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WNBA attendance has steadily climbed over the last couple of years. The league broke its all-time single-season attendance record of 2.36 million, set back in 2002, by drawing approximately 2.43 million fans<\/a>. More than half of all games have been sellouts, too, with arenas reaching roughly 94 percent capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This, of course, means more and more celebrities are finding their way into WNBA arenas as well. Just like in the NBA, when they do show up, they make a huge impact. So much, in fact, that it can faze some players.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not Sophie Cunningham<\/a>, though. With two exceptions.<\/p>\n Most celebs don’t faze Cunningham\u2026<\/p>\n Cunningham was asked during her appearance on the “Like a Farmer” podcast which one or two surprising faces she’s spotted in WNBA crowds. The kind that makes her think, “Why are they here?”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Indiana Fever<\/a> guard-forward <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “weird””different,” <\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her superstar teammate, Caitlin Clark<\/a>, who’s boosted the popularity of both the Fever and the league, had been in and out with injuries and missed 31 games total<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “I don’t think,” Sophie said, “we really had a lot of celebs come to Indiana this year, but I feel like when you go to New York and like LA and Dallas, we had celebs there for sure.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related: Nneka Ogwumike believes controversies are the main reason why the WNBA is popular: “It really sucks”<\/a><\/p>\n \u2026two Hollywood names still do<\/p>\n Midway through her response, Cunningham came to that “but” or, in her words, “unless.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n First, she’s weird. Second, she’s so locked in. Both keep her from getting rattled easily. Unless, she said, “it’s like a Will Ferrell or like Adam Sandler.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When celebs with that kind of status show up, Cunningham gets fazed. At least a bit. You can hear it in her reaction, which the 30-year-old Missourian described as, “I’m like, \u2018All right.'”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Naming those two, Cunningham probably shouldn’t be surprised if Ferrell and Sandler actually make it to a WNBA game. After all, both are big basketball fans.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ferrell is a famous Los Angeles Lakers fan and a fixture in celebrity row. He also grew up supporting the North Carolina Tar Heels basketball because of his parents’ roots.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sandler, meanwhile, supports the New York Knicks. He’s also an avid streetball and pickup player.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Both have brought their fandom for the game to the big screen, too. Ferrell did it in the 2008 sports comedy “Semi-Pro.” Sandler did the same in the celebrated 2022 Netflix sports drama “Hustle.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Interestingly, their ages come pretty close to that of Cunningham’s actual dream guy. The 2019 draft pick recently gushed about him<\/a>, saying that “if he was younger and not married” there’d be some interest in the man she called “everyone’s dream guy.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n