{"id":154,"date":"2025-06-20T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:37:10","slug":"sophie-cunningham-posts-tiktok-after-defending-caitlin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham Posts TikTok After Defending Caitlin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham made a winking reference on Friday to an on-court skirmish that involved her slamming an opposing player to the ground. <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s brawl at the Fever and Connecticut Sun game stemmed from Sun guard Jacy Sheldon becoming physical with Cunningham\u2019s teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/caitlin-clark\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Caitlin Clark\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68558be7e4b06f37ceed15da\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/caitlin-clark\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> during a play and poking her in the eye. <\/p>\n<p>The two opposing players engaged in a heated verbal exchange before Clark lightly shoved Sheldon, prompting players from both teams to gather around. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"Sophie Cunningham, right, a teammate of Caitlin Clark, left, posted a video nodding at her hard foul play following a brawl.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/68558e5219000038f28818b6.jpeg\"\/>Sophie Cunningham, right, a teammate of Caitlin Clark, left, posted a video nodding at her hard foul play following a brawl.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon\u2019s teammate Marina Mabrey came in late and pushed Clark to the ground. Mabrey was fined an undisclosed amount and issued a technical foul, which was later upgraded to a flagrant 2 foul, ESPN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexaphilippou\/status\/1935407331187028068\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Alexa Philippou reported\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68558be7e4b06f37ceed15da\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexaphilippou\/status\/1935407331187028068\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alexa Philippou reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heads cooled as the game went on, but Cunningham reignited the tension in the fourth quarter, when Sheldon made a steal and bolted toward the other side of the court. Cunningham knocked her to the floor in the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever player\u2019s move led to an all-out shoving match between players on both sides. She was also fined an undisclosed amount for the hard foul. <\/p>\n<p>Cunningham\u2019s popularity online surged after her hard foul. As of Friday, she had 1 million followers on TikTok, with many new fans saying they are tuning into games just to watch her. <\/p>\n<p>Cunningham nodded at the hard foul play in a TikTok video, lip-syncing \u201cCan\u2019t keep my hands to myself, I mean I could but why would I want to?\u201d from Selena Gomez\u2019s hit song \u201cHands to Myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She captioned the video \u201cit\u2019s a joke\u2026 the sound was too fitting! happy game day.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGirllllllllll, u have become a national treasure off that night alone. Officially a Fever\/ Enforcer Sophie fan,\u201d one TikTok user wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegend,\u201d popular fitness influencer Joey Swoll commented. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo i watch basketball? No. Do i love Caitlin Clark and now Sophie? Yes,\u201d another user wrote.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham made a winking reference on Friday to an on-court skirmish that involved her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[233,234,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-caitlin-clark","9":"tag-indiana-fever","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114717619026212408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}