She's now a WNBA prospect. An ESPN mock draft has Sophie going to Phoenix 13th overall – the first pick of the second round – in the WNBA Draft next Wednesday, April 10th. Numerous WNBA coaches, executives and analysts spoke Tuesday on a conference call, and Cunningham was discussed often, as was Napheesa Collier, the Connecticut star who won the Missouri state championship for Incarnate Word.
The 6-foot-1 Cunningham played basketball with the fierceness and fearlessness that Bill Laimbeer and his Pistons teammates made famous as “Bad Boys,” back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.