{"id":463802,"date":"2026-02-12T08:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463802\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:11:15","slug":"angel-reese-rejoins-3-on-3-league-unrivaled-with-surprise-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463802\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Reese rejoins 3-on-3 league Unrivaled with surprise deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rumor mill was right: Angel Reese is rejoining Unrivaled.<\/p>\n

The Sky<\/a> star has agreed to a new deal with the 3-on-3 league for the remainder of the 2026 season, Unrivaled announced Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Reese teased the possibility on a recent podcast episode with her former Sky coach and current Unrivaled coach, Teresa Weatherspoon. Weatherspoon said she was fighting for Reese to return to Unrivaled, and Reese said she would like to, she just didn\u2019t know when.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe you might see me, maybe you might don\u2019t,\u201d Reese said on her show, \u201cUnapologetically Angel.\u201d<\/p>\n

With three games remaining in the Unrivaled regular season, Reese is officially returning to her former team, Rose BC, on Feb. 20. <\/p>\n

Rose currently sits in fifth place out of eight teams. Returners Chelsea Gray and Kahleah Copper lead the Rose in scoring, but they\u2019re still fighting to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

A little more Reese could be just what Rose needs. It might be just what the league needs, too.<\/p>\n

Though Unrivaled recently set the attendance record for women\u2019s pro basketball with a tour stop in Philadelphia, television ratings declined in Year 2. The league is averaging 149,000 viewers per game across TNT and truTV, according to an Unrivaled spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Some of that drop-off is natural. The buzz of a new league doesn\u2019t last forever. It also hasn\u2019t helped that two of the league\u2019s biggest names, Sabrina Ionescu and Napheesa Collier, were sidelined by injury.<\/p>\n

Unrivaled did create a development pool to train younger players and replace injured players when necessary. But none of them command the following Reese does.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou entertain people, that\u2019s why they get their butts in the seats to come and watch you,\u201d Weatherspoon told Reese on her podcast.<\/p>\n

Reese\u2019s profile keeps expanding, from fashion shows to new business ventures and now acting. She recently landed a role on the Netflix series \u201cThe Hunting Wives.\u201d On the court, she was named<\/a> to the 2026 FIBA World Cup Qualifying Tournament roster, which will compete in March in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

Still, Reese said she missed Unrivaled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss the development,\u201d she said on her podcast. \u201cI can try stuff, I can do whatever, and I can take it and implement it to the W.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Unrivaled\u2019s inaugural season, Rose won the championship and Reese was named Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

This season, playoffs begin on February 28, with the championship set for March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rumor mill was right: Angel Reese is rejoining Unrivaled. The Sky star has agreed to a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-463802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463802","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=463802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}