{"id":85256,"date":"2025-08-21T03:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85256\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T03:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:37:09","slug":"sophie-cunningham-fined-again-after-paige-bueckers-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85256\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham fined again after Paige Bueckers comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Cunningham completed the kind of hat trick you don\u2019t want.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Fever star revealed on her podcast that she has been fined by the WNBA after all three episodes of her show, since it launched this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m officially 3-for-3 on being fined by the WNBA,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=suP71-hZzg0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cunningham told her podcast partner <\/a>West Wilson during the latest edition of the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Complex journalist was shocked when she said that before he asked what if it was related to her comments on the podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t like my comment on Paige Bueckers\u2026I didn\u2019t even say anything bad,\u201d Cunningham responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comments in question were made during an episode that had been released on Aug. 13 about the 2025 first overall pick by the Wings and how the officials were giving her \u201cevery frickin\u2019 whistle\u201d during an Aug. 12 game between the Fever and Wings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Paige to death, don\u2019t get me wrong,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cI think she\u2019s a hell of a player and would love to play with her one day, but those refs were giving her every frickin\u2019 whistle last night. Like you literally couldn\u2019t touch her. That\u2019s just so annoying to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36888358\" width=\"734\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-20-at-8.54.14-PM.png\" alt=\"Sophie Cunningham on her &quot;Show Me Something&quot; podcast.\" class=\"wp-image-36888358\" style=\"width:734px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:1.93572779;display:block\"  \/>Sophie Cunningham on her \u201cShow Me Something\u201d podcast. Show Me Something\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham has made her fair share of comments about the officiating in the WNBA recently, which has caused the league to hit her in the wallet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She had been hit with a fine of $500 for a TikTok post she made in which she appeared to take a shot at WNBA officials as she lip-synched words from the Sabrina Carpenter song \u201cManchild.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36888349\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-109751689.jpg\" alt=\"Paige Bueckers #5 of the Dallas Wings dribbling the ball during a game.\" class=\"wp-image-36888349\"  \/>Paige Bueckers #5 of the Dallas Wings handles the ball during the game against the Las Vegas Aces. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>She was then hit with a $1,500 fine for comments she made during her debut episode of her podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/19\/sports\/sophie-cunningham-out-for-season-as-fever-injury-woes-intensify\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered a season-ending knee injury<\/a> on Sunday in a game against the Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She had been averaging 8.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game prior to the injury. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham completed the kind of hat trick you don\u2019t want.\u00a0 The Fever star revealed on her podcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,2803,4658,10879,82,630],"class_list":["post-85256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-indiana-fever","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85256","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=85256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}