Shaq shocks Angel Reese by saying she should wear revealing clothes in games to make more money

As a instrumentality of women's basketball, Shaquille O'Neal has his ain ideas astir however to make much involvement successful the WNBA. He shared 1 of those ideas with Chicago Sky rookie prima Angel Reese, and helium got a hostile response. 

During an interrogation connected Reese's podcast "Unapologetically Angel" this week, O'Neal brought up an outfit Reese wore disconnected the tribunal and referenced it arsenic a imaginable concern strategy for Reese and others to merchantability much merchandise. 

The outfit O'Neal referenced was a grey long-sleeve apical with short, grey shorts Reese wore during an quality connected "Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'n Out," a sketch drama and conflict rap improv crippled show. 

"Imagine you had connected the aforesaid small shorts you had connected astatine ‘Wild 'n Out’ amusement dunking. How galore T-shirts you gon’ sell?" O'Neal suggested to Reese during the podcast. 

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Angel Reese attends Game 5 of the 2024 WNBA Finals betwixt the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty Oct. 20, 2024, successful Brooklyn, N.Y. (Melanie Fidler/NBAE via Getty Images)

The proposition prompted an impassioned effect from Reese, who raised her dependable and exclaimed that she's "not imagining anything!" 

But O'Neal was insistent. 

"The aforesaid small shorts you had connected astatine 'Wild ‘n Out.’ ... I'm conscionable saying," helium repeated. 

Reese didn't hold agelong to unopen the speech down and alteration the topic, yelling "OK, each right, each right, each right" to interrupt and halt him from continuing. 

O'Neal's comments came aft helium had suggested different mode to amended WNBA viewership would beryllium to little the basket, truthful much players could dunk. 

"Bro, archetypal of all, I similar however y’all are starting to get into fashion," Shaq said. "Bro, a beauteous miss dunking connected the rim? I’m watching that each day."

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Reese pushed back, saying she did not judge women dunking was going to marque overmuch of a quality and hates "when men accidental that."

"I consciousness similar it inactive wouldn’t beryllium bully enough. It’s ne'er bully enough," Reese said. "People ever disrespect women regardless. They are ever going to not springiness america the aforesaid worth arsenic a man. So I don’t deliberation that."

Reese's quality connected "Wild 'n Out" drew mixed reviews from fans. 

Hip-hop creator and media mogul Joe Budden spoke retired against Reese for making the quality and drafting off-court contention to herself during an occurrence "The Joe Budden Podcast." 

"I've seen Angel Reese wildin' out. I don't cognize if I've seen her connected ‘Wild ’n Out,'" Budden said. "Angel Reese won't beryllium her f----in' a-- down. ... She won't spell beryllium down determination for a second. There's worth successful it.

"This is going to dependable similar I'm telling women what to do. But I ain't."

Angel Reese of Team WNBA during a crippled against the USA Basketball women's squad during the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game July 20, 2024, astatine Footprint Center successful Phoenix, Ariz. (Tyler Kaufman/NBAE via Getty Images)

Budden besides compared Reese's off-the-court habits to her longtime rival and chap rookie prima Caitlin Clark's.

"Whoever [Reese] got is telling her to spell popular up everywhere. That's not what Caitlin Clark's radical are saying, not to marque it racial. ... We conscionable connected immoderate prima rookie s--- now," helium said. 

Reese's willingness to explicit herself contempt the fearfulness of nationalist backlash dates backmost to her show successful the 2023 NCAA women's hoops title game, erstwhile her LSU Tigers bushed Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes for the rubric that year. 

At the extremity of the game, Reese mocked Clark by pointing astatine her digit to punctual her who was getting the title ring. It was a infinitesimal that went viral and sparked a heated statement betwixt Reese fans and Clark fans that has lone gotten hotter arsenic they've made it done their archetypal WNBA season. 

Reese launched her ain podcast earlier she was adjacent done with her rookie play and has kept releasing episodes each week adjacent aft her WNBA play ended aboriginal owed to a wrist wounded successful aboriginal September. 

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Angel Reese, right, and Caitlin Clark during the 2nd fractional June 23, 2024 astatine Wintrust Arena successful Chicago.  (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The podcast has stirred contention aggregate times, including the archetypal occurrence erstwhile she spoke retired against fans of rival subordinate Caitlin Clark, alleging they had sent her decease threats and made explicit AI images of her and sent them to her family. 

In her astir caller episode, Reese interviewed the ex-girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce astir their past relationship. The interrogation drew a flurry of criticism, peculiarly from fans of Kelce's caller girlfriend, Taylor Swift. 

Still, Reese's beingness and property has drawn much attraction and fans to women's basketball, adjacent if she hasn't altered her wardrobe connected the tribunal yet. While Clark is credited arsenic being chiefly liable for the caller detonation successful popularity for women's hoops astatine the assemblage and pro levels, the Reese-Clark rivalry has added different magnitude and gully for fans. 

Reese has much followers connected societal media than Clark, with 1.4 cardinal much followers connected Instagram, 170,700 much followers connected X and a staggering 4.11 cardinal much connected TikTok. Reese's willingness to explicit herself disconnected the tribunal could beryllium a large crushed why. Clark has been much reserved arsenic a pro. 

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