Suns star DiJonai Carrington calls on WNBA not to promote sold-out win over Sparks at TD Garden

DiJonai Carrington and the Connecticut Sun scored a narrow victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in front of a sold-out stadium in Boston on Tuesday night.

But that game, the first WNBA contest ever played at TD Garden, was limited to WNBA League Pass or the WNBA livestream outside of local markets. In fact, none of the three WNBA games Tuesday night were nationally televised.

So on Tuesday morning, Carrington actually took the league to task for not promoting their historic game in Boston, which she saw as just another game.

Despite what she felt was a lack of promotion, more than 19,000 fans still came to TD Garden to watch the Suns’ 69-61 victory over the Sparks on Tuesday night. Carrington scored a game-high 19 points and helped spark a 14-0 run to secure the victory.

“I think my tweet worked,” Carrington said.

Carrington also criticized the WNBA for not making the game available on national television. Only 14 of the Sun’s regular-season games were scheduled for national television when the schedule was first released earlier this year. By comparison, the Indiana Fever — thanks in part to the growing popularity of star rookie Caitlin Clark — had all but four of its games nationally televised.

Carrington is averaging 12.6 points and 5.1 rebounds per game this season, her fourth-most in the league. The win moved the Sun to 20-7 on the season, which puts them second in the league, just 3.5 games behind the New York Liberty. The Sparks, on the other hand, have now lost five games in a row and are tied for the worst record in the league, at just 6-22.

While it may not have been a high-profile game on a national level, the fans in Boston (a city that will undoubtedly acquire its own franchise in the future) were still there.