Chennedy Carter has once again hit out at backlash against her brutal foul on Caitlin Clark – telling her critics: ‘Y’all don’t know me but think you know my story’.
The Chicago Sky player has been heavily criticized for her aggressive treatment of the Indiana Fever star during their WNBA game on Saturday.
Carter insisted on Monday night that she has ‘no regrets’ about her brutal bodycheck as she addressed the incident directly for the first time.
Then, on Tuesday morning, Carter hit out at her critics again on Instagram.
Replying to an ESPN post that included her quotes on the flagrant foul, Carter said: ‘Y’all don’t know me but think you know my story. Ahhh contradicting yourself’.
Chennedy Carter has once again hit out at backlash against her brutal foul on Caitlin Clark
In a second post, she added: ‘So basically we can google Bs and no highlights alright lol.’
It comes after DailyMail.com revealed on Monday that the former fourth-overall pick has been traded and cut from teams in the past because of her off-court behavior – including one incident where she threatened to fight a teammate.
In July of 2021, she was suspended by the Atlanta Dream for ‘conduct detrimental to the team’.
According to reports around the time the suspension was issued, Carter got into an argument with another player on the Dream – Courtney Williams – who asked her to ‘improve her attitude’ during a game.
After the game ended, Carter went up to Williams in the locker room telling her she wanted to fight. Once that request for an altercation was denied, Carter backed away. She did not play for the Dream again
For the 2022 season, Atlanta traded her to the Los Angeles Sparks where she didn’t get much playing time – averaging just 16 minutes a game and playing in only 24 contests.
She was waived in March of 2023. It was revealed by the Los Angeles Times that Carter had been benched the previous season due to ‘poor conduct’. It was further reported that interim coach Fred Williams benched Carter for four games due to a ‘coaches decision’.
Clark was inexplicably bodychecked to the ground by Chicago Sky’s Chennedy Carter
After playing a season abroad in Turkey, Carter earned a camp invite with the Chicago Sky, which led to a roster spot.
Carter insisted on Monday night that her shove on Clark, which has drawn huge criticism and attention in recent days, came after she was hit in the head moments earlier.
The 25-year-old appeared to yell ‘you b***h’ at the former Iowa star before knocking her to the ground.
The Chicago player then refused to answer questions about Clark immediately after Saturday’s loss to the Indiana Fever.
But following practice on Monday, she said: ‘I don’t have any regrets with anything. I’m going to compete and play 100 per cent hard – no matter who it is or who we’re playing.’
Carter said she acted in the ‘heat of the moment’ and was simply retaliating. Footage appears to show Clark catching the guard with her elbow moments before she was knocked to the ground.
The Chicago player addressed the incident directly for the first time after practice on Monday
‘I think I got hit in the head the play before and it was just one of those things that was in the heat of the moment. I don’t know Caitlin. I don’t know her from anyone but at the end of the day this is hoops, it is competitive,’ she said.
‘This is basketball, if you’re playing someone like me, I classify myself as a dawg. So if you’re going to throw a punch, I’m going to compete with you.
Carter added: ‘When we’re inside those four lines, it’s smoke. After it’s all love… we didn’t hit her like she was out on the streets. It’s just basketball.’
The 25-year-old, who received the backing of Whoopi Goldberg on Monday, was asked if she now accepted that her actions had crossed a line.
Even Chicago Sky head coach Teresa Weatherspoon publicly criticized the play, insisting it was ‘not appropriate’.
‘She and I have discussed what happened and that it was not appropriate, nor is it what we do or who we are,’ Weatherspoon said.
But Carter insisted: ‘There’s no line. I’m competing. I’m going to compete… if you’re going to throw punches first, I’m going to compete. It’s all love. It’s basketball.
‘This happens in the NBA. Actually, I’m focused on New York (Liberty) now, I’m not really focused on that play anymore. It happened… it’s over with.’
Clark and Carter clashed on Saturday as the Fever defeated the Sky in a close-fought battle
Carter even claimed that the incident will bring rival players ‘closer together’ and is , in fact, good for the WNBA.
‘This is a moment that brings everyone closer and gives the league a chance to unify,’ she continued. ‘All that stuff that happened, it’s really just great for our league. It’s great competition. We’re two great players competing on a national stage… it’s all love.’
She did, however, hit out at the fallout from the incident, which has barely relented in the days following Indiana’s victory.
‘We’ve been able to take a lot of hits in the last 24, 48 hours. I’m over here smiling, I’m not complaining,’ she said.
‘I don’t know why we’re dragging it. But we continue to drag a play that happened and a whole fourth quarter happened after that… we just have to let that play go.’
Earlier this week, though, Carter took another shot at Clark, writing on social media: ‘Kudos to all of this women they have really made WNBA interesting… beside three point shooting what does (Clark) bring to the table man’.
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