{"id":619540,"date":"2026-04-21T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619540\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:22:08","slug":"wnba-star-sophie-cunningham-addresses-contract-speculation-im-not-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619540\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham Addresses Contract Speculation: \u2018I\u2019m Not Mad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

WNBA star Sophie Cunningham is clarifying how she really feels about her new contract with the Indiana Fever amid ongoing<\/a> speculation. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Fever re-signed the 29-year-old guard for another year for $665,000. <\/p>\n

During a later appearance on her Show Me Something<\/a> podcast, she opened up about her thoughts regarding the contract. She acknowledged that it was a difficult period in her career because she was coming off a significant injury last season. She also noted that she understood that there would be pressure on her to prove that she could still contribute to the team. <\/p>\n

However, she also admitted that the new contract was not what she had been expecting. <\/p>\n

“I’m not even gonna lie to you. That was a little kind of frustrating because I’m someone who like \u2015 I kinda shoot it straight, where if I wasn’t feeling good or like I was hesitant, I think I would have said something and been honest because I’m just at the point in my career where I just wanna win. Like I just wanna win,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Cunningham said that she will use this as a reason to push herself even more and \u201cnot get too comfortable. <\/p>\n

Some people who watched the interview interpreted this to mean that Cunningham was unhappy with her salary, despite it being an increase from last year. <\/p>\n

She took to X on April 20 to shut these rumors down, emphasizing that this isn\u2019t the case. <\/p>\n

“I\u2019m gonna shut this down right now. I\u2019m not mad about the money. I just wanted more years because I love it here,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to get a house so I could bring my dog and donkey to Indy with me. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the truth. I think we have something very special here in Indiana!!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA star Sophie Cunningham is clarifying how she really feels about her new contract with the Indiana Fever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-619540","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\/619540","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=619540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}