Sophie Cunningham Is About As Edgy As A Beach Ball

There’s a type of public relations exercise that unfolds like a joke.

In it, a notable figure who has chosen to sit for a longform profile, declined to answer a sensitive question through her representative, posed for a corresponding photoshoot, and recently "hopscotched across the country" to engage in "a slew" of "business opportunities and brand activations" insists she doesn't care what other people think of her.

Sophie Cunningham sure doesn't.

As Hallie Grossman, the author of https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/49306657/sophie-cunningham-finger-point-indiana-fever-wnba">an ESPN profile published Tuesday, writes:

You might delight in her, or you might decry her; either way, she draws you in.

So whether you call Cunningham an enforcer or a dirty player, a role model or a culture warrior, fearless or shameless, brave or brazen -- you will keep calling her.

And she won't mind.

Which, perhaps, as much as anything, is the key to her ascension.

"People love me or they really frickin' hate me," she says.

"I just don't care."