{"id":565755,"date":"2026-04-05T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565755\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:28:08","slug":"vet-slams-sky-for-issues-that-could-ultimately-seal-angel-reeses-fate-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565755\/","title":{"rendered":"Vet slams Sky for issues that could ultimately seal Angel Reese\u2019s fate in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky ended the 2025 season with a bad vibe: another losing record, a suspension for \u201ccomments detrimental to the team\u201d, and a star frustrated with the organization\u2019s inability to build a competitive team around her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Sky\u2019s inability to build a winning team always comes down to the same issue: the organization has a horrible reputation<\/a> with players around the league. That means no star who has other options wants to go there. All-Stars Courtney Williams and Gabby Williams have been very vocal about their negative experiences in Chicago. Rebecca Allen is the latest veteran to join that list and criticize the Sky\u2019s owners and leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Players like Kahleah Copper, Chelsea Gray, and Skylar Diggins, among others, may love Reese and would like to play with her in the W\u2014the former two even convinced her to come back to the Rose<\/a>\u2014but not for a Sky organization with a reputation of not taking care of its players. The Sky are building a new practice facility that should open soon. It\u2019s a start, but it may not be enough to shed the reputation the franchise has built up over recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If it isn\u2019t, Reese\u2019s time with the Sky may come to an end sooner rather than later. Her rookie contract is up after the 2027 season, but she could also demand a trade earlier. And who could really blame her? No professional athlete wants to spend years in a losing culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rebecca Allen didn\u2019t hold back on the Sky<\/p>\n

Allen was one of the Sky\u2019s prized free agent signings last offseason. Adding her, Kia Nurse, Courtney Vandersloot, and Ariel Atkins to the team didn\u2019t equal success, and it also wasn\u2019t a pleasant experience for Allen. When she appeared on\u00a0The 6th Woman Basketball Podcast<\/a>, Allen aired all of the Sky\u2019s dirty laundry, giving the top free agents even more reason to avoid the franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It started when Allen was asked about the difference between facilities and resources now and when she started her WNBA career. Allen noted that the difference didn\u2019t depend so much on when you played but where.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s depending on what team you go to,\u201d Allen said. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize how lucky I had it in New York until I left. There were two other organizations that I was like, \u2018Oh, wow. So, that\u2019s why they have minimum standards.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She played for three teams since leaving New York: Connecticut, Phoenix, and Chicago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After that, Allen got more specific, calling out the Sky directly when asked what advice she would give to WNBA owners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPut your players first,\u201d Allen responded. \u201cYou have to put your players first because if people aren\u2019t happy, the performance goes down massively. If people don\u2019t feel valued, if people don\u2019t feel like they\u2019re taken care of, they get frustrated. I think that was something that I experienced in my last season.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also noted that not sharing a locker room \u201cwith the random public\u201d should be a minimum standard and that the first time she ever experienced that was in Chicago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Allen then put the nail in the coffin during a game of rapid fire in which she had to associate one word with each place she played in. Turkey was \u201cunexpected,\u201d Spain was \u201cloved,\u201d and Chicago was\u2026\u201ca little bit miserable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky ended the 2025 season with a bad vibe: another losing record, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-565755","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\/565755","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=565755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}