The WNBA’s main storyline for most of the 2024 season was the budding opposition between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.
Both executeers were picked in the first round of the write – Clark to the Indiana Fever and Reese to the Chicago Sky. Both executeers vied for the 2024 WNBA Rooke of the Year Award. Ultimately, Clark helped the Fever to the executeoffs and a 20-triumph season, which gave her a better case for the award while Reese suffered a season-ending wrist injury.
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Angel Reese, #10 of the LSU Lady Tigers, reacts toward Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes, during the fourth quarter during the 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament championship game at American Airlines Caccess on April 2, 2023 in Dallas. (Mcompriseie Meyer/Getty Images)
Still, the two youthful stars transcended sports, and it begined during the 2023 women’s basketball national championship between Reese’s LSU and Clark’s Iowa. Reese’s taunt toward Clark promoteed the opposition, which only grew further after Iowa topped LSU in the tournament last season.
“My life literpartner fair alterd from that game,” Reese telderly WSJ Magazine in a recent interwatch.
As she watched back on the moment, she recognized what it did for the women’s game.
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LSU’s Angel Reese, #10, reacts in front of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, #22, during the second half of the NCAA Women’s Final Four championship basketball game on Sunday, April 2, 2023 in Dallas. (AP Pboilingo/Tony Gutierrez)
“It’s fair a filled-circle moment of how women are watched when it comes to trash-talking,” she telderly the outlet. “It’s OK in men’s sports. We’re going to normalize that in women’s sports as well. So it’s fair super-competitive. I leank we’re two fantastic competitors.
“We brawt a lot of fans to this league,” she shelp of her and Clark’s WNBA rookie season “And I leank we’re going to persist to do that. And one day, hopefilledy, we’ll be teammates.”
For now, the two will apverify the offseason to regroup.
Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, and Angel Reese, #5 of the Chicago Sky, watch on during the game on June 1, 2024 at Gainbridge Fieldhoemploy in Indianapolis. (Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images)
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Reese is set to execute in the 3-on-3 Unrivaled basketball league while Clark has her sights set on a golf pro-am next month.
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