{"id":86031,"date":"2025-08-16T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86031\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:53:07","slug":"wings-star-paige-bueckers-dismisses-sophie-cunninghams-officiating-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86031\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings Star Paige Bueckers Dismisses Sophie Cunningham&#8217;s Officiating Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_1f49fxztr\">The Dallas Wings took down the Indiana Fever 81\u201380 on Tuesday night behind Maddy Siegrist\u2019s 22-point outing. Li Yueru added 20 points off the bench, and star point guard Paige Bueckers scored 16 points with eight assists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_i4k1dl9aj\">The Fever had an opportunity to win the game on the final possession, which turned into a disaster and ended in a narrow home defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_mhjwd2312\">Fever veteran Sophie Cunningham <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/sophie-cunningham-called-out-refs-paige-bueckers-favorable-treatment-fever-wings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expressed frustration with the officiating<\/a> following the loss, talking about the favorable whistle that Bueckers, in particular, received.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_mwcuc0u2j\">\u201cI love Paige to death, do not get me wrong. I think she\u2019s a hell of a player and would love to play with her one day, but those refs were giving her every whistle last night,\u201d Cunningham said on her podcast, <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/null\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Show Me Something<\/a> on Wednesday. \u201cYou literally couldn\u2019t touch her, couldn\u2019t touch her. That s\u2014 is so annoying to me. And if you\u2019re going to do that, then to give it to our guards. I just hate the inconsistency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_odn3zj49u\">Bueckers was asked about Cunningham\u2019s comments ahead of Dallas\u2019s game with the Los Angeles Sparks on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_z8miz77om\">\u201cEveryone is entitled to their own unique personal opinion,\u201d <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeyMistretta_\/status\/1956481275423805565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">she said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_gs89n81w5\">Sounds like we can all move on from that pseudo-controversy.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Wings took down the Indiana Fever 81\u201380 on Tuesday night behind Maddy Siegrist\u2019s 22-point outing. Li&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-86031","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\/86031","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=86031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}