Sophie Cunningham is protecting her consideration on the Indiana Fever fairly than changing into concerned within the marketing campaign launched by Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White.
Throughout an interview with ESPN, Cunningham was requested concerning the two former NBA gamers declaring themselves eligible for the WNBA draft amid their criticism of the league’s transgender eligibility guidelines.
She made clear that she had little curiosity in getting concerned.
“I’m gonna allow them to do them,” Cunningham mentioned. “I’m simply centered on the Fever and on our sport. I believe we’ve 4 extra video games left. I’m making an attempt to only actually dial in and hold the primary factor the primary factor.”
Kanter Freedom has repeatedly talked about Cunningham whereas discussing the difficulty and has publicly known as her “my good friend.”
After he was ejected from Indiana’s Aug. 23 sport in opposition to Chicago following an change with Natasha Cloud, he claimed Cunningham texted him, “What occurred?”
Cunningham has not publicly confirmed that change or joined Kanter Freedom’s broader marketing campaign.
Nonetheless, she has beforehand expressed her personal place on males’s participation in women’ and ladies’s sports activities whereas rejecting options that she holds hostility towards transgender folks.
“I believe that I’m right here to increase love,” Cunningham instructed ESPN in July. “However I additionally assume with that love is reality.”
For Cunningham, the precedence now could be basketball. Indiana sits at 26-14 with 4 regular-season video games remaining and is battling for home-court benefit within the playoffs.
