Official Women's Basketball Thread

[Brandeezy]

STOP BABYING HER.

SHE SAID WHAT SHE SAID
AND YOU AGREE WITH
EVERYTHING SHE SAID.

YOU JUST TRYING TO FIND
A WAY TO ALLEVIATE HER OF ANY PUNISHMENT
AND ACT LIKE SHES BEEN WRONGED
FOR RECEIVING A HALF GAME SUSPENSION.

GOT nikkaS LIKE @Brandeezy
IN HERE TALKING ABOUT THEYRE
PUBLIC SHAMING HER
FOR CRASHING OUT.

YALL NEED TO
STOP MOVING LIKE A TWITTER THOTS.



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Come on breh, explain to me the reasoning of releasing a statement saying you're going to suspend a player after you supposedly resolved it internally No one in WNBA history has been suspended for half a game like a kid sitting in time out. Just bench her for a half without telling the world why and be done with it or suspend her for the whole game. Why should Angel play tomorrow if she can't help her team from start to finish? Especially against Aja who she knows how to play defensively. I'm gonna be when they trot out Westbeld and Aja eats her alive

 

[CHICAGO]

What part of what I said do you not understand?

Suspend her, but suspend her for the full game and not one half

This is quasi-retaliation against Angel

E. Will being benched was quasi-retaliation

This has nothing to do with accountability...and you still keep being disrespectful

I watch, actually watch, so I don't fall into the casual bucket...every talking point about Sloot icing Angel out, I said in real time, not months later

The issue is that your loyalty is to the Sky, and I fully support Angel...and you can't reasonably manage both bc it's ending up as a choose which side you're on scenario

Now I gave you credit for point out the racial undertones of the decision-making...real men give credit

Accountability in sports is not gender-specific...Angel been harder on herself than anyone, all season

As an Angel fan, I know she deserves better...and all this situation is doing is pointing out the obvious

AI pray she sits out tomorrow...she should not subject herself to this

Sloot ain't going nowhere

LMAO

I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO LOYALTY
TO THE SKY.

IM JUST SPEAKING ON THIS
FROM A COMMON SENSE POV


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[Controversy]

LMAO

I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO LOYALTY
TO THE SKY.

IM JUST SPEAKING ON THIS
FROM A COMMON SENSE POV


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Common sense is that the GM had a vendetta to bury Angel and reduce her role

The GM called her out and Angel has proven she's a top 10 player

 

[Controversy]

Sloot's interview that set Angel off.

The exact problem is that she was brought back for the offense to be ran through her

She only views Angel as a rebounder and defender

Angel is 16-12-4 without that dinosaur

 

[CHICAGO]

Common sense is that the GM had a vendetta to bury Angel and reduce her role

The GM called her out and Angel has proven she's a top 10 player

I CALLED ALL OF THIS OUT
IN REAL TIME....

THIS DOESNT EXCUSE ANGEL
FROM shytTING ON HER TEAMMATES
MID SEASON



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[CHICAGO]

Sloot's interview that set Angel off.

DUDE ANGEL DID HER INTERVIEW
A DAY BEFORE SLOOTS INTERVIEW
TO PREEMPTIVELY STEP ON SLOOTS INTERVIEW

THIS IS THE shyt IM TALKING ABOUT.

ANGEL WAS VERY DELIBERATE
WITH HER TIMING AND MESSAGE
SO THERS NO
POINT IN TRYING TO TURN HER
INTO A VICTIM.


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[Controversy]

Sabreena Merchant
164
Sept. 5, 2025
Updated 8:53 pm EDT

The Chicago Sky don’t have the appetite for a rebuild. All of the moves they made last offseason indicate a certain level of impatience. However, on Friday, they punished their star player for espousing those same views.
If this is an organization that is trying to be taken more seriously, then accountability starts with the front office itself — not with a player saying what everyone around the league is already thinking.

Angel Reese found herself in hot water earlier this week after she gave an interview to the Chicago Tribune that criticized the current direction of the franchise. In it, she said the Sky needed to bring in better players but that there wasn’t much that would attract the best free agents to Chicago. Reese also said she would look elsewhere if things didn’t change.

After the article was published, she apologized to her teammates for the attacks on their abilities, saying, “I really didn’t intentionally mean to put down my teammates.” That should have been the end of the matter — at least publicly.

Instead, the Sky decided to suspend Reese for the first half of an upcoming game against the Las Vegas Aces. Chicago couldn’t discipline her for the Sky’s next game against the Indiana Fever because Reese has already been suspended for that contest due to technical foul accumulation.

The team’s press release deemed her comments “detrimental to the team.” It said: “The Chicago Sky values the safety, respect, and well-being of every player. We are committed to accountability so our players can stay focused on playing basketball.”

The statement shortly concluded: “This matter has been handled and resolved internally, and we are moving forward as a team.”

If it had really been resolved internally, the Sky would not have needed to make a public statement, but they are trying to draw attention away from their shortcomings and deflect it onto the way Reese presented the message.

Reese is hardly the first player to bemoan the state of the Chicago Sky. On a StudBudz stream, Courtney Williams complained about having to share space at the team’s practice area, particularly when players and other attendees of the recreation center need to shower. Kahleah Copper, the 2021 WNBA Finals MVP, asked for a trade and pointedly celebrated how she could focus on basketball alone as a member of the Phoenix Mercury. Candace Parker talked about finally getting a locker to put her stuff in after she left the Sky for the Aces in 2023.

People around the league are familiar with the player experience in Chicago (or Connecticut, Dallas or Los Angeles); Reese highlighting the disparity between her organization and others that receive more investment is common practice. The Sky are obviously aware of the issues because they are building a practice facility that is supposed to open by the start of the 2026 season.

Where Reese likely erred was in directly calling out her teammates, most notably when she referred to herself and Kamilla Cardoso as the only cornerstones of the franchise moving forward, and when she said Chicago couldn’t rely on Courtney Vandersloot as its point guard in 2026 at the age of 37, coming off of an ACL injury.

There is validity to those statements, but Reese could have taken more care with her language, considering she was talking about people she shares a locker room with.

However, all that demanded was an apology, not retribution from the organization itself.

Coaches constantly talk about the need to play harder and bring effort. Reese merely flipped that axiom on its head by asking to be coached harder.

Reese wants great players in Chicago? So too does the front office, which traded away multiple draft assets, including the ability to draft All-Star Sonia Citron, to acquire former Olympian Ariel Atkins in the 2025 offseason. The Sky went after a veteran point guard in Vandersloot, who has won two titles and led the league in assists seven times. They targeted shooters to complement their frontcourt in Kia Nurse and Rebecca Allen while re-signing Michaela Onyenwere.

Perhaps the franchise is upset that Reese’s comments pointed out the missteps in the front office’s team-building approach. Reese wants to skip through the rebuilding process, but doing so has already put Chicago in a position in which building a stronger talent base is going to be much more difficult.

It isn’t as if Reese gave this interview without the awareness of the organization.

She spoke to a beat reporter at practicewith a member of the public relations staff watching along. Surely, they knew what was coming.

Fans of Chicago’s other basketball team will be reminded of a game in 2017 when the Bulls benched stars Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade for comments they made calling out their teammates’ effort levels. The coaching staff couldn’t stomach sitting them for more than five minutes, however, and the message rang hollow.

That the Sky’s punishment will last longer than five minutes is merely a reflection of their place in the standings. The fact remains that they can’t tolerate an honest assessment from the face of their franchise. The 2025 season will last for only four more games, and the organization could have let this disappointing campaign come to a merciful end. However, their actions ensure their shortcomings will remain a part of the public conversation.

 

[Brandeezy]

Satou is wilding on Nees

She's playing like Liz Cambridge

 

[Controversy]

Those Leila Lacan and Lexie Hull blk eyes are vicious lol

 

[Controversy]

This would be an embarrassing loss for Phx

You can't lose to CT while fighting for a 2-seed this late in the season

 

[NZA]

WOW! thug ass connecticut beat PHX

 

[Buck Seventy]

DUDE ANGEL DID HER INTERVIEW
A DAY BEFORE SLOOTS INTERVIEW
TO PREEMPTIVELY STEP ON SLOOTS INTERVIEW

THIS IS THE shyt IM TALKING ABOUT.

ANGEL WAS VERY DELIBERATE
WITH HER TIMING AND MESSAGE
SO THERS NO
POINT IN TRYING TO TURN HER
INTO A VICTIM​

I know it was before. It almost makes it even worse in a way.

 

[CHICAGO]

I know it was before. It almost makes it even worse in a way.

HOW CAN YOU SAY
"THIS INTERVIEW THAT
TOOK PLACE AFTER ANGELS INTERVIEW
IS WHAT SET ANGEL OFF"?

EVERYTHING SLOOT SAID
IN HER INTERVIEW HAS TO
BE LOOKED AT SOMEONE WHO
IS DEFENDING HERSELF
AND HER TEAMMATES AT THAT POINT.


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[Controversy]

Stud Budz gotta play smarter down the stretch

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]