Chicago Sky star Angel Reese made history on Saturday becoming the first player to be ejected from a game in the history of Unrivaled, the 3-on-3 winter basketball league that launched back in January.
Reese, who plays for the Rose Basketball Club, was booted from Saturday’s game against the Laces Basketball Club with less than a minute left in the second quarter with Rose leading 35-27.
While defending Laces forward Tiffany Hayes, Reese fouled her as she drove to the basket and taunted her while walking away as Hayes was laying on the court. Reese then argued with an official, earning her second technical foul of the game and an ejection.
Angel Reese (5) of the Rose Basketball Club takes a shot against the Vinyl in the Unrivaled women’s professional basketball league.
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A video of Reese laughing and seemingly cracking jokes while watching the rest of the game from the sideline started making the rounds on social media not long after. She even quote tweeted the video with the caption “free me.”
The video of Reese’s behavior drew some pretty strong reactions from fans on X who found the same humor in what happened as she did.
“We love an unbothered Queen 👑,” one fan stated.
“She’s enjoying her PTO 😂🤣😭,” another fan added.
“She said my check for the buy in cleared I’m not leaving 😂😂😂,” one user wrote.
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“Eject my girl like that, those refs know they wrong. She’s unbothered tho, so it’s all good. And Rose still got the win,” another user chimed in.
“They put my sis in timeout 😭😭😭 Unrivaled got a daycare and a on court jail? That’s crazyyyy lmaoooo,” remarked one fan.
“It’s the ‘sayless’ and this mood for me 😂😂😂 cause it’s givin ‘[expletive] em, the check cleared’ 😂,” proclaimed another.
“They got Angel in the gulag,” joked one user.
“It’s giving grade school when the teacher would send you to the corner 😭😭😭,” another user exclaimed.
Even without Reese, Rose picked up an 83-69 win over Laces, which was just their second defeat of the season. Reese logged six points, 15 rebounds, three assists and one block in seven minutes before getting ejected.
