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Indiana fever look after Sophie Cunningham People who misinterpreted her comments said when it appeared to suggest that WNBA players would not want to play in Detroit and Cleveland, two cities on tap for expanding teams in the coming years.
Cunningham, 28, explained what she meant on Thursday, July 3, explaining that she understood the role that the two cities played in the early days of the league, when Detroit was shocked and that Cleveland had the rockers.
“First of all, I know the story behind the Wnba,” he said in a video posted By x by a Tony East fever correspondent. “I know those two cities had had teams before, and they got us where we are. So I’m grateful for that.”
Cunningham first removed the fans and athletes from the two cities when she said during the availability of the media on Tuesday, July 1, that she “didn’t know how exciting people are to be going to Detroit or Cincinnati,” confusing the two cities in Ohio. Nashville and Miami suggested as expanding candidates that were eventually chosen.
“All I did is, like, (Nashville) Broadway, the off -court lifestyle, and so I think that’s interesting,” he continued. “That’s all I did. I’m grateful for what they’ve done, for our history of the sport.”
The WNBA announced on Monday, June 30, that it will expand from its current 13 teams to 18 by 2030. Toronto and Portland are already about to start playing in 2026, with the league announcing Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia joining the fraud in 2028, 2029 and 2030 respectively. They all join the Golden State Valkyries, who are in the middle of their first season in the W.
All five new cities are also NBA markets, with many of their ownership groups overlapping.
“I think it would be fun to get some teams outside the NBA market,” said Cunningham. “I think there’s a benefit when you have an NBA team. But that’s all I was doing. I think people misread that situation. I would never talk down on middle -class people, blue people who work collar. That’s where I’m coming. I’m from Missouri. I get I am in Indiana, and that’s kind of why I’m suggesting, Broadway is fun.”
Each upcoming team paid an expansion fee $ 250 million, five times the fee paid the Valkyries in 2023 – a product from Meteoric growth of the league Over the past half a decade.