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American basketball player (born 1996)
Sophie Elizabeth Cunningham is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Missouri Tigers.
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Raised body temperature caused by disease
Fever or pyrexia in humans is a symptom of an anti-infection defense mechanism that appears with body temperature exceeding the normal range caused by an increase in the body's temperature set point in the hypothalamus. There is no single agreed-upon upper limit for normal temperature: sources use values ranging between 37.2 and 38.3 °C in humans.
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The Indiana Fever have spent much of the 2026 season navigating conversations that have repeatedly taken attention away from the game. Sophie Cunningham has been at the center of several of them, and now that Indiana’s season is over, questions about her future have only added to the noise.
Sophie Cunningham fired back at The Athletic's column urging the Indiana Fever to move on, as her co-host disputed its basketball arguments.
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is responding to a column that urged the team to get rid of her ahead of next season. The column, written by Candace