Angel Reese discovered herself on the middle of one more wild WNBA brawl on Tuesday – only one week after her rival Caitlin Clark was thrown to the ground in a scuffle.
Chicago Sky’s Reese – who suffered a career-low in rebounds on Saturday – has beforehand been caught up in on-court chaos and clashed with Clark in a fiery WNBA season opener final month.
On Tuesday, nevertheless, it was Reese’s flip to play peacemaker as she tried to separate up a scuffle between Rebecca Allen and Rickea Jackson.
In the course of the Sky’s 97-86 win over the Los Angeles Sparks, Reese’s team-mate Allen discovered herself twisted up with Jackson below the basket as they contested a rebound.
The pair exchanged phrases and ultimately got here face-to-face with one another earlier than team-mates swiftly intervened and tried to diffuse the scenario.
Reese was one of many first Sky stars available to assist out and he or she dragged Allen away from her Sparks rival – regardless of her finest makes an attempt to proceed goading Jackson.

Angel Reese discovered herself on the middle of one more wild WNBA brawl on Tuesday

Reese tried to diffuse an on-court scuffle earlier than confronting a Los Angeles Sparks star
Jackson, nevertheless, remained pissed off and Reese ultimately went over to the Sparks star herself for a short dialog earlier than strolling off as soon as once more.
The heated incident comes shortly after Indiana Fever star Clark was hip-checked to the bottom throughout a wild conflict final week.
Tensions rose within the second half of the Fever’s matchup with the Connecticut Solar, when Clark was poked within the eye by Jacy Sheldon.
Connecticut’s Marina Mabrey then escalated the scenario additional as she forcefully bumped Clark to the hardwood.
Clark’s teammates, together with Lexie Hull, obtained into it with Mabrey, because the Fever phenom picked herself up off the hardwood.
Clark and Solar put up participant Tina Charles got dueling technical fouls, in addition to Mabrey receiving her personal technical.
In the meantime, after they met in a fiery WNBA season opener again in Could, Clark and Reese did not want lengthy to reignite their bitter rivalry.
Tempers flared between the 2 ladies’s basketball superstars when Reese took exception to Clark’s laborious foul with 4:38 left within the third quarter.

Caitlin Clark was shoved to the bottom by Marina Mabrey (left) versus the Solar, after being poked within the eye by Jacy Sheldon (far proper)

Clark and Reese went at it in a fiery second throughout their WNBA season opener final month
After Reese grabbed an offensive rebound, Clark slapped the Sky ahead throughout the arm, knocking the ball away and her arch-nemesis to the ground.
Angel, who was visibly livid, shortly jumped up and confronted Caitlin as Fever middle Aliyah Boston jumped in between the 2 gamers.
Following a replay assessment, the referees upgraded the foul to a flagrant one and known as double technical fouls on Boston and Reese. It was Clark’s third private foul.
Throughout an in-game interview with ESPN, the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Yr stated there was ‘nothing malicious’ in regards to the foul and known as it a basketball play.
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