Controversial girls’s basketball celebrity Angel Reese grew to become the primary participant to be ejected from a recreation within the startup Unmatched league on Saturday. She then known as a Sports activities Illustrated article masking the incident “clickbait.”
Reese was ejected throughout the Rose Basketball Membership’s matchup in opposition to Vinyl Basketball Membership within the second quarter. She was known as for a foul in opposition to Tiffany Hayes, then she earned a technical foul after making an offensive gesture towards a referee. When she began arguing that foul, she received a second technical, and refs tossed her from the sport.
Reese wasted little or no time after the historic ejection to vent her emotions on social media, firing off a collection of posts on X. One was a re-sharing of the Sports activities Illustrated article masking the ejection, which she captioned together with her criticism.
“Clickbait. All the things I do preserve going viral,” Reese wrote over the article.
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Reese and Rose Basketball Membership had been already in final place with a 1-4 document going into Saturday’s recreation, however issues received worse after the star’s ejection. Rose misplaced 79-73 as Vinyl’s Rhyne Howard dropped 33 factors on Reese’s squad amid the ejection.
Reese has been probably the most controversial stars in girls’s basketball ever since her notorious late-game showboating within the 2023 NCAA girls’s basketball championship recreation. Reese led LSU to a 102-85 victory over Caitlin Clark and Iowa that March and bragged about it by pointing to her finger in entrance of Clark’s face to remind her rival who was getting the ring.
It was a second that Reese says “modified my life eternally,” within the first episode of her podcast.
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Angel Reese of the Rose takes a second in opposition to the Vinyl throughout a timeout at Wayfair Enviornment. (Jim Rassol-Imagn Pictures)
“I feel it is actually simply the followers, her followers, the Iowa followers, now the Indiana followers, which might be actually simply, they experience for her, and I respect that, respectfully. However typically it’s totally disrespectful. I feel there’s quite a lot of racism with regards to it,” Reese mentioned.
Reese even alleges that some followers have made AI-generated pictures of her, depicting her with out garments on, and despatched them to her members of the family.
The 2 renewed their rivalry the next season within the 2024 Elite 8, as Clark received her revenge by defeating Reese and LSU 94-87. After the sport, Reese cried on the post-game press convention as she recounted the harassment she acquired following the earlier season’s controversy.
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Sky ahead Angel Reese walks on the courtroom at Wintrust Enviornment in Chicago, Aug. 25, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski-USA Immediately Sports activities)
In 4 head-to-head WNBA matchups this previous season, Clark’s Indiana Fever beat Reese’s Chicago Sky thrice. In simply two of these contests, Reese put up extra factors than Clark, whereas knocking down extra rebounds than Clark in all 4 conferences. Clark registered extra assists in all 4 conferences.
Reese’s Sky additionally dedicated a number of controversial fouls in opposition to Clark in these conferences, together with one from Reese herself when she slammed her arm into Clark’s head in a recreation in June, leading to a flagrant-1.
The 2 will not be bringing their rivalry to Unmatched, no less than not this yr. Clark declined to affix the league regardless of an aggressive push from its possession group.
However even with Clark not in that league, Reese remains to be discovering methods to stir bother.
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