{"id":89520,"date":"2025-07-24T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89520\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:28:13","slug":"sophie-cunningham-says-the-wnba-fined-her-over-a-tiktok-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89520\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham Says the WNBA Fined Her Over a TikTok Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham invoked the lyrical stylings of Sabrina Carpenter to critique the WNBA\u2019s<\/a> officiants. In a TikTok video posted<\/a> on Friday, Cunningham tagged \u201c@ some refs\u201d as she lip-synced the lyrics to \u201cManchild,\u201d mouthing, \u201cStupid, or is it slow? Maybe it\u2019s useless.\u201d Come Wednesday, she wrote<\/a> on X that she had been fined over the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got fined $500 for this TikTok \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 ,\u201d Cunningham wrote. \u201cidk why this is funny to me \u2026 like ok \ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffc you got it bud! Cause there\u2019s not more important things to be worried about with our league right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunningham is far from the first WNBA player to take issue with the league\u2019s referees. Earlier this month, Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese told<\/a> ESPN that the officiating system \u201chas to be fixed\u201d after her team had been hit with what she felt was an unfair number of foul calls. \u201cI\u2019m tired of this shit,\u201d she said. Los Angeles Sparks guard Kelsey Plum has also called the league\u2019s officiating \u201cfucking absurd,\u201d and fellow Fever player Caitlin Clark<\/a> has gotten into her own share of scuffles<\/a> with referees over bad calls. Fever coach Stephanie White even spoke about the issue with the Indianapolis Star last month. \u201cEverybody\u2019s getting better except the officials,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we got to find a way to remedy it. I mean, you\u2019ve heard every coach talk about it, so I don\u2019t know what the answer is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to the outcry, league commissioner Cathy Engelbert told the press ahead of All-Star Weekend that \u201cwe hear the concerns.\u201d She added, \u201cI realize consistency is the name of the game, so I think it\u2019s something we definitely look at and evaluate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunningham, for her part, is back to posting<\/a> TikTok videos and claims to be \u201cso unbothered it\u2019s probably not healthy.\u201d All is right in the world.<\/p>\n

The Cut has reached out to the WNBA for comment and will update this post if we hear back.<\/p>\n

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