I just think and I you know way better than me, but like I it just feels like people are jealous of this new little wave of They are. But I just hate that cuz like this is what we’ve always wanted as a league. So like who cares who gets the credit? And if you’re smart, you’re making money off of them. Yeah. Like you are literally making money from the viewership.

What? Why bully the person who is like not 100% responsible but like has a huge role in growing your sport, dude? And it literally like pisses me off when people are like, “She’s not the face of the league.” Who would be? What? The silence was deafening. The bullying had gone unchecked. And for far too long, no one in the WNBA had the guts or the platform to call it what it is, targeted harassment.
 
That is until Sophie Cunningham stepped up and finally said what fans have been screaming into the void for months. Enough is enough. If you agree with Sophie, then comment protect Caitlyn Clark. Let’s go. No, there’s really good well-known people in our league. I’m not I’m not discrediting them. Like, we have a lot of bad asses in our league.
 
Like, hell yeah to that. I’m all for that. But when people try to argue that she’s not the face of our league or if our league would be where we’re at without her, you’re dumb as [ __ ] Yeah. You’re literally dumb as the noise has reached a fever pitch. The tension is boiling over. And now the conversation that once lived in angry comment sections and heated group chats is being shouted out loud by someone on the inside.

Sophie Cunningham hasn’t just seen what Caitlyn Clark is enduring. She’s felt it. And she’s no longer standing by while the league’s biggest star gets abused, disrespected, and sabotaged by opponents and refs who should be protecting, not punishing, the face of the sport. one of the biggest stars the WNBA’s ever who’s that had. Her name Rams Schmaitlin.
 
Uh Hurtland. Yeah. What has that been like seeing her not only kind of transform a league, but also just be like not even just the league, but like women’s basketball as a whole around the world. No, I think it’s awesome. I think it’s so funny cuz she’s like 22, 23 years old and the whole world is watching her. Yeah.
 
And then came a moment that WNBA fans won’t soon forget. Cunningham didn’t just offer vague support. She put herself out there in a way no other active player has dared. She took a swing, not just on the court, but at the entire system. The league that has profited from Caitlyn Clark’s success was now being dragged into the spotlight for failing to protect her.
 
And Sophie was the one holding the flashlight. You have seen players in our league try to like toughen up. Caitlyn, we call her CC CC for even when I wasn’t on her team. Like I I I like I know the talks that Phoenix had in the locker room of like, “No, we’re gonna prove her. We’re going to show her what the W really is.
 
” You know what I mean? And like I get it to a certain extent and like every rookie coming into the league, that’s how you’re going to treat him. But there’s just more for her. What Sophie revealed is chilling. Not even having a battle tested veteran protector might be enough to shield Clark from the forces aligned against her.
 
Cunningham has seen this treatment up close. This isn’t about rookie hazing or welcome to the league bumps. This is sustained, coordinated, and malicious. She’s been there. She’s played through it. And now she’s finally calling it out. Cunningham laid it bare. She knows exactly what’s going on because she was part of it before.
 
Back with the Phoenix Mercury, she was in the rooms, in the huddles, and part of the game plans. And yes, those game plans included roughing up Caitlyn Clark and teaching her what the W is really about. These weren’t random hits. These were premeditated. So, it’s her second year and like now being on her team and like seeing it, I’m like, what are people doing? Like actually just it’s just too much.

Too much. And like you’re it’s just I’m over and if I’m saying it’s too much. And yet what she’s seeing now from the other side is even worse. As Cunningham put it, every rookie gets tested. But this this is something else entirely. Now that she’s wearing the same jersey as Caitlyn, she’s seeing the vendetta from a whole new angle.
 
What are people doing? She asked. It’s just too much. And she’s right. It is. There’s no player ever that’s gotten this type of treatment coming into the league. LeBron will probably be the closest person that got this type of treatment. And that’s only because he big as [ __ ] and he used to come to the lane.
 
And the only way you could stop him is is to pull him down. But even even when they used to pull his ass down, they did not try to hurt him. A lot of time they would just grab LeBron and just stop him from falling. It wasn’t malicious with this [ __ ] And it’s so sad that y’all just turning a blind eye. Y’all just like, “Oh, it’s not bullying.
 
She’s not getting targeted. She deserves it cuz she talks trash. Oh my god.” The numbers don’t lie. Caitlyn Clark has been on the receiving end of more physical punishment than any player in the league. In her rookie year alone, she was the target of 20% of the league’s flagrant fouls. Yes, one out of every five flagrant calls was on her.
 
She’s missed games due to three separate injuries, two groin issues, and a quad strain. That’s not a coincidence. That’s a campaign. All the sports anchors, they’re all haters, too. That’s crazy. They’re definitely not analysts. They don’t know [ __ ] about basketball. Rick, what the what the [ __ ] are you talking about? I never seen so much hate on a new athlete since I’ve been living.
 
Since my 43 years of living, I’ve never seen so much hate towards an athlete. He says, “Oh, she’s not getting bullied. This is this is normal physicality.” If you going to be talking [ __ ] putting it in my face and saying, “Yeah, what up? What up? What up?” Then you going to have that [ __ ] coming for you.
 
Somebody going to bust you in the mouth for knocking the shot down and talking [ __ ] about it. But what’s even more concerning is how these incidents have escalated, just as Cunningham has warned. From Kennedy Carter’s cheap shot that somehow got called a common fowl to Alyssa Thomas’ shoulder assault that magically escaped a flagrant to Marina Mabber’s shove that sent Clark sprawling.
 
The message from the officials has been loud and clear. We’re not calling anything. Sophie Cunningham isn’t just speculating. She’s been in the league 6 years. She’s played against Clark. She’s now playing beside her. And she knows what’s fair and what’s foul. No, look what what we all been witnessing right before our eyes about our precious Cece.
 
My precious Cece Caitlyn Clark for the ones who didn’t know. So basically, she was saying that when they was preparing when she was on the other team before she came to the Indiana Fever, we talking about Sophie Cunningham. She was basically saying that the Phoenix Mercury players were basically game planning and saying that they was going to assault her.
 
And then came the moment that turned Sophie Cunningham into a legend on her podcast, Show Me Something. She didn’t hold back. In fact, she blew the lid off the entire Auntie Clark agenda. It literally pisses me off when people say she’s not the face of the league, she snapped. But it wasn’t just talk.
 
Sophie backed it up on the court when she sent a hard foul into Sheldon that sparked a full-on melee. It wasn’t just retaliation. It was a message to every hater in the WNBA. If you mess with Caitlyn, you deal with me. And the first half, the rest didn’t call. Someone should have been thrown out. And the rest did not call it.
 
Correct. I remember that. They they didn’t. And so I was like, “All right.” She got full body chest by three people. Like two people they they’re like, “Oh, it’s fine.” I’m like, “If that was anyone else, you would have I would have been booted out of the game. I know that for sure. I’m a little sassy, but like so are they.
 
Your leash is shorter, though, cuz they literally I I don’t even have a leash. I just have a freaking collar and a hand on it. Anyway, um so there was like 45 seconds left. Um the girl stole the ball and I was running back and I was like, “We’re up. I don’t need to foul.” And I was like, “Just let her go.
 
” And I was like, “All right, like who cares?” Last second intrusive thoughts. I was like, “Fuck.” And guess what? Fans loved it. Within 2 days, her Tik Tok exploded by 600,000 followers. Her jersey gone, sold out. Sophie didn’t just gain fans, she became a movement. People weren’t just cheering for her, they were calling her what the league desperately needed, the Enforcer.
 
And they put their money where their mouth was, buying up every last piece of Cunningham merch until retailers had to slap a soldout sign on it. I went from I went from, I think, like Oh. followers. Yeah. 350,000 and like maybe 200,000 on Tik Tok. You had 200,000 on Tik Tok a month ago. No, no, no. I No. I before the fight.
 
Before the fight and then I had like 350 on 100,000 on Instagram over over the night or over like a day and a half over a million on both. Insane. I This is coming from me though, dude. I got tired of seeing myself. I get it. And I love myself. I get it. I love myself. I was over it. Sophie Cunningham didn’t just stop at players.
 
She’s also gone straight at the referees. She’s had enough of their failure to do the bare minimum. Protect Caitlyn Clark. And her most iconic jab, a simple Tik Tok. In typical WNBA fashion, the league didn’t like the criticism. Their response, slap Sophie with a $500 fine. Her reaction priceless. I got fined $500 for this Tik Tok. I don’t know why.
 
This is funny to me,” she said sarcastically. Like, okay, you got it, bud, cuz there’s not more important things to be worried about with our league right now. That right there is a mic drop. I’m not saying that your job is easy, but when it is a a simple call right in front of your face multiple times, what are you doing? What are you doing? What call are you like bugged out? Almost everything like it’s just like the they’re just so inconsistent. Like, that’s my thing.
 
If you’re on the other team and you’re going to be fine the [ __ ] out of me. Yeah, cool. But let me do it to you. They Yeah. You know what I mean? You want consistency then? Yeah. Like just get just give and I think that’s players across the league and like new fans across our our the country like everyone’s like what is going on with the refs and I’m like I don’t know and you finding me $500 is not going to do [ __ ] And it’s not just Clark taking hits without protection anymore.
 
Sophie’s now feeling it too. In that brutal matchup with the Connecticut Sun, she took an elbow to the face. No whistle. In another game, she got grabbed by the neck in a scramble against the Sparks. Again, no whistle. Same song, different verse. What used to happen only to Caitlyn Clark is now happening to anyone who dares to defend her.
 
That pattern, it’s spreading like wildfire, and Sophie is walking right into the flames without flinching. Cunningham isn’t afraid to say what others keep dodging. the greeneyed monster in the WNBA locker rooms. Jealousy. While most players avoid the topic, Sophie’s calling it out with a megaphone. And let’s be honest, the receipts are piling up.
 
In 2025 all-star voting, Clark was the runaway fan favorite, leading all players by a wide margin. Yet, shockingly, she barely cracked the top 10 among guards in player voting. It was so ridiculous that Dick Vitali called it pure jealousy. Sophie agrees. And the bitterness doesn’t stop there. Some players have made shady remarks in interviews.
Others practically celebrated when Clark got hurt. But what these petty players failed to grasp. And what Sophie nails is this. Clark’s rise lifts everyone. Bigger salaries, better flights, booming ratings, sold out arenas. All of it is thanks to the Caitlyn Clark effect. Now, one of the biggest pandemics, epidemics in the history of sports right now is going on with the WNBA and their referees. They suck.
 
All right? Their referee situation blows. The officiating, they can’t get the calls right. When they do go over to look at something, it takes them forever and then they still get it wrong. And they also will not come down on these players for trying to take out the league’s greatest asset. the league’s greatest golden goose that is going to eventually make all these players and and and the commissioner and all these people all this money.
 
Uh they won’t they won’t officiate. Now, here’s where things get really disturbing. Sophie has seen it with her own eyes and she’s sounding the alarm. Caitlyn Clark is missing massive chunks of her second WNBA season and no one wants to say why. We’re talking 14 missed games, three separate soft tissue injuries, quad strain, groin strain left side, groin strain right side, and no one’s connecting the dots.
 
She even had to sit out the Commissioner Cup final and her hometown All-Star game. This is a woman who played four full seasons at Iowa without missing a game. Her entire rookie season in the W, not one absence. And now she’s off the court in the league’s most crucial moments. That’s not bad luck. That’s damage from relentless unchecked targeting.
 
And you got tossed. And it was two on one. Yeah, I got tossed. Did she? Yeah. Yeah. Then we’re good. But so in in a situation like that, does Kaitlin come up to you after and say like cuz the internet whole thing was look at [ __ ] Sophie sticking up for Caitlin. Like this is dope. But but I I was but in the locker room she goes she I think she was like finally, you know, like finally someone else I was like dude I got you.
 
Like it’s but but I think that kind of had our team come together as a whole and it’s like no we got to have like it was it was awesome. Yeah. No, it really was though. Like I feel like everyone was like you know like we do have to protect each other and and it’s not just fans and analysts starting to notice.
 
Even Caitlyn’s brother Colin Clark briefly posted online blaming the referees for her latest injury. He deleted it, but the message was loud and clear. The family sees it, too. Sophie doesn’t need social media receipts to know the truth. She’s living it. She’s on the floor. She’s watching Clark absorb hit after hit while referees stare blankly into space.
 
The silence from the league is deafening. But Sophie, she’s refusing to be quiet. A good handful that it’s like, “All right, dude.” And there’s a couple girls in dumb question. Do like if someone were to like say someone called men’s basketball their whole life and then went over to women’s, would it would they be expected to call the game differently just given like the style and like physicality and stuff like that? Um, but this isn’t just talk.
 
Sophie Cunningham has taken action on and off the court. She’s become Clark’s shield, absorbing the fouls, throwing the elbows, and drawing the heat. She’s now one of the most fouled players in the league. right up there with Caitlyn Clark and Aaliyah Boston. But instead of backing down, she’s doubled down. She’s showing the league that if you’re going to keep targeting Clark, you’ll have to go through her first.
 
And the fans, they’re eating it up. Sophie’s follower count has exploded past 1 million across Tik Tok and Instagram. She’s landed bigname deals with Adidas, Ring, and Arby’s. She’s even launched her own podcast, Show Me Something, under Colin Cowardd’s network, The Volume. She’s turned her defense of Clark into a full-on brand.
 
The thing that I have the biggest issue about the female sides of refs is like they’re so emotional. Like the the guys, no, the NBA the NBA officials like the NBA players mother those officials like no other. Like I I was I’ve worked broadcast. I’ve been to games. I’m friends with these people. They mother them.
 
Yeah. And the only person that I’ve ever seen able to like [ __ ] a ref on the women’s side is Diana Terasi. And they like take it. Yeah. They had to. And like but when I she she’s probably one of the worst people that I’ve seen go after refs and I loved every second of it. Yeah.
 
While most WNBA players keep their complaints tucked behind closed doors. Sophie blasted hers on the loudest platforms possible. That now viral Tik Tok calling out WNBA refs. 1.3 million views and counting. Her jersey sales through the roof after one gutsy play defending Caitlyn. She’s gone from role player to fan favorite almost overnight. But this isn’t just about going viral.
 
It’s about finally giving a voice to millions of fans who’ve been watching Caitlyn Clark get abused and wondering why isn’t anyone doing anything. Well, now someone is and it’s working. Here’s what sets Sophie Cunningham apart from the rest. She gets the bigger picture. The WNBA cannot keep riding the wave of Caitlyn Clark’s popularity while standing by and letting her get battered.
 
You don’t burn down the golden goose that’s making your league relevant. You protect her at all costs. Sophie understands that if things don’t change, the WNBA could blow the biggest opportunity it’s ever had to reach a mainstream audience. This is no longer a small issue. It’s an existential one. now like the refs and and I’m not saying they’re emotional like the men and women it doesn’t matter the gender on our side they they are too emotionally invested and they can’t take it and I’m like is it new to the WNBA that you guys are like maybe talking more [ __ ] back to
 
refs or has that been a thing for it’s always been a thing Caitlyn Clark’s value is beyond measurable her rookie trading card just sold for $660,000 yes more than eight times her current salary that’s not just hype that’s history And every ignored foul, every cheap shot, every shady no call is like lighting a match next to the league’s future.
 
Sophie knows this and she’s putting her body on the line to stop it. That $500 fine, it’s chump change compared to the million she’s now worth in marketing power. Her viral foul protecting Clark didn’t just make headlines, it made Sophie a household name. She’s proven that courage and common sense can be a winning combination.
 
Let’s take a look at this photo right here. If this doesn’t tell you that Caitlyn Clark everywhere she goes moves the needle, ESPN and all these talking heads are idiots. She did not even play in this game. This game was actually the Barbie game for Angel Reese. But look at the amount of people that came to this game just to see Caitlyn Clark sit on the bench.
 
Sophie Cunningham has now done what WNBA leadership should have done months ago. Made a choice. A choice between petty jealousy or professional growth between enabling toxic targeting or building up a generational superstar. She’s drawing the line not just for Caitlyn Clark, but for the league itself.
 
And now the ball is in the WNBA’s court. Do they finally do the right thing? Or do they keep letting their biggest draw get run into the ground? The signs are all there. Clark’s injuries aren’t slowing down. The targeting hasn’t stopped. And the officials still clueless. But now someone’s finally holding them accountable.
 
Sophie Cunningham’s voice is rising at the exact moment the WNBA’s credibility is slipping. And if the league doesn’t change course fast, they’ll lose far more than one player. They’ll lose the future. Sophie sees the storm coming and instead of hiding, she’s charging straight into it. While others stayed silent, she stood tall. If you agree with Sophie, then comment protect Caitlyn Clark.
 
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