DeWanna Bonner’s Involvement in Controversial Caitlin Clark Incident Emerges

DeWanna Bonner is no longer with the Indiana Fever after appearing in just nine games this season.

The two-time WNBA champion signed with Indiana as a free agent this past offseason, but after seeing her minutes decrease and being used exclusively off the bench, she stepped away from the team. The Fever eventually waived her, and Bonner said the "fit didn’t work out."

This all comes just one season after an incident between Bonner's former team, the Connecticut Sun, and the Fever during a game.

DiJonai Carrington, who now plays for the Dallas Wings, caught Clark in the eye with her finger as she put her hand up to block a pass. Carrington was asked about the play in the postgame by Christine Brennan, the author of the book "On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports."

"DiJonai, when you went and kind of swatted at Caitlin, did you intend to hit her in the eye, and if so — or if not, either way — could you talk about what happened on that play?" Brennan asked.

"I don’t even know why I would intend to hit anybody in the eye," Carrington replied. "That doesn’t even make sense to me. But no, I didn’t. I didn’t know I hit her, actually. I was trying to make a play on the ball and I guess I followed through and I hit her, so obviously it’s never intentional, that’s not even, like, the type of player that I am."

Brennan followed up: "Did you and Marina kind of laugh about it afterwards? It looked like later on in the game they caught you guys laughing about it?"

"No, I just told you I didn’t even know I hit her, so I can’t laugh about something I didn’t know happened," Carrington added.

Meanwhile, Brennan included the entire incident in her book and revealed that Bonner got involved after she and Carrington had already spoken. Brennan saw Bonner walking toward her, and the 6-foot-4 center said something to her.

"You disrespected my teammate," Bonner said when referring to Carrington.

Brennan tried to introduce herself, but Bonner repeated what she had said earlier three more times.

"You attacked my teammate," she said.