{"id":198151,"date":"2025-10-02T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198151\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:17:06","slug":"sophie-cunningham-jokingly-launches-gofundme-to-cover-wnb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198151\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham Jokingly Launches GoFundMe to Cover WNB&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/indiana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> star Sophie Cunningham has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/gofundme\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> campaign, which she jokingly said was to cover all of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> fines.<\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on her X, formerly Twitter, account on Thursday (Oct. 2), Cunningham shared a link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/hs5ge9-its-a-joke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoFundMe campaign<\/a>. \u201cI could use your help with my fundraiser on GoFundMe,\u201d she wrote, with the page initially reading that her $10 million goal would cover her mounting WNBA fines. \u201cPlease share, support, or donate\u2014every small action counts.\u201d After the post got a negative reaction on social media, she followed up to clarify that it was a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a joke,\u201d she wrote. \u201cRelax you clowns\u2026 I set a goal for 10 million. There\u2019s just no way you can actually think I\u2019m actually serious.\u201d In an update on the campaign page, she wrote, \u201cThis is more of a joke than anything. For fines only or to charity or for a yacht idk.\u201d She also revealed that she would donate the money, which has since changed to a $26,000 goal, to charity. \u201cA yacht would be nice, but whatever we raise here will be going directly to Ronald McDonald House Charities,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019ll take care of my own fines. Y\u2019all are the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past season, Cunningham has received multiple fines for her comments criticizing WNBA officials on social media and her Show Me Something podcast. She also got a fine for getting into an altercation with Jacy Sheldon of the Connecticut Suns.<\/p>\n<p>In a postgame interview on Thursday, Cunningham once again ripped into WNBA officials and what she perceived as poor leadership. &#8220;Our leadership needs to be held accountable,&#8221; she said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/wnba\/fever\/2025\/10\/02\/fever-sophie-cunningham-wnba-leadership-officials\/86481655007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a>. &#8220;I think that there are a lot of people in positions of power. They might be really great business people, but they don&#8217;t know shit about basketball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ComplexCon returns to Las Vegas on October 25\u201326, 2025, with over 300 brands and live performances by Young Thug, YEAT &amp; Friends, Peso Pluma, Central Cee, Ken Carson, and more.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tixr.com\/groups\/complexcon\/events\/complexcon-las-vegas-2025-138594?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=complex&amp;utm_campaign=260630_complexcon2025_evergreenarticle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get your tickets now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham has launched a GoFundMe campaign, which she jokingly said was to cover all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-198151","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\/198151","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=198151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}