Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham fired back at critics of teammate Caitlin Clark on the latest episode of her Show Me Something podcast.

"It literally pisses me off when people are like, 'She's not the face of the league.' What?" Cunningham said on her podcast. "There's really good, well-known people in our league. I'm not discrediting them. We have a lot of badasses in our league. Hell yeah to that. I'm all for that. But when people try to argue that she's not the face of our league or our league would be where we're at without her, you're dumb as s---. You're literally dumb as f**k."

Cunningham, who was acquired by the Fever in a trade with the Phoenix Mercury during the offseason, said her former teammates planned to zero in on Clark during her rookie season.

"I know the talks Phoenix had in their locker room of, like, 'We're going to show her what the W really is,'" Cunningham said on the podcast. "I get it to a certain extent. Every rookie coming into the league, that's how you're going to treat them. But there's just more for her. It's her second year. Now being on her team and seeing it, I'm like, 'What are people doing?' It's just too much."

Cunningham previously aided Clark during an on-court incident involving Jacy Sheldon and Marina Mabrey of the Connecticut Sun earlier this year. Clark, the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year and the NCAA's all-time leading scorer for women's and men's basketball, has been limited to just 13 games due to multiple injuries, averaging 16.5 points, 8.8 assists and 5.0 rebounds.

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