EmailPrintIndiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said Friday that she's focusing on her team's four remaining regular-season games and not the commotion around Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declaring themselves eligible for the WNBA draft."I'm gonna let them do them," Cunningham told ESPN as part of a wide-ranging interview. "I'm just focused on the Fever and on our sport. I think we have four more games left. I'm trying to just really dial in and keep the main thing the main thing."Kanter Freedom, who posted his intention to play in the WNBA on social media on Aug. 7, was ejected from the Fever's game against the Chicago Sky on Aug. 23 in Chicago following a verbal altercation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. He has since filed a lawsuit arguing his First Amendment rights had been violated.White attended a Fever game against the Connecticut Sun on Aug. 28.Cunningham said she supported restricting transgender girls and women from girls' and women's sports in an ESPN article published July 21."I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" Cunningham said in the article. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."Rallies for and against transgender inclusion popped up at Fever games in the weeks after the article. The WNBA has been on a break since Aug. 31 while many of its stars, including the Fever's Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, compete in the FIBA World Cup in Berlin.The Fever, who return to the court next Friday in Toronto, are 26-14 and in fifth place in the standings. The team is battling for home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs, which begin Sept. 27.On Thursday, Cunningham, who is averaging 8.3 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists, relaunched her podcast with new host Drew Hanlen and with the new name "No Hesitation.""I think this team has great potential to make a really great playoff run," Cunningham said. "And if I'm filling my brain and my energy with all that stuff, then it's taking away from the team. And so I'm just trying to stay here and let them do what they want to do."
