NaLyssa Smith had a nine-minute Twitch livestream on Sunday night to say one word about DiJonai Carrington’s cheating allegation, and she never got to it.
Carrington had opened her Threads post the way you’d expect: “Since mfs wanna be funny today ima be hilarious!”. Then she claimed Smith had cheated on her, and named two more people who, by Smith’s own account, had nothing to do with any of it. Smith’s Twitch response covered a lot of ground, but the word no never came up.
Asked, in effect, whether the allegation was true, she said instead, “Whether she cheated on me and I cheated on her, why are we bringing that to the internet a year later when nobody did anything to anybody?” She wasn’t disputing whether it happened. She answered the timing question, not the cheating one, and that’s the whole tell.
Smith wasn’t just annoyed about being accused. She was annoyed about who else got dragged into a WNBA cheating allegation that had nothing to do with them, saying on the same stream that Carrington had chosen “to bring up folks name that has nothing to do with anything,” adding that those people “woke up to this s—t on a random Sunday night” over allegations they had no part in. This piece isn’t naming them either. Not because the reporting is hard to find, but because Smith’s own complaint was that naming them was unfair in the first place, and repeating the favor here would just prove her point wrong twice.
Carrington and Smith’s relationship goes back to their college days at Baylor, long before either one was a full-time story in the WNBA news cycle. Smith was traded to the Las Vegas Aces in June 2025, and Carrington confirmed the split that November — roughly a year before any of this reached Threads. The Aces are currently powering through the Aces’ run to the Commissioner’s Cup final, which is exactly the kind of momentum an ex’s Threads post can complicate before it ever touches the court. Carrington, for her part, is trying to get noticed on a Sky roster already short on All-Star recognition, which makes a viral breakup post the last kind of attention she needs.
By Monday, every outlet covering the Carrington-Smith breakup had landed on the same word: a non-denial, delivered a year after the breakup itself.
I spent two years freelancing at fifty bucks a piece learning to spot exactly this kind of quote — the one built to sound like an answer while carefully never becoming one. The original post didn’t stay contained to Threads for long, either:
https://twitter.com/FearedBuck/status/2081375783444959587
That’s the tweet that turned a private ending into a full week of WNBA discourse. Neither woman can walk it back now, whatever happens next in Vegas or Chicago.
Smith answered a question nobody asked, and left the one everyone wanted hanging.
