{"id":80179,"date":"2025-08-19T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80179\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:53:08","slug":"sophie-cunningham-gets-response-from-wnba-star-after-fever-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80179\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham Gets Response From WNBA Star After Fever Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sophie Cunningham Gets Response From WNBA Star After Fever Dispute <\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Indiana Fever have played some of the most popular teams in the WNBA over the past several days, including the Chicago Sky and the Dallas Wings.<\/p>\n

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While they defeated the Sky, blowing out Chicago without Angel Reese, they were on the losing end against the Wings.<\/p>\n

Indiana suffered a loss to Dallas despite the Wings heading into the game as the underdogs.<\/p>\n

After their most recent matchup against the Wings, Fever star Sophie Cunningham spoke on the loss in the latest episode of her personal podcast.<\/p>\n

Cunningham called out Wings rookie Paige Bueckers, mentioning that the Dallas star received special treatment from the referees.<\/p>\n

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“I love Paige to death,” Cunningham said<\/a>. “Do not get me wrong. I think she is a [expletive] of a player and like would love to play with her one day, but those refs were giving her every freaking whistle last night. Like, you literally couldn’t touch her.”<\/p>\n

Bueckers responded to the message ahead of the Wings’ matchup against the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n

“Everyone is entitled to their own unique personal opinion,” Bueckers said.<\/p>\n

Bueckers might already be receiving star treatment in her rookie season in the WNBA.<\/p>\n

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Bueckers was drafted with the No. 1 overall pick and has certainly lived up to the hype. In her first season with the Wings, Bueckers has posted 18.4 points, 4.1 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n

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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham (8). \u00a9 Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Cunningham is currently playing in her first season with the Indiana Fever. She has posted 8.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game.<\/p>\n

Related: WNBA Team Announces Unfortunate Development Before Indiana Fever Game<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Indiana Fever Make Decision on Potential Caitlin Clark Replacement on Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Aug 15, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham Gets Response From WNBA Star After Fever Dispute originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Indiana Fever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,49,48,726,3459,2803,632,4658,10879,82,630],"class_list":["post-80179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-reese","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-sky","tag-dallas-wings","tag-indiana-fever","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80179","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=80179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}