Angel Reese led the Atlanta Dream to a decisive 86-66 road victory over the Portland Fire at the Moda Center, improving their record to 5-2.<\/p>\n
However, that wasn\u2019t the only thing the former Chicago Sky player achieved: she became the fastest player to reach 900 career rebounds in the WNBA and also received praise from a league legend.<\/p>\n
Reese receives support from WNBA legend<\/p>\n
The former LSU standout finished the game as the team\u2019s leading scorer with a double-double of 18 points and 12 rebounds, along with 5 assists and a block in 32 minutes of play.<\/p>\n
With this win, the Dream sit atop the Eastern Conference with just two losses this season, but Angel continues to shine individually and has etched her name into league history.<\/p>\n
Entering her third season and in just 71 games, Reese surpassed 900 rebounds and 900 points, becoming the fastest player in WNBA history to reach and surpass this milestone.<\/p>\n
This achievement did not go unnoticed by the WNBA, which highlighted it on its official Instagramaccount, nor by fans, who left messages of support for Angel: \u201cMy goat AR5,\u201d \u201c1,000 rebounds and 1,000 points on the way… STAY TUNED!,\u201d \u201cRebound Queen,\u201d were some of the comments from users.<\/p>\n
However, this achievement also caught the attention of a league legend and former Los Angeles Sparks icon: Lisa Leslie. In the WNBA\u2019s post, the three-time champion wrote \u201cGet It Girl\u201d and seven fire emojis.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first message Reese has received from Lisa, but it resonates in a special way since Leslie is also one of the best rebounders of her era, ranking seventh all-time with 3,307 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Angel and Atlanta will look to continue improving their record against the Connecticut Sun next Thursday, June 2, at the Gateway Center Arena at 7:30 PM ET as part of the Commissioner\u2019s Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Reese led the Atlanta Dream to a decisive 86-66 road victory over the Portland Fire at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-676596","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\/676596","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=676596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}