Cunningham\u2019s <\/a>persistent comments, but nobody can accuse her of being dishonest. When referring to the incidents that injured her teammates, she didn\u2019t blast everyone involved, and was actually really fair.<\/p>\n\u201cThey were playing Minnesota, which Minnesota is a great, great team, but I think that what is kinda getting out of hand is the refs are allowing it to be too physical, and then people can get away with certain stuff, and then that\u2019s when emotions flare, and that\u2019s when you see fights or people doing things that they probably shouldn\u2019t be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cunningham then described the jump ball when Hull got hit with an elbow, and even then she went out of her way to say something nice about the perpetrator.\u00a0\u201cAfter the play, McBride, who is a hell of a shooter, she\u2019s been shooting the s*** out of it, she\u2019s a great great player, so I\u2019m not going after her in any way.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cBut, she had an extra movement after the ball, and just elbowed and nailed Lexie right in the f***** face. Like, too much, way too much, and it was bad. That should have been upgraded, because I know if that was anyone on our team, if it was me, probably because I talk s*** on here, and my reputation, they probably would have thrown me out. That\u2019s not OK,\u201d\u00a0Cunningham added in protest.<\/p>\n
Cunningham was fired up because of how tough Hull is, and she described her as a \u201cgreat teammate\u201d and a \u201cgreat person.\u201d\u00a0She even said the next time Hull got hit, against the Seattle Storm, was an accident with nobody to blame.<\/p>\n
Show Me Something cohost West Wilson thought that Cunningham would be fined not for what she said about Hull\u2019s incidents, but about a foul that she believed should have been called on Kelsey Plum when she committed some Kelsey-on-Kelsey violence by grabbing the arm of Fever star Kelsey Mitchell.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s your fine right there, Sophie,\u201d\u00a0Wilson said.\u00a0\u201cYou just said, \u2018You\u2019re protecting all the other stars, how are you not protecting [Mitchell].’\u201d<\/p>\n
Cunningham probably will be fined, but she continues to show why she\u2019s become a fan favorite in Indiana. She\u2019s willing to stick up for her teammates, even when it costs her, and even when her injury keeps her from being able to contribute on the court.<\/p>\n
Over time, Cunningham will probably learn to phrase things a bit better so as to avoid opening her checkbook, but her point still stands on the state of refereeing and physicality in the WNBA.<\/p>\n
The Fever are going to need every able-bodied player they can get, whether they have two black eyes or not. With just three games left on their schedule, they\u2019re clinging to the final playoff spot by just a game over the Sparks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham is an entertaining person, both on and off the court. On the court,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2839,5621,82408,4805,99,434],"class_list":["post-130085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-indiana-fever","tag-lexie-hull","tag-show-me-something-podcast","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}