Ron Harper Takes Aim At XX-XY Athletics CEO Over Her Blistering Sophie Cunningham Incident Verdict

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It’s been one headline after another for Sophie Cunningham, one of the fastest-rising stars in the WNBA today. On Saturday, Cunningham went viral yet again after she was clotheslined by DiJonai Carrington during the Fever-Sky game.

This play (along with Carrington’s subsequent “White privilege” post on social media) drew a variety of responses from social media users. One of them was Jennifer Sey, CEO and founder of the women’s apparel company XX-XY Athletics.

“This is what happens if you’re a female basketball player who stands up for little girls and biological reality,” Sey tweeted.

This take did not sit well with five-time NBA champion Ron Harper, who claimed that Cunningham’s outspokenness had nothing to do with the physical sequence.

“Another dumb comment it was a hard foul and she got ejected”

Though Harper believes that Carrington’s hard foul isn’t necessarily linked to Cunningham’s controversial comment on transgender athletes, the two have become intertwined in online discourse.

In the aftermath of the Carrington-Cunningham altercation, Sports Illustrated published an article entitled “Sophie Cunningham Got a Bitter Taste of Karma After Drawing Flagrant Foul in Fever-Sky.” Given the raging debate triggered by Cunningham’s remarks on transgender athletes in women’s sports, the title appeared to hint at a connection between the Fever guard’s views and the hard foul she sustained.

The title would later be revised to “Sophie Cunningham’s Enforcer Role Gets Reversed Onto Her With Hard Foul in Fever-Sky,” better reflecting the article’s flashback to Cunningham’s hard foul on then-Connecticut Sun guard Jacy Sheldon last year.

“Predictably Insane”: OutKick Reporter Comments on Stephanie White Defending DiJonai Carrington After Hard Foul on Sophie Cunningham​

Notably, Fever coach Stephanie White generated plenty of buzz on Saturday as well. During the post-game media session, White lauded Carrington’s effort on the defensive end and said that she didn’t “oppose the hard foul.”

Responding to these quotes, OutKick writer Ian Miller accused White of defending Carrington (her former player at Connecticut) over Cunningham because of their different views.

“It’s amazing how predictably insane the WNBA is. Like, of course the head coach of the Indiana Fever is defending the girl who clotheslined Sophie Cunningham. Of course she is. That’s exactly what a WNBA head coach would do, because Cunningham has a different opinion than her.”

Back on July 31, White told reporters that she didn’t consider herself “educated enough from a scientific standpoint” to address the question regarding transgender athletes. She added, though, that she doesn’t consider exclusion to be “an answer.”

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