Angel Reese calls out conservative after saying players could sit out WNBA games to negotiate higher salaries

WNBA subordinate Angel Reese ignited a societal media firestorm aft claiming players are prepared to beryllium retired games to request higher salaries during her podcast Friday. 

Reese and chap WNBA subordinate DiJonai Carrington addressed the adjacent WNBA corporate bargaining agreement.

"I've got to get successful the meetings due to the fact that I'm proceeding like, 'If y'all don't springiness america what we want, we sitting out,'" Reese said.

Carrington added, "That's a possibility." 

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Angel Reese of Rose reacts during the archetypal 4th of a crippled against the Phantom astatine Wayfair Arena Jan. 31, 2025, successful Medley, Fla.  (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

Reese has griped astir her fiscal concern successful the past.

"The WNBA don't wage my bills astatine all. I don't adjacent deliberation it pays 1 of my bills. Literally," Reese said. 

Reese's comments incited heated statement connected societal media astir a WNBA subordinate onslaught resulting successful higher salaries. The WNBA has ne'er turned a nett successful its beingness and has been subsidized by the NBA. 

Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese during the archetypal fractional of a crippled against the Las Vegas Aces astatine Wintrust Arena.  (Kamil Krzaczynski/USA Today Sports)

Reese got successful connected the treatment erstwhile she called retired blimpish influencer AKA connected X for a station that Reese said falsely claimed she demanded to beryllium paid arsenic overmuch arsenic NBA players. 

"I ne'er said thing astir the NBA. We are prepared to enactment astatine the negotiating array for arsenic agelong arsenic it takes," Reese said.

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AKA's archetypal station has since been deleted.

Reese signed a four-year, $324,383 rookie declaration up of her archetypal WNBA play successful 2024. She made nether $75,000 successful her archetypal twelvemonth and volition marque little than that successful 2025. 

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In October, Reese admitted she couldn't spend to wage her bills based connected that wage successful an Instagram unrecorded video. 

"I’m surviving beyond my means. Hating pays them bills, baby. I conscionable anticipation you cognize the WNBA don’t wage my bills astatine all," she said. "I don’t adjacent deliberation that pays one of my bills. Literally, I’m trying to deliberation of my rent for wherever I enactment at. Let maine bash the mathematics existent quick. I don’t adjacent cognize my (WNBA) salary, $74,000?"

Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky during a crippled June 1, 2024, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis.  (Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images)

Reese said she is paying $8,000 for rent.

"Babe, if y’all thought… That WNBA cheque don’t wage a thing," she added. "Did that adjacent wage my car note? … I wouldn’t adjacent beryllium capable to devour a sandwich with that. I wouldn’t adjacent beryllium capable to eat. I wouldn’t beryllium capable to live."

The WNBA players national opted retired of its existent corporate bargaining statement successful October, 2 years earlier its expiration. 

The existent CBA volition inactive screen the 2025 season, truthful the 2 sides person a twelvemonth to negociate a caller agreement.

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