Despite many public hopes that the WNBA would be able to return to basketball, two fouls during Saturday's game between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky essentially ensured that the media cycle the league has been stuck in for the past two weeks would continue.
The first foul will get most of the attention. In the first quarter, Sky guard DiJonai Carrington was chasing down Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. Carrington was behind the play, jumped, and brought her arm down on Cunningham's face. After a review, officials decided that Carrington had wound up, made contact, and followed through, elevating the foul to a Flagrant 2 and ejecting her from the game.
Cunningham, of course, sparked controversy two weeks ago due to comments regarding transgender athletes in a story published on ESPN.
"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" Cunningham said in the story. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."
"I'm very much in the middle," she said of her political leanings. "I agree with things on both sides, disagree with things on both sides. And that's all I've ever said about my political beliefs. But people love to ***** ume."

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