The Chicago Sky don’t have the appetite for a rebuild. All of the moves they made last offseason indicate a certain level of impatience. However, on Friday, they punished their star player for espousing those same views.
If this is an organization that is trying to be taken more seriously, then accountability starts with the front office itself — not with a player saying what everyone around the league is already thinking.
Angel Reese found herself in hot water earlier this week after she gave an interview to the Chicago Tribune that criticized the current direction of the franchise. In it, she said the Sky needed to bring in better players but that there wasn’t much that would attract the best free agents to Chicago. Reese also said she would look elsewhere if things didn’t change.
After the article was published, she apologized to her teammates for the attacks on their abilities, saying, “I really didn’t intentionally mean to put down my teammates.” That should have been the end of the matter — at least publicly.
Instead, the Sky decided to suspend Reese for the first half of an upcoming game against the Las Vegas Aces. Chicago couldn’t discipline her for the Sky’s next game against the Indiana Fever because Reese has already been suspended for that contest due to technical foul accumulation.
