{"id":813157,"date":"2026-07-20T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813157\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:31:09","slug":"atlantas-angel-reese-leaves-game-against-chicago-with-left-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813157\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta&#8217;s Angel Reese leaves game against Chicago with left leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese left Sunday&#8217;s victory over Chicago with a left leg injury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/espnW\/status\/2078963690007613673\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reese&#8217;s knee buckled<\/a> when she came to a jump stop under the basket early in the fourth quarter and she fell to the ground as she missed the layup. She got up quickly, but went down again after a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Reese returned to the bench and the Dream ruled her out for the rest of the game. The Dream did not provide an update on Reese after the team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sky-dream-score-02c550fd83697f7cf2118bd4a11f7f7e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">93-91 win over the Sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard because we\u2019re in the timeout. It seemed like a really long timeout and there wasn\u2019t a lot being said because we were all just looking at Angel,&#8221; Dream coach Karl Smesko said. \u201cAnd when I was looking at her, it seemed like she was in a lot of pain, and she wanted to go out there and and keep playing because she\u2019s competitive and she wants to win the game. I just didn\u2019t feel comfortable with it because she looked like she was in a lot of pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reese was named a WNBA All-Star in her first season with the Dream, leading the league with 11.8 rebounds and 14 double-doubles. She&#8217;s averaging 14.9 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese left Sunday&#8217;s victory over Chicago with a left leg injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[21030,461,49,48,694,82,630,5689],"class_list":["post-813157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-s","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813157","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=813157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}