Angel Reese, WNBA Rookie of the Year candidate, announces season-ending injury

Angel Reese’s rookie yr has come to an finish, because the Chicago Sky ahead introduced Saturday she had suffered a season-ending harm. Reese injured her wrist within the Sky’s 92-78 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks on Friday, through which she recorded one other one in all her signature double-doubles.

The Sky additionally confirmed the severity of the harm, saying in an announcement that “Reese has been dominated out for the remainder of the 2024 season with a wrist harm.”

In a social media put up, Reese wrote that “by way of all of it, I’ve confirmed that I belong on this league even when nobody else believed. I am full of feelings proper now that I’ve a season ending harm, but additionally full of a lot gratitude for what’s subsequent.”

Reese ends her first yr as a professional averaging a prolific 13.6 factors and 13.1 rebounds per recreation. The Bayou Barbie wrote her title within the WNBA file books earlier this month, breaking Sylvia Fowles’ single-season rebound whole. 

The file was a constructing block in Reese’s marketing campaign for Rookie of the Yr, a contentious race towards rival phenom Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever. The Fever smoked the Sky 100-81 of their ultimate matchup of the season final Friday, with Clark notching a career-high 31 factors.

“Caitlin is a tremendous participant and I’ve all the time thought she was a tremendous participant. We have been taking part in one another since highschool. So I believe it is actually simply the followers,” Reese stated on her new podcast, “Unapologetically Angel.” “On the finish of the day, it is a recreation that we do each love, however there isn’t a hate.”

With two weeks left to go within the WNBA common season and 7 of eight playoff berths taken, the Sky are preventing for the ultimate spot. Reese wrote on social media that her followers and teammates can nonetheless count on to see her “being the most important cheerleader on the sideline!”