Angel Reese extends Michael Jordan invite ahead of Chicago’s season-opener against Caitlin Clark
Angel Reese and her fellow WNBA stars balled out in front of record crowds last year.
In 2024, the league delivered its most-watched regular season since 2000, set its highest attendance in 22 years, and broke more records for digital consumption and merchandise sales.
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But there's one man, above anyone else, who Reese would love to see sitting in the front row at a Chicago Sky game one day.
NBA legend Michael Jordan.
After just her first day at training camp last year, the rookie star wasn’t afraid to set the bar high.
"I would love Michael Jordan to come to the game, of course,” Reese said in 2024.
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“I don’t know who knows him. I don’t got his number.”
Reese, who entered the WNBA as the seventh overall pick, went on to impress in her debut season with the Sky.
She finished the year averaging 13.6 points, 13.1 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game, and set records as she made an instant impact on the team.
In 2024, Reese produced one of the best rebounding seasons ever recorded in the history of the league.
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Not only were her 446 rebounds in her rookie season the most by any one player in a single year ever, her 13.1 average is the best of all time.
Reese also became one of three rookies ever to lead the WNBA in offensive rebounding -- and the first in 25 years.
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Alessandra Santos de Oliveira and Yolanda Griffith also did so in 1998 and 1999.
She earned All-Star honors and was awarded WNBA Rookie of the Month in June when she averaged an impressive 14.5 points per game.
Her college rival, Caitlin Clark, later scooped the Rookie of the Year award.
As Reese heads into her second season with Chicago, she is stepping up as a leader who is hungry to bounce back after missing the playoffs last time around.
With new coach Tyler Marsh and a reunion with former LSU teammate Hailey Van Lith, the 22-year-old has hopes of putting the Sky back on Chicago’s map.
And she still sees MJ, who unleashed some of the greatest individual performances in basketball history, as someone who can help with that.
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"I would still love Michael Jordan to come to the games," she laughed, during a recent press conference.
Reese was then asked if she will be 'throwing an invite' out as the Sky are set to play a number of games, including against Clark's Fever, at the United Center next season.
"Of course, if I can. I don't know who's got his number," she responded, before a reporter joked that Shaquille O'Neal could probably 'hook her up'.
Jordan - forever an icon in Chicago sports, two decades on from his retirement and after delivering six championships and a lifetime of memories to the Bulls - has yet to be publicly spotted at a WNBA game.
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But with the Sky set to feature at the United Center in 2025, he might well be sitting court-side one day, if Reese gets her wish.
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