In a statement, Sophie Cunningham denied claims she was in an intimate relationship with Suns CEO Josh Bartelstein while she was a member of the Mercury.

Former Missouri star Sophie Cunningham denied claims of an intimate relationship with Phoenix Suns CEO Josh Bartelstein in a statement posted to X.

WNBA player Sophie Cunningham is adamantly denying she ever hooked up with Phoenix Suns and Mercury CEO Josh Bartelstein... calling the claims made in a recent lawsuit "untrue and extremely hurtful." The current Indiana Fever guard was named in bombshell court documents filed by former Suns and Mercury employee Gene Traylor earlier this month