Angel Reese seemingly throws shade at Caitlin Clark after newest win
Following the Sky’s win over a uncommon turnover-heavy Liberty workforce at Barclays Heart on Thursday night time, Angel Reese took to social media to chirp about her workforce’s victory over the 2023 WNBA Finals runners-up.
She concurrently took a obvious dig on the WNBA and doubtlessly at Fever star Caitlin Clark over workforce and participant visibility throughout the league — or the dearth thereof.
“And that’s on getting a WIN in a packed space not simply trigger of 1 participant on our constitution flight. #SKYTOWN,” Reese wrote on X after the Sky’s 90-81 win.
This got here after her talking related feedback to reporters on Thursday in regards to the development of the ladies’s sport.
“It’s not only one individual, I feel folks don’t understand that [because] the narrative out there may be that only one individual altering the sport,” Reese informed reporters Thursday. “It’s loads of us — me, Kamilla [Cardoso], there’s Cameron [Brink], Rickea [Jackson]. There’s so many nice gamers and it’s been lengthy overdue and simply with the ability to see that our affect has been in a position to change the sport.
“I adore it for us all, and we’re simply going to proceed to maintain going.”
Eight-time NBA All-Star Dwight Howard was one in all many on X to reply Reese’s phrases, suggesting for her to simply give attention to the constitution airplane concern slightly than seemingly shading Clark.
“WNBA getting packed arenas is wonderful to see ! let’s simply discuss that!” he wrote.
It’s not the primary submit by Reese that signifies her frustration towards each the league’s and sports activities media’s give attention to her former school rival in Clark and the Fever.
“Get Nika her visa NOW, constitution flights are HERE, give each workforce the identical PUBLICITY trigger it ain’t only one workforce, on-line bullying ain’t it AT ALL, and oh the CHICAGO SKY ARE HERE & ON THE RISE!” Reese posted on Tuesday when Nika Mühl — a Croatian-born guard — was ready for her work visa to be authorised, inflicting her to overlook the Storm’s first 4 video games.
After a record-breaking school profession, Clark is a giant motive behind the surge round girls’s basketball after the NCAA Event in March.
Her stardom continues to be rising, as she lately signed a multi-year partnership with Wilson and helped earned the Fever 36 nationally televised video games out of their 40 general within the common season.
However Reese continues to remind followers and the media that there are different gamers and groups to nonetheless give simply as a lot consideration to.
She additionally has held the league accountable over the dearth of constitution flights, which the Sky didn’t have firstly of the 2024 WNBA season, in contrast to Clark and the Fever in addition to the Lynx, who have been the primary two groups to fly constitution for his or her openers in Connecticut and Seattle, respectively.
The WNBA has mentioned they’ll “part in” the charters and that the complete plan will start “as quickly as we are able to get planes in locations.”
Whereas flying business to Dallas for the Sky’s season opener on Might 14, Reese shared to her Instagram Story that she was “praying that this is without doubt one of the final business flights the Chicago Sky has to fly,” in keeping with TMZ Sports activities.
Reese, who was the No. 7 general choose of the 2024 WNBA Draft in April, is averaging 12 factors, 8.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists throughout the Sky’s (2-1) three video games to this point this season.
Towards the Liberty on Thursday, she recorded knowledgeable career-best of 13 factors with 9 rebounds over 31 minutes, essentially the most time she has spent on the ground in a WNBA sport.
