Connecticut Sun guard DiJonai Carrington called out the WNBA for not doing enough to promote her team’s historic game against the Los Angeles Sparks at the TD Garden in Boston. It was TD Garden’s first time hosting a WNBA game.
The Sun pulled off a 69-61 win Tuesday in what was a very competitive game, doing so in front of a sellout crowd of 19,125 — the third-highest-attendance for a WNBA game this season. However, Carrington didn’t feel the league did enough to get the word out to the public. She posted on social media about it Tuesday, letting fans know the game would unfortunately not be on national television.
“I’m going to keep it real all the time — I feel like Connecticut as a franchise is historically disrespected,” Carrington said during the postgame press conference. “So sometimes if you want something, you gotta go out there and do it yourself. So that’s what I did for us.
“I think that there could have been a lot more publicity or promo from the top. Connecticut had announced that we were having this game probably…
