Posted on 07/31/2026 11:11:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Fire fans didn’t offer a warm welcome to Sophie Cunningham.
The Indiana star was booed by fans during the Fever’s 112-98 win over the Fire at the Moda Center on Friday night in Portland as fallout over her comments regarding trans athletes continues.
Cunningham scored 13 points off the bench while Caitlin Clark scored a team-high 26 points.
Earlier this month, Cunningham made waves for saying she wants to “protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men” in an ESPN profile.
The discourse around the quote was amped up when a pair of young fans, wearing apparel from XX-XY Athletics and holding signs supporting the 29-year-old guard sitting courtside for a game in Seattle were allegedly called “****ing insane” by Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton.
One of the fans was reportedly left in tears following the encounter.
Keaton was suspended for five home games and fined an undisclosed amount by the WNBA.
“I think at the end of the day, I come in and I do my job,” Cunningham said before the Fever’s win. “I think everyone who knows me personally, they know that I’m full of love. I’m bubbly. I love the people around me. I love basketball. I love inspiring the next generation and doing that in a positive light. And so that doesn’t even cross my mind. Doesn’t cross my teammates’ minds.
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Every seaman knows “port” means “left”.
Sophie is a liberal. Maybe these communist episodes will wake her up
“We demand you pretend men are women!”
Could of fooled me!
Leftism is, at best, a deep & violent psychotic metal disorder.
Believing a biological male can suddenly become a female while retaining his XY-chromosomes is insane lunacy & unable to grasp reality.
No doubt fake education, fake news, fake science, fake biology contributed to their demise as a normal human being.
They are now a threat to civil society and must be removed in one form or another.
The WNBA is a freak show.
To be boo’ed by the commies in Portland should be worn as a badge of honor.
When will the first “brave” tranny join a WNBA team? Or a team made up of trannies should sweep the playoffs and take every record out there.
Conclusion: Whatever else is going on, the controversies (there's also a racial one) are good for their business. Simply because people are more aware professional women's basketball exists.
“It’s INFESTED with Islamocommies and the home of Trantifa, Antifa, BLM, CCP operatives, fraudulent elections and pro-islamist GARBAGE
Damn city must be erased.”
All new Islam migrants should be required to move to Portland. Let’s see how they feel under Sharia.
The WNBA doesn’t allow trans players.
LOL.
Women’s basketball didn’t used to get a lot of attention. Years would go by with hardly a mention mention in major media.
And, the TWO women who’ve brought it the most positive attention ... Cunningham and Clarke ... are booed and smeared ... even by their own league.
Go figure.
Great quote! Thank you. David Horowitz knew the revolutionaries better than us. He grew up with them!
It’s Portland.
I suspect there were very few straight fans in that crowd.
“It’s ok to boo me, because I see what you cheer for.”
Portland is just another lefty third world shit hole like Seattle.
Do they test for testosterone in the WNBA?
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