{"id":17636,"date":"2025-07-23T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17636\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:24:12","slug":"angel-reese-bracing-for-wnba-suspension-after-sky-lynx-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17636\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Reese Bracing for WNBA Suspension After Sky-Lynx on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy <\/p>\n<p>Michael Gallagher covers national trending news across the NFL, NHL, NBA, WNBA, college football and entertainment for Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>He brings over a decade of writing and editing experience in sports journalism, has won multiple Tennessee Press Association awards, and covered several notable events including an AFC Championship game, a Stanley Cup Final, an NHL All-Star Game, and an NHL Stadium Series.<\/p>\n<p>His previous bylines can be found on Athlon Sports, Yahoo Sports, The Hockey News, Fox Sports, the Nashville Scene, the Nashville Post, Yardbarker, and SB Nation. 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Inconsistencies may occur.<\/p>\n<p>\u2716   <\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a solid showing in the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game, Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese gave her fans something to talk about on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>In the Sky&#8217;s first matchup in nearly a week, Reese, who hasn&#8217;t played since July 14 due to a lingering leg issue, and the rest of her teammates came out flat, struggling to generate any offense while committing turnover after turnover.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s 91-68 loss to the Minnesota Lynx, Reese locked up her 16th double-double of the season (11 points, 11 rebounds)\u2014she also had nine turnovers\u2014but what had fans talking was what happened with 2:42 left in the first quarter and the Sky holding a 16-12 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Reese was assessed a technical foul\u2014her seventh of the season\u2014which will lead to a suspension if and when she picks up her eighth, per Underdog WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Status alert: Angel Reese has been assessed 7th technical foul. If she receives another, she&#8217;ll be automatically suspended one game,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UnderdogWNBA\/status\/1947817955045347460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"multivariate\">Underdog WNBA wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More Basketball: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sports\/nba\/marcus-smart-reveals-how-luka-doncic-convinced-him-join-lakers-2102686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"multivariate\">Marcus Smart Reveals How Luka Doncic Convinced Him to Join the Lakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mapping-embed imgPhoto\" id=\"i2688400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/reese.jpg\" alt=\"Reese\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\"\/><br \/>\nAngel Reese #5 of the Chicago Sky celebrates a play against the Minnesota Lynx during the first half at Wintrust Arena on July 12, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.<br \/>\nAngel Reese #5 of the Chicago Sky celebrates a play against the Minnesota Lynx during the first half at Wintrust Arena on July 12, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.<br \/>\nDaniel Bartel\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>More Basketball: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sports\/caitlin-clark-trolls-kelsey-plum-after-getting-shaded-all-star-game-2102046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"multivariate\">Caitlin Clark Trolls Kelsey Plum After Getting Shaded at All-Star Game<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to leading the WNBA in rebounding, Reese also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/stats?category=misc&amp;season=2025&amp;seasonType=reg&amp;sort=tech&amp;sortOrder=desc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"multivariate\">leads the league in technicals<\/a> \u2014 two more than the next-closest player, Shakira Austin of the Washington Mystics (five).<\/p>\n<p>Reese, Austin, and Atlanta&#8217;s Allisha Gray are the only players in the WNBA with more than two technical this season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnba.com\/news\/teaira-mccowan-suspended-after-reaching-technical-foul-limit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"multivariate\">Per WNBA rules<\/a>, &#8220;any player or coach is automatically suspended without pay for one game upon receiving an eighth technical foul during the regular season. For every two additional technical fouls received during that regular season, the player or coach will be automatically suspended for an additional game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA automatically suspended players after their seventh technical foul up until this season before increasing that number to eight with the shift from a 44-game schedule to a 40-game schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Michael Gallagher covers national trending news across the NFL, NHL, NBA, WNBA, college football and entertainment for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,6681,82,630],"class_list":["post-17636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636","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=17636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}