Sophie Cunningham Details Fever's Player Meeting Amid Stephanie White Drama

It's a tough time to be a member of the Indiana Fever.

The team has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons lately.

Fans are convinced there's tension between head coach Stephanie White and star player Caitlin Clark after the latter was pulled three minutes into a game last week in favor of rookie Raven Johnson.

Indiana was also dragged of social media on Tuesday for revoking the media credentials of reporter Scott Agness after he reported the team scratched Clark less than two hours before a game due to "load management," which the team took exception with.

There's been so many distractions lately that the Fever held a player-led meeting to discuss how to get their season back on track.

"It was a really good meeting, and so hopefully we try to turn the page and everyone is kind of on the same page now - and hopefully Thursday you guys will notice that," Sophie Cunningham said.

"(It was about) just what everyone's kind of feeling, where we need to be, what our identity is offensively, where we're struggling defensively, where is the breakdown. I think we were in there for like an hour-and-a-half, almost two hours, and we peeled back all the layers. So I think everyone's on a good page right now, and we're ready to work."

Cunningham seemed optimistic the players' meeting actually accomplished some good. But as she disclosed, they had some hard-to-hear conversations about what the roster needs to do better.

"It's owning your role, knowing your role and also just being tough," Cunningham continued. "We're just too soft right now and that's not what our identity is so we need to get away from that… You just have to be willing to play defense – it's not fun, no one wants to do it. But the good defensive teams are the ones that win.

"I think something that's hurting us right now is we're only playing one defensive scheme… So we got to dial in, we got to focus, your IQ has to be on point, you have to know what schemes were doing and if you can't do that, then you can't play and that's the point that we're at right now."

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This story was originally published June 2, 2026 at 7:54 PM.