{"id":295809,"date":"2025-10-11T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295809\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:04:11","slug":"dijonai-carrington-sends-message-to-girlfriend-nalyssa-smith-after-wnba-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295809\/","title":{"rendered":"DiJonai Carrington sends message to girlfriend NaLyssa Smith after WNBA championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DiJonai Carrington sent a message to her girlriend NaLyssa Smith to congratulate her on winning the WNBA championship on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Las Vegas Aces beat the Phoenix Mercury 97-86 in Game 4 to sweep the finals and win their third championship in four years. Carrington began this season with the Dallas Wings before being traded to the Minnesota Lynx in August. Smith began the season with the Wings as well before being traded to the Aces in late June. Now Smith is a champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy baby is a WNBA champion,\u201d Carrington wrote in her note. \u201cI\u2019m so so freaking proud of you!!!!! You were the turning point of the season <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NaLyssaSmith\">@NaLyssaSmith<\/a> !!!! I love you beyond words!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My baby is a WNBA champion \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d I\u2019m so so freaking proud of you!!!!! You were the turning point of the season <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NaLyssaSmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NaLyssaSmith<\/a> !!!! I love you beyond words!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 d\u03b9jona\u03b9 carr\u03b9ng\u0442on\u265b (@DijonaiVictoria) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DijonaiVictoria\/status\/1976835682053374037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carrington is giving her girlfriend Smith lots of credit by calling her the Aces\u2019 turning point of the season. Smith had 5 points and 5 rebounds in 23 minutes during Game 4. The 25-year-old averaged 8.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game in 27 regular-season contests with the Aces. She averaged 6.7 points and 4.9 rebounds per game in 18 regular-season contests with the Wings.<\/p>\n<p>This was Smith\u2019s fourth season in the WNBA since becoming the No. 2 overall pick in the 2022 draft. It didn\u2019t take her long to win her first championship \u2014 thanks largely to the trade to the Aces.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DiJonai Carrington sent a message to her girlriend NaLyssa Smith to congratulate her on winning the WNBA championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[8731,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-295809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-dijonai-carrington","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}