{"id":592979,"date":"2026-04-19T03:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592979\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T03:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:59:17","slug":"angel-reese-gets-candid-about-sky-breakup-why-it-was-time-to-move-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592979\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Reese gets candid about Sky breakup, why it was time to move on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angel Reese has moved on from her<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/09\/sports\/angel-reese-talks-uncomfortable-reality-after-dream-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> rocky tenure with the Chicago Sky<\/a>, but said it wasn\u2019t all bad.<\/p>\n<p>Reese,<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/06\/sports\/angel-reese-traded-by-sky-after-different-direction-threats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> acquired by the Atlanta Dream in a trade<\/a> earlier this month in exchange for first-round picks in 2027 and \u201828, said despite the ups and downs in Chicago, she is \u201calways going to be grateful for that because I did experience a lot of great things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But during her introductory press conference on Friday in Atlanta, the WNBA star added: \u201cI enjoyed being able to grow within my first two years, but I wanted more. I love to win, I love to compete and I wanted to be surrounded by people that can make me better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reese made headlines \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/05\/sports\/sky-suspend-angel-reese-over-different-direction-comments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drew a suspension from the team<\/a> \u2014 when she told the Chicago Tribune last season that she was displeased with the direction of the organization, as the Sky was on its way to a 10-34 finish.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39126950\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/angel-reese-introduced-news-conference-125867145.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Reese at a news conference.\" class=\"wp-image-39126950\"  \/>Angel Reese is introduced during a news conference by the Atlanta Dream on Friday, April 17, 2026, in Atlanta.  AP<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Reese told the Tribune she \u201cmight have to move in a different direction and do what\u2019s best for me\u201d if the roster didn\u2019t improve.<\/p>\n<p>She issued an apology, but was still suspended for the first half of a game by the Sky for comments deemed \u201cdetrimental to the team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reese also didn\u2019t play the last three games of the season, held out by the team with a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>She will get a fresh start in Atlanta and believes there is more to prove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not satisfied with what I am as a player and I felt like being around these kinds of players would help me be better,\u2019\u2019 Reese said of her new team. \u201cI can help them in different ways to help them win, and that\u2019s all I ever wanted. I don\u2019t care about anything else that comes with it. I want to win and being able to come to an organization that really cared about their players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49489051;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39126953\" width=\"882\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/atlanta-dreams-jordin-canada-angel-125867170.jpg\" alt=\"Atlanta Dream players Jordin Canada, Angel Reese, and Rhyne Howard holding up their new jerseys.\" class=\"wp-image-39126953\"  \/>Atlanta Dream\u2019s Jordin Canada, Angel Reese And Rhyne Howard hold up their jerseys during a news conference by the Atlanta Dream on Friday, April 17, 2026, in Atlanta AP<\/p>\n<p>One of her new teammates, Rhyne Howard, said of Reese: \u201dI think [she] is special for us because she could be exactly what we were missing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dream, coming off a franchise-best 30-win season, will now have Reese, who averaged 14.7 points last year and topped the league with 12.6 rebounds per game last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Reese has moved on from her rocky tenure with the Chicago Sky, but said it wasn\u2019t all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3691,3444,438,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-592979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-angel-reese","9":"tag-atlanta-dream","10":"tag-chicago-sky","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592979","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=592979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}