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Indiana Fever-Guard Sophie Cunningham gels quite nicely with her new teammates this season, and her pre-game outfit before Sunday’s matchup against Las Vegas Acer proves that point.
Her shirt especially had the naughty message about how tight she is with a particular duo.
Cunningham, who has recently seen his popularity in WNBA grow after defending Caitlin Clark on the field against Connecticut Sun, also dressed a shirt with himself, Clark and colleague -Guard Lexie Hull on it with the words “Tres Leches” printed.
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Sophie Cunningham, No. 8 by Indiana Fever, arrives at the arena before the game against Las Vegas Acer on June 22, 2025 in the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. (Jeff Bottari/NBAE via Getty Images)
“Tres Leches” translates from Spanish to “Three Milk” – as we said, quite the naughty message from Cunningham.
However, in the spirit of athletes showing their support and ties with teammates, Cunningham leaves no reason to doubt how much she loves her women in the dressing room on and off the field.
She also did so with her words recently when she spoke in a fiery way to journalists about having to physically defend Clark this last Tuesday against Sun players. She shouted Wnba and its judges to “not protect” Clark.
Sophie Cunningham calls Wnba Refs not to protect Caitlin Clark after starting a fight to protect her
She entered a physical quarrel with Jacy Sheldon after the latter stabbed Clark in her eye, which quickly led to a three -wing when Marina Mabrey pushed the reigning Wnba rookie of the year on the hardwood.
Cunningham, Sheldon and Sun Guard Lindsay Allen were thrown out of the game with about 40 seconds left after Cunningham gave Sheldon hard during the basket on a quick break.
“During that, it was just part of the game,” Cunningham told journalists. “I think the judges had a lot to do with it. It was a structure for a few years now of them just not protecting the star player in WNBA. At the end of the day I will protect my teammates. That’s what I do.”
From left to right are Indiana Fever -Guard Lexie Hull, #10, Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark, #22, and Indiana Fever Guard Sophie Cunningham, #8, laughs near the team bench on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 during a game between Indiana Fever and Washington Mystics at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (IMagn)
Last season, while Clark broke rookie and league records, there was a lot of debate about whether the league protected her on the field as teams became very physical with her to potentially disturb her game.
Since Cunningham joined the fever this season, she has been vocals herself on the sidelines as Clark or any of her teammates get raised. Once she has checked into the game, Cunningham is definitely to go between anyone rooted with her teammates, as shown in the events with Clark.
As a result of being a good teammate of one of the league’s faces, Cunningham’s popularity is skyrocketed, and it shows in her social media. She had fewer than 400,000 followers at Tiktok before last Tuesday’s match against the Sun. She now has 1.3 million and is counting on this platform.
On Instagram, the number was more than 300,000, and it now stands at more than 839,000.
Injured Indiana Fever -vagt Sophie Cunningham, #8, left and Guard Caitlin Clark, #22, responds from the bench during the first half of a WNBA game against Chicago Sky at the United Center. (Kamil Krzaczynski-IMAGN images)
If Cunningham did not already show himself as the fever’s “enforcement” enough, she has the credentials to back up it as she is a black belt in Taekwondo.
However, Cunningham and the fever want to win games and make a physical statement when needed. They have dropped back-to-back games now after losing to the essence on Sunday when she had nine points, six rebounds and an assist in 24 minutes.
