Caitlin Clark vs Angel Reese drama may soon go on in 2 leagues at once and it could get way more intense

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese person already taken their tense rivalry from assemblage hoops to the WNBA. 

However, determination mightiness beryllium different signifier conscionable waiting to big much battles betwixt the 2 stars. 

A caller startup women's hoops league, Unrivaled, is acceptable to launch, led by existent WNBA players Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier. The biggest quality betwixt this caller league and the WNBA is Unrivaled would diagnostic a 3-on-3 format, alternatively than 5-on-5. That means a greater accent connected a smaller fig of players. Unrivaled volition lone person 30 players successful its archetypal season. 

Reese has already agreed to articulation successful connected the fun, announcing her volition to play successful Unrivaled backmost successful July. Reese became the 10th subordinate to articulation the league, alongside Stewart, Collier, Chelsea Gray, Arike Ogunbowale, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum, Rhyne Howard, Kahleah Copper and Jackie Young. 

Now, the league is making an assertive propulsion to bring connected Clark arsenic well. 

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark, #22, reacts during a first-round WNBA hoops playoff crippled against the Connecticut Sun connected Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, successful Uncasville, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Unrivaled is preparing to connection Clark a woody akin to the 1 that brought shot fable Lionel Messi to MLS successful the U.S. past year, according to a study by Front Office Sports. Inter Miami FC of the MLS coughed up $150 million, partial ownership and different fiscal incentives to bring Messi to the U.S.-based shot league. 

Unrivaled promises its 30 players the "highest salaries successful nonrecreational women’s sports league history."

If Clark does extremity up joining the league, that means she volition beryllium successful store for much carnal and intimate matchups against Reese successful a 3-on-3 setting. With less players connected a smaller court, the matchup betwixt Reese and Clark would beryllium that overmuch much consequential to the result of each possession. The result of immoderate crippled betwixt the 2 players volition beryllium little babelike connected however their teammates perform, and a overmuch bigger spotlight volition beryllium connected the 2 erstwhile they are matched up. 

In 4 head-to-head WNBA matchups this past season, Clark's Fever bushed Reese's 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 tallness vantage implicit Clark has resulted successful the Sky rookie having a fewer stronger finishes successful the overgarment and a fewer precise carnal blocks and artifact attempts. Some instances person besides resulted successful immoderate hard fouls being called against Reese for her defence connected Clark. In a crippled connected June 16, Clark was going successful for a layup, and Reese did not rather person the wingspan to artifact the changeable and got a flagrant 1 erstwhile she deed Clark successful the caput from supra instead. 

INSIDE CAITLIN CLARK AND ANGEL REESE'S IMPACT ON MEN'S BASKETBALL

Angel Reese, #10 of the LSU Lady Tigers, reacts toward Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes, during the 4th fourth during the 2023 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament title crippled astatine American Airlines Center connected April 2, 2023 successful Dallas. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

In the astir celebrated gathering betwixt the 2 players – the 2023 NCAA women’s rubric game – Reese utilized her superior size to out-duel Clark, putting up 15 points with 10 rebounds, portion Clark changeable 30 points. Reese led LSU to a convincing 102-85 triumph implicit Clark and Iowa. 

Clark got revenge erstwhile they met successful the Elite Eight the pursuing twelvemonth for the past gathering the 2 would person astatine the collegiate level. Clark had a whopping 41 points with 12 assists, portion Reese scored conscionable 17 points portion shooting conscionable 7-of-21 from the field. Still, Reese did negociate 20 rebounds successful that game.

How their accomplishment sets and past would construe connected a 3-on-3 tribunal has yet to beryllium seen, but if it does happen, fans whitethorn besides beryllium capable to expect a just magnitude of trash speech and play successful betwixt the whistles erstwhile the 2 are matched up. 

Their past of tense moments began successful the 2023 rubric game, erstwhile Reese made the celebratory motion of pointing to her ringing digit successful Clark's look during the last minutes of Reese's and LSU's win. 

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

"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.

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Angel Reese attends a crippled betwixt the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty during Game Five of the 2024 WNBA Finals connected Oct. 20, 2024 successful Brooklyn, New York. (Melanie Fidler/NBAE via Getty Images)

"Multiple occasions, radical person made AI-images of maine naked. They person sent it to my household members. My household members are similar uncles, sending it to maine like, ‘Are you bare connected Instagram?’" Reese said. "It sucks having to spell done that and spot different players person to spell done that."

Still, Reese knows that her and Clark are the biggest draws successful their respective sports, and their rivalry could assistance substance a big-time propulsion to marque the Unrivaled league a existent challenger to the WNBA. The communicative surrounding the 2 players could beryllium wholly antithetic if they extremity up arsenic teammates alternatively of opponents. 

"We brought a batch of fans to this league," Reese precocious told The Wall Street Journal. "And I deliberation we’re going to proceed to bash that. And 1 day, hopefully, we’ll beryllium teammates."

Playing successful Unrivaled would not forestall Clark oregon Reese from remaining successful the WNBA, due to the fact that the league would beryllium played during the WNBA offseason. However, Unrivaled volition look to vie financially with the WNBA.

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