Angel Reese has made her professional debut, transitioning from LSU to the Chicago Sky as the No. 7 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft held in New York City on Monday (April 15).
According to the NY Post Reese will have an added sense of comfort under new head coach and Hall of Famer Teresa Weatherspoon, who played at Louisiana Tech in 1984, when Mulkey was starting there as an assistant coach.
Watch the moment it was announced below:
Angel Reese drafted No. 7 overall to the Chicago Sky ????????
Reese and Cardoso on the same front line ????pic.twitter.com/eoMKytghCI
— AJ King (@allday_ajking) April 16, 2024
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????????????This kid right here is the reason I started watching basketball. Like in general. She made me look forward to every LSU match????????I would have said, "I'll miss her in LSU" but I'm going wherever she goes. So whichever team she gets drafted to gat a new fan#AngelReese pic.twitter.com/cotzlYgtUr
— life is like rice (@Homobeb_) April 15, 2024
“My conversations were great with T Spoon. As you know, she was coached by coach Mulkey, so I kind of thought maybe I’ll go there,” Reese said. “Knowing, like, the conversations were so good and she felt like a mother to me. Being able to be a black woman and as a head coach, and everything she’s done at the NBA level, I just knew everything they were bringing to the table.”
With fans in attendance for the first time in league history — about 1,000 strong Monday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music — Reese accepted her Sky jersey alongside league commissioner Cathy Engelbert.
“My mom was crying before the show even started, so it started there,” Reese said. “Then my brother was, like, agitating me, I bet you $100 that you cry, I bet you $100 that you cry. He kind of got me, too. And I had a great conversation, she was saying, with Chicago, so I kind of knew— if it wasn’t the Mystics [at No. 6], I knew it was going to be Chicago that was going to be calling me home.”
Reese is thankful to be joining forces with former rival Kamilla Cardoso — the No. 3 overall pick — in Chicago after playing against one another in college and high school.
Angel Reese’s Salary
Following her selection, Sportrac released purported details of her four-year contract with the league.
https://t.co/hqF3Oq155B pic.twitter.com/UrtQNu72Lw
— Spotrac (@spotrac) April 16, 2024
Folks on social media think she should be paid a bit more igniting the conversation around pay disparities in comparison to the men in the NBA.
FedEx, UPS, Sysco and US food drivers made more than this. That’s crazy. ????
— Quinton (@504Q) April 16, 2024
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I guess they have to rely on the outside deals and sponsorships because this right here isn’t fair money at all. This is fresh out of college in STEM field money, or like… a few years working for UPS with overtime.
— THEE Victim and Villain. (@AsToldByCarl) April 16, 2024
Man they gotta start paying them more it’s level 1 engineers at my Job making more then that.
— Cyber Jones ???????????? (@Savvy_J0nes) April 16, 2024
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The wnba doesn’t make enough money for million dollar contracts
The NBA profits have always paid for the WNBA to exist pic.twitter.com/w7FDf2pGpG
— ???????????????????????????????????????????? (@JxOnTheKeyz) April 16, 2024
Congratulations to her!
