Angel Reese Celebrates From The Bench As Caitlin Clark Gets Knocked To The Ground On Total Cheap Shot

The bitter rivalry between Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark appears to only be intensifying as both rookies continue their transition to the WNBA level. All the animosity seems to come from Reese's end. She can say whatever she wants publicly, but there's no way Reese is anything but a hater. Case in point: Look at her reaction to an incident from Saturday's matchup between the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever, as a Sky player decks Clark on a routine inbound play and gets whistled for a foul. https://twitter.com/WheelerJaylen/status/1796956651255193727 At what point does this become too mean-spirited. I'm all for talking trash, competitive ferocity, and physicality in the sport of basketball. This bush league cheap shot, though? Not a great look. Even worse is how Reese is encouraging her teammate along to do something so low. You can tell clear as day from the alternate angle it was a premeditated act. https://twitter.com/WNBARookieWatch/status/1796956710071910673 For the uninitiated, Reese has a history of stunting on Clark whenever she gets the chance. Whether it's getting in her face during a national championship game, being soft and deleting a tweet that mocked her, or leaving a crown on the bench to let Clark know she was the queen, only to then lose, there's a laundry list of BS. https://twitter.com/espn/status/1642650038886170624 https://twitter.com/dhookstead/status/1793958842079781270 https://twitter.com/germanotes/status/1774922334983319860 That is by no means a comprehensive list of all the times Reese has tried to antagonize the new face of the WNBA that she so desperately wants to be, but you get the picture. People are asking if Reese, the seventh overall pick in this year's draft, has purchased fake followers on Instagram just so that her gaggle of social media supporters (3.3 million) dwarfs Clark's respectable following of 2.4 million. Reese's LSU squad beating Clark's Iowa team for the national title in 2023 wouldn't have had a fraction of the exposure it did if Clark wasn't playing. The same goes for their latest duel in the pros today. Caitlin Clark is going to drive any massive ratings boost, not Angel Reese. Her petty conduct suggests she's having a hard time accepting that reality. Feels like it's only a matter of time before Clark becomes a little more efficient, adapts to the physicality/borderline headhunting coming her way, cuts down on the turnovers, and takes over the WNBA as one of the league's truly elite players. Pardon me Angel, do you like apples? Because you lost this afternoon to a previously 1-8 Fever team. How do you like them apples? https://twitter.com/IndianaFever/status/1796966578820448687 Feels suitable to close this one out with a callback to Charles Barkley's words of wisdom. https://twitter.com/big_business_/status/1793435954570490031