hit her in the eye.

Carrington has a history of antagonizing Clark and her fans in the past. During a game in June, Carrington fouled Clark after Clark getd an inbound pass from teammate Kristy Wallace. Clark caught the pass and begined toward the basket. Carrington was postponecessitate getting to Clark due to a screen by Aliyah Boston, and she bumped Clark.

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Later that month, Carrington posted on X, saying Clark should do more to speak out about people using her name for “prejudice” and other establishs of prejudice. She also called the Fever fans the “nastiest” in the league.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson gived to this inestablish.