{"id":197565,"date":"2025-10-02T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197565\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:46:07","slug":"sophie-cunningham-injury-update-fever-guard-progressing-quite-quickly-after-mcl-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197565\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham injury update: Fever guard ‘progressing quite quickly’ after MCL tear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sophie Cunningham<\/a> was one of several players<\/a> for the Indiana Fever who were injured to finish the season. But, as she enters the offseason, she says her recovery is going very well ahead of her next season in the WNBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cunningham shared an update on the rehab on her torn MCL during her exit interview on Thursday morning<\/a>. She said she\u2019s doing well since her surgery, with a timeline of being ready by the turn of the calendar still not being soon enough for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally good,\u201d Cunningham said jokingly. \u201cOh, hell yeah, man. On a real note, I\u2019m feeling really good. I definitely have turned a corner in my rehab. Feeling really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be able to, you know, really kind of get going in January,\u201d said Cunningham. \u201cIt could have been a lot worse, so I\u2019m thankful that it was just my MCL. But, my rehab? I just had my doctor\u2019s appointment and I\u2019m progressing quite quickly, so I\u2019m really happy about that. But I\u2019m so bad at being patient so I\u2019m ready to kind of get going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunningham says she\u2019s also in a good place mentally despite suffering a season-ending injury in mid-August. A lot of that had to do with how many other players on the team were hurt<\/a> at this point of the season, with Caitlin Clark<\/a>, Aari McDonald, Chloe Bibby, and Sydney Colson, so she wasn\u2019t by herself in trying to recover over the last month and a half of their campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, mentally, I\u2019m doing well too,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cIt is exhausting, you know. You just can\u2019t do anything physically when the games are going on except for encouraging and motivating and feeding confidence into your team. I\u2019m just so proud of us for the continued fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, the rehab room has been pretty fun because it\u2019s packed in there, so I\u2019m glad I don\u2019t have to do that alone,\u201d laughed Cunningham.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen where Cunningham will be playing next season in what\u2019ll be her eighth year in the WNBA. She should be available by the time it starts, though, based on where she says her recovery is currently trending entering the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham was one of several players for the Indiana Fever who were injured to finish the season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-197565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197565","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=197565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}