Since committing a hard foul in defense of star guard Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has seen her social media following skyrocket.
Since the incident occurred, Cunningham’s jersey sold out in the Fever team store and she has gained nearly 300,000 followers on Instagram and jumped from 300,000 to over 1.2 million followers on TikTok.
As a frequent social media user, she posted a TikTok video playing into what happened during Tuesday’s game with her lip-syncing lyrics from the Selena Gomez song, “Hands to Myself.”
“It’s a joke… the sound was too fitting! happy game day,” Cunningham captioned the post.
That video now has more than 800,000 likes and 25,000 shares.
Cunningham was ejected on June 17 after committing a late-game Flagrant 2 foul on Sun guard Jacy Sheldon which immediately drew Sheldon and fellow Sun guard Lindsay Allen into a fracas along the baseline.
“It’s cool. It’s funny what kind of people are attracted to,” Cunningham said Saturday of gaining so many followers. “I’m just trying to keep the main thing the main thing, and that’s basketball, trying to win games, sticking up for my teammates. And that’s all part of it. I think all that stuff is fun and whatnot, but, at the end of the day, we need to win some basketball games.”
Cunningham and the Fever (6-6) return to action on Sunday against the Las Vegas Aces (5-7) from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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