Former Missouri star Sophie Cunningham talks about being drafted by the Phoenix Mercury. By
Ten hours before she took the next step in her basketball career, Sophie Cunningham stood on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and looked out toward lower Manhattan. One World Trade Center stood in the distance, a crammed city bustled below her, and she wondered aloud which bridges connected to each of the city’s other boroughs.
Cunningham had been to New York before, but growing up in Columbia, Missouri doesn’t require one to know the difference between the F train or the D train or how an elevated parking lot works.