Fever star Sophie Cunningham says the team is playing 'soft' amid recent struggles, Caitlin Clark drama

Indiana Fever prima Sophie Cunningham did not mince words astir the team’s caller struggles.

The Fever mislaid back-to-back games connected the West Coast portion Caitlin Clark and caput manager Stephanie White went viral for a sideline altercation, and Cunningham took contented with the team's play.

"We person each the pieces we request (to win), but it's knowing your role, owning your relation and besides conscionable being tough," Cunningham said. "We're conscionable excessively brushed close now, and that's not what our individuality is, truthful we request to get distant from that."

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Indiana Fever defender Sophie Cunningham plays against the Seattle Storm astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Ind., connected May 17, 2026. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imagn Images)

On Monday, Clark and White said that they had moved connected from their sideline spat. Cunningham said that the squad had a gathering connected Tuesday and hopes it helps crook the page.

"We had a squad gathering (Monday) — a agelong gathering — and truthful hopefully we've benignant of turned the page," Cunningham said. "I deliberation we were successful determination an hr and a half, astir 2 hours and we built backmost each the layers. I deliberation everyone's connected a bully leafage close present and acceptable to work. We'll accidental it started (as a) coaches (meeting) and past ended up being players. It was overmuch needed, though."

Cunningham and All-Star defender Kelsey Mitchell did not divulge specifics astir what was discussed, and White said the gathering didn't spell rather arsenic agelong arsenic Cunningham thought.

Clearly, though, everyone thought it was indispensable and invaluable aft TV cameras caught the incidental betwixt Clark and White during Saturday night's 100-84 nonaccomplishment to Portland — an enlargement squad Indiana bushed by 17 points conscionable 10 days earlier without Clark.

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Indiana Fever guards Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark basal adjacent to each different during the 2nd fractional against the Portland Fire astatine Moda Center successful Portland, Ore., connected May 30, 2026. (Jaime Valdez/Imagn Images)

Mitchell explained Clark and White’s sideline incidental arsenic portion of being a family.

"I deliberation it's a portion of being a family," she said. "If you deliberation everything is glitz and glamour, past you're mistaken. I deliberation hard times tin marque you oregon interruption you and, hopefully, it doesn't interruption us, and I deliberation losing is important due to the fact that you find retired a batch astir yourself, astir wherever you request to be, wherever you're missing the people and I'm blessed that's happening now. If determination is frustration, I'd alternatively it beryllium present than later."

The Fever are presently 4-4 and a half-game retired of the last playoff spot. They entered the play with precocious expectations aft falling 1 triumph abbreviated of reaching the WNBA Finals contempt missing a big of cardinal players owed to injury.

The Fever’s discourtesy has been great. They mean a league-best 91.8 points per game; the occupation is their defense. They springiness up 89 points per game, which is the second-most successful the WNBA.

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark waits for play to resume during the 4th fourth against the Golden State Valkyries astatine Chase Center successful San Francisco, Calif., connected May 28, 2026. (David Gonzales/Imagn Images)

Cunningham said the squad didn’t adjacent ticker movie from their nonaccomplishment to the Fire successful an effort to determination on.

"We didn't adjacent ticker movie (from the Portland game), that tells you however atrocious it is due to the fact that usually she (White) is watching each 2nd of it. We wanted to flush that one, everyone knew it was bad. We each benignant of watched it connected our ain and it's conscionable unacceptable. We're excessively bully to beryllium playing similar that."

The Fever volition look to crook it astir erstwhile they play Angel Reese's Atlanta Dream astatine 7 p.m. ET connected Thursday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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