Dijonai Carrington, the Connecticut Sun player who now infamously stabbed Caitlin Clark in the eye during the WNBA playoffs, mocked the incident during an Instagram livestream on Wednesday.
While filming with her friend and fellow WNBA player NaLyssa Smith — a teammate of Clark’s on the Indiana Fever — Carrington appeared to stage a dramatic recreation of the moment she poked Clark.
Smith looked to deliberately get her friend’s attention before Carrington said, “You stabbed me in the eye,” with a smile on her face.
The pair then started laughing and Carrington asked, “Did you do it on purpose?”, also mocking USA TODAY columnist Christine Brennan.
While Clark was left with a black eye from the real-life incident in the match, she said the eye poke was “not intentional.”
Dijonai Carrington mocked her eye poke from Caitlin Clark while streaming on Instagram
No foul was called, despite the contact leaving the 22-year-old in pain on the ground
However, the moment continued to make headlines after Brennan asked Carrington if the eye poke was intentional.
She also asked if she and a teammate had laughed about it afterwards.
Carrington denied trying to poke Clark, but the WNBA players’ union reacted angrily to Brennan’s questions as they called for her credentials to be revoked.
“To unprofessional members of the media like Christine Brennan: You are not fooling anyone,” the statement read.
“The so-called interview in the name of journalism was a blatant attempt to entice a professional athlete to participate in a story that is false and designed to fuel racist, homophobic and misogynistic vitriol on social media. You can’t hide behind your tenure.’
“Rather than demonstrate the cornerstones of journalistic ethics such as integrity, objectivity and a fundamental commitment to the truth, you have chosen to be disingenuous and downright disingenuous,” they added.
Clark had a noticeable shine on her right eye during her post-match press conference
‘You have abused your privileges and do not deserve the credentials provided to you. And you certainly have no right to interviews with the members of this association or any other athlete.’
Brennan later revealed on iHeart’s ‘Good game with Sarah Spain’ that Carrington’s teammate DeWanna Bonner then approached her about her interrogation.
Spain later reported that Brennan had actually filed a complaint against Bonner as well, but Brennan denied this.
Although Clark’s Fever and Carrington’s Sun have been eliminated from the postseason, the WNBA playoffs are still on with the Liberty trailing the Lynx 1-0.