{"id":378615,"date":"2025-12-31T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:00:09","slug":"should-be-on-the-team-even-if-shes-smoking-crack-chennedy-carter-is-raining-buckets-in-china-wnba-fans-want-to-know-why-shes-being-blackballed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378615\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Should Be On The Team Even If She\u2019s Smoking Crack\u2019:\u00a0Chennedy Carter Is Raining Buckets In China. WNBA Fans Want To Know Why She\u2019s Being Blackballed"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you survey the dynamic guards of the WNBA, and they are plentiful from Sabrina Ionescu<\/a>, Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell to Paige Bueckers and a slew of others on the horizon, few are as good as Chennedy Carter who has not been in a WNBA uniform since leading the Chicago Sky in scoring with 17.5 points per game in 2024. <\/p>\n

RELATED: Since Top 25 WNBA Player Chennedy Carter Went Down With Undisclosed Illness Angel Reese\u2019s Chicago Sky Have Lost Every Game. So How Come Nobody\u2019s Talking About It?<\/a><\/p>\n

Dynamic WNBA Guard Chennedy Carter Left Unsigned In 2025<\/p>\n

That team was a playoff contender until the final weeks of the season, when Angel Reese<\/a> went down with an injury. While the Sky struggled to produce any significant guard scoring in 2025, stumbling to the bottom of league standings (10-34), Carter unfathomably was left unsigned by WNBA teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What makes her case even more inexplicable is the fact that she\u2019s been tearing up international ball since she arrived, putting up\u00a0 ridiculous numbers playing in the Women\u2019s Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA). Carter is leading the league in scoring, averaging 30.9 points per game while shooting 52.8% from two-point range.<\/p>\n

The all-around weapon is also averaging 6 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game for the Shanghai Swordfish. This is a continuation of her on-court success as she was named Player of the Year in the WCBA last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fans Just Don\u2019t Understand Why Chennedy Carter Is Not In WNBA\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last season for the Chicago Sky for all of the reasons previously stated. Plenty of Sky fans lamented the loss of Carter and criticized the organization. Others continue to assume that this one player\u2019s attitude is so volatile that it supersedes her amazing play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She might just be the first in the history of sports with no felonies, egregious crimes or attacks on coaches on her resume. WNBa fans have been having this discussion since last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019m a WNBA organization and the biggest complaint I have about a 25 Y\/O is her attitude RESPECTFULLY CHENNEDY CARTER Coulda been in the BACK Smoking CrAck!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA locker room cancer can tank a championship roster no matter how talented. What do you think it will do to a rebuilding one?,\u201d said one fan who felt the sky was better off without Kennedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe was better with the \u201clocker room cancer,\u201d answered another fan on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also ignoring the fact that we let her go for free\u2026and we need ball handling now more than ever with injuries\u2026no one has confirmed anything negative that she did so idk we could\u2019ve resigned her we could have signed and traded her but she\u2019s just not here and she\u2019d solve at least one problem we\u2019ve had all season,\u201d said one fan pointing out all of the deficiencies that losing Carter caused.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCo-sign, I don\u2019t give a fuk she should have been in the team. I will die on this hill,\u201d said another angry Sky fan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cher attitude\u201d huh? I got an endless list of females in the W with attitude SMH, the league just couldn\u2019t handle angel having another DOG around her that could match her energy and could compete at high level,\u201d accused one netizen. <\/p>\n

RELATED: \u201cLoose Cannon With Questionable Ethics\u201d: Did Chennedy Carter\u2019s Reputation As WNBA\u2019s Draymond Green Force Marina Mabrey Out of Chicago?<\/a><\/p>\n

The dynamic guard out of Texas Tech has played 84 career games in the WNBA and averaged 14.6 points per game and shot 47.3 percent from the field. It appears as if her game was really blossoming under rookie head coach Teresa Weatherspoon<\/a> in 2024, but neither of those stars got a chance to participate in the organization past one season. Instead, while the Sky signed players off the streets to desperately find someone who could break down a defense and get buckets, Chennedy was off to play for the Mexican club Adelitas de Chihuahua, while spending the last few offseasons playing in China.<\/p>\n

Chennedy Carter\u2019s WNBA Tenure Marred By Reported Attitude Issues<\/p>\n

There\u2019s never been a statement by the league as to why Chennedy Carter has been blackballed. Before her season in Chicago, Carter played for the Atlanta Dream for two seasons after being drafted fourth overall in 2020. After averaging 17.4 points per game as a rookie, Carter\u2019s tenure ended abruptly. In 2021, she was suspended by the Dream for \u201cconduct detrimental to the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then went to the Los Angeles Sparks, where in 2022, the Los Angeles Times reported that Carter was benched by the Sparks due to \u201cpoor conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy Carter vs. Caitlin Clark\u00a0<\/p>\n

The icing on the cake for her might have been her fierce battles with Caitlin Clark early in the rookie\u2019s first season. Despite the fact that it did wonders for WNBA ratings, Carter gave Clark a hard time and was very physical while defending the 2024 Rookie of the Year, which led to some scuffles, some postgame press conferences that angered Clark fans. The fact that Carter was a teammate of Angel Reese made her one of the most criticized and hated figures by the media and fans who worship CC.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

RELATED: \u201cThat\u2019s Not A Basketball Play\u201d | Chennedy Carter\u2019s Cheap Shot Overshadows WNBA\u2019s First Caitlin Clark Versus Angel Reese Showdown<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Chennedy Carter Being Blackballed By WNBA?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, the fact that Carter did not sign with a WNBA team ahead of 2025 is a mystery to all. The Sky declined to even extend her a qualifying offer despite her strong 2024 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While several other WNBA players have torn it up in China this season, including the dynamic Golden State Valkyries forward Temi Fagbenle (17.6 points and 8 rebounds per game) , Dallas Wings forward Myisha Hines-Allen (17.9 points per game and 7.9 assists, and Seattle Storm forward Tiffany Mitchell (19.2 points and 6.8 rebounds per game), Carter has definitely stood out from the rest. Her scoring prowess is virtually unstoppable. She\u2019s fast, she can handle and her talent is undeniable. The problem is, she\u2019s doing all of this in China, when you can\u2019t name 10 WNBA guards better than her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Chennedy Carter (R) calls Caitlin Clark (L) a one-dimensional three-point shooter, before Clark has worst game of career against NY Liberty, scoring just three points on 1-of-10 shooting. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Until someone from the league addresses her absence, we can only assume she\u2019s being blackballed for reasons we will never know. That\u2019s sad when the WNBA needs all of the show-stopping talent that it can get.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you survey the dynamic guards of the WNBA, and they are plentiful from Sabrina Ionescu, Caitlin Clark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,49,735,48,161434,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-378615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-angel-reese","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-caitlin-clark","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-chennedy-carter","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}