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Yahoo
16 hours ago
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Why Angel Reese is on the verge of being suspended
The Chicago Sky star is one technical foul away from pick up the league's automatic penalty. View more Video Transcript Angel Reese is on the verge of being suspended, and here is why. In the WNBA, when a player picks up 8 technical fouls, they will be automatically suspended for one game. Angel Reese, who currently leads the league in technical fouls, has 7. And if she picks up one more, then the Chicago Sky will be without their best player for one game. Plus, if she were to be suspended, she wouldn't get paid for that game. Or a team looking to sneak their way into the playoff hunt, Angel Reese missing any games wouldn't be beneficial. So what do you think will happen? Close
USA Today
17 hours ago
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- USA Today
Storm vs. Sky odds, tips and betting trends - 7/24/2025
The Chicago Sky (7-16) will be trying to end a three-game losing streak when hosting the Seattle Storm (14-10) on Thursday, July 24, 2025 at Wintrust Arena. It airs at 8:30 p.m. ET on The U, KOMO 4, and CW Seattle. In its most recent game, Seattle fell at home to Dallas, 87-63. Its top performers were Nneka Ogwumike (22 PTS, 52.6 FG%, 2-4 from 3PT) and Gabby Williams (14 PTS, 8 AST, 4 STL, 35.7 FG%). Chicago lost to Minnesota 91-68 on the road last time out, and were led by Kia Nurse (16 PTS, 8 REB, 50.0 FG%, 3-5 from 3PT) and Angel Reese (11 PTS, 11 REB, 50.0 FG%). Before watching this matchup, here's everything you need to know about Thursday's action on the court. Watch the WNBA on Fubo! Seattle Storm vs. Chicago Sky odds and betting lines WNBA odds courtesy of BetMGM Sportsbook. Odds updated Wednesday at 6:05 p.m. ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access USA TODAY Sports Betting Scores Odds Hub. Storm moneyline insights Sky moneyline insights Storm vs. Sky: Game time and info Watch the WNBA on Fubo!
Fox News
a day ago
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- Fox News
Angel Reese mocked for turnover spree in same game where she makes WNBA history
Angel Reese committed a game-leading nine turnovers in the Chicago Sky's blowout 91-68 loss to the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday night. The turnovers occurred the same night that Reese became the first player in WNBA history to record multiple streaks of 10 games with a double-double. With 11 points, 11 rebounds and nine turnovers, some users joked that Reese was on a "triple-double watch," late in the game. One of the turnovers occurred in the first quarter when Reese tried to simply hand the ball off to a teammate that was right next to her. Instead, Reese softly bounced the ball off her own teammate. The ball was quickly recovered by the Lynx and taken the other way. "Angel Reese doing Angel Reese things. She plays the game so Lazy. As a long time former Coach, it makes my skin crawl when players do that," one user wrote. Another user wrote, "It's like watching little kids try to do things they saw on TV." One of Reese's other turnovers came in the third quarter when she took too many steps without dribbling the ball, as she appeared to get her feet tangled up, and she was called for traveling. "Boy she traveled into the next city!" one user wrote. Another user wrote, "She got her own travel agent with all that traveling." The Sky ended up losing by 23 points and falling to 7-16, and they remain firmly in fifth place in the WNBA's Eastern Conference. Reese recently drew attention to herself at the WNBA All-Star game when she spoke out against the WNBA for its handling of recent negotiations with the player's union, the WNBPA, over a new collective bargaining agreement. Reese said the proposal the WNBA sent to the players was "disrespectful." "It was an eye-opener for me. Like, hearing the things and hearing the language of things and not things that I was happy to hear. It was disrespectful the things that we were sent back, the proposal that we were sent back," Reese told reporters at WNBA All-Star weekend on Friday. "It's important to be able to be vocal. If I sit back, it looks like I don't care." Last October, Reese admitted she couldn't afford to pay her bills based on her WNBA salary, in an Instagram live video, adding she paid $8,000 per month for rent. "I'm living beyond my means. Hating pays them bills, baby. I just hope you know the WNBA don't pay my bills at all," she said. "I don't even think that pays one of my bills. Literally, I'm trying to think of my rent for where I stay at. Let me do the math real quick. I don't even know my (WNBA) salary, $74,000?"
Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
As the WNBA grows and evolves, camp day games remain a unique staple: 'We know it's gonna be really, really loud'
CHICAGO — Girls wearing red, black and white basketball jerseys filed into the front row of seats at the baseline at Wintrust Arena last week. The jerseys read 'Kia Nurse Elite,' and warming up in front of them was WNBA veteran and Chicago Sky guard Kia Nurse, the namesake and patron of their Canadian high-performance summer team. Just as she ran off the court to head to the locker room, Nurse yelled, 'OK, high fives!' and slapped the hands of everyone on her team. These are the kind of interactions that can happen on camp days, a longtime WNBA staple. Games are held during the weekday, with start times around 11 a.m., and the stands are filled with kids from youth basketball teams and day camps around the area. Not every team hosts camp days, while some have held multiple per season. This game against the Atlanta Dream was on July 16, just before the All-Star break, as well as a Nike tournament for girls basketball in Chicago. The atmosphere is loud and fun. While there are lots of things the WNBA needs to change about the season schedule as the league grows and expands, camp days should not be on the chopping block. There's nothing like the exuberance of these games, with kids getting excited about basketball as well as the gameday experience, including scoreboard games encouraging them to dance like a hot-air inflatable, or choose the song they want to hear in full later in the game. (The kids chose Chappell Roan's 'HOT TO GO.') The major hallmark of camp days is that the kids can get really, really loud. 'At one point they were screaming, and then the announcers said 'Louder!', and I was like, I didn't know they could get louder. They did!' Dream forward Brionna Jones said. 'But you definitely feel that energy when you're playing in front of kids, because you know they're out there having fun, it makes you want to go out there.' The noise means the players have to be creative in how they communicate with each other on the court. 'We know it's gonna be really, really loud, so as far as the game goes, just trying to communicate as well as possible so we can actually hear what's going on. But we love that kind of energy that the kids bring,' Atlanta guard Maya Caldwell said. The idea behind camp days is that it will create young WNBA fans, but it's not easy on the players. The Sky's Michaela Onyenwere likes to get to the arena early to go through her pregame routine. With the 11 a.m. tipoff, her alarm clock went off at 6:15 a.m. to give her enough time to get to Wintrust and prepare for the game. Her teammate Rachel Banham admits she is not a morning person, but they both see the importance of the games. 'I think it's really fun for the kids to be able to come out and see us. It's always really, really loud. You can't hear anything, so it's definitely an adjustment, but I think it's cool that kids are able to get out here and see us,' she said. According to Front Office Sports, multiple WNBA team presidents believe the games are still valuable, and cite feedback from fans whose interest began from a camp day game. The game ended up being a blowout win for Atlanta, with the Dream winning 86-49 over the Sky. It was the kind of win that set the Dream up well heading into the second half of the season, and the kind of loss the Sky just want to forget about. Jones had 14 points and 9 rebounds, and was named to the All-Star Game the next day as an injury replacement. Perhaps somewhere among those screaming kids, there was a young girl watching how Jones grabbed those rebounds, how she went hard in the paint, and found a role model. The camp games are a little different for the players, and ask more of them, but they get the point: maybe that young fan will play in a WNBA camp day 20 years from now.
Yahoo
2 days ago
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Angel Reese makes WNBA history with latest double-double streak as Sky fall to Lynx
Angel Reese is on a double-double streak once again. The Chicago Sky star recorded her 10th-straight double-double on Tuesday night in their 91-68 loss to the Minnesota Lynx. That made her the first player in WNBA history to rack up multiple streaks of at least 10 straight games with a double-double. Reese's current streak dates back to their loss to the Atlanta Dream on June 22, when she had 10 points and 19 rebounds. There are actually just five games this season in which Reese has fallen shy of that mark. She entered Tuesday's game averaging 14 points and 12.6 rebounds per contest. Reese went on a 15-game double-double streak last year in her rookie campaign with the Sky. She averaged 13.6 points and 13.1 rebounds per game last summer and finished in second in the Rookie of the Year race behind Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark. They Sky went just 13-27 last season, missed the playoffs and parted ways with head coach Teresa Weatherspoon. Reese dropped 11 points and 11 rebounds in their blowout loss to the Lynx on Tuesday night, which marked their first game back from the All-Star break. She secured her double-double midway through the fourth quarter after driving in and sinking a tough contested layup in the paint. Reese also picked up her seventh technical foul of the season in the loss. If she's assessed another one, she'll face an automatic one-game suspension from the league. But despite her double-double, the Lynx still rolled to the dominant win. All five of their starters finished in double figures, with both Napheesa Collier and Kayla McBride putting up 19 points a piece. They shot nearly 45% from the field as a group and held the Sky to just 12 points in the third period while breaking the game wide open. That pushed the Lynx to 21-4 on the season, and a perfect 13-0 at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Kamilla Cardoso also had a double-double for Chicago with 10 points and 10 rebounds in the loss. Kia Nurse finished with 16 points and eight rebounds. Those two, along with Reese, were the only players to hit double figures for the Sky. The Sky now sit at 7-16 on the season, which is the third-worst record in the league ahead of only the Dallas Wings and Connecticut Sun. Reese and the Sky will be back in action next on Thursday against the Seattle Storm.
