Reese sported a Dennis Rodman jersey ahead of Friday’s game between the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever.
Angel Reese is on pace to have the greatest rebounding season of all time — and she’s dressing like it. Ahead of Friday night’s Chicago Sky game against the Indiana Fever, Reese — who is on the brink of setting a new rebounding record — fittingly arrived in a #10 Dennis Rodman jersey.
We’re catchin’ your drift Angel Reese
— WNBA (@WNBA) August 30, 2024
She rebounds and hustles relentlessly like Dennis Rodman, and we’re living for the whole look rockin’ his jersey pic.twitter.com/ZMo647uIZM
Reese could become the new record-holder for most rebounds in a single season tonight. Sylvia Fowles currently has the all-time record — 404 rebounds in the 2018 season — but Reese is just 16 rebounds away. She’s grabbed 388 rebounds in 30 games this season.
Given that Reese averaged 19 rebounds across her last four games, becoming the all-time leading rebounder tonight — against Caitlin Clark and the Fever — is something that is within reach.
Regardless of whether it happens on Friday, Angel Reese is poised to set a new record, and she’ll do so by a landslide. If she were to continue rebounding at her current 12.9 rebounds per game average, she’d finish the year with 517 rebounds for the season — 113 more than Fowles’s record.
Needless to say, Reese is the league’s leading rebounder this season, and two-time MVP A’ja Wilson is second with 11.7 rebounds per game. She’s currently in a battle with Caitlin Clark for Rookie of the Year — Clark has the edge for most counting stats (and wins), but Reese has had better defensive numbers and has been a historically good rebounding. ESPN has Reese ranked No. 1 in their latest rankings.
The decision to wear a Dennis Rodman jersey ahead of such a big game is a fitting one. Rodman is widely considered one of the great rebounders in the history of the sport — he averaged 13.1 rebounds throughout his 14-year professional career, good for the 11th highest career average in NBA history.
