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Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham and her podcast-Co host West Wilson died about whether they liked Las Vegas in the midst of growing concern that the city has lost its brilliance.
Cunningham and Wilson dive in a conversation after touching the reigning WNBA MVP a’ja Wilson, from Las Vegas es. Cunningham asked his co-host if he was a fan of Vegas. He said he wasn’t and revealed that he lived there for a year when he was with Bleacher Report.
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Concerns have grown about Las Vegas’ decline. (istock)
“I don’t like Vegas,” Cunningham said at the podcast “Show something”. “When people are like ‘oh, vegas!’ I’m like, AH S —.
Wilson suggested he had been crawled out with some of the visitors.
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Cunningham has been in WNBA for a few years and her travels, especially when she was with Phoenix Mercury, brought her to Las Vegas to play ACES several times.
“Every time I’m there, there’s just the smell Vegas has and I have to wash everything. It’s like that smell,” she said.
Indiana Fever Guard Sophie Cunningham, #8, responds to Phoenix Mercury during a WNBA game at the PhX Arena in Phoenix on August 7, 2025. (Mark J. Refilas/Imag images)
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Cunningham added that people she has spoken to enjoyed the suburbs around the city more than what is happening on the Las Vegas Strip. “Everyone who lives in Vegas, as from the strip and in the suburbs, everyone says it’s great. But I’ve just never experienced it, so I’m like Eh. But everyone loves it,” she said.
The story of Las Vegas in the last few weeks has been that the city is “dead” for various reasons – the economy, duty and just being uninteresting.
However, Circa CEO Derek Steven’s optimism for Pakinomist Digital earlier this week expressed that things will turn for the city over the next six months.
Indiana Fever -vagt Sophie Cunningham, #8, responds to a call from the referee on Tuesday, August 12, 2025 during the game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Hollars / Indystar / USA Today Network via Imag images)
“I believe in six months that I would think that Vegas tourism and our economy will generally be in a much better place,” he said.
