{"id":240378,"date":"2025-10-26T01:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240378\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:39:06","slug":"indiana-fever-star-sophie-cunningham-reacts-to-26-million-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240378\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever Star Sophie Cunningham Reacts to $26 Million News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/players\/sophie_cunningham\/927509\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Cunningham<\/a>\u2019s arrival in Indiana ahead of the 2025 WNBA season came with high expectations. After six years with the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix_mercury\/17278\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a>, the veteran guard joined the Fever in a four-team trade to add defense and shooting depth. In her first season with Indiana, she was a steady voice in the locker room and averaged 8.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 1.2 assists in 30 games before suffering a season-ending knee injury in August. <\/p>\n<p>Beyond her play, Cunningham has earned a reputation for being one of the WNBA\u2019s most outspoken players \u2014 unafraid to share her opinions on league issues, culture, and equality. Her confidence and candor have made her a recognizable and respected figure across women\u2019s basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham\u2019s arrival in Indiana ahead of the 2025 WNBA season came with high expectations. After six years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-240378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240378","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=240378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}