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Sophie Cunningham's mom eerily predicted WNBA R-rated toy throwing incident

The Fever star was sadly the latest victim in the inappropriate fan-behavior trend in their game vs. the Sparks. Unfortunately Cunningham's mom had a feeling.
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Aug 5, 2025: Fever guard Sophie Cunningham reacts to the inappropriate incident.
Aug 5, 2025: Fever guard Sophie Cunningham reacts to the inappropriate incident. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

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"Stop throwing d****s on the court... you're going to hurt one of us."

Those words written by Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham on X Aug. 1 turned out to be unfortunately prophetic.

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Sophie Cunningham
Aug 5, 2025: Sopie Cunningham played off the incident as well as she possibly could. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

As everyone knows by now, the extremely inappropriate trend from WNBA fans of throwing R-rated toys onto the court continued last night in the Fever-Los Angeles Sparks game, and the self-deprecating 28 year old was the latest victim in a 100-91 loss.

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Cunningham reacted about as well as one could expect, literally laughing it off as she got hugs by the Sparks bench, while Kelsey Plum had her back by angrily kicking the green object off the court.

After the game, the Caitlin Clark enforcer had more humor about the incident, writing on X, "this did NOT age well."

RELATED: Sophie Cunningham feels DeWanna Bonner should have texted Fever goodbye

She also added on her Instagram Stories, "no way that thing actually hit me. I knew I shouldn't have tweeted that."

Sophie Cunningham
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Cunningham's mom, Paula, eerily had a premonition as well, as she shared on her new podcast, "Show Me Something," which was literally posted earlier in the day of the night-time incident.

" My mom, instead of like my good luck texts [from my dad and sister], she goes, 'watch out for flying d****s tonight.'”

Needless to say mom knows best, especially when it come to inappropriate flying objects from the crowd.

In all seriousness, Cunningham played it off well, but it still has to be scary to be hit by anything from the crowd, and the WNBA needs to take measures to make sure this behavior stops immediately.

Until then, at least mom and daughter can laugh about it with each other.

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Matthew Graham has over 20 years of media experience and oversees The Athlete Lifestyle On SI. He has had previous leadership roles at NBC Sports, Yahoo, and USA TODAY, where he co-founded For The Win (named Best Mobile Site by Digiday). He has also written for ESPN, Cosmopolitan, US Weekly, People, E! Online, and FHM, covering major sports and entertainment events like the Oscars, the Golden Globes, NBA Finals, Super Bowl, and winning the Yahoo Superstar Award for coverage of the Olympics.

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