{"id":277466,"date":"2025-11-07T15:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277466\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:24:10","slug":"is-sophie-cunningham-dating-michael-porter-jr-how-a-viral-fake-post-duped-fever-and-nets-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277466\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sophie Cunningham dating Michael Porter Jr.? How a viral fake post duped Fever and Nets fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People love power couples.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes, that leads folks to jump to conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Cunningham is one of the most popular players in the WNBA for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a>. Michael Porter Jr. is an uber-talented scorer for the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>And a recent viral post has people believing that the two are an item.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth getting the context on this, though.<\/p>\n<p>Is Sophie Cunningham dating Michael Porter Jr.?<\/p>\n<p>No, Sophie Cunningham is not dating Michael Porter Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The rumor comes from this viral post from a known satirical account:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sophie Cunningham and MPJ are dating \ud83d\udc94 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mefNJe4SZQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/mefNJe4SZQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrickCenter_\/status\/1986643103495954948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is a real post from MPJ&#8217;s Instagram story, but the key is that 573 near the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an area code in the state of Missouri. Cunningham and Porter are both from the same part of that state and have known one another for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>They both are from Columbia, with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/onsi\/womens-fastbreak\/news\/michael-porter-jr-uses-sophie-cunningham-relationship-to-quell-heated-wnba-take-01k60xpy8eqk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Porter saying<\/a> recently he &#8220;grew up with Sophie Cunningham.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no indication that this is anything more than long-time friends from the same place.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/sophie-cunningham-single-know-fever-192505440.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What to know about Sophie Cunningham&#8217;s relationship status<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People love power couples. But sometimes, that leads folks to jump to conclusions. Sophie Cunningham is one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-277466","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\/277466","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=277466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}