The Indiana Fever’s season has been over for a week. And, for now, guard Sophie Cunningham is taking a break from basketball. Cunningham said on her ‘Show Me Something’ podcast that she went back to her parents’ house in Missouri after the Fever exit interviews.
‘I haven’t watched a lick of the WNBA (Finals),’ said Cunningham, who is officially a free agent after her one-year deal with the Fever ended. ‘I don’t know what’s going on.
‘I need a cleanse. I’m booking vacations.”
Cunningham’s season ended with an MCL tear in her right knee on Aug. 17. She was one of five players on the Fever, including All-Star guard Caitlin Clark, to go down with season-ending injuries.
‘In the past, I’ve watched the Finals, but I just think this year, with literally all the injuries and all the s— our team went through, I really do just need a break from it,’ she said. ‘Good luck to whoever is gonna win. Like, I honestly don’t care who wins this Finals.”
When Cunningham’s co-host, West Wilson, told her that the Las Vegas Aces were up 2-0 on the Phoenix Mercury, Cunningham, who spent the first six seasons of her career in Phoenix, laughed.
The duo then transitioned to her exit interview. Cunningham said she did not get fined for her remarks but did have one regret.
Cunningham took aim at WNBA officials and leadership in a 12-minute session on Oct. 1. Cunningham said the quote she’s seen highlighted most since then is about WNBA leadership: ‘I think that there are a lot of people in position of power. They might be really great business people, but they don’t know s— about basketball.’
In hindsight, Cunningham said she might have worded it differently if not in the heat of the moment.
‘I’m not going back on what I said, but I might have been a little harsh on how I said it,’ Cunningham said. ‘But you know what? It’s also me, you know, but it’s fine.’
When pressed if she was apologizing, Cunningham was clear that the only apology she was making was for her language, saying: ‘What I said was valid and a lot of people agree with it. … I just maybe shouldn’t have cussed.”