Angel Reese Joked About WNBA Wage After Incomes Bonus With Unequalled Championship

Angel Reese was one of the big winners of the inaugural season of Unequalled, the three-on-three ladies’s league that debuted this winter in Miami. She won the first-ever Defensive Player of the Year award for the league and her workforce, Rose BC, won the first-ever championship. Reese was unable to play within the title sport resulting from a wrist harm however merely being on the roster comes with its benefits, each historic and monetary.

Together with the dignity of being on the primary Unequalled championship workforce ever, Reese took dwelling a $50,000 bonus. She celebrated the big win and her further earnings on her X account on Monday evening, tweeting “50K NEED DATTTTT” shortly after Rose BC defeated Vinyl.

This drew a response from WNBA veteran and Indiana Fever guard Sydney Colson, who joked that she’d be keen to hold onto that cash for Reese if she wanted to do away with it. Reese responded in sort, making a crack about her needing that cash resulting from her WNBA rookie wage.

“hey sista. i’m doing effectively. simply received 50k on a flight,” Reese stated on X. “I do know you might be VERY conscious & i’m sorry to interrupt it to you however i’m on a rookie contract & that 50k was just a little greater than half of my contract so I’ve to maintain that to myself…. sorry give me a couple of years and that i gotchu. be effectively”

Reese, who was picked seventh within the 2024 WNBA draft by the Chicago Sky, signed a four-year deal value $324,383 upon coming into the league. Which makes her common annual wage about $81,000. Fast math says she earned greater than two-thirds of her rookie wage from the Unequalled championship.

It’s comprehensible, then, that she’d wish to grasp onto that money.