INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is launching a new show with NBA skills trainer Drew Hanlen. The first episode of No Hesitation was scheduled to post Thursday, according to a post on X from the show’s account at 1:03 p.m. CT.
The post called Hanlen a “world renowned basketball trainer” and said new episodes would drop every Thursday. It did not name a production company or the platforms that will carry the show.
Hanlen is the founder and CEO of Pure Sweat Basketball. He previously hosted The Unseen Hours Podcast, a Springfield Media series featuring guests from sports, entertainment, and business.
In July 2025, The Sporting Tribune reported that Hanlen worked with 12 NBA clients. Joel Embiid and Jayson Tatum were among the players it named. Belmont University, where Hanlen played, reported this year that his clients have secured more than $4 billion in NBA contracts.
Hanlen grew up in St. Louis and was a two-time all-state player at Webster Groves High School, according to Valley Hoops Insider. He did not start training players out of a sense of purpose, he told The Sporting Tribune. At 16, he wanted a new car.
“I love helping people,” Hanlen said. “I love the game of basketball. And I realized I could do both at the same time, which helps me in my career and helps them too.”
Sophie Cunningham’s Show Me Something Went Quiet After July 21
Cunningham’s first podcast, Show Me Something, was produced and distributed by Colin Cowherd’s The Volume. As of Sept. 3, it had not published a new episode since July 21, Awful Announcing’s Brendon Kleen reported. For that story, co-host West Wilson and multiple representatives for The Volume did not respond to requests for comment, and Cunningham could not be reached.
The show launched in July 2025 with Cunningham and Wilson, a cast member on Bravo’s Summer House, as co-hosts. Front Office Sports’ Michael McCarthy first reported the deal with The Volume. Cunningham and Wilson were classmates at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri.
Before the launch, Cunningham told People the show would cover the WNBA, Bravo, pop culture, food, fashion, and travel. “It’ll be cool that people can see our humor, what we’re actually like,” Cunningham said, “and it’s coming from us and not from other people perceiving or portraying what they think we are.”
In an ESPN profile published in late July, Cunningham spoke out against transgender women competing in women’s sports, Kleen reported. According to ABC News, she said in the profile that she wants “to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”
Wilson responded with a TikTok video that contradicted her view. He called transgender women’s participation in sports “a borderline nonexistent issue” amplified by right-wing commentators, Kleen reported. Wilson’s role on Summer House was also cut, according to Awful Announcing.
During the hiatus, Cunningham continued contributing to USA Network’s WNBA studio show, Kleen reported. She joined USA Sports as an athlete contributor for the 2026 season in April, days before re-signing with Indiana.
The WNBA’s 2026 collective bargaining agreement states that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA” and does not define the term further, Forbes reported. Cunningham’s remarks have prompted small rallies at WNBA games both supporting and opposing her, Forbes reported.
On Aug. 20, Cunningham supporters held a news conference hosted by Texas Values outside American Airlines Center before the Fever played the Dallas Wings, The Dallas Morning News reported. Dallas won that game 91-85. Cunningham went 0-of-4 from the field and did not score in 15 minutes.
Sophie Cunningham’s 2026 Season With the Indiana Fever
Cunningham re-signed with Indiana on a one-year contract April 12, the Fever announced. The deal is worth $665,000, according to Spotrac.
Through 39 games this season, Cunningham is averaging 8.3 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 1.3 assists in 22.7 minutes. She is shooting 43.4% from 3-point range on 63-of-145 attempts and has started three of those games.
The Phoenix Mercury drafted Cunningham 13th overall in 2019. She spent six seasons in Phoenix before Indiana acquired her in a trade ahead of the 2025 season. Last season, she shot 43.2% from 3-point range in 30 games before a torn MCL in her right knee ended her season in August.
Indiana is 26-14 and has clinched a playoff berth. After the FIBA Women’s World Cup break, the Fever resume play at the Toronto Tempo on Friday, Sept. 18. Tip-off is set for 6:30 p.m. CT on ION.
