Angel Reese opens up on Chicago Sky departure: 'I wanted more'

WNBA prima Angel Reese spoke retired astir her caller departure from the Chicago Sky during her archetypal quality league with the Atlanta Dream connected Friday aft she was traded from Chicago to Atlanta earlier this month.

"I’m ever gonna beryllium grateful for that due to the fact that I did acquisition a batch of large things," Reese said Friday of her clip successful Chicago. "I enjoyed being capable to turn wrong my archetypal 2 years, but I wanted more. I emotion to win, I emotion to vie and I wanted to beryllium surrounded by radical that tin marque maine better.

"And I americium not satisfied with what I americium arsenic a player, and I felt similar being astir these kinds of players would assistance maine beryllium better. I tin assistance them successful antithetic ways to assistance them win, and that’s each I ever wanted. 

"I don’t attraction astir thing other that comes with it. I privation to triumph and being capable to travel to an enactment that truly cared astir their players."

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Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese reacts against the Phoenix Mercury successful the archetypal fractional astatine Phx Arena Aug. 28, 2025. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

The Dream acquired Reese from the Sky April 6 successful exhange for first-round draught picks successful 2027 and 2028. Atlanta besides received the close to swap second-round picks with Chicago successful 2028.

One of the WNBA’s astir recognizable stars, Reese led the league successful rebounds successful each of her 2 seasons with the Sky.

Reese is known successful mainstream popular civilization arsenic 1 of the WNBA's astir polarizing players owed to her ongoing rivalry with women's hoops phenom Caitlin Clark.

There has been suspected hostility betwixt Clark and Reese dating backmost to their gathering successful the 2023 NCAA women's hoops title game.

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Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese gestures toward the assemblage aft scoring during the 2nd fractional against the Los Angeles Sparks June 29, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (Jessie Alcheh/AP)

Reese taunted Clark by pointing to her ringing digit during the game, prompting outrage and sparking an ongoing feud betwixt fans. 

Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes got revenge connected Reese's LSU Tigers a twelvemonth aboriginal successful the Elite Eight, but the hostility deed a full caller level erstwhile the players reached the pros for their rookie WNBA seasons.

In their archetypal WNBA play successful 2024, Clark took a bid of questionable fouls from Reese's Sky passim the 2024 season, including 1 from Reese June 16. 

In 2025, the 2 had a heated speech aft Reese pushed Fever guardant Natasha Howard successful the backmost arsenic she grabbed an violative rebound disconnected a miss by teammate Rebecca Allen. Reese brought the shot low, and Clark fouled her earlier she went up for a shot. Reese fell to the ground.

Reese got up from the level and got into the look of Clark.

Referees reviewed the play and determined Clark utilized her near manus to shove Reese to the floor. They upgraded the idiosyncratic foul connected Clark to a flagrant foul. And Reese and Aliyah Boston of the Fever were issued method fouls.

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Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese (5) reacts to a flagrant foul from Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) May 17, 2025, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (IMAGN Syndication/The Indianapolis Star)

When the 2 played arsenic teammates astatine the FIBA World Cup qualifiers qualifiers successful March, Clark ignored Reese's motion for a high-five during a game.

Now with Clark's Indiana Fever contending for a title successful 2026, Reese's Dream could beryllium to beryllium a morganatic challenger.

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