An old outburst is now colliding with DiJonai Carrington’s latest storm in the WNBA. Dave Portnoy resurfaced a 2024 Instagram Live clip of DiJonai Carrington on Aug. 8, dragging an old confrontation with an Uber driver back into the spotlight. The timing was no accident. Carrington had just been ejected from a game against the Indiana Fever after a hard foul on Sophie Cunningham, and the fallout from that incident was still unfolding.

The Chicago Sky guard was tossed from the contest for the foul on Cunningham, and she followed it up with a “white privilege” post on social media. Carrington later insisted the comment had nothing to do with Cunningham or the ejection. She said it was tied to a complaint she had filed with the league over inconsistent officiating.

Critics were not willing to take her explanation at face value. Some began digging into her past, and that search turned up the December 2024 footage Portnoy would later share.

In the clip, Carrington is seen arguing with an Uber driver alongside a group of friends. She accused the driver of trying to kidnap them and claimed he threatened to call the police to intimidate the group.

“I don’t know why white people think they can get away with trying to just scare black people by saying, ‘Oh, I’m gonna call the police,’” Carrington said in the video. “Ok, and we did nothing wrong, so that’s fine. Go ahead and call the police.”

The situation escalated further once a second Uber arrived. Carrington approached the original driver as he spoke to the new one, and when she realized the second driver was speaking Spanish, she turned her frustration on the first man’s ethnicity.

“Dummy, he don’t even speak that language. He speaks Spanish,” Carrington said. “He’s a dumba-s because our new driver speaks Spanish. This motherf-er was trying to speak Arabic. Arabic and Spanish do not sound the same.”

Dave Portnoy And Jason Whitlock Slam DiJonai Carrington Amid WNBA Controversy

Portnoy used the resurfaced footage to paint a broader picture of Carrington’s character, framing it as proof of who she really is beneath the “white privilege” headline. The clip gave his argument a two-year paper trail to point to.

Veteran analyst Jason Whitlock went further, tracing the shift back to her college years. He argued Carrington was a different person before Stanford and that her time on that campus, followed by a transfer year at Baylor, changed her outlook well before she ever stepped onto a WNBA court.

“Stanford, in a transfer year at Baylor, put something else into DiJonai Carrington besides discipline,” Whitlock said. “That Stanford campus is one of the most far-left institutions in this country. She spent four years marinating in it before the WNBA ever got its hands on her. The league did not create the ideology; Stanford planted the seed. The league just watered it down and put it on national television.”

Whitlock has separately claimed that players like Carrington are the reason LeBron James steered his daughter, Zhuri, toward volleyball instead of basketball. It is a heavy accusation to hang on one resurfaced clip, but it shows how far this story has already traveled beyond the original ejection.

Carrington has not addressed the 2024 footage directly since Portnoy brought it back into circulation. Her explanation for the “white privilege” post still centers on officiating, not the incidents now being tied to her name.

Whether the league or the Sky organization weighs in remains to be seen. For now, the resurfaced clip has given her critics fresh ammunition, and the conversation around her shows no sign of cooling off.