Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese got her eighth regular-season technical foul and will be suspended for one game. She will serve her suspension Friday, Sept. 5, when the Sky play the Indiana Fever, assuming that her technical is not rescinded.
Reese got the foul in a 88-64 victory over the Connecticut Sun. Reese, who had 18 points and 13 rebounds, was assessed the technical after contact with Aaliyah Edwards while the two were battling for position. While Edwards was looking up toward the basket, Reese turned and hit Edwards with the back of her hand.
Sky forward Angel Reese (5) drives to the basket against Connecticut Sun forward Haley Peters (7).
By WNBA rule, a player or coach is suspended for one game without pay after receiving an eighth technical foul during the regular season. The player or coach will be automatically suspended for an additional game for every two subsequent technical fouls.
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Reese is leading the league in double-doubles (22), averaging 14.6 points, 12.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game this year.
If Reese doesn’t play, it could be a break for the Fever, who are fighting to keep their playoff hopes alive, 1 1/2 game of the Los Angeles Sparks for the eighth and final playoff spot.00:0000:00Read MoreQUESTION: “Could you break down the reasoning behind the technical foul that was called on Angel Reese?”RICHARDSON: “Yeah, so we had a flail on the court; so we had a non-call on the court and then we went to take a look at it and we deemed that to be a non-basketball act by Reese and we ended up calling the flail an unsportsmanlike technical foul.”QUESTION: “Can you specify what the flail was?”RICHARDSON: “A flail is when her arm hit (Aaliyah Edwards) in the back of the head after the ball went into the basket and it was just deemed to be an unsportsmanlike act. It was the back of the hand to the contact to Edwards.”QUESTION: “What is the difference between what would have been a basketball play versus a non-basketball play as you deemed it?”RICHARDSON: “Any contact to the head like that, we’ll just take a look at that for potential, justfor the severity of the contact. We think it was just an unsportsmanlike act.”WNBA leaders in technical foulsPlayer/CoachTeamTechnicalsAngel ReeseSky8
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