Annie Costabile
Chicago Sky + Red Stars reporter
Annie Costabile covers the Chicago Sky and Red Stars for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve has her team among the top three in the league standings, and she’s doing it with two players the Sky let slip away in free agency: Courtney Williams and Alanna Smith.
Waiving Gondrezick brings the Sky’s roster to 10 available players, with Elizabeth Williams having season-ending surgery on her right meniscus this week. It’s unlikely the Sky will sign anyone ahead of their game against the Lynx on Sunday.
Reese finished with 18 points and 11 rebounds, becoming the youngest player in WNBA history to have nine consecutive double-doubles. She tied Candace Parker for most consecutive double-doubles in a season.
Hammon credited Weatherspoon for setting a standard that she was forced to meet as a rookie. Now, in her rookie year as a coach in the WNBA, Weatherspoon is looking at her “little sister” as the standard.
Thursday will be her biggest test so far when she’ll be matched up against Wilson, the two-time champion and league MVP, who leads the league in points and rebounds.
Johnson said he is reminded of his and Bird’s impact on the NBA by Reese and Clark and the similar attention they are bringing to the WNBA.
Just one week after the Sky and Fever drew the WNBA’s biggest TV audience in 23 years — 2.25 million viewers on CBS — the teams broke ESPN’s WNBA viewership record with 2.3 million watching at home.
Reese has 25 points, 16 rebounds — her eighth straight double-double — to lead Sky past rival Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.
The game was a sellout with 10,387 fans, including actor/comedian Jason Sudeikis, Bears linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, Knicks guard Jalen Brunson and Chance the Rapper.