{"id":22931,"date":"2025-08-07T17:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cunningham-fined-again-for-criticism-of-wnba-referees\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:29:56","slug":"cunningham-fined-again-for-criticism-of-wnba-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/cunningham-fined-again-for-criticism-of-wnba-referees\/","title":{"rendered":"Cunningham Fined Again for Criticism of WNBA Referees"},"content":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham has been fined for the second time by the WNBA due to negative comments about the league&#8217;s referees.\n\nCunningham revealed the news on his podcast &#8220;Show Me Something&#8221; earlier this week, indicating that the fine amounted to $1,500 for statements made the previous week.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The referees are very inconsistent.<\/p><cite>Sophie Cunningham<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nIn the debut episode of his podcast on July 28, Cunningham expressed his frustration with the refereeing, pointing out the lack of consistency in the decisions. &#8220;If I were a referee, I know I would make mistakes all the time. I&#8217;m not saying their job is easy, but when it&#8217;s a simple call in front of you several times, what are you doing?&#8221;, he commented.\n\nCunningham reported that she learned about the second fine when the Fever&#8217;s general manager, Amber Cox, informed her that the league had contacted her.\n\nThe player also addressed the widespread perception of the referees, saying: &#8220;I think players across the league, and new fans across the country, are wondering, &#8216;What&#8217;s going on with the referees?&#8217; And I say, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know'&#8221;. \n\nPreviously, Cunningham was fined $500 for a video posted on TikTok on July 18. In the video, she lip-synced to the lyrics of the song &#8220;Manchild&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter, with the phrase &#8220;@ some referees&#8221; written on the video.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham has been fined for the second time by the WNBA due to negative comments about the league&#8217;s referees. Cunningham revealed the news on his podcast &#8220;Show Me Something&#8221; earlier this week, indicating that the fine amounted to $1,500 for statements made the previous week. The referees are very inconsistent. Sophie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[5340,3467,5169,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-22931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-fines","9":"tag-referees","10":"tag-sophie-cunningham","11":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931","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=22931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}