Angel Reese, currently playing for Rose BC in the Unrivaled League, became the first player in league history to be ejected from a game after receiving two technical fouls.
Unrivaled is a 3-on-3 professional women’s basketball league that just began play in January. The players have voiced interest in the league’s ‘equity’ based payment system to force higher salaries in the WNBA. Some argue it sure beats playing overseas during the off-season to try to make ends meet.
During the game against Laces BC, Reese was seen taunting an opposing player and jawing after a play ended. She was called for a foul on Tiffany Hayes and began arguing with the officials.
The WNBA All-Star received the first technical for a dismissive gesture towards Hayes after the foul call and the second while contesting that she was directing the gesture at Hayes, not the referee.
The official either wasn’t buying it or didn’t care what the excuse was.
Angel Reese ejected. pic.twitter.com/yXkztfNylG
— Basketball Scout (@ShowCaseShabazz) February 2, 2025
Angel Reese The First Ever Ejected
I’m not sure how one gets ejected from basically a winter camp league meant to tune up your skills for the real action in the WNBA, but Angel Reese managed to do it. Despite her protestations, she wants to be the heel.
The Chicago Sky star took to social media suggesting coverage of her ejection was little more than “clickbait.”
“Everything I do keep going viral,” she said.
Ah, typical Angel. Trash talks, taunts, says ‘Look at me! Look at me!’ And then, when people rightly focus on her because she’s done something that’s never been done before, she says, ‘Why is everybody paying attention to me?’
The Rose BC ended up winning the game, which was just their second win in six contests in the season.
clickbait. everything i do keep going viral- 4 https://t.co/3aGEX4SloJ
— Angel Reese (@Reese10Angel) February 2, 2025
She’s Only Human After All
Maybe Unrivaled will end up rescinding the technical foul. You know, the way the WNBA did this past season after Angel Reese got into an argument with an official.
And again, she ended up waving her hands at the referee, prompting the technical call.
Angel Reese was ejected from tonight's game following this exchange with the referee. pic.twitter.com/rOMo1Wdwja
— Marquee Sky (@SkyMarquee) June 5, 2024
Waving one’s hand in dismissal, as far as reasons for being ejected from a game, seems relatively low on the list of egregious offenses a player could commit. Perhaps these refs need to grow some thicker skin.
Reese, meanwhile, relishes the role of the bad girl, even if she pretends to hate it.
“I’ll take that role. I’ll take the bad guy role and I’ll continue to take that on. And be that for my teammates,” she explained after being caught on the sideline cheering on her Sky teammate Chennedy Carter for dropping megastar Caitlin Clark with a hip check.
She similarly whined about all the attention she gets after losing to Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes for an opportunity to go to last year’s Final Four.
“I’ve been through so much,” she said at the time. “I’ve seen so much. I’ve been attacked so many times. Death threats. I’ve been sexualized. I’ve been threatened. I’ve been so many things.”
“I just want them to just know that I’m still human.”
Reese, who doesn’t like to be sexualized, recently had to pull down a post featuring incredibly revealing pictures on New Year’s Day.
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