WNBA star Sophie Cunningham was hit with a $400 high quality for her actions final week.

However the Indiana Fever fan favourite has seen her social worth skyrocket.

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Cunningham, 28, defended her teammate Caitlin Clark throughout a fiery recreation towards the Connecticut Solar.

Clark was shoved to the ground by Marina Mabrey earlier within the recreation.

And Cunningham did not miss her probability to precise some revenge on her teammate’s behalf.

Mabrey ran clear for a layup within the ultimate minute of the sport when she was fouled by Cunningham.

The transfer from Cunningham sparked one other on-court brawl.

And it landed her an ejection and a high quality from the WNBA price $400.

However in response to Sportico, Cunningham’s worth skyrocketed.

A report within the outlet learn, “Within the following three days (after the sport) near 1,000,000 followers appear to have taken Cunningham’s aspect.

“The sixth-year vet from Missouri has added 700,000 followers on TikTok and greater than 244,000 newcomers on Instagram, in response to social media analytics platform Social Blade.

“Cunningham now has greater than 1 million followers on TikTok and 730,000 on Instagram, with some followers dubbing her ‘the Enforcer’ in numerous on-line remark sections.

“As of Friday, her jerseys on the workforce’s retailer have been listed as unavailable till July 8.

“If a model needed so as to add that many new followers on Instagram and TikTok, it might simply spend greater than $1 million doing so, in response to advertising and marketing company STN Digital’s calculations.”

Cunningham has additionally been outspoken about defending her teammate.

She known as on referees to do extra to cease Clark from being focused.

“It was a construct up for a pair years now of them not defending the star participant within the WNBA,” she mentioned.

“And so on the finish of the day, I’m going to guard my teammates, that’s what I do.”

“And I am a workforce participant, so it is all good.”

The report in Sportico additionally cited a sports activities administration company director.

“It’s unprecedented development,” the company mentioned of Cunningham’s growth.

“We work with some fairly massive athletes which have gone viral for some fairly massive issues.

“However this has been one thing that I haven’t seen earlier than — this sort of development on this brief period of time… was very new territory.”