In what has become a viral meme, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham points to Phoenix Mercury forward-guard DeWanna Bonner (not seen) following a scuffle.
Posted on 07/21/2026 10:17:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The WNBA and its associated entities continue to be their own worst enemies when it comes to maximizing their product.
Any time a good wave comes barreling in, they’d rather watch it crash on the shore than get on and ride it.
It’s been obvious since sensation Caitlin Clark was drafted first overrall by the Indiana Fever in 2024.
In what has become a viral meme, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham points to Phoenix Mercury forward-guard DeWanna Bonner (not seen) following a scuffle.
While there’s a never-ending push to help athletes make more money and grow the league into a sustainable enterprise with a large footprint, the WNBA and the player’s union seem most adept at stifling a good moment.
The latest is the one around the Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham that has launched a thousand memes and imitators.
The image of 29-year-old Cunningham — showing her pointing at opponent DeWanna Bonner after a scuffle in a late June match-up between the Fever and the Phoenix Mercury — went crazy viral.
The intense gesture lasted 22 seconds but, weeks later, it is still very much ensconced in the ether.
Cunningham has posed with young fans eager to reenact the point. When she visited a Special Olympics basketball team, one of the players excitedly mimicked the Fever shooting guard, gushing, “I like when you do this!”
It’s been a boon to Brand Cunningham, which has been soaring since the veteran emerged as the Fever team enforcer last year, when she handed down a hard foul against Jacy Sheldon.
She was rightfully ejected for the borderline assault — but Cunningham’s stock both on and off the court has never been hotter.
Then came the point, which has pushed her to new heights. She was a ring girl at the...
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One very ironic thing about the WNBA is they don’t allow trans people.
That statement conflicts with decisions within the league, as if they don't want to make money because then they'd be on the hook for paying all their bills.
Better to stay on NBA welfare than to stand on their own.
“work stoppage by the players “
LOL! I wonder how many months it would take for the average American to realize there was one?
Importunely for average Americans it would be a page one story for ESPN and other mainstream media outlets who would consider it Armageddon if the WNBA owners said, no more lesbian relationships among teammates.
Her stock would not be so hot if she were not hot.
*One very ironic thing about the WNBA is they don’t allow trans people.**
They’re smart.
*I wonder how the male athletes feel about having to subsidize a subpar franchise and pay the females out of their salaries.*
Taking it sitting down. They think of Sophie siting on their face.
The WNBA, where every rebound looks like the opening of Walmart on Black Friday....
Yes.
Can't wait for somebody getting hit by a metal folding chair. Too bad the basketball courts don't have turnbuckles so they could jump off the top.
The WNBA is nothing but episodes of Real Housewives of New Jersey, with a basketball thrown in.
This is just going to make it mor epopular. She’s going to be as big a meme as the screming lady and the cat.
The WNBA’s very existence is rotten. A woke creation of the NBA, where undeserving women are subsidized by deserving men.
There’s also Cameron Brink and Kelsey Plum in LA.
It’s a perfect setup for the transgenders to take over — and fill all the spots.
Compare the pointing finger from a white woman to the upraised fist from a black woman, and then tell me which gesture, if any, is the more derogatory.
-PJ
It is like the mckayla meme. It too will end. Someone needs to put Sophie pointing and Mckayla.
That is the definition of "viral."
So True.
I just don’t get why the point became such a big deal.
It's "racist".
Yes, yes everything is. “racist” to the racists.
They always need grievance. That’s what they live for.
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