{"id":153771,"date":"2025-08-17T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153771\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:42:09","slug":"fevers-sophie-cunningham-leaves-game-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153771\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever&#8217;s Sophie Cunningham leaves game with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755456128_790_philippou_alexa.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Alexa PhilippouAug 17, 2025, 02:27 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Covers women&#8217;s college basketball and the WNBA<\/li>\n<li>Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant<\/li>\n<li>Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UNCASVILLE, Conn. &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bfef1bdd-c2d1-310d-dd9f-645b90575da9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> guard <a data-player-guid=\"a9aee6b9-fc44-8fc7-e1bb-e6dfa6e5f0ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/3907781\/sophie-cunningham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Cunningham<\/a> was ruled out for the remainder of Sunday&#8217;s game against the Connecticut Sun after sustaining a right knee injury in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"db6815c3-4df0-d31e-d1ea-aa56cfd8a13c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/2529185\/bria-hartley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bria Hartley<\/a> ran into Cunningham&#8217;s knee while trying to drive toward the Sun basket early in the second quarter. Cunningham hobbled on one leg clutching her right knee, before lying on the floor in pain.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/46001579\/fever-hope-caitlin-clark-returns-end-regular-season\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1518517_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The guard was surrounded by teammates for a few minutes as she was on the court before she was assisted into the locker room, putting little weight on her right leg.<\/p>\n<p>In her first year with Indiana after being traded from the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"514d18a9-00a8-d52b-dda2-37d707f19bd0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-mercury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a>, Cunningham has averaged 8.9 points and 3.6 rebounds per game and has made 12 starts. She previously missed five games earlier this summer due to ankle sprains.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever are already short three point guards with <a data-player-guid=\"5ec40e1c-3104-322e-b80f-f358ea26aad4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4433403\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> sidelined since mid-July and <a data-player-guid=\"a50ad2c4-d114-e54b-0cb0-3936da6c79e1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4066553\/aari-mcdonald\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aari McDonald<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"c2a56214-6a4c-5140-b8a1-73a0e76932de\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/1004\/sydney-colson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Colson<\/a> suffering season-ending injuries last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexa PhilippouAug 17, 2025, 02:27 PM ET Close Covers women&#8217;s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-153771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115045584901291663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}