DiJonai Carrington Gets Honest About Dallas Wings Locker Room Amid Brutal Start originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
After a 9-31 season in 2024, few expected the Dallas Wings to come into 2025 and take a wrecking ball to the WNBA. They brought in No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers, signed defensive ace DiJonai Carrington and added veteran forward NaLyssa Smith while returning top scorer Arike Ogunbowale. That gave them the look of a fringe playoff team.
What few could have expected, though, is just how bad the Wings have looked through 10 games, with just one win in that stretch.
The Wings have achieved new coach Chris Koclanes’ objective to play with pace, but they’ve been inefficient on offense and one of the worst defensive teams in the WNBA.
On Sunday, the Wings (playing without Bueckers because of a concussion) fell to 0-5 at home as they were drubbed by the Lynx, 81-65. It was actually a 57-56 game to start the fourth quarter, but Dallas utterly fell apart, and did not score a field goal until 4:39 in the period. They were outscored in the fourth, 24-9.
While the standings look dire from the outside, from the inside, the team is keeping itself together.
“Even though we’re losing right now, there’s no problems in the locker room.” — Dijonai Carrington on the Dallas Wings pic.twitter.com/3A0JtaFzTx
— Brianna Jade (@thatbreezeway) June 8, 2025
That’s how Carrington sees it.
“I think the locker room is one of the most important things when you’re building a team,” Carrington said this weekend. “Even though we’re losing right now, like, there’s no problems in the locker room. You’re still like, ‘All right, we’re trying to figure it out’.
“We were talking about this today, it’s not like ‘Ugh, I gotta go to work.'”
Still, the Wings do have some work to do. Despite being the worst team in the league, the top 8 is within reach, and the playoff spot that would accompany it. The current No. 8 seed it Washington, which is 4-6, just 3.0 games ahead of Dallas in the standings.
This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 9, 2025, where it first appeared.