Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham just reminded us all again why she’s the league’s humor champ and why her Twitter thumbs are as lethal as her jumper.
On Thursday, X user @fevertrick22 posted a side-by-side: a picture of Cunningham and goats and another of her and teammate Caitlin Clark. Caption: “these are the same picture.” Not pausing for a second, Cunningham countered with a perfectly timed burn: “they smell the same too.”
Enter the pandemonium.
Social Media Outburst
Fans immediately flooded the comments with goat emojis, belly laughs, and all the WNBA love necessary to fill Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
“If they smell like a Goat, then they a Goat ????” one of them wrote, giving Cunningham and Clark the highest compliment.
Yet another supporter was just enjoying the team chemistry: “3 hours ago before a crucial game, Sophie Cunningham was on Twitter teasing her teammate, how I love them, the team of good vibes.”
And, of course, someone christened the moment the day’s internet apotheosis: “This wins the Internet today. Shut it down, y’all ????????”
Fever fans are used to seeing players trade roasts, but Cunningham’s ability to do it at such a high level while still keeping locker room spirits up is now part of WNBA lore.
The Basketball Stakes
The entertainment is only hours ahead of a pivotal game: the Indiana Fever (18-15) receiving the Washington Mystics (14-18) on August 15, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Indiana is clinging to sixth in playoff positioning, and the Mystics are at 10th, two games from the playoffs. The Fever are looking to bounce back from a tough 81-80 loss to the Dallas Wings on August 12, just demonstrating how shallow their backcourt rotation has grown due to injuries piling up.
The Mystics, though, are rebuilding beyond the trade deadline, counting on rookies Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen to do most of the heavy lifting.
The Caitlin Clark Factor
The trash talk hurts all the more considering Caitlin Clark hasn’t played on the court since suffering her right groin injury on July 15. Fever coach Stephanie White explained this past week that Clark is progressing but had yet to fully participate in practice.
Before the injury, Clark had been averaging 16.5 points, 8.8 assists, 5.0 rebounds, and 1.6 steals through 13 games shooting 27.9% from beyond the arc. Those numbers have her back as a potential game-changer in the Fever’s quest to make the playoffs.
In the meantime, meanwhile, she has Cunningham keeping her in the spotlight… and seemingly emitting a scent of a GOAT.
If the Fever are able to match the energy that Cunningham brought to the court tonight that she brought to Twitter, the Mystics are in trouble before the tip.
