Angel Reese has carved out a chunk of WNBA historical past for herself 17 video games into her rookie season. The Chicago Sky ahead set a league document for many consecutive video games with a double-double throughout a single season in Sunday’s 70–62 loss to the Minnesota Lynx.
Reese scored 10 factors and grabbed 17 rebounds, reaching double figures in each classes for the tenth straight recreation. She surpasses Candace Parker, who notched 9 consecutive double-doubles throughout the 2015 season with the Los Angeles Sparks.
It is spectacular that Reese set the mark at simply 22 years previous. Parker was 29 and in her eighth season when she set the bar for consecutive double-doubles at 9.
With 1:01 remaining within the recreation, Reese nonetheless wanted three factors to get a double-double. She twice rebounded her personal miss within the paint to attain with 40.1 seconds left. Then the rookie drew a unfastened ball foul with 23 seconds on the clock to get two free throws.
Reese missed the primary, coming achingly near not getting 10 factors. However she made the second to get the document.
The free throw to set historical past for Angel Reese with consecutive double-doubles, at 10 in a row
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“Simply pleased with her. Happy with what she does,” Sky coach Teresa Witherspoon stated after the sport. “I am positive she would say the win was extra essential. She’s going to proceed doing what she does. It is who she is. She’s going to at all times come out and play laborious and assured, and offer you every thing she has. She’s the toughest particular person on herself. I am pleased with her and what she continues to do.”
Chennedy Carter led the Sky with 15 factors, adopted by Lindsay Allen’s 13. Fellow rookie Kamilla Cardoso added 10 rebounds. Chicago was outscored 18–5 within the fourth quarter and dropped to six–11 with the loss.
The Lynx improved to 14–4, tying the Connecticut Solar for the league’s second-best document. Minnesota was led by Kayla McBride’s 16 factors. Napheesa Collier tallied 13 factors, 11 rebounds and 6 assists.
Parker nonetheless holds the WNBA document for many consecutive double-doubles total with 12, set between the 2009 and 2010 campaigns. However that is inside attain for Reese, as effectively.
Reese beforehand set the rookie document with seven consecutive double-doubles when she scored 16 factors with 18 rebounds on June 20 versus the Dallas Wings, topping the mark set by Tina Charles (2010, with the Solar) and Cindy Brown (1998, Detroit Shock).
The WNBA rookie document for whole double-doubles in a season is 22, held by Charles. After Sunday’s effort, Reese has 11 with 23 video games remaining.
Up subsequent for the Sky is a street matchup with the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday (7 p.m. ET). The Lynx journey to New York for a Tuesday night time conflict vs. the Liberty (7 p.m. ET).