{"id":255929,"date":"2025-11-02T03:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255929\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T03:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:48:26","slug":"angel-reese-out-for-unrivaleds-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255929\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Reese out for Unrivaled’s second season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sky\u2019s <\/a>Angel Reese will not return for Season 2 of Unrivaled, the 3-on-3 league created by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart.<\/p>\n

The league announced the last three players of its expanded 48-woman roster Thursday \u2014 Dominique Malonga, Aari McDonald and Rebecca Allen \u2014 but Reese was not among them.<\/p>\n

Reese\u2019s team, Rose BC, won the championship in Unrivaled\u2019s inaugural season, and she was named Defensive Player of the Year. Throughout her sophomore WNBA season, she spoke highly of Unrivaled\u2019s impact on her development and wished the league well on a recent episode of her \u201cUnapologetically Angel\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

Reese, who finished the Sky season sidelined with a back injury, hasn\u2019t announced her offseason basketball plans.<\/p>\n

She isn\u2019t the only Unrivaled alum sitting out Season 2. Sabrina Ionescu, Jewell Loyd and Kayla McBride won\u2019t return, either. Neither will Sky free agent Courtney Vandersloot, who is recovering from an ACL tear.<\/p>\n

When it was founded last year, Unrivaled billed itself as an offseason league for the WNBA\u2019s elite. That is still true: Season 2 will feature 80% of the All-WNBA first- and second-teamers. But Unrivaled now has 48 spots \u2014 nearly a third as many as the WNBA had last season. Some fraying of the \u201celite\u201d status was inevitable.<\/p>\n

The league also remains without two of the biggest names in women\u2019s basketball: 2025 MVP A\u2019ja Wilson and 2024 Rookie of the Year Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n

Sky fans still will see several familiar faces<\/a>. Rachel Banham and Allen, free agents from the Sky\u2019s 2025 roster, are set to play in Miami this winter. Sky assistant coach Rena Wakama was named one of Unrivaled\u2019s eight coaches Thursday, joining former Sky coach \u2014 and Reese\u2019s mentor \u2014 Teresa Weatherspoon.<\/p>\n

Season 2 of Unrivaled begins Jan. 5.<\/p>\n

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