{"id":730196,"date":"2026-06-28T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/730196\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:05:17","slug":"sophie-cunningham-talks-viral-pointing-video-meme-after-caitlin-clark-exchange-in-fever-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/730196\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham Talks Viral Pointing Video Meme After Caitlin Clark Exchange in Fever-Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham discussed the viral video<\/a> of her pointing during a verbal exchange that involved Phoenix Mercury forward\u00a0DeWanna Bonner and Fever teammate Caitlin Clark in a recent matchup between the two teams.<\/p>\n

Cunningham explained that the incident started when she was asking an official why Clark received a technical foul and Bonner wasn’t given one after they got tied up earlier in the game.<\/p>\n

“I was just kind of pointing, and she’s like, ‘Don’t you point at me.’ I was like, ‘Oh, shouldn’t have said that.’ And I didn’t say a word,” Cunningham said on her Show Me Something podcast (0:22 mark).<\/p>\n

“So stupid, that is the stupidest thing I’ve ever done,” she added. “I’m telling you, everyone’s like, ‘That is so dumb.’ I think it’s dumb, but it was pissing her off and I couldn’t help myself. I could not. She was losing her s–t, and all I was doing was literally pointing.”<\/p>\n

Officials later reviewed the altercation and handed out five technical fouls.<\/p>\n

Bonner, Clark, Cunningham, Mercury star Alyssa Thomas and Fever forward Myisha Hines-Allen were all given technicals for their roles in the exchange.<\/p>\n

Still, Cunningham’s point in the direction of Bonner generated plenty of attention on social media.<\/p>\n

Cunningham and Bonner have some shared history, as they were briefly teammates on the Fever in 2025.<\/p>\n

Bonner appeared in nine games for Indiana last season, but eventually\u00a0left the team<\/a>\u00a0to sign with Phoenix.<\/p>\n

Cunningham didn’t seem to appreciate the way her exit unfolded.<\/p>\n

“It’s okay to be professional about it,” Cunningham said regarding Bonner in 2025, via SI.com’s\u00a0Matthew Graham<\/a>. “And like, send a text to your teammates. Send a text, and be like, ‘Love you, guys.’ Or you don’t even have to say ‘Love you, guys.’ Just like, ‘Hey, sorry this didn’t work out.’ Good luck… There’s a way to do that.”<\/p>\n

Indiana ended up defeating Phoenix by the final score of 86-77 on Monday, as the Fever currently sit at 10-8 on the season.<\/p>\n

Cunningham has been a key contributor off the bench in 2026, averaging 9.6 points and 2.6 rebounds per game while connecting on 49.1 percent of her field goals and 40.8 percent of her triples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham discussed the viral video of her pointing during a verbal exchange that involved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-730196","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\/730196","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=730196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}