Sophie Cunningham lit up social media when her team, the Phoenix Mercury, posted a video of her latest pregame outfit.
Sophie and the squad were headed toward a matchup against the New York Liberty on Monday. And the six-year guard looked like straight fire in her outfit.
Phoenix had no issue promoting the skimpy outfit either.
“This week a hot new bombshell enters the villa,” they wrote, a take on the show Love Island.
The dress revealed to fans some new tanlines that the ‘blonde bombshell’ might have been working on over the Olympic break.
this week a hot new bombshell enters the villa pic.twitter.com/iNaeMPcjv2
— Phoenix Mercury (@PhoenixMercury) August 27, 2024
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Sophie Cunningham Got A Reaction
While everything about the post is true and amazing – Sophie Cunningham is a bombshell – numerous fans on social media took exception to the fact that her own team was exploiting her.
It might not have been the reaction the Mercury were hoping for.
“Their team is sexualizing them,” one person wrote.
“But it’s about Basketball right?” another replied. “More attention to the drama of the WNBA and what the women are wearing than actually hooping.”
All of this criticism might have been borne out by the fact that while Cunningham was on fire entering the game, she went ice-cold during it.
Phoenix dropped their game against the Liberty, 84-70, with Sophie contributing just 2 points on 1 of 5 shooting.
But hey, at least she got to play dress-up and runway model before the game, right?
WNBA And Sexism
Cunningham turned heads prior to the WNBA All-Star game last month when she walked an orange carpet event. Actually, she might have done more than turn heads. She might have broken some necks.
Look, I like watching Sophie Cunningham as much as the next person, but these entrance videos are getting a little absurd. The All-Star festivities I get, but this is a pre-game outfit?
You’re heading into the locker room just to take all that glam off and get suited up for the game?
Remember when WNBA players had a collective aneurysm when Gilbert Arenas suggested the league needs to get sexier? CBC just published a column arguing that “sexism” against the league “still holds back women’s professional sports”.
Going from ‘look at how sexy our women are’ to ‘how dare you judge these women on their looks’ doesn’t seem reasonable, WNBA. Pick a lane.
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