WNBA guard Sophie Cunningham made it clear that she believes the league didn’t do its job when it came to reacting to the A’ja Wilson fan incident following Game 2 earlier this week.
Cunningham, 30, told A’ja Wilson to “grow up.”
“She’s like the LeBron James of our league, and so of course they’re not going to suspend her… Something should have happened. The two people who came off the bench onto the court, that should have happened. I think there’s definitely a double standard,” Cunningham said (via B/R).
“We yell from the rooftops that we want equality, that we want to be treated like the men, that we want all this stuff and we deserve all these things, and we do, we do deserve it. But if you’re asking for all these fans to come— and you have new fans, who are real sports fans, and they come and do something that a sports fan would probably do if you’re on the opposing team, and then you’re going to go for him for just pointing, saying that you fouled? Grow up.”
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WNBA fans, though, believe Cunningham is being “hypocritical” with her comments on Wilson, especially the “grow up” remarks.
Cunningham previously went viral for her on-court behavior during a warmups moment earlier this season.
WNBA fans call out Sophie Cunningham
WNBA fans are calling her out.
“Sophie Cunningham pulled her pants down and showed her underwear during a warmup game and cackled like a 3 year old, yet she’s out here telling A’ja Wilson to grow up… I mean….okay!” one fan wrote.
“I like how Sophie Cunningham tells people to grow up but then has the (guts) to pull down her pants in the middle of the court during pre game and show her (butt),” one fan added.
“It’s just hypocritical,” one fan added.
Wilson, meanwhile, stands by her behavior.
“If I see a man come at me, taking steps toward me and pointing at me, I don’t give a damn what you said. I don’t give a damn how you said it, the tone, that is unacceptable,” Wilson said after the game. “You don’t know me to step toward me and point at me. I’m not for that (expletive) at all … That there is unacceptable. How he gets back in the game because they said he didn’t do anything, of course he did.”
