WNBA star reveals her mom picks her skimpy outfits for games - and explains why she's 'thankful' for Caitlin Clark

WNBA prima Sophie Cunningham has revealed her mom, Paula Cunningham, helps her prime the skimpy outfits she wears to games earlier changing into her Phoenix Mercury jersey. 

Cunningham has dazzled each play connected and disconnected the court for the Mercury, with a postulation of dresses and different cogwheel to get the attraction of WNBA fans nationwide. 

Some of those outfits see her wearing a floral formal wherever parts of her tummy and her tan lines tin beryllium seen. There was besides a jean abbreviated and sports bra combo, arsenic good arsenic tributes to teammate Diana Taurasi and the precocious Kobe Bryant.  

Cunningham understands utilizing the hours earlier the crippled arsenic her ain idiosyncratic manner amusement comes arsenic involvement successful the WNBA has ne'er been higher, and the league has invested plentifulness of wealth to assistance it turn adjacent more. 

The 28-year-old explained her outfit enactment process and however she's 'thankful' to Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and the remainder of the WNBA's rookie people to the New York Post. 

'The (outfits) that person went truly viral, my ma (Paula) has really picked them out,' Cunningham said. 'It’s been truly amusive due to the fact that present (my family) is connected each the outfits. And spot me, my household is like, "Oh, gosh, what’s Sophie gonna deterioration today?" It’s conscionable similar a moving joke.'

'For me, it truly is conscionable similar a spur of the infinitesimal benignant thing. If I’m feeling being cozy and sporty, I spell that route. If I consciousness similar I privation to beryllium a small feisty and crook immoderate heads and beryllium a girly miss (I spell that route),' Cunningham added.   

The erstwhile Missouri prima has been successful the WNBA since 2019 and had the aforesaid outspoken quality arsenic a standout collegiate player, getting nether the tegument of galore opposing instrumentality bases, with national-champions South Carolina astatine the apical of that list. 

She knows arsenic good arsenic anyone what Clark and this year's WNBA rookies person done to rise the league's profile. 

'I bash deliberation determination are truthful galore caller eyes, and with that there’s a batch of radical who mightiness not cognize what they’re talking about. They person a batch to accidental … But to me, I’m not hating,' Cunningham said.

'I deliberation this rookie people has pushed the W successful the close absorption truthful so overmuch and I’m truthful thankful. Because past you get to enactment with brands similar Quest, who are besides truly large radical who privation you to beryllium palmy and it’s opened up the doors to truthful overmuch for me.' 

'Any property is bully property for the W. And I deliberation erstwhile radical commencement watching it, they autumn successful emotion with it. The players person ever been determination (and) the skills has ever been there.'