{"id":21008,"date":"2025-07-24T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21008\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:13:08","slug":"fever-guard-sophie-cunningham-fined-500-for-a-tiktok-post-criticizing-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21008\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever guard Sophie Cunningham fined $500 for a TikTok post criticizing referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has been fined $500 for a TikTok post criticizing the league\u2019s referees, she wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The original\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sophaller\/status\/1948103662154232223\" rel=\"nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0featured Cunningham lip-synching to song lyrics, saying, \u201cStupid. Or is it, slow? Or maybe, useless?\u201d with the words \u201c@ some refs\u201d on the video.<\/p>\n<p>The TikTok was posted on July 18 and has since garnered 1.3 million views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got fined $500 for this TikTok,\u201d Cunningham\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sophaller\/status\/1948103662154232223\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday, with laughing face emojis. \u201cidk why this is funny to me&#8230; like ok you got it bud! Cause there&#8217;s not more important things to be worried about with our league right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officiating has become a contentious issue in the league this season, with many players and coaches criticizing referees for inconsistent calls. Some of the most high-profile instances have surrounded calls involving Fever star Caitlin Clark, Cunningham\u2019s teammate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody\u2019s getting better \u2014 except the officials,\u201d Fever head coach Stephanie White said last month. \u201cSo we got to find a way to remedy it. I mean, you\u2019ve heard every coach talk about it, so I don\u2019t know what the answer is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham has been in the headlines recently for appearing to be Clark&#8217;s protector. She was ejected after a physical altercation with Connecticut\u2019s Jacy Sheldon last month following a scuffle between Sheldon and Clark earlier in the game. Sheldon was also ejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has been fined $500 for a TikTok post criticizing the league\u2019s referees, she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-21008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}