WNBA Reacts to Angel Reese Pass During Sky-Wings Game
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Cameras Catch Angel Reese’s Reaction After Scoring on DiJonai Carrington
Cameras Catch Angel Reese’s Reaction After Scoring on DiJonai Carrington. Chicago is now on a two-game winning streak and sits at 2-4 through the first month of the season. Saturday’s win completed a sweep for the Sky, as they beat the Wings twice consecutively in this two- game series. Chicago will not play again until June 7 against the Indiana Fever, which will be the first game of the 2025 WNBA Commissioner’s Cup.
The Chicago Sky defeated the Dallas Wings on Saturday by a score of 94 to 83, marking their second win of the 2025 WNBA season. Chicago is now on a two-game winning streak and sits at 2-4 through the first month of the season.
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Veteran guard Ariel Atkins led the way for the Sky, pouring in 26 points and grabbing four rebounds. Courtney Vandersloot also chipped in 15 points, seven rebounds and seven assists, and Angel Reese added 14 points and nine rebounds.
Chicago got contributions from several other players en route to their second straight game scoring 94 points or more. The 83 points that they gave up was also their lowest mark of the 2025 season.
Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese (5).Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images
Reese made several key plays down the stretch, as she scored four points in the final three minutes to help put the game out of reach. One of these buckets came over Wings guard DiJonai Carrington, who earned First-Team All-Defense honors in 2024.
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After Reese scored, she celebrated hard considering the basket pushed the lead to 10 points for the Sky. Cameras caught Reese’s reaction, which was strong considering the gravity of the moment.
Saturday’s win completed a sweep for the Sky, as they beat the Wings twice consecutively in this two-game series. Despite the loss, Carrington scored 16 points and dished out six assists, while NaLyssa Smith scored 20 points for Dallas.
Chicago will not play again until June 7 against the Indiana Fever. That game will be the first of the 2025 WNBA Commissioner’s Cup, and it is set to tip off at 8:00 p.m. EST.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 1, 2025, where it first appeared.
Angel Reese Praised by Chicago Sky Teammate After Second Straight Win
Angel Reese Praised by Chicago Sky Teammate After Second Straight Win. The Chicago Sky won their second game in a row on Saturday, pushing them to a 2-4 record in the 2025 WNBA season. The 94-83 victory was also their first road win of the year. The Sky are now tied with the Indiana Fever for fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings. The team’s next game will be on June 7, which is the first matchup of the 1925 WNBA Commissioner’s Cup.
The Chicago Sky won their second game in a row on Saturday, pushing them to a 2-4 record in the 2025 WNBA season. The 94-83 victory was also their first road win of the year.
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Head coach Tyler Marsh has now won consecutive games for the first time in his young career, and the Sky are now tied with the Indiana Fever for fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings.
Ariel Atkins had another stellar game, scoring 26 points for Chicago. Courtney Vandersloot had a well-rounded performance as well, scoring 14 points in addition to seven rebounds and seven assists.
Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese (5).Chris Jones-Imagn Images
2024 WNBA All-Star Angel Reese also contributed 14 points, nine rebounds and two assists. She was also productive on defense, adding three steals in the win as well.
After the game, veteran post player Elizabeth Williams spoke to the media. She talked about Reese’s growing ability as a passer and how it has helped the Sky win their last two contests.
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“She’s done a good job of having vision, sometimes being a relief for (Courtney Vander)sloot bringing the ball up because she gets pressured a lot,” Williams said. “She’s done a good job of just seeing where people are open and making good decisions.”
Reese averaged just 1.9 assists per game during her All-Rookie campaign in 2024, but that number has shot up to 2.8 per contest in 2025. She had five assists in the team’s win over the Wings on Thursday, and she added another two on Saturday.
Chicago’s next game will be on June 7, which is the first matchup of the 2025 WNBA Commissioner’s Cup. The Sky will take on the 2-4 Indiana Fever, who the team lost to 93 to 58 on opening day.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 1, 2025, where it first appeared.
Historic Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers News Surfaces After Wings’ Loss to Sky
Historic Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers News Surfaces After Wings’ Loss to Sky. The Chicago Sky picked up their first win of the 2025 WNBA season, defeating the Dallas Wings at Wintrust Arena on Thursday night. Buecker finished with arguably her best game at the WNBA level, tallying 15 points, five rebounds, eight assists, three blocks and three steals while converting on six of her 11 field goal attempts. With this win, Chicago improves to 1-4. The Sky will now travel to Dallas for a rematch with the Wings on Saturday.
The Chicago Sky picked up their first win of the 2025 WNBA season, defeating the Dallas Wings at Wintrust Arena on Thursday night. Entering this game 0-4, Chicago had a great opportunity against a Dallas team that had started just 1-4 through five games.
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Led by rookie guard Paige Bueckers, Dallas made a strong bid for its second win of the season, but came up short in the fourth quarter. Bueckers finished with arguably her best game at the WNBA level, tallying 15 points, five rebounds, eight assists, three blocks and three steals while converting on six of her 11 field goal attempts.
Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers (5)© Jerome Miron-Imagn Images
While it came in a loss, this line made history for Bueckers. The 2025 No. 1 overall pick joined an exclusive list of WNBA players to record at least 15 points, five rebounds, eight assists, three blocks and three steals in a single game.
The others are Caitlin Clark, Candace Parker and Angel McCoughtry (h/t Basketball Reference’s StatHead).
It has been and up-and-down start to Buecker’s WNBA career. The 6-foot-0 guard entered Thursday averaging 14.6 points, 6.4 assists and 4.4 rebounds. Raising those averages across the board in the loss to Chicago, Buecker’s had a strong all-around showing.
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With this win, Chicago improves to 1-4. The Sky will now travel to Dallas for a rematch with the Wings on Saturday. After that, they will get a week off before hosting a Clark-less Indiana Fever team on June 7.
The only winless team remaining in the WNBA is the Connecticut Sun who sit at 0-5.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on May 30, 2025, where it first appeared.
Sky clip Wings 94-83 despite Angel Reese’s ongoing struggle to make shots
Angel Reese scored 14 points in the Sky’s 94-83 victory against the Wings. Reese’s 32-game streak with double-digit rebounds is a thing of the past. Reese shot under 50% from the field in each of her first nine games this season. She came into the second of back-to-back games shooting 31-3% on twos and 31.3% overall.“It’s been hard to get her some good, clean looks inside,” coach Tyler Marsh said. “I think some of it’s just the shot’s not falling. But it’s nothing that we’re too concerned about. We want her to keep being aggressive down there and taking advantage of opportunities to do so.��“Clearly, though, it’s frustrating for her at times,’ Marsh said of his star guard.
Far more important is the second-year Sky star’s ability to make shots, mainly those from under the basket. It’s an understatement to say that hasn’t come with any consistency at all since she got to the league, and the struggles have been even more real through six games than they were during her rookie season.
In the Sky’s 94-83 victory Saturday against the Paige Bueckers-less Wings, Reese pitched in 14 points — her last of four baskets coming in dramatic fashion when she posted up DiJonai Carrington to make it a 10-point game with 3:03 to go and let out a huge yell.
But she had to withstand an absolutely brutal shooting performance in the early going. She airballed a 15-footer from the baseline on her first shot. Three minutes in, she picked Myisha Hines-Allen’s pocket, raced up the court on a two-on-one break, gave it up to Courtney Vandersloot, got it back and blew a point-blank layup. By halftime, she was 1-for-9 from the field with five of her shots blocked.
She also went a second consecutive game without double-digit rebounds, grabbing nine of them, with four coming at the offensive end. Nothing wrong with nine, you know, from a player who rolls out of bed cleaning the glass.
“I mean, at this point, [rebounding] is how I’m getting my points,” Reese said before the game. “So I’ve got to do whatever helps the team, and obviously, it seems, that’s my role right now. So I’m just doing whatever it takes.”
Asked about her shooting woes, she just turned her head from one inquirer and awaited a different question from somebody else.
“It’s been hard to get her some good, clean looks inside,” coach Tyler Marsh said before the game. “I think some of it’s just the shot’s not falling. But it’s nothing that we’re too concerned about. We want her to keep being aggressive down there and taking advantage of opportunities to do so.”
Last season, Reese shot under 50% from the field in each of her first nine games and ended at 39.1% for the season — and barely better than that (39.9%) on two-point shots. She came into the second of back-to-back games against the Wings shooting 31.3% on twos and 31.3% overall — having made one three-pointer in three tries — and didn’t move the needle on a 4-for-13 night.
She still competed hard — as always — and others on the Sky (2-4) picked her up in a big way. Guard Ariel Atkins dazzled in the fourth quarter, scoring 12 of her 26 points, as she continues to drop hints that she might be the team’s best player. Vandersloot (15 points, seven assists, seven rebounds) was stellar, Kia Nurse (11 points) made a couple of important threes and Rebecca Allen (plus-19) and Elizabeth Williams (plus-11) more than held things down off the bench as the Sky beat the Wings (1-6) for the 10th time in their last 11 meetings.
But Reese’s rough go at putting the ball in the hole is an ongoing issue. There are moments like the one after she missed her first shot of the third quarter from in close. After a whistle, she pounded the ball to the court, turned and started the other way, then thought better of it, retrieved the ball and shot a practice layup. Let the record show that she made it.
Clearly, though, it’s frustrating for her at times.
“It’s just a matter of knocking them down,” Marsh said. “She will.”
WNBA Injury Report Chicago Sky vs. Dallas Wings: Crucial Injury Update Ahead of Classic Showdown between Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers
Chicago Sky and Dallas Wings will lock horns in the highly-anticipated matchup of the WNBA season on Thursday. Sky are winless after four games in the season and Wings have secured just one win out of three. Sky have been outscored by 46 points in second-half in all four matches and they could’t even win a single quarter during the process. The Wings scored this season’s highest points and were only the second team to cross the 100-point mark in the regular season. Tyasha Harris has been questionable for Dallas due to a knee sprain and left the game after 8-minute stay against her former team.
Two out-of-form sides, Chicago Sky and Dallas Wings will lock horns in the highly-anticipated matchup of the WNBA season on Thursday. The Sky are winless after four games in the season and Wings have secured just one win out of three. The pressure is on both star players to find a winning momentum through this game.
Chicago Sky had a four-point lead heading to the final quarter against the Mercury but final quarter slump handed them a fourth consecutive loss in the season. Sky have been outscored by 46 points in second-half in all four matches and they could’t even win a single quarter during the process. It would be a frustrating start for Sky if they drop one more game.
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On the flip side, the Wings ended their three-game losing streak after beating the Sun 109-87 on Tuesday. Paige Bueckers dropped 21 points and Arike Ogunbowale had 19. Dallas got their momentum but they can’t slip it again. The Wings scored this season’s highest points and were only the second team to cross the 100-point mark in the regular season. They have to keep their offensive strength high to counter Sky in this road matchup.
Ahead of a crucial WNBA showdown, let’s figure out the injury report for both teams.
Chicago Sky vs. Dallas Wings Injury Report
Time: Thursday, May 29, 2025 | 8:00 p.m. ET
Venue: Wintrust Arena, Chicago
TV: ABC | Live Stream: League Pass
Chicago Sky Injury Report
Hailey Van Lith: Questionable
Moriah Jefferson: Questionable
Chicago Sky have announced two players on their injury report on Thursday. The status of Hailey Van Lith (ankle) and Moriah Jefferson (knee) has been upgraded to questionable after being out. Van Lith last played on May 22 against Liberty and Jefferson is yet to make her season debut.
Dallas Wings Injury Report
Tyasha Harris: Questionable
Dallas Wings have listed one player on the injury report. Tyasha Harris has been questionable for Dallas due to a knee sprain. She suffered a knee injury against her former team and left the game after 8-minute stay.
Dallas Wings Injury Report vs. Chicago Sky:
Tyasha Harris: Questionable (Knee) — Grant Afseth (@GrantAfseth) May 28, 2025
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Chicago Sky vs. Dallas Wings Predicted Starting lineups
Chicago Sky: Kamilla Cardoso, Kia Nurse, Angel Reese, Ariel Atkins, Courtney Vandersloot
Dallas Wings: Paige Bueckers, Arike Ogunbowale, DiJonai Carrington, NaLyssa Smith, Myisha Hines-Allen
Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images
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