{"id":159757,"date":"2025-08-20T00:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159757\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T00:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:39:10","slug":"angel-reese-is-back-with-the-chicago-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159757\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Reese is back with the Chicago Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angel Reese was cleared to play for the Chicago Sky on Tuesday night against the Seattle Storm at Wintrust Arena after missing nine of the last 10 games<\/a> with a lower back injury.<\/p>\n

Reese sat out the final game before the All-Star break July 16 with a leg injury, then fully participated in the All-Star Game<\/a> and the rest of the weekend activities and played in the Sky\u2019s first game back July 22.<\/p>\n

The second-year forward missed two home games after the initial back injury was reported before returning for a July 29 road loss to the Washington Mystics \u2014 her first opportunity to play a WNBA game in front of her grandmother. Reese logged 22 points and 13 rebounds in that game, but the Sky medical staff shut her down again immediately after the loss.<\/p>\n

The Sky are 1-9<\/a> with Reese sidelined.<\/p>\n

Reese said there wasn\u2019t a specific moment or play that caused the injury. She declined to comment further on her recovery process, adding that she would \u201cspeak on that after the season.\u201d She also didn\u2019t specify whether she would be under a minutes restriction.<\/p>\n

The Sky cleared Reese to return to basketball activities over the weekend after nearly three weeks without playing. She practiced Monday but remained a game-time decision up until the final hour before Tuesday\u2019s tipoff.<\/p>\n

After weeks on the sideline, she was eager to get back onto the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love basketball,\u201d Reese said. \u201cBasketball is what got me here. Put all the (BS) to the side \u2014 I want to hoop. I\u2019ve always wanted to get back out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

So where do the Sky go from here?<\/p>\n

The last 10 games painted a grim picture of the Sky\u2019s ability to compete without Reese, who was averaging 14.2 points, 12.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists and shooting 44.4% from the field before the injury. She leads the team in scoring and leads the league in rebounding.<\/p>\n

Only 10 games remain after Tuesday\u2019s, and the Sky (8-25 entering Tuesday) are second-to-last in the standings and eight games out of the final playoff spot. They could be eliminated from postseason contention in the next 10 days.<\/p>\n

But even with the playoffs out of reach, the Sky don\u2019t plan to slow down for the final stretch. Having traded their first-round pick to the Minnesota Lynx, they wouldn\u2019t benefit in the draft from finishing lower in the standings.<\/p>\n

The Sky might slightly shift their approach once they\u2019re eliminated from the postseason. That would mainly translate to shorter rotations for the starters and increased minutes for players such as Maddy Westbeld whose roster spots are being assessed for future seasons. But unlike teams such as the Washington Mystics, the Sky aren\u2019t entering a controlled tanking for the final quarter of the season.<\/p>\n

In the short term for Reese, this outlook means getting back to what she prefers to do: hooping.<\/p>\n

Originally Published: August 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Reese was cleared to play for the Chicago Sky on Tuesday night against the Seattle Storm at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1496,92566,1497,1494,62,67,132,68,232,3357],"class_list":{"0":"post-159757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-angel-reese","9":"tag-back-injury","10":"tag-chicago-sky","11":"tag-seattle-storm","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wnba","17":"tag-womens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115058309194863870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}