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Sun players react to Texas school shooting
UNCASVILLE — DeWanna Bonner’s four-year-old twin daughters Demi and Cali peeped their heads into the press room at Mohegan Sun Arena following the Connecticut Sun’s win over the Dallas Wings Thursday night.
Bonner asked them to stay and sit with her behind the table as the postgame press conference was starting, but they shook their heads and laughed before leaving the room. Their voices and laughter could still be heard from behind the closed door from the hallway during the press conference.
they remained on Bonner’s mind. When she was asked about the win over Dallas, Bonner said she played Thursday’s game for her daughters following Tuesday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
“Honestly, I don’t even know if I have much to say about basketball,” she said. “Yeah, it was a good dub, but it’s just been so much going on in the world and it’s just been a really emotional time, because I just wake up and see those two — I tried to get them to come interview, but these two precious babies — and knowing what happened in (Texas), I couldn’t imagine not coming home to my babies.
“Yeah, so this win was for them. That’s pretty much all that I can say, because I just can’t even imagine not seeing those faces every day,” Bonner said as her daughters could continue to be heard laughing and playing outBut side the press room door.
“So that’s been weighing heavy on my heart, that’s been weighing heavy on my mind and that was the reason that I wanted to step on the court tonight. Yeah, just a really sad time.
“It’s really a sad time in America that it’s just every day like this. It’s normal and we just go on and go play this basketball game and those parents are just, I mean, what are they feeling? I don’t know. I’d probably run through a wall. So, for me, I played for them and my babies today.”
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