{"id":839877,"date":"2026-09-07T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839877\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:18:09","slug":"sophie-cunningham-reacts-after-fans-turn-her-into-the-star-of-their-own-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839877\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham reacts after fans turn her into the star of their own parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Sophie Cunningham\u2019s popularity continues to grow even while the WNBA is on pause for the FIBA World Cup, and the Indiana Fever guard has now reacted to a rally held in her honor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">With her teammates in Berlin, Cunningham is enjoying some downtime, but fans are still finding ways to celebrate her. A clip shared on her Instagram Story showed fans of different ages dressed as Cunningham in Fever uniforms, complete with blonde wigs, while others cheered as the parade passed by.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The viral moment even featured her now-famous DeWanna Bonner gesture, with fans recreating Cunningham\u2019s signature point in their own way. Cunningham seemed just as amused by the unexpected tribute, simply reacting to the video with, \u201cHahaha, just got sent this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham\u2019s popularity continues to grow even while the WNBA is on pause for the FIBA World Cup,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-839877","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\/839877","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=839877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}