A since-deleted post from Angel Reese was innocent, her mother clarified.
The Chicago Sky rookie seemed to reignite her feud with former college basketball rival Caitlin Clark on social media Thursday night.
The Sky handed the New York Liberty their first loss of the season with a 90-81 win.
Reese, who was selected by the Sky with the No. 7 overall pick out of LSU, contributed 13 points and nine rebounds.
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However, in celebrating their win, Reese appeared to take a thinly veiled shot at Clark, now a rookie with the Indiana Fever, sparking further debate about her impact on the league.
Reese’s post on X read,
“And that’s on getting a WIN in a packed area not just ’cause of one player on our charter flight.”
The post was widely assumed to be about Clark, leading to increased speculation when it was deleted.
Reese’s mother clarified that the post was actually directed at the media and not at Clark.
“She was not attacking CC but bc you & the rest of those ‘children of the corn’ folks thought she was & once again sending her racist & vile comments she did. Her comment was directed towards the media but of course you’re about clicks,” she wrote with a shrugging emoji.
Reese addressed the issue during a press conference, emphasizing the collective contributions to the league’s growth.
“It’s not just one person, I think people don’t realize that (because) the narrative out there is that just one person changing the game,” she said. “It’s a lot of us — me, Kamilla (Cardoso), there’s Cameron (Brink), Rickea (Jackson). There’s so many great players and it’s been long overdue and just being able to see that our impact has been able to change the game. I love it for us all, and we’re just going to continue to keep going.”
Meanwhile, Clark and the Fever earned their first win on Friday night, thanks to Clark’s clutch threes down the stretch in front of a star-studded crowd at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena against the Sparks.
