{"id":261440,"date":"2025-10-30T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261440\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:13:07","slug":"angel-reese-out-for-for-unrivaleds-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261440\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Reese out for for Unrivaled’s second season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky<\/a> star Angel Reese will not return for Season 2 of Unrivaled, the 3-on-3 league created by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart.<\/p>\n

The league announced the final three players of its expanded 48-woman roster on Thursday \u2014 Aari McDonald, Rebecca Allen and Dominique Malonga \u2014 but Reese was not among them.<\/p>\n

Reese\u2019s team, Rose BC, won the championship in Unrivaled\u2019s inaugural season, and she was named Defensive Player of the Year. Throughout her sophomore WNBA season, she spoke highly of Unrivaled\u2019s impact on her development and wished the league well on a recent episode of her \u201cUnapologetically Angel\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

Reese, who finished the Sky season sidelined with a back injury, has not yet announced her offseason basketball plans.<\/p>\n

She isn\u2019t the only Unrivaled alum sitting out Season 2. The Aces\u2019 Jewell Loyd and the Lynx\u2019s Kayla McBride won\u2019t return either. Neither will Sky free agent Courtney Vandersloot, who is recovering from an ACL tear. <\/p>\n

Though Unrivaled will feature 80% of the All-WNBA First and Second Teams, the league remains without two of the biggest names in women\u2019s basketball: 2025 MVP A\u2019ja Wilson and 2024 Rookie of the Year Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n

Sky fans, though, will still see several familiar faces. <\/a>Rachel Banham and Rebecca Allen, both free agents from Chicago\u2019s 2025 roster, are set to play in Miami this winter. Sky assistant coach Rena Wakama was named one of Unrivaled\u2019s six coaches on Thursday, joining former Sky coach \u2014 and Reese\u2019s mentor \u2014 Teresa Weatherspoon among the others.<\/p>\n

Season 2 of Unrivaled begins Jan. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky star Angel Reese will not return for Season 2 of Unrivaled, the 3-on-3 league created by WNBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-261440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261440","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=261440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}