WNBA star Angel Reese BLASTS media for 'allowing' her to be 'villainized to create a narrative'

Angel Reese has blasted the media for villainizing her and benefitting from the Chicago Sky rookie's 'pain.'

'For the past 2 years,' she wrote connected X, 'the media has benefited from my symptom & maine being villainized to make a narrative. They allowed this. This was beneficial to them.'

Reese had a disappointing ending to her archetypal WNBA season, which ended with a wrist wounded earlier this month. The Sky yet finished retired of the playoff picture.

But the erstwhile LSU prima was not bemoaning her team's disappointment oregon losing AP Rookie of the Year honors to Caitlin Clark. Instead, Reese is upset with the attraction that she and different players person faced successful what has been a wildly profitable twelvemonth for the WNBA.

'I sometimes stock my experiences of things that person happened to maine but I've besides allowed this to hap to maine for mode excessively agelong and present different players successful this league are dealing with & experiencing the aforesaid things,' Reese wrote.

'This isn't good astatine all,' she continued. 'Anything beyond disapproval astir playing the crippled we emotion is wrong. I'm atrocious to each the players that have/continue to acquisition the aforesaid things I have.'

Reese ended her station by plugging her caller podcast, which she sees arsenic a mode of interacting with fans without the filter of the media.

'This is wherefore I started my podcast,' she wrote. 'To instrumentality my dependable backmost and make the communicative of who I truly am. At the extremity of the day, I don't privation an apology nor bash I deliberation this volition ever halt but thing has to change.'