WNBA’s Sophie Cunningham Defends Caitlin Clark

In my last article I wrote about sports, which is not really my thing, but the truth is that article was less about sports than the politics of the WNBA.

“WNBA Women are NOT Worth NBA Salaries!” – The Thinking Conservative

In that article I recapped how the Women’s National Basketball Association’s (WNBA) superstar Caitlin Clark has been getting absolutely pummeled by players of opposing teams with little to no consequences called by the WNBA referees. Fans are getting absolutely irate and about ready to take matters into their own hands. The perception is the games are rigged against Clark’s team, the Indianapolis Fever, so that they do not win, even if they are the better team. The opposing team that was involved in that story was the Connecticut Sun.

Well, if there is one thing to be said for most all real patriotic Americans it is we love happy endings and Clark got hers.

One of Clark’s WNBA Indianapolis Fever teammates, Sophie Cunningham, had the player who poked Clark in the eyes just 48 hours prior, Connecticut Sun Jacy Sheldon, charge Cunningham in what should have been an offensive foul. Cunningham, every bit as cunning as Clark, simply wrapped her hand around the back of Sheldon’s neck, backed away and threw her down to the ground. It was priceless. Cunningham pretty well knew the refs were not going to call her for offensive charging so she seemed to figure why not back away and have Sheldon’s own forward momentum help her find the floor.

The crowd went absolutely nuts loving it!

“Sophie Cunningham SELLS OUT JERSEY After BACKING Caitlin Clark Against Jealous WNBA Players” – The Officer Tatum

When the two players of the Connecticut Sun were poking Caitlin Clark in the eye and shoving her to the floor, at least one camera angle captures Sophie Cunningham being held back by her coaches on the bench.

Soon after Cunningham defended Clark a number of very interesting things happened as follows:

• She got ejected after her technical foul play against Jacy Sheldon and drew a $400 fine from the WNBA.
• Her WNBA fan jerseys sold out in hours.
• She ignited conversations about player safety.
• She instantly gained over 530,000 new TikTok followers hitting over 1.5 million total followers.
• Cunningham was the subject of a petition calling for her to be ‘banned’ from the WNBA by her haters.
• Cunningham was named in a lawsuit accusing Phoenix Suns CEO Josh Bartelstein and former Mercury player Sophie Cunningham of having an affair after a former employee filed a lawsuit against the team.
• Cunningham released a statement denying recent allegations that she was having an affair with Phoenix Suns and Mercury CEO Josh Bartelstein.

CONCLUSION:

Sophie Cunningham did the right thing in standing up for Caitlin Clark. She grew her fan base simply by doing the right thing. People came to know Cunningham as they knew Clark prior and absolutely fell in love with her. Sure she is a very tall and beautiful woman who stands 6’-1” and is known to wear some very provocative high fashion model style clothes but that is just the surface of her story.

People are falling in love with Cunningham because she is genuinely funny and can be a bad ass. For example, she earned her Black Belt in Karate at the tender age of just 6. She is a former high school football kicker for her highs school football team and was announced as the Homecoming Queen at the conclusion of a game where she was still in her football uniform! She is a rural farm girl of Columbia, Missouri who seemingly holds on to her country values. She has a funny quirk to her personality too. She wears her long naturally blonde hair up in a bun off the court but prefers to have it hang down flying around on the basketball court.

One would think that could make her a target for opposing players who have a beef with her but they know her reputation well enough to know she can kick their asses. For example; in the latest dustup with the Connecticut Sun players, Cunningham never seems to lose her temper or her balance. She meets her attackers head on and lets them know she is not there to back down. 

Sophie Cunningham is easy on the eyes, to be sure. But she is also hysterically funny, logical, and rational. Fever fans are waiting for the next opponent to hurt Clark to cause Cunningham to retaliate.

People are starting to draw a parallel between Clark and Cunningham and Trump and Vance. There is a back story rapidly gaining traction that the real reason why these two white straight girls are catching so much flack is because 64% of WNBA players identify as African Americans and 27% are said to be openly gay.

Cunningham reminds me so much of President Donald Trump. What do you do when people hate you and despise your for no good reason? You give them a REAL reason to hate you!

Cunningham walked into the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas sporting a shirt that had the words “Tres Leches” (Three Milks) written on it, with caricature portraits of Clark, Hull and Cunningham in the middle of the shirt in full Fever uniforms. “Tres Leches” is a nickname Fever fans have dubbed the trio and the players have seemingly accepted it.

“Fever’s Sophie Cunningham wears ‘Tres Leches’ shirt with Caitlin Clark, Lexie Hull faces” – The New York Post

Take that you black and gay WNBA players and haters!

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