{"id":596766,"date":"2026-04-21T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/596766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:07:08","slug":"sophie-cunningham-admits-frustration-over-fever-contract-coming-off-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/596766\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham admits frustration over Fever contract coming off injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fever guard Sophie Cunningham signed a one-year contract<\/a> to stay in Indiana last week \u2014 though it doesn\u2019t appear to be the contract she wanted. Cunningham revealed these feelings during a recent episode of her podcast, Show Me Something. <\/p>\n

Her words come as she was limited to 30 games for the Fever last season. After a MCL tear, her seventh WNBA season was cut short. She was shooting a career-high 43.2% from deep at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not even gonna lie to you, though, it\u2019s a little, kind of, frustrating,\u201d Cunningham said<\/a>. \u201cBecause I\u2019m someone who \u2014 I kind of shoot it straight. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I wasn\u2019t feeling good or was hesitant, I think I would have said something and been honest. Because I\u2019m just at the point in my career where I just want to win. I just want to win. And so I\u2019m not going to put my ego in front of things. And I know it is a business, but I just think I\u2019m wired a little differently. I don\u2019t know. I just want to win.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her frustration comes off the heels of the WNBA\u2019s new collective bargaining agreement. Several million dollar contracts were signed by free agents this offseason the market has been completely reset. However, she doesn\u2019t feel like she\u2019s getting enough slice of the pie that she would\u2019ve if healthy all of last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough, because I came off an injury, and I haven\u2019t been in front of any teams,\u201d Cunningham continued. \u201cI had a lot going on this offseason. I was fully cleared, they had all the doctors, they had the numbers and everything. But if you don\u2019t get in front of these people, it\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, are you actually good?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunningham will look to prove herself when the 2026 WNBA season gets underway next month. It\u2019ll be her second season with the Fever after six seasons with the Phoenix Mercury, and isn\u2019t interested in falling behind in this new era.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this is a great wake up call to not get comfortable,\u201d she said. \u201cI think it kind of lit a fire under my ass, even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fever will open the 2026 WNBA regular season against the Dallas Wings on May 9 on the road. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. ET. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fever guard Sophie Cunningham signed a one-year contract to stay in Indiana last week \u2014 though it doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-596766","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\/596766","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=596766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}