Fever's Sophie Cunningham revels in possibilities with new teammate Caitlin Clark: 'She just wants to win'

The Indiana Fever made the playoffs past twelvemonth for the archetypal clip since 2016 successful ample portion due to the fact that of superstar rookie Caitlin Clark. This offseason, a caller caput manager and the summation of respective cardinal players person accrued the likelihood of occurrence successful Indiana. 

Sophie Cunningham, 1 of those additions, believes the Fever are premier for a tally astatine the WNBA championship.

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) dribbles past Phoenix Mercury defender Sophie Cunningham (9) during the archetypal fractional of a WNBA hoops crippled Sunday, June 30, 2024, successful Phoenix.  (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

The 28-year-old defender was acquired by the Fever from the Phoenix Suns successful February arsenic portion of a four-team commercialized that included the additions of Jaelyn Brown from the Dallas Wings and the No. 19 prime successful the 2025 WNBA Draft. 

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"I'm excited. I deliberation this is simply a caller epoch for myself," Cunningham told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview. "I got to larn a lot, larn however to go a pro. And present I get to spell to Indiana to play with immoderate of the champion players astir the satellite close now." 

On the database is caller teammate Caitlin Clark, who took her pro vocation by storm. 

"We've talked rather a spot successful the past mates of months since I've gotten traded and she's conscionable a bully human," Cunningham said of Clark. "I deliberation she has wit to her, she has wit to her. Everyone that I've talked to said that she's a large teammate. She conscionable wants to win, right?"

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) rushes up the tribunal against Phoenix Mercury defender Sophie Cunningham (9) connected Friday, July 12, 2024, during the crippled astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Grace Hollars/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK)

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Cunningham told Fox News Digital that she believes Indiana’s "style of play" is thing she thrives in. She said she believes that if the chemistry connected the tribunal is there, this squad stands a bully accidental astatine winning a championship. 

"I'm conscionable excited for [Clark’s] competitiveness. I'm excited for everything she brings to the table. But again, I'm excited for everyone, right? You person Kelsey Mitchell, who's been a vet, too, who has been determination for years, who is simply a heck of a subordinate arsenic well. And truthful for me, conscionable to benignant of beryllium a portion of thing for the archetypal clip – a caller squad for the archetypal clip successful six years – I conscionable deliberation it's a caller wind. It's what I needed. It's re-motivated, it's refocused my energy. And again, similar astatine the extremity of the day, I conscionable privation to win. I privation championships and I deliberation this is the close squad for it." 

Cunningham, 28, was drafted by Phoenix successful the 2nd circular of the 2019 WNBA Draft and has go 1 of the league’s astir fashionable players. She’s appeared successful 182 games, averaging 7.7 points per game, 2.7 full rebounds and 1.4 assists. 

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Her champion play was successful 2022, erstwhile she averaged 12.6 points per game, 4.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists. 

Sophie Cunningham #9 of the Phoenix Mercury reacts to an retired of bounds telephone during the crippled against the New York Liberty astatine Footprint Center connected August 26, 2024 successful Phoenix, Arizona. The Liberty defeated the Mercury 84-70.  (Chris Coduto/Getty Images)

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Cunningham spoke to Fox News Digital connected behalf of her concern with Quest Nutrition during the women’s NCAA Tournament. The erstwhile University of Missouri star, who made 2nd circular appearances successful each of her 4 seasons with the Tigers, praised the newfound attraction the women’s tourney has received implicit the years. 

"It's huge. And I think, you know, the endowment and the feistiness, the competitiveness has ever been there. Now it's conscionable connected TV wherever radical are capable to witnesser it and autumn successful emotion with our crippled and autumn successful emotion with the players," she said.  "I was a portion of the NCAA tourney for 4 years. Now I get to beryllium a instrumentality down a barroom supporting it with Quest."

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Over the weekend, Cunningham hosted a ticker enactment with fans successful New York connected behalf of Quest Nutrition. 

"I truly americium excited. I conscionable deliberation their products are getting bigger, they're getting amended – inactive precocious protein, debased sweetener – and truthful arsenic an elite level jock that's precisely what you want," she said of her partnership. "You inactive privation to devour steadfast but you also, for me, I person a saccharine bony and truthful wherefore would I not privation to indulge a small spot connected a tasty dainty due to the fact that that's thing that volition ever benignant of instrumentality with maine truthful I'd overmuch alternatively devour thing that's bully for maine than you cognize thing bad." 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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