Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese continued her excellent rookie season on Sunday by recording her twenty fourth double-double (17 factors, 19 rebounds) of the season in her workforce’s 79-74 loss to the Minnesota Lynx.
These 19 rebounds helped her change into the WNBA’s all-time single-season rebounding leader with 418 for the season, surpassing the earlier mark of 404 set by Sylvia Fowles through the 2018 season.
Together with that, she additionally set a brand new WNBA document along with her one hundred and sixty fifth offensive rebound, surpassing the earlier document of 162 (Yolanda Griffiths through the 2001 season).
Whereas these numbers are spectacular on their very own with none additional context, they change into much more spectacular once you keep in mind that she shouldn’t be solely a rookie, however that she set each information whereas she nonetheless has eight video games remaining within the season.
Reese is likely one of the high rookies within the league this season together with Indiana Fever level guard Caitlin Clark.
They’ve been on the heart of an intense, season lengthy rookie of the 12 months debate with Clark seemingly pulling away in latest weeks given her personal particular person play and the actual fact the Fever appear to be on monitor to make the playoffs.
The Sky are nonetheless in a playoff place as of Sunday, even with an 11-21 document, however may discover themselves in a tie for that spot with the Atlanta Dream after Sunday’s schedule of video games concludes.
Whether or not they make the playoffs or not, Reese has already established herself as the most effective paint gamers within the league and nearly as good of a rebounder as there’s. If she is already this dominant accumulating rebounds as a rookie, she’s going to virtually definitely have an opportunity to interrupt her personal document in future seasons.
