Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham is pulling again the curtain on teammate Caitlin Clark’s off-the-court character, describing her as a “regular human” and a “large ole dork.”
“To begin with, I feel she is such a standard human,” Cunningham stated on the Wednesday, February 25, episode of the “Like a Farmer” Podcast. “She really is. Like, she loves ball, you realize what I imply? However my favourite story? I don’t even know if I’ve a favourite story, however she’s an enormous ole dork. I feel it’s simply an total, like, you form of go in and also you don’t know what to anticipate. She’s a generational participant; she has all this rigidity and carries all of it so properly, particularly being her age.”
She continued, “And I promise you, she’s the most important dork you’ll ever meet. So I simply love her. Like, love her entire vibe. There’s not one entire story that form of stands proud.”
Cunningham, 29, went on to explain a few of the chatter amongst WNBA stars as “inappropriate,” including that she “can’t repeat lots of issues which might be stated.”
“I feel one factor that folks don’t perceive is the WNBA is so inappropriate,” Cunningham stated. “Like, we’re simply, tight-knit. However we’ve got had individuals who work for the NBA and go to the WNBA. And NBA guys, in what they do, and what they discuss, doesn’t even come near… like, we’re wild. We are saying some loopy, loopy stuff. We’re only a enjoyable time within the W. I don’t know.”
Cunningham has beforehand described herself because the Sabrina Carpenter to Clark’s Taylor Swiftacknowledging that Clark has helped her and the WNBA as an entire, equally to how the 2 pop singers have navigated and elevated the music business..
“I feel that Taylor Swift has helped Sabrina Carpenter a lot,” Cunningham advised Us Weekly in 2025 when she joined the Fever. “And I feel that Caitlin Clark has helped not solely her teammates, however our entire league, our entire sport generally, not solely right here in America, however world wide.”
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Steph Chambers/Getty PicturesShe continued, “To me, it’s not about competitors. I’m all about empowering different girls. I’m about serving to my teammates be their finest selves. I’m all about being my finest self. And I simply really feel like that if we will try this collectively, then nice issues are gonna occur.”
“I’m gonna let her be the star that she is, and he or she completely deserves it,” Cunningham stated of Clark. “If she wants me within the nook when I’ve a large open three, then I’ll be there to help her.”
The WNBA and WNBPA (the group representing the gamers) are at the moment in the course of negotiations on a collective bargaining settlement, with a possible lockout looming if the 2 sides can not mutually comply with the phrases by March 10.
Sophie Cunningham is coming into her seventh season within the WNBA and her first as a member of the revamped Indiana Fever, the staff led by younger phenom Caitlin Clark. Clark’s influence on the WNBA — and basketball generally — has been properly documented. However now that Indiana is in place to problem for a (…)
If there’s a lockout, Cunningham — a self-described actuality TV fan — claimed she may attempt to safe a cameo on the Bravo present “Summer season Home.”
“If we don’t have a season, I’m arising there for a weekend,” Cunningham stated on her “Present Me One thing” podcastwhich she hosts with Bravo’s West Wilson.
“Oh yeah, individuals would lose their minds,” Wilson stated.
“I’d lose my thoughts,” she responded.