Angel Reese becomes first player ejected from Unrivaled league and then calls coverage of it 'clickbait'

Controversial women's hoops superstar Angel Reese became the archetypal subordinate to beryllium ejected from a crippled successful the startup Unrivaled league connected Saturday. She past called a Sports Illustrated nonfiction covering the incidental "clickbait." 

Reese was ejected during the Rose Basketball Club's matchup against Vinyl Basketball Club successful the 2nd quarter. She was called for a foul against Tiffany Hayes, past she earned a method foul aft making an violative motion toward a referee. When she started arguing that foul, she got a 2nd technical, and refs tossed her from the crippled aft that. 

Reese wasted precise small clip aft the historical ejection to vent her feelings connected societal media, firing disconnected a bid of posts connected X. One was a re-sharing of the Sports Illustrated nonfiction covering the ejection, which she captioned with her criticism. 

"Clickbait. Everything I bash support going viral," Reese wrote implicit the article. 

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Reese and Rose Basketball Club were already successful past spot with a 1-4 grounds going into Saturday's game, but things got worse aft the star's ejection. Rose mislaid 79-73 arsenic Vinyl's Rhyne Howard dropped 33 points connected Reese's squad amid the ejection. 

Reese has been 1 of the astir arguable stars successful women's hoops ever since her infamous late-game showboating successful the 2023 NCAA women's hoops title game. Reese led LSU to a 102-85 triumph implicit Caitlin Clark and Iowa that March and bragged astir it by pointing to her digit successful beforehand of Clark's look to punctual her rival who was getting the ring. 

It was a infinitesimal that Reese says "changed my beingness forever," successful the archetypal occurrence of her podcast. 

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Angel Reese of the Rose takes a infinitesimal against the Vinyl during a timeout astatine Wayfair Arena. (Jim Rassol-Imagn Images)

"I deliberation it's truly conscionable the fans, her fans, the Iowa fans, present the Indiana fans, that are truly just, they thrust for her, and I respect that, respectfully. But sometimes it's precise disrespectful. I deliberation there's a batch of racism erstwhile it comes to it," Reese said. 

Reese adjacent alleges that immoderate fans person made AI-generated images of her, depicting her without apparel on, and sent them to her household members.

The 2 renewed their rivalry the pursuing play successful the 2024 Elite 8, arsenic Clark got her revenge by defeating Reese and LSU 94-87. After the game, Reese cried astatine the post-game property league arsenic she recounted the harassment she received pursuing the erstwhile season's controversy. 

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Sky guardant Angel Reese walks connected the tribunal astatine Wintrust Arena successful Chicago, Aug. 25, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski-USA Today Sports)

In 4 head-to-head WNBA matchups this past season, Clark's Indiana Fever bushed Reese's Chicago Sky 3 times. In conscionable 2 of those contests, Reese enactment up much points than Clark, portion pulling down much rebounds than Clark successful each 4 meetings. Clark registered much assists successful each 4 meetings. 

Reese's Sky besides committed respective arguable fouls against Clark successful those meetings, including 1 from Reese herself erstwhile she slammed her limb into Clark's caput successful a crippled successful June, resulting successful a flagrant-1. 

The 2 won't beryllium bringing their rivalry to Unrivaled, astatine slightest not this year. Clark declined to articulation the league contempt an assertive push from its ownership group. 

But adjacent with Clark not successful that league, Reese is inactive uncovering ways to disturbance trouble. 

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