A pregame conversation with Cheryl Reeve looked cordial to some, tense to others. Days later, Cunningham called the ongoing coverage a "distraction" — while her own coach turned out to have a firmer opinion than first reported, a second coach spoke even more bluntly, and organizers locked in two more rallies.
Sophie Cunningham says she's finished talking about it. Two weeks after a wide-ranging ESPN profile made her the center of a national argument over transgender athletes, the Indiana Fever guard used Wednesday's media session to steer questions back toward basketball. It didn't entirely work. In the same stretch of days, a second WNBA coach spoke even more directly than the first, her own head coach turned out to hold a firmer opinion than early coverage suggested, and organizers confirmed two additional rallies tied to upcoming Fever games.
