{"id":616919,"date":"2026-04-20T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616919\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:02:13","slug":"wnba-star-sophie-cunningham-baptized-after-665k-fever-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616919\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham Baptized After $665K Fever Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sophie Cunningham<\/a> is beginning the next chapter of her career in Indiana with both a new contract and a public declaration of faith.<\/p>\n

Just days after agreeing to a one-year, $665,000 deal to remain with the Indiana Fever, Cunningham shared a TikTok showing herself being baptized. The post marked a personal milestone for the 29-year-old guard, who explained that while she had been baptized as a child, she wanted to make the decision again on her own terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got baptized when I was little but I was feeling a tug on my heart to do it on my terms as an adult!\u201d Cunningham wrote alongside the video. \u201cSuch a fun, amazing day. Thank you Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The baptism came only two days after Cunningham finalized her new contract with Indiana, ensuring she will return for another season alongside Caitlin Clark and Lexie Hull. <\/p>\n

According to Fox News<\/a>, the trio became one of the most recognizable groups in the WNBA last season, eventually embracing the fan-created nickname \u201cTres Leches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hull previously said the name took off online before the players themselves leaned into it. \u201cWe saw it on Twitter at some point, and people ran with it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunningham\u2019s popularity surged during her first season in Indiana, particularly after a June game against the Connecticut Sun in which she stepped in during an altercation involving Clark. <\/p>\n

After Clark was poked in the eye by Jacy Sheldon and then shoved by Marina Mabrey, Cunningham responded with a hard foul on Sheldon, sparking a larger confrontation and multiple ejections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham is beginning the next chapter of her career in Indiana with both a new contract and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-616919","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\/616919","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=616919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}