Sophie Caningham of WNBA Detroit and Cleveland make notes

Indiana fever Protect Sophie Kningham She says that people misunderstood her comments when she seemed to indicate that WNBA will not want to play in Detroit and Cleveland, two cities in the expansion teams in the coming years.

Knngham, 28, explained what she meant on Thursday, July 3, explaining that she understood the role played by both cities in the first days of the league, when Detroit was shocked and Cleveland was in the rock.

“First of all, I know the history behind Wnba,” she said in a video clip of publishing Via x By Fever Correspondent Tony East. “I know that these two cities have been a difference before, and they have reached the place where we are. So I am grateful for that.”

Cunningham first collected the anger of fans and athletes from both cities when she said during the available media on Tuesday, July 1, that she “did not know how people would go to Detroit or Cincinnati,” which confused the cities of Ohio. Nashville and Miami suggested that they were not chosen in the end.

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“All I was getting it, like, (Nashville) Broadway, and the lifestyle outside the court, so I think this is interesting,” I continued. “That’s all I was getting. I am grateful for what they did, for our history of sport.”

WNBA announced on Monday, June 30, that it will expand from its 13th teams to 18 by 2030. Toronto and Portland are already scheduled to start in 2026, when the Cleveland, Detroit and Viladelphia league announced to the battle in 2028 and 2030, respectively. They all join Golden State Valkyries, who are in the midst of their first season in W.

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All the five new cities are also the American Professional League markets, with many ownership groups overlapping.

“I think it will be fun to get some teams outside the American Professional League market,” Knngham said. “I think there is benefit when you have a team from the American Professional League. But that’s all I was getting. I think people offend this situation. I will never talk to the middle class, blue -collar workers. This is where I came from.

Each of the upcoming team paid a $ 250 million expansion fee, and five times The association’s growth in the league During the past half, the past decade.