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Sophie Cunningham Focused on Fever Playoff Push

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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said Friday she's focusing on her team's four remaining regular-season games and not the commotion around Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declaring themselves eligible for the WNBA draft.

"I'm gonna let them do them," Cunningham told ESPN. "I'm just focused on the Fever and on our sport. I think we have four more games left. I'm trying to just really dial in and keep the main thing the main thing."

Kanter Freedom was ejected from the Fever's game against the Chicago Sky on Aug. 23 following a verbal altercation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. White attended a Fever game against the Connecticut Sun on Aug. 28.

Cunningham said she supported restricting transgender girls and women from girls' and women's sports in an ESPN article published July 21. Rallies for and against transgender inclusion popped up at Fever games in the weeks after.

The WNBA has been on a break since Aug. 31 while many of its stars, including the Fever's Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, compete in the FIBA World Cup in Berlin. The Fever, who return to the court next Friday in Toronto, are 26-14 and in fifth place. The team is battling for home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs, which begin Sept. 27.

On Thursday, Cunningham relaunched her podcast with new host Drew Hanlen and with the new name "No Hesitation."

"I think this team has great potential to make a really great playoff run," Cunningham said. "And if I'm filling my brain and my energy with all that stuff, then it's taking away from the team."