{"id":446013,"date":"2026-01-31T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446013\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:23:11","slug":"sophie-cunningham-shares-career-update-amid-wnba-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446013\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham Shares Career Update Amid WNBA Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/sophie-cunningham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Cunningham<\/a> reached a higher level of popularity in her first year with the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> in 2025, even becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/fever-sophie-cunningham-caitlin-clark-wnba-most-searched-player-2025-google\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most-searched WNBA player of the year<\/a>. In fact, she&#8217;s the only female athlete in the top 10 of the list, surpassing teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham played 30 games last season, with her campaign cut short after tearing her right knee MCL, which required surgery. She averaged 8.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 1.0 steal for Indiana, helping the team win the Commissioner&#8217;s Cup championship and reach the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Considering her popularity and production, Cunningham is expected to draw significant interest as she enters free agency. While <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/caitlin-clark-makes-request-to-sophie-cunningham-before-big-decision\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fever star Caitlin Clark wants<\/a> to &#8220;run it back&#8221; with the veteran guard, <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/indiana-fever-sophie-cunningham-interview-wnba-free-agency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cunningham has made it clear<\/a> that her priority is to explore her market and get as much money as she can in her next deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham reached a higher level of popularity in her first year with the Indiana Fever in 2025,&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":["post-446013","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\/446013","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=446013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446013\/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=446013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}