LSU’s Angel Reese: I Adore That Caitlin Clark and I Can Compete and ‘Quiet Be Cool’

The rivalry between LSU’s Angel Reese and Iowa’s Caitlin Clark would possibly possibly well presumably even maintain made national headlines throughout the 2023 females’s NCAA Tournament championship game, nonetheless Reese says there must now not any anxious feelings between the opponents.

“I treasure that we’re ready to compete and easy be cool after, with out reference to the skin noise,” Reese told Amanda Lucci of Females’s Health.

“Participants even suppose Magic and Larry Bird, that period and the intention in which it used to be. If that is who we are, then okay, cool.…I comprise about we’re each and every contented about what’s happening.”

Reese went viral closing April after she taunted Clark the exhaust of the identical “that which you’ll well presumably presumably now not stare me” taunt Clark had old in opposition to Louisville throughout an Elite Eight game that Iowa won earlier within the tournament.

The second sparked a national debate and criticism of Reese that Clark later said wasn’t deserved.

“I don’t factor in Angel would possibly possibly well maintain to be criticized at all,” Clark told ESPN’s Michael Voepel after LSU’s championship defend. “I’m factual one which competes, and she competed… Angel is a large, gigantic participant. I even haven’t got anything else nonetheless respect for her.”

Reese and Clark maintain been competing in opposition to one any other since high faculty, when they each and every performed within the Novice Athletic Union (AAU.) Reese has previously expressed hope that the 2 will in the end play for the identical personnel.

For now, Reese and Clark are at the least more likely to stay within the identical league. Clark, the anticipated No. 1 defend shut, and Reese are each and every likely first-spherical picks within the 2024 WNBA draft.