{"id":66870,"date":"2025-08-13T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66870\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:18:07","slug":"angel-reese-injury-update-sky-star-has-no-timeline-for-return-with-one-month-left-in-wnba-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66870\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Reese injury update: Sky star has no timeline for return with one month left in WNBA regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Sky<\/a> star Angel Reese<\/a>\u00a0will miss her sixth consecutive game Wednesday when her team takes on the last-place Connecticut Sun. Reese has been dealing with a back injury since the All-Star break and has only appeared in two of the Sky’s games since the season resumed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There isn’t a concrete timetable as to the extent that I know,” Sky coach Tyler Marsh said<\/a> earlier this month. “It’s the back injury and she continues to be day-to-day … I think she’s progressing but still kind of wait and see.”<\/p>\n

Reese last played on July 29 during the Sky’s 103-86 loss to the Mystics<\/a>, and she endured a frustrating night. While she put up 22 points and 13 rebounds, she shot 6 of 16 from the field and was hampered by both foul trouble and back pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It was ugly, ugly for me, but I tried to push through as much as I could for my teammates because I know they need me out there,” Reese said. “When I am out there, I don’t think about an injury. It can happen anyway, anytime. If I’m thinking about it too much, it’s gonna happen again. So, just trying to fight through contact as much as I can and do whatever I can for the team.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marsh said previously that Reese’s back tightened up after the loss to the Mystics and that the team is holding her out as a precautionary measure. There’s no reason for the Sky to rush Reese back when they’re 8-23 and 7\u00bd games out of the final playoff spot with 13 games remaining in the regular season. That would be true with any injury, but especially a back issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reese’s sophomore season has been a roller coaster. She got off to a historically bad start, and through her first seven games was shooting a dismal 30.9% from the field, including 16 of 50 (32%) in the restricted area. She gradually improved, though and on June 15, she recorded her first career triple-double in a win over the Connecticut Sun<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A week later, on June 22, she recorded the first of 11 consecutive double-doubles. That streak, which made her the first player in league history to have multiple double-double streaks of at least 10 games, is still active. Over her last 11 games, Reese is averaging 16.9 points and 13.1 rebounds on 50.9% shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reese was named an All-Star for the second time in two seasons on July 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky star Angel Reese\u00a0will miss her sixth consecutive game Wednesday when her team takes on the last-place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,38169,732,49,735,48,726,3458,2803,82,737,630],"class_list":["post-66870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-reese","tag-angel-reese-injury-update","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-chicago-sky","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-indiana-fever","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66870","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=66870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}