{"id":214805,"date":"2025-10-10T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214805\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:33:09","slug":"sophie-cunninghams-reason-for-not-caring-about-wnba-finals-makes-a-lot-of-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214805\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham&#8217;s reason for not caring about WNBA Finals makes a lot of sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 WNBA Finals could end Friday night &#8212; but Sophie Cunningham won&#8217;t be watching.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t watched a lick of the WNBA (Finals),&#8221; Cunningham said this week on her podcast, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TSe1pq1rMBQ&amp;t=631s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Show Me Something<\/a>. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. I need a cleanse. I&#8217;m booking vacations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham, whose season ended following an MCL tear in her right knee on Aug. 17, could only watch as her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> teammates valiantly pushed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/las-vegas-aces\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a> to Game 5 of the WNBA semifinals earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>But once the Aces put the finishing touches on a 107-98 overtime win in that decisive Game 5, Cunningham &#8212; a pending free agent &#8212; decided that enough was enough.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury\/news\/mercury-make-satou-sabally-decision-must-win-wnba-finals-game-4\/a97191a28dd071115cfc819a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mercury make Satou Sabally decision before must-win WNBA Finals Game 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cunningham told her co-host West Wilson that she &#8220;needed a break&#8221; after completing exit interviews with her Fever teammates, who surprised many observers by reaching the semifinals with a long list of injured players &#8212; including superstar guard <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/fever-caitlin-clark-reveals-moment-she-knew-she-couldnt-play-again-2025\/94a593c700ca07a60e884107\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caitlin Clark<\/a>, who suffered season-ending ankle and groin injuries over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good luck to whoever is going to win,&#8221; Cunningham told Wilson. &#8220;I honestly don&#8217;t care who wins this finals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham quite literally though had the last laugh on the matter when Wilson told her that the Aces had a 2-0 lead in the series over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a>; Cunningham ended up in Indiana as part of an offseason trade from Phoenix, the organization that drafted and developed her into a WNBA regular.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas&#8217; lead has since swelled to 3-0, and the series could end Friday night in Phoenix as the Aces go for the sweep.<\/p>\n<p>MORE WNBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 WNBA Finals could end Friday night &#8212; but Sophie Cunningham won&#8217;t be watching. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t watched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-214805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214805","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=214805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}