Angel Reese Year 2 (SIGNATURE SHOE SELLS OUT IN HOURS) B*tch ASS N*ggas

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The league needs to either get her out of Chicago or Chicago needs to clean house in the front office.
League need to step in and tell Chicago to get their shyt together. When you have someone that can be a big name in a major market, it's idiotic for a team to fukk that up.


The Sky already had to dig out of a hole when the team hired Jeff Pagliocca as GM in Oct. 2023. Chicago was previously led by James Wade, who was the head coach and GM during the team’s legendary run to the 2021 WNBA championship run. As that team suffered an incredible collapse in the semifinals the next season, the core broke up, and Wade made a short-sighted trade for Marina Mabrey, sending out two first-round picks and swap rights on another first-rounder, plus young forward Leonie Fiebich for a player who has still never been a WNBA All-Star.
Pagliocca went the other direction and immediately started mortgaging the team’s future with some rash trades that were always doomed to fail.

Pagliocca didn’t get enough of a haul when he traded Kahleah Copper to Phoenix. He traded control of another future first-round pick to move up one spot in the draft order to take Reese in 2024, who the Minnesota Lynx may not have taken anyway. His 2025 draft decisions were a disaster-class that will serve as a case study for how not to run a WNBA franchise for future generations of women’s basketball fans.
The Sky came into the draft with the No. 3 pick. Pagliocca traded it to Washington for Ariel Atkins, and he included 2027 first-round swap rights for good measure. The Mystics drafted Notre Dame wing Sonia Citron, the exact type of Swiss army knife on the perimeter the Sky roster needs so badly. Citron has been better as a rookie than Atkins has been at any point in her career. It was a move that never made any sense for a rebuilding team, and the Sky will continue to pay for it well into the future.

Pagliocca has put the Sky in position where they might give up the first-pick in the 2026 WNBA to best team in the league, Minnesota. If the team can’t land a marquee free agent this upcoming offseason, he risks giving up the No. 1 pick again in 2027 thanks to the swap with Washington. The WNBA currently uses two-year records to determine lottery odds, and that’s going to be very good for the Mystics as owners of the Sky’s pick.
The team currently practices at a north suburban park district. Their long-rumored private practice facility is finally coming next year, but the team didn’t get a convenient location for it, settling for a spot out by Midway Airport.
 

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League need to step in and tell Chicago to get their shyt together. When you have someone that can be a big name in a major market, it's idiotic for a team to fukk that up.




LMAO

THIS DUDE MUST POST
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"Anyone paying attention knew the Sky had a terrible offseason. Trading the rights to Citron and the 2027 pick for Atkins was a truly awful decision by Pagliocca that didn’t need the benefit of hindsight to be panned. Vandersloot looked washed in New York and was never going to be the savior in Chicago even if she stayed healthy. Sloot’s injury is a convenient excuse for the front office to cover their lost season, but relying on her in the first place to this extent was total organizational malpractice."
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LMAO

THIS DUDE MUST POST
ON THE COLI

"Anyone paying attention knew the Sky had a terrible offseason. Trading the rights to Citron and the 2027 pick for Atkins was a truly awful decision by Pagliocca that didn’t need the benefit of hindsight to be panned. Vandersloot looked washed in New York and was never going to be the savior in Chicago even if she stayed healthy. Sloot’s injury is a convenient excuse for the front office to cover their lost season, but relying on her in the first place to this extent was total organizational malpractice."
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Ricky doesn't give a fukk.

He shyts on AKME and Reinsdorf like he needs it to survive.
 

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