Shaq shocks Angel Reese by saying she ought to put on revealing garments in video games to earn more money

As a fan of ladies’s basketball, Shaquille O’Neal has his personal concepts about easy methods to generate extra curiosity within the WNBA. He shared a kind of concepts with Chicago Sky rookie star Angel Reese, and he bought a hostile response. 

Throughout an interview on Reese’s podcast “Unapologetically Angel” this week, O’Neal introduced up an outfit Reese wore off the court docket and referenced it as a possible enterprise technique for Reese and others to promote extra merchandise. 

The outfit O’Neal referenced was a grey long-sleeve prime with brief, grey shorts Reese wore throughout an look on “Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘n Out,” a sketch comedy and battle rap improv sport present. 

“Think about you had on the identical little shorts you had on at ‘Wild ‘n Out’ present dunking. What number of T-shirts you gon’ promote?” O’Neal steered to Reese throughout the podcast. 

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Angel Reese attends Recreation 5 of the 2024 WNBA Finals between the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty Oct. 20, 2024, in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Melanie Fidler/NBAE through Getty Photographs)

The suggestion prompted an impassioned response from Reese, who raised her voice and exclaimed that she’s “not imagining something!” 

However O’Neal was insistent. 

“The identical little shorts you had on at ‘Wild ‘n Out.’ … I am simply saying,” he repeated. 

Reese did not wait lengthy to close the dialog down and alter the subject, yelling “OK, all proper, all proper, all proper” to interrupt and cease him from persevering with. 

O’Neal’s feedback got here after he had steered one other approach to enhance WNBA viewership can be to decrease the basket, so extra gamers may dunk. 

“Bro, initially, I like how y’all are beginning to get into vogue,” Shaq mentioned. “Bro, a reasonably woman dunking on the rim? I’m watching that every one day.”

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Reese pushed again, saying she didn’t imagine ladies dunking was going to make a lot of a distinction and hates “when males say that.”

“I really feel prefer it nonetheless wouldn’t be ok. It’s by no means ok,” Reese mentioned. “Folks at all times disrespect ladies regardless. They’re at all times going to not give us the identical worth as a person. So I don’t suppose that.”

Reese’s look on “Wild ‘n Out” drew blended evaluations from followers. 

Hip-hop artist and media mogul Joe Budden spoke out in opposition to Reese for making the looks and drawing off-court controversy to herself throughout an episode “The Joe Budden Podcast.” 

“I’ve seen Angel Reese wildin’ out. I do not know if I’ve seen her on ‘Wild ’n Out,'” Budden mentioned. “Angel Reese will not sit her f—-in’ a– down. … She will not go sit down someplace for a second. There’s worth in it.

“That is going to sound like I am telling ladies what to do. However I ain’t.”

Angel Reese of Staff WNBA throughout a sport in opposition to the USA Basketball ladies’s crew throughout the 2024 WNBA All-Star Recreation July 20, 2024, at Footprint Middle in Phoenix, Ariz. (Tyler Kaufman/NBAE through Getty Photographs)

Budden additionally in contrast Reese’s off-the-court habits to her longtime rival and fellow rookie star Caitlin Clark’s.

“Whoever [Reese] bought is telling her to go pop up in every single place. That is not what Caitlin Clark’s persons are saying, to not make it racial. … We simply on some star rookie s— now,” he mentioned. 

Reese’s willingness to specific herself regardless of the concern of public backlash dates again to her efficiency within the 2023 NCAA ladies’s basketball championship sport, when her LSU Tigers beat Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes for the title that 12 months. 

On the finish of the sport, Reese mocked Clark by pointing at her finger to remind her who was getting the championship ring. It was a second that went viral and sparked a heated debate between Reese followers and Clark followers that has solely gotten hotter as they’ve made it by means of their first WNBA season. 

Reese launched her personal podcast earlier than she was even finished along with her rookie season and has stored releasing episodes each week even after her WNBA season ended early attributable to a wrist harm in early September. 

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Angel Reese, proper, and Caitlin Clark throughout the second half June 23, 2024 at Wintrust Enviornment in Chicago.  (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs)

The podcast has stirred controversy a number of instances, together with the primary episode when she spoke out in opposition to followers of rival participant Caitlin Clark, alleging that they had despatched her loss of life threats and made specific AI photographs of her and despatched them to her household. 

In her most up-to-date episode, Reese interviewed the ex-girlfriend of Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce about their previous relationship. The interview drew a flurry of criticism, notably from followers of Kelce’s new girlfriend, Taylor Swift. 

Nonetheless, Reese’s presence and persona has drawn extra consideration and followers to ladies’s basketball, even when she hasn’t altered her wardrobe on the court docket but. Whereas Clark is credited as being primarily liable for the latest explosion in reputation for ladies’s basketball on the school and professional ranges, the Reese-Clark rivalry has added one other dimension and draw for followers. 

Reese has extra followers on social media than Clark, with 1.4 million extra followers on Instagram, 170,700 extra followers on X and a staggering 4.11 million extra on TikTok. Reese’s willingness to specific herself off the court docket might be an enormous cause why. Clark has been extra reserved as a professional. 

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