Angel Reese managed to extend her 14-game double-double streak in Wednesday’s game, needing fourth-quarter assistance in the final minute from teammates Chennedy Carter and Marina Mabrey.
The anxious murmurs around the Chicago Sky’s Wintrust Arena crescendoed Wednesday afternoon as Angel Reese’s first free-throw attempt of the final seconds landed on the front iron and rolled around the cylinder. Once it dropped in, the healthy weekday crowd erupted recognizing that she’d extended her WNBA-record double-double streak to 14 games.
She made her second attempt from the line for good measure, icing the Sky’s 78-69 win over the Atlanta Dream. “DUBBBBB (ima stop stressing yall out),” Reese wrote on Twitter in her first words after converting her nervy free throws. The LSU grad finished with 11 points and 13 rebounds alongside two assists, three steals and two blocks.
Completing the rebounding leg of Wednesday’s double-double came easily to the WNBA’s leader on the offensive glass, who snagged eight boards by halftime. Reese’s scoring success came slower, however, limited by early foul trouble and a breakout performance from frontcourt partner Kamilla Cardoso.
Reese’s offensive involvement grew after halftime, but her historic double-double streak looked destined to end before a selfless move from Chennedy Carter. Carter was particularly impressive Wednesday with 19 points and looked to take a last-second outlet pass “coast-to-coast” in the final seconds with a chance at overtaking Atlanta’s Allisha Gray as the game’s leading scorer.
However, after hearing the groans at Wintrust Arena and the calls from her teammates, Carter recycled the ball to Marina Mabrey, who had a better angle to find Reese in the post. There, Reese drew a foul.
“I told my team when I got in the locker room, ‘I’m glad y’all told me because I was ready to go coast to coast, to the rim,'” Carter explained to reporters after the game. “But then I looked and Angel was sealing, I looked at the bench and they were like, ‘Throw it in, throw it in….’ So I was excited for her [Reese] to get that.”
And while Reese’s final two points may have come cheaply, the free-throw line has become a crucial element of the Sky star’s historical statistical output. She currently attempts 5.4 free throws per game, good for seventh in the entire WNBA. Reese converts foul shots at an impressive 75.2 percent clip given her lack of perimeter field goal shooting.
Reese and the Sky return to action Thursday evening against the league-leading New York Liberty in Brooklyn. The action begins at 7 p.m. ET and will broadcast on Prime Video.
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