{"id":485146,"date":"2026-02-23T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/485146\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T05:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:42:08","slug":"theyve-been-calling-me-to-come-back-angel-reese-talks-return-to-unrivaled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/485146\/","title":{"rendered":"‘They’ve been calling me to come back’: Angel Reese talks return to Unrivaled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky<\/a> star Angel Reese has spent the offseason away from basketball, but basketball kept calling. And calling. And calling.<\/p>\n

Unrivaled, the 3×3 startup league founded by Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier, wanted their megastar back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the first day Unrivaled started, they\u2019ve been calling me to come back,\u201d Reese said after a win on Sunday night, her second game back with the club.<\/p>\n

At first, Reese opted out of Unrivaled for the league\u2019s second season<\/a>, which began in January. But as the season has progressed, she\u2019s fielded calls from the league\u2019s coaches, players, and of course, her Rose BC teammates, who were champions in the league\u2019s inaugural season.<\/p>\n

They all wanted Reese back.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s Rose basketball,\u201d teammate Kahleah Copper said of Reese. \u201cThe culture we created was on her back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reese eventually obliged. She signed a deal with Unrivaled to play the final three games of the season.<\/p>\n

Rose BC is lucky she had the time. Reese has been everywhere this WNBA offseason, from modeling in the Victoria Secret fashion show to booking acting gigs on the popular Netflix series \u201cThe Hunting Wives.\u201d Most recently she went on a promotional tour in Australia for her signature shoe, the AR1s.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiterally I was in Australia and they were like \u2018You want to come back?\u2019\u201d Reese said. \u201cI was like, \u2018alright.\u2019 Literally I was on the beach last week, and now I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reese said she hasn\u2019t played basketball in months. In her first two games back with Rose BC, it was like she never left. She\u2019s averaging her typical double-double, including a 15-rebound performance against the Laces. With that win, Rose BC clinched the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Should Rose BC advance to the Semifinals, they\u2019ll play at Barclays Center on March 2 in a double-header.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky star Angel Reese has spent the offseason away from basketball, but basketball kept calling. And calling. And…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-485146","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\/485146","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=485146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}