Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham was fined $500 by the WNBA after posting a TikTok that appeared to mock league officiating, a source with knowledge of the fine unauthorized to discuss the matter publicly told The Athletic.

In the video, Cunningham lip-synced to a line from Sabrina Carpenter’s song “Manchild” — “Stupid, or is it slow? Maybe it’s useless” — with an overlying caption: “@ some refs.”

The clip, posted Friday, has garnered more than 1.2 million views. Wednesday, Cunningham responded to the fine on X.

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“I got fined $500 for this TikTok. idk why this is funny to me. Like ok, you got it bud! Cause there’s not more important things to be worried about with our league right now.”

This isn’t the first time the Fever have faced disciplinary action over officiating remarks. Coach Stephanie White was fined earlier this season after questioning the league’s consistency after a loss to the Washington Mystics.

When asked in May whether the WNBA should protect players from overly physical play, White didn’t hold back.

“Obviously, I think we can get better in certain areas as far as how we call the game, consistency with how we call the game,” White responded. “Are we going to say that we want a free-flowing offensive game, or are we going to have tough, grind-out physical games? And whatever way it is, the players will adjust and coaches will adjust, but we can’t have it be one way one quarter and another way another quarter.”

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Cunningham was also fined earlier this year after being assessed a flagrant 2 for her role in a skirmish that broke out at the conclusion of a mid-June game between the Fever and Connecticut Sun. She received an additional fine for her role in the scuffle that followed the initial foul.

This season, WNBA players and coaches have repeatedly criticized the league over officiating standards.

Fine transparency has also been an issue, as coach and player fines are seldom publicized by the league, sparking complaints about the lack of public information and inconsistency with punishments. In early June, New York Liberty guard Natasha Cloud and forward Isabelle Harrison received a fine warning for wearing hats on the sideline of New York’s victory over the Las Vegas Aces. Neither played in the game due to injury.

The warning, as was the case with Cunningham, sparked frustration with the league’s fine protocols.

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“I just feel like we’re doing nitpicky s—,” Cloud said. “I’d rather the W focus on actual things than trying to take our money for wearing what we want to wear and expressing ourselves.”

The Fever lost to Cloud’s Liberty in each of their last two games. Indiana hosts the Aces on Thursday night.

Both incidents highlight ongoing tensions among WNBA players, coaches and the league over officiating standards and accountability.

— The Athletic’s Ben Pickman contributed to this report.

This article originally appeared in The Athletic.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says bases in Indiana and New Jersey can house detained immigrants without affecting military readiness — a step toward potentially detaining thousands of people on bases on U.S. soil.

Hegseth notified members of Congress from both states this week of the proposal to temporarily house detained immigrants at Camp Atterbury in Indiana, and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey.

President Donald Trump has moved to aggressively detain and deport people in the country illegally, a push that has swept up large numbers of immigrants, including many with no prior criminal records, and forced federal authorities to find places to house them.

Hegseth said the presence of the detainees would not negatively affect the bases’ operations or training. Officials have not said when detainees could begin arriving at the facilities or if other military bases are under consideration.

Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said there are about 60,000 beds currently available for detained immigrants and the goal is to expand to 100,000.

“We’re looking for any available bed space we can get that meets the detention standards we’re accustomed to,” Homan said Friday. “The faster we get the beds, the more people we can take off the street.”

Democratic lawmakers from both states and civil rights advocates condemned the idea of housing immigrants at the bases, questioning the impact on military resources and the justification for so many detentions.

“Using our country’s military to detain and hold undocumented immigrants jeopardizes military preparedness and paves the way for (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids in every New Jersey community,” New Jersey’s Democratic delegation said in a statement.

Democratic Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana said his questions about detainee conditions have gone unanswered by the Trump administration.

He cited concerns raised about conditions at other facilities and said, “The fact that ICE has detained so many individuals that they now need to expand detention space in Indiana is disturbing.”

Amol Sinha, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, said in a statement that housing immigrants in military facilities sets a dangerous precedent “and is contrary to the values embedded in our Constitution.”

Both of the bases identified by Hegseth have housed Afghan or Ukrainian refugees in recent years.

During Trump’s first administration, he authorized the use of military bases to detain immigrant children — including Army installations at Fort Bliss and Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas.

In 2014, President Barack Obama temporarily relied on military bases to detain immigrant children while ramping up privately operated family detention centers to hold many of the tens of thousands of Central American families who crossed the border.

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Associated Press writers Christine Fernando and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.

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