{"id":858387,"date":"2026-09-24T01:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858387\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:04:11","slug":"watch-sophie-cunningham-launch-signed-ball-into-stands-in-viral-video-call-me-patrick-mahomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858387\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sophie Cunningham Launch Signed Ball into Stands in Viral Video, &#8216;Call Me Patrick Mahomes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham compared herself to Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes after throwing a signed mini basketball deep into the crowd at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;Call me Patrick Mahomes from here on out,&#8221; Cunningham wrote in a Wednesday post on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Fever played their final home game of the 2026 WNBA regular season on Tuesday, wrapping up a 96-77 win over the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Cunningham has appeared in 43 games for Indiana this year, averaging 8.0 points and 2.3 rebounds in 22.4 minutes per game. She&#8217;s shooting 46.8 percent from the field and 42.9 percent from three-point territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Cunningham has connected on 63 triples during her 2026 campaign, tied for the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.wnba.com\/players\/traditional\/?PerMode=Totals&amp;sort=FG3M&amp;dir=-1&amp;Season=2026&amp;SeasonType=Regular%20Season&amp;StarterBench=Bench\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">second-most<\/a> among all bench players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Fever are currently preparing for the playoffs, sitting at No. 5 in the WNBA standings with a 28-15 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">As for Mahomes, the three-time Super Bowl champion has completed 63.5 percent of his passes for 566 yards and five touchdowns compared to just one interception in two appearances this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham compared herself to Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes after throwing a signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-858387","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\/858387","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=858387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}