Angel Reese is heading for his second WNBA season, but the 2025 version of Chicago’s sky will be very different from the one that the Reese team entered the league last year.
Head coach Teresa Weatherspoon is a gend, the Rising Tyler Marsh star, and the team also added the double goalkeeper of the All-Star Ariel Atkins and La Garde Rebecca Allen via the trade, signed the leader Courtney Vandersloot and the goalkeeper Kia Nurse, and sent the guard Dana Evans to Las Vegas Aces for choices n ° 16 and 22 Recovery of 2025.
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Many expect Reese to take a big step forward in its development during the 2nd year that came out of a successful race in the useless basketball league. Reese won the inaugural league championship with Rose BC, she was appointed defensive player of the year, and she was a second all-terrain team.
But her personal success is apparently not everything she wants to bring with her unrivaled to the WNBA.
The Chicago Sky Angel Reese (5) striker seeks to pass the ball against Las Vegas AS during the first half at Wintrust Arena.kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images
Reese went to social networks recently and apparently joking the former Sky player and the MVP of the WNBA final in 2021, Kahleah Copper, to return to Chicago and play with her. Reese and Cooper were unrivaled teammates on BC Rose.
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“I can’t wait to talk to my grandmother (explaining) until she returned home 🙃 @kahleahcopper,” tweeted in response to the comments that Copper made on her during a recent appearance in the “Good Follow” program of Drackings, in which she declared “it is really small” when we asked her.
Copper, now a member of the Phoenix Mercury, spent seven of his first eight seasons of the WNBA with the sky.
She was exchanged in Mercury in February 2024 with the rights to Morgan Bertsch in exchange for Michaela Onyenwe, Brianna Turner, of the overall choice n ° 3 in 2024, a second round choice in 2025, a first -round choice in 2026 and the right to replace 2026 second round.
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With this choice n ° 3, the Sky has drafted the Kamilla Cardoso center, which raised an average of 9.8 points, 7.9 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.4 blocks per match as a recruit, and which believe that many will be a key element of the Sky offense in 2025.