{"id":135772,"date":"2025-09-11T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135772\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:07:06","slug":"seattle-storm-clinches-final-wnba-playoffs-berth-in-slim-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135772\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Storm Clinches Final WNBA Playoffs Berth in Slim Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky star Angel Reese watched from the sidelines as No. 12 Chicago fell 92-61 to the No. 2 Las Vegas Aces on Tuesday night, ruled out with a back injury after serving a half-game suspension<\/a> on Sunday for making “statements detrimental to the team” last week.<\/p>\n

Back pain that has troubled the forward throughout the second half of the 2025 WNBA season, with Reese opting to sit out Tuesday’s clash despite earlier expectations that she would take the court.<\/p>\n

“After warm-ups, she communicated that she just wasn’t feeling it physically,” Chicago Sky head coach Tyler Marsh said, after previously telling reporters<\/a> he expected Reese to play. “She reported that pain, and so we wanted to hold her back.”<\/p>\n

Reese’s relationship with the organization has been under a microscope since the 23-year-old criticized team leadership in last week’s Chicago Tribune interview<\/a>, prompting high-profile reactions from both within the league and beyond.<\/p>\n

“Chicago is probably the worst-run organization in the league. You’re gonna suspend your best player just because she’s putting pressure on you to get better? That was embarrassing to see,” an anonymous WNBA exec told the Dallas Hoops Journal<\/a> in response.<\/p>\n

“She got in trouble for telling the truth. And I feel like women, especially Black women, are over-policed in this league,” Sports Are Fun guest co-host Greydy Diaz said on this week’s episode<\/a>. “If you really look at Chicago and its history, ownership, front office \u2014 it’s been a disaster for years. You’ve had star players leave over and over\u2026. I think they need to clean house in Chicago.”<\/p>\n

How to watch the final 2025 game for the Chicago Sky<\/p>\n

Should her pain subside, Reese will suit up for the Chicago Sky’s season finale on Thursday \u2014 though the league sophomore has already hit the requisite minimum number of game appearances to officially qualify as the WNBA’s rebounds-per-game leader<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

The No. 12 Sky will close out their 2025 campaign against the No. 5 New York Liberty at 8 PM ET on Thursday, with live coverage airing on WNBA League Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky star Angel Reese watched from the sidelines as No. 12 Chicago fell 92-61 to the No. 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[68676,32560,49,48,4656,1612,12196,25560,24593,3461,1611,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-135772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-2025-wnba-playoffs","9":"tag-2025-wnba-season","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-erica-wheeler","13":"tag-golden-state-valkyries","14":"tag-la-sparks","15":"tag-lynne-roberts","16":"tag-noelle-quinn","17":"tag-phoenix-mercury","18":"tag-seattle-storm","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135772","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=135772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}