{"id":179305,"date":"2025-09-24T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179305\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:31:08","slug":"chicago-sky-cancels-angel-reese-exit-interview-with-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179305\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky Cancels Angel Reese Exit Interview With Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4677.jpeg\" alt=\"Angel Reese, Women\u2019s Sports, Togethxr\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/author\/thorntonc\/\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by  Cedric &#8216;BIG CED&#8217; Thornton <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">September 24, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\">She also vented her frustration with the Sky to the &#8216;Chicago Tribune&#8217; earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>Angel Reese\u2019s rocky relationship with the Chicago Sky seems to have hit another bump after team cancelled the star player\u2019s exit interview with the media.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Sporting News, after initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/news\/big-angel-reese-update-adds-fuel-sky-trade-speculation-fire\/9b1c94de14dc33029a9f70d5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announcing<\/a> that Reese, along with two other Sky players, Ariel Atkins and Courtney Vandersloot (both pending free agents), would be available to speak to the press, the team said the none of them would. Their teammates ended up conducting theirs. <\/p>\n<p>Although Atkins and Vandersloot will be free to sign with other teams in the offseason\u2014Vandersloot is expected to resign\u2014Reese is still under contract, making the situation worthy of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Update from the Sky:<\/p>\n<p>Courtney Vandersloot, Ariel Atkins and Angel Reese will no longer conduct exit interviews. The team previously said these three would hold exit interviews at a later date after they did not participate with the rest of the team when the season ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Annie Costabile (@AnnieCostabile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnieCostabile\/status\/1970152362229842278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly three weeks ago, Reese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/reebok-angel-reese-1-sells-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">caused<\/a> a controversy when during an interview with the Chicago Tribune, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/09\/03\/chicago-sky-angel-reese-free-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">expressed<\/a> frustration with the franchise, which ended up 10-34, tying for the worst record in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not settling for the same s**t we did this year,\u201d Reese, a second-year player, told reporter Julia Poe. \u201cWe have to get good players. We have to get great players. That\u2019s a non-negotiable for me. I\u2019m willing and wanting to play with the best. And however I can help to get the best here, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do this offseason. So it\u2019s going to be very, very important this offseason to make sure we attract the best of the best because we can\u2019t settle for what we have this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reese apologized to the team, staff, and teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/angel-reese-apologizes-sky-teammates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">afterward. <\/a>The Sky<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/news\/angel-reese-suspended-sky-technical-foul\/498b90f4f7bcb3ef6c56570c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> suspended Reese <\/a>for a half-game when it played the Las Vegas Aces on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED CONTENT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/missouri-rep-raychel-proudie-announces-state-senate-bid-focused-on-st-louis-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Missouri Rep. Raychel Proudie Announces State Senate Bid Focused On St. Louis County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Cedric &#8216;BIG CED&#8217; Thornton September 24, 2025 She also vented her frustration with the Sky to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3691,438,99,434],"class_list":["post-179305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-reese","tag-chicago-sky","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}