{"id":15764,"date":"2025-07-22T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15764\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:52:07","slug":"chicago-sky-pair-angel-reese-with-former-wnba-champion-in-surprise-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15764\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky pair Angel Reese with former WNBA champion in surprise move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WNBA season resumes Tuesday night with 10 of the league&#8217;s 13 teams in action. For the Chicago Sky, that means another meeting with the WNBA-best Minnesota Lynx &#8212; the third time in 10 days that the two teams have played one another.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Angel Reese&#8217;s <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/news\/angel-reese-rebounding-greatness-summed-one-wild-statistic\/e36c6069fa5cc3579a47dd05\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">brilliant sophomore campaign<\/a>, the Sky sits 11th in the overall standings with a 7-15 record and entered the All-Star break on the heels of an 86-49 home loss to the Atlanta Dream. Still, after a 3-10 start, Chicago has improved in recent weeks &#8212; and the franchise on Tuesday added a former WNBA champion to its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/news\/angel-reese-sparks-controversy-bold-message-caitlin-clarks-backyard\/3fc8fdbb1bac09045eb2fe18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Angel Reese sparks controversy with bold message in Caitlin Clark\u2019s backyard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Sky tries to climb up the standings in the second half of the season, the team has welcomed former first-round pick <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sky.wnba.com\/news\/sky-sign-marquesha-davis-to-seven-day-hardship-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marquesha Davis<\/a>\u00a0on a seven-day hardship contract. Davis won the WNBA championship as a rookie on the New York Liberty last season, but the Liberty waived her on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, the 11th overall pick in the 2024 draft, was a first-team All-SEC selection at Ole Miss and has totaled 32 career WNBA points. She will provide depth at guard, a position the Sky needs to reinforce, and have an opportunity to prove her worth as a WNBA-caliber scorer after struggling for chances in New York.<\/p>\n<p>MORE WNBA NEWS:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA season resumes Tuesday night with 10 of the league&#8217;s 13 teams in action. For the Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-15764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764","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=15764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}