{"id":125577,"date":"2025-09-07T02:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125577\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:11:08","slug":"courtney-vandersloot-responds-to-angel-reese-says-age-is-not-a-factor-and-shell-return-to-sky-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125577\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Vandersloot responds to Angel Reese, says age is ‘not a factor’ and she’ll return to Sky next season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Sky<\/a> point guard Courtney Vandersloot<\/a> has been sidelined since June 7 with a torn ACL, but found herself in headlines this week after All-Star forward Angel Reese<\/a> said that the team could not rely on her as their starting point guard next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an interview with Sky broadcaster Shimmy Miller, which was taped prior to the team’s win over the Connecticut Sun<\/a> on Wednesday but surfaced online on Saturday, Vandersloot responded to Reese and stated that she plans to return to Chicago next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Contrary to what people say or think, my age is absolutely not a factor. I am coming back,” the 36-year-old Vandersloot said. “I’m gonna come back better than ever because that’s what I’ve done. I’ve put myself in the position to come back and compete at this age.”<\/p>\n

In a lengthy interview with the Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0earlier this week, Reese aired her frustrations with the front office, coaching staff and roster construction, and called for major moves in free agency this winter. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’m not settling for the same shit we did this year,” Reese said. “We have to get good players. We have to get great players. That’s a non-negotiable for me.”<\/p>\n

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Angel Reese calls out Sky’s front office, demands big moves in free agency: ‘We have to get great players’<\/p>\n

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Reese also critiqued multiple teammates, including Vandersloot, Rachel Banham<\/a> and Hailey Van Lith<\/a>, and said that she and fellow second-year big Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> are the only guaranteed returners. Reese’s comments about Vandersloot were particularly notable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We can’t rely on Courtney to come back at the age that she’s at,” Reese said. “I know she’ll be a great asset for us, but we can’t rely on that. We need someone probably a little younger with some experience, somebody who’s been playing the game and is willing to compete for a championship and has done it before.”<\/p>\n

Sky coach Tyler Marsh said that the team would handle Reese’s comments “in-house.” The organization later suspended Reese for the first half<\/a> of the team’s game against the Las Vegas Aces<\/a> on Sunday. Reese had previously been suspended for the team’s loss to the Indiana Fever<\/a> on Friday for accumulating too many technical fouls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reese has since apologized for her comments<\/a> and said that they were “taken out of context.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 10-31 Sky hoped to compete for a playoff spot this season, but have long been eliminated from playoff contention. To make matters worse, they owe the Minnesota Lynx<\/a> their first-round pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft and could give away the No. 1 overall selection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reese and the Sky have three games remaining and will conclude their campaign on Sept. 11 against the reigning champion New York Liberty<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky point guard Courtney Vandersloot has been sidelined since June 7 with a torn ACL, but found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,49,48,726,53253,63516,734,15707,82,630],"class_list":["post-125577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-reese","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-sky","tag-courtney-vandersloot","tag-hailey-van-lith","tag-kamilla-cardoso","tag-rachel-banham","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125577","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=125577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}