Angel Reese finally has a new nickname to replace \u201cChi-Town Barbie.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Atlanta Dream star Reese spoke with reporters on Friday ahead of Saturday\u2019s Game 1 of the WNBA Finals against the Golden State Valkyries. During the session, Reese spoke about the recent comments made about her by NBA guard CJ McCollum<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now playing for the Atlanta Hawks<\/a>, McCollum praised Reese earlier this week while reacting to the Dream\u2019s WNBA Finals berth. McCollum notably said that, \u201cAtlanta changed when the Queen of the South got here.\u201d<\/p>\n Atlanta Hawks star, CJ McCollum, talks about Angel Reese and the Dream in the finals:<\/p>\n \u201cAtlanta changed when the queen of the south got here.” https:\/\/t.co\/8q74A7OWlc<\/p>\n \u2014 We Here Now (@AngeShedeway) October 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n On Friday, Reese embraced her new nickname from McCollum.<\/p>\n \u201cShoutout to CJ McCollum<\/a>, I appreciate the love and support,\u201d said Reese. \u201cIt is really cool when your men\u2019s team shows love to us and shows a lot of support to us.<\/p>\n \u201cI appreciate the name,\u201d Reese added. \u201cI guess that\u2019s my new nickname. Queen of the South.\u201d<\/p>\n I asked Angel Reese about her new \u201cQueen of the South\u201d nickname from Hawks star CJ McCollum.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is really cool when you men\u2019s team shows love to you \u2026 I guess that\u2019s my new nickname \u2013 Queen of the South.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/vXnnZQgGFF<\/p>\n \u2014 Meghan L. Hall (@ItsMeghanLHall) October 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Reese, 24, was the WNBA\u2019s Defensive Player of the Year this season and averaged a career-high 16.4 points to go along with 12.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. Now she is in the WNBA Finals in just her third career season (and first with Atlanta).<\/p>\n The three-time All-Star Reese also played her college ball at LSU (and won a national championship there), giving another fitting layer to the \u201cQueen of the South\u201d moniker. On top of that, Reese has not been afraid to defend her metaphorical crown by confronting any opponent who steps out of line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Reese finally has a new nickname to replace \u201cChi-Town Barbie.\u201d The Atlanta Dream star Reese spoke with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-935676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-reese","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935676","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=935676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}