Angel Reese will officially make her Unrivaled 2026 season debut this month after missing the first month-plus of the professional league.<\/p>\n
Reese agreed to a new deal with Unrivaled for the remainder of the season, and she will play for Rose BC on Feb. 20 against Hive BC.<\/p>\n
Reese was a standout player in Unrivaled\u2019s inaugural season last year. She led Rose BC to the Unrivaled title, and capped off her season by winning the Defensive Player of the Year award<\/a>.<\/p>\n This official news comes after it was speculated that she would be returning following Rose\u2019s move to send Azura Stevens to the Hive. Rose BC left a spot open on their online roster with the words \u201ccoming soon,\u201d leading fans to believe Reese would be participating this season. They were right.<\/p>\n Reese\u2019s 2025 WNBA season ended in some controversy. In September,\u00a0she made critical comments about the Sky<\/a>\u00a0in a\u00a0Chicago Tribune\u00a0article and seemed to leave the door open for a future exit. The Sky\u00a0suspended Reese for half a game<\/a>\u00a0over \u201cstatements detrimental to the team,” and Reese ended up sitting out the last two games of the season\u00a0as she dealt with a back injury<\/a>. <\/p>\n More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Reese will officially make her Unrivaled 2026 season debut this month after missing the first month-plus of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-468202","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\/468202","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=468202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}