Everyone wants to be a pro baller nowadays, but sometimes life as a famous athlete isn’t all good. As she starts her offseason early due to injury, Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese reflected on whether she would rather be rich than famous, and her answer might surprise her fans or even her haters. In her new podcast, “Unapologetically Angel,” Reese discussed the hardships of WNBA fame with rapper Polo G.
Asked what she wished somebody told her before starting her WNBA career, Angel Reese was forthcoming.
“I’d rather be like rich than famous,” the Sky rookie said, per a snippet uploaded on X, formerly Twitter. “Everybody want to be famous, but like they don’t really know what comes with it? Like, it’s fun, like all the connections and stuff you make, but like sometimes you just want to live a normal life, like we were talking about just being able to walk down the street casually, and not have to always take pictures and sign autographs. Like, sometimes, I just want to live a normal 22-year-old life.”
The former seventh-round pick was already famous before entering the WNBA. She led the LSU Tigers to their first national championship in 2023, where she established a rivalry between Iowa star Caitlin Clark during the title game. This rivalry continued until the two players arrived in the WNBA, where Angel Reese went to the Chicago Sky and Clark went to the Indiana Fever.
Their rivalry even provoked WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert to compare Reese and Clark to Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, who, like the two women, brought more eyes to the product after years in the doldrums. Some of her related comments didn’t sit well with the WNBA Players Association, though.
