{"id":679857,"date":"2026-06-02T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679857\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:14:13","slug":"fevers-sophie-cunningham-has-the-silliest-nickname-for-raven-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679857\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever&#8217;s Sophie Cunningham has the silliest nickname for Raven Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raven Johnson brings a real energy to the Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie guard from South Carolina isn&#8217;t the biggest player, but she makes her presence felt on the court.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, veteran Sophie Cunningham revealed a nickname the Fever apparently have for Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, this was just an Instagram comment from Cunningham &#8212; maybe it&#8217;s a nickname only she uses.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it&#8217;s a fun one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our little baby squirrel,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZBHYshlGPW\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=bcc95e52-df3c-4642-969c-03bd555c4206\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cunningham wrote on IG<\/a>, including two heart eyes emojis as well.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/fever-whole-approach-setting-caitlin-clark-fail\/2a0b620f127d5ffaf7d57e1c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fever&#8217;s whole approach is setting Caitlin Clark up to fail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There can&#8217;t have been too many athletes called a &#8220;little baby squirrel&#8221; before, but Johnson seems to have quickly endeared herself to the Fever.<\/p>\n<p>She actually had gone viral a few years ago in college when Caitlin Clark essentially dismissed guarding Johnson near the 3-point line.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they&#8217;re teammates, and they seemingly get along well.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson brings the kind of spunk that can help a team as hyped up as the Fever. She&#8217;ll play hard and make the right play no matter the expectations placed on her or her teammates.<\/p>\n<p>And then when Indiana needs a boost of energy, they can turn to Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Someone is going to have to ask about the origins of the nickname. It&#8217;s a fun one, for sure, but it might also have a funny backstory.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raven Johnson brings a real energy to the Indiana Fever. The rookie guard from South Carolina isn&#8217;t the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-679857","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\/679857","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=679857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}