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The 2025 WNBA Finals could end Friday night — but Sophie Cunningham won’t be watching.
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“I haven’t watched a lick of the WNBA (Finals),” Cunningham said this week on her podcast, Show Me Something. “I don’t know what’s going on. I need a cleanse. I’m booking vacations.”
Cunningham, whose season ended following an MCL tear in her right knee on Aug. 17, could only watch as her teammates valiantly pushed the to Game 5 of the WNBA semifinals earlier this month.
But once the Aces put the finishing touches on a 107-98 overtime win in that decisive Game 5, Cunningham — a pending free agent — decided that enough was enough.
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Cunningham told her co-host West Wilson that she “needed a break” after completing exit interviews with her Fever teammates, who surprised many observers by reaching the semifinals with a long list of injured players — including superstar guard Caitlin Clark, who suffered season-ending ankle and groin injuries over the summer.
“Good luck to whoever is going to win,” Cunningham told Wilson. “I honestly don’t care who wins this finals.”
Cunningham quite literally though had the last laugh on the matter when Wilson told her that the Aces had a 2-0 lead in the series over the ; Cunningham ended up in Indiana as part of an offseason trade from Phoenix, the organization that drafted and developed her into a WNBA regular.
Vegas’ lead has since swelled to 3-0, and the series could end Friday night in Phoenix as the Aces go for the sweep.
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