{"id":123201,"date":"2025-09-06T01:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123201\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:49:07","slug":"chicago-sky-address-angel-reeses-threats-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123201\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky address Angel Reese&#8217;s threats to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Sky star Angel Reese made it incredibly clear earlier this week that if the organization continues to struggle, she may soon be looking for opportunities elsewhere around the WNBA. And while some appreciated her honesty about her current situation, the Sky organization did not, opting to hand down a punishment on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Reese was already set to miss Friday\u2019s game against the Caitlin Clark-less Indiana Fever after being handed a one-game suspension for picking up her eighth technical foul of the 2025 season. But now, she will also miss a portion of Sunday\u2019s matchup against the Las Vegas Aces for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/09\/03\/chicago-sky-angel-reese-free-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">her comments about the Sky organization<\/a> made to the Chicago Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the Sky informed the public, along with Reese, that she would be suspended for the first half of Sunday\u2019s game for comments about the organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chicago Sky values the safety, respect, and well-being of every player,\u201d the team said in their statement. \u201cWe are committed to accountability so our players can stay focused on playing basketball. Because of the statements detrimental to the team made by Angel Reese during league-mandated media, she will not play in the first half of the game on September 7 against the Las Vegas Aces. This matter has been handled and resolved internally, and we are moving forward as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Statement from the Chicago Sky <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kf8qXvEkGb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kf8qXvEkGb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Sky (@chicagosky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagosky\/status\/1964074125615350253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reese\u2019s comments made to the Chicago Tribune alluded to potentially \u201cmoving in a different direction\u201d should the direction of the Sky as an organization doesn\u2019t change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very vocal about what we need and what I want,\u201d Reese told the Chicago Tribune. \u201cI\u2019d like to be here for my career, but if things don\u2019t pan out, obviously I might have to move in a different direction and do what\u2019s best for me. But while I am here, I\u2019m going to try to stay open-minded about what I have here and maximize that as much as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Reese made some comments about injured Sky point guard Courtney Vandersloot that some thought were a bit disparaging. Particularly, Reese said that the organization \u201ccan\u2019t rely\u201d on Vandersloot returning next season due to her age, citing a need for younger talent on the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t rely on Courtney to come back at the age that she\u2019s at,\u201d Reese said. \u201cI know she\u2019ll be a great asset for us, but we can\u2019t rely on that. We need someone probably a little younger with some experience, somebody who\u2019s been playing the game and is willing to compete for a championship and has done it before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly understandable for Reese to not be content with where the Sky organization is currently at. No player who has ambitions of a WNBA championship would be pleased to sit at 10-30.<\/p>\n<p>But clearly, it may have been wiser to keep her opinions behind closed doors and not voice them publicly to the media.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky star Angel Reese made it incredibly clear earlier this week that if the organization continues to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,49,48,726,66529,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-123201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-angel-reese","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-chicago-sky","12":"tag-chicago-tribune","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}