Former WNBA MVP Lisa Leslie admitted that she’s a fan of Chicago Sky star Angel Reese and admitted that she hopes the emerging player challenges her records in a social media post
18:39 ET, 26 Dec 2025Updated 18:46 ET, 26 Dec 2025
Lisa Leslie (L) poses with Angel Reese at the 2025 WNBA All-Star game(Image: Getty Images)
For a second consecutive season, Angel Reese put forth an impressive individual campaign despite her team, the Chicago Sky, failing to avoid the bottom of the standings.
Reese averaged 14.7 points (on improved shooting) and 12.6 rebounds per game, giving her consecutive seasons of averaging a double-double (and making the All-Star game) at the professional level. She averaged a double-double for three consecutive years in college (two years at LSU, once at Maryland).
This puts her in a historic group, one that also includes three-time WNBA MVP and basketball Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie. She saw the stat floating around on X and hopped online to give Reese her flowers.
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“In the history of women’s basketball, only three players have recorded multiple double-double seasons at both the collegiate and WNBA levels: three-time MVP Lisa Leslie, 2021 WNBA MVP Jonquel Jones, and two-time WNBA All-Star Angel Reese,” the lengthy tweet started.
“Now entering Year 3 of her WNBA career, Reese has an opportunity to move into third all-time in league history in double-double seasons.”
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Leslie, in contention for the greatest WNBA player of all time, took notice. “This is outstanding! Records are meant to be broken! Go get ‘em,” she wrote, quote-tweeting the account “Trendhoopstars.”
Whether she breaks those records in Chicago or somewhere else is still up for debate. The Sky are still rebuilding, with Reese anchoring a young team also featuring Hailey van Lith and Kamilla Cardoso.
Reese’s Sky didn’t enjoy the finest season in the WNBA standings(Image: Getty Images)
Reese gave an awkward interview in early September in which she questioned projected starting point guard Courtney Vandersloot and called for the team to make major changes or move her.
While away with Team USA training for next year’s FIBA World Cup, Reese walked back some of these comments. “I’m under contract, so yes, I plan on returning to the Sky,” Reese said to reporters during her first interview since September.
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“I’m continuing to talk to [new head coach] Tyler [Marsh] and building that relationship with [general manager] Jeff [Pagliocca] and Tyler,” she continued.
Reese is under contract with Chicago through the end of the 2027 campaign. “I’m not settling for the same —- we did this year,” she said in September. “We have to get good players. We have to get great players. That’s a non-negotiable for me.
“I’m willing and wanting to play with the best. And however I can help to get the best here, that’s what I’m going to do this offseason. So it’s going to be very, very important this offseason to make sure we attract the best of the best because we can’t settle for what we have this year.”