{"id":18248,"date":"2025-07-24T12:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cunningham-of-the-fever-fined-for-criticizing-refereeing-on-social-media\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:09:12","slug":"cunningham-of-the-fever-fined-for-criticizing-refereeing-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/cunningham-of-the-fever-fined-for-criticizing-refereeing-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Cunningham of the Fever Fined for Criticizing Refereeing on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sophie Cunningham Fined for Criticism of Referees<\/h2>\n\nIndiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham has been fined $500 for a TikTok post criticizing the league&#8217;s referees. The news was confirmed via her X account.\n\n\n<p>The original TikTok video showed Cunningham <em>lip-syncing<\/em> to the lyrics of a song that said: &#8220;Stupid. Are they slow? Or maybe useless?&#8221;. The video included the phrase &#8220;@some referees&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\nThe TikTok post, made on July 18, has accumulated 1.3 million views.\n\nCunningham shared the news of the fine on X, adding laughing emojis and commenting: &#8220;I was fined $500 for this TikTok&#8230; I don&#8217;t know why this makes me laugh&#8230; Ok, I get it! As if there weren&#8217;t more important things to worry about in our league right now.&#8221;\n\nThe refereeing work has been a topic of debate in the league this season, with several players and coaches criticizing the inconsistency in the referees&#8217; decisions.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Everyone is improving, except the officials. We have to find a solution. I&#8217;ve heard all the coaches talking about this, so I don&#8217;t know what the answer is.<\/p><cite>Stephanie White, Fever coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nCunningham has also been in the news recently for her apparent role as protector of her teammate, Caitlin Clark. She was ejected after a physical altercation with Connecticut&#8217;s Jacy Sheldon last month, following a confrontation between Sheldon and Clark during the game. Sheldon was also ejected.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Cunningham Fined for Criticism of Referees Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham has been fined $500 for a TikTok post criticizing the league&#8217;s referees. The news was confirmed via her X account. The original TikTok video showed Cunningham lip-syncing to the lyrics of a song that said: &#8220;Stupid. Are they slow? Or maybe useless?&#8221;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[3467,5169,1525,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-18248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-referees","9":"tag-sophie-cunningham","10":"tag-tiktok","11":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}