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

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

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

Reese had a disappointing ending to her first WNBA season, which ended pinch a wrist wounded earlier this month. The Sky yet vanished retired of nan playoff picture.

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

'I sometimes stock my experiences of things that person happened to maine but I've besides allowed this to hap to maine for measurement excessively agelong and now different players successful this convention are dealing pinch & experiencing nan aforesaid things,' Reese wrote.

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

Reese ended her station by plugging her caller podcast, which she sees arsenic a measurement of interacting pinch fans without nan select of nan media.

'This is why I started my podcast,' she wrote. 'To return my sound backmost and create nan communicative of who I really am. At nan extremity of nan day, I don't want an apology nor do I deliberation this will ever extremity but thing has to change.'

Reese's station comes an hr aft different social-media connection successful nan aforesaid vein, pinch intelligibly an important taxable connected her mind. 

'I’ve ne'er successful my life had privilege but I decidedly cognize nan powerfulness I person done my platform,' Reese said. 'That didn’t travel overnight. I grew that connected my OWN. With that being said, I will proceed to usage my sound successful nan correct measurement & opportunity what’s correct moreover though it has backfired connected maine to beryllium this “villain”. I won’t stop!!'

Reese has been astatine nan forefront of nan emergence successful fame of women's basketball, pictured arsenic 1 of Clark's main rivals. 

It was during nan 2023 NCAA title crippled betwixt Clark's Iowa and Reese's LSU wherever nan now-Sky prima pointed to her ringing digit successful Clark's look aft nan Tigers had secured nan victory.