WNBA deletes post showing Reese, Bueckers wagering | College News
The WNBA has deleted a social media post that seems to show two of its star gamers, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers, making a $400 wager with each other on their groups’ recreation — an act that appears to be in violation of the league’s collective bargaining settlement.
The post was made Wednesday afternoon on X forward of that night time’s recreation between Reese’s Atlanta Dream and Bueckers’ Dallas Wings in Arlington, Texas, and deleted soon after. It featured a video that confirmed Bueckers speaking to a reporter, who mentions that “at All-Star weekend, you and Angel made a bet with each other on this game.”
Bueckers seems to jokingly play dumb. “We did?” she requested.
The video then cuts to footage of Reese and Bueckers, apparently at follow during last weekend’s All-Star festivities in Chicago, joking around and making a pleasant wager with each other on the Dream-Wings recreation later that week.
“If y’all win, you get your 400,” Reese seems to say before including that if Atlanta wins, “you owe me 400.”
A WNBA spokesperson said in a assertion emailed to The Times: “While the social media post was intended to be lighthearted, WNBA players are well aware of the league’s policies prohibiting betting on WNBA games and receive training every year reinforcing those policies. We recognized that the post missed the mark, removed it shortly after it was published, and addressed the matter internally.
“We will also use this as an opportunity to reemphasize with the players involved that conversations about wagering on WNBA games, even when intended as a joke, can have negative consequences.”
Reese had 22 factors and 12 rebounds in her workforce’s 82-81 victory against the Dream. During a postgame news convention, Reese laughed out loud when a reporter made reference to the wager she had with Bueckers.
“Yeah, I’ll be requesting my Apple Pay after this,” Reese said.
Reese also apparently was alluding to the wager when she added the hashtag #cuatrocientos (Spanish for 4 hundred) to an X post later that night time.
Bueckers, who had 16 factors in the loss, was not requested about the wager after the sport.
According to Article XIV, Section 5(c) of the league’s CBA, “Any player found by the Commissioner after a hearing to have been guilty of wagering (directly or indirectly), or of offering or attempting to wager, money or anything of value on the outcome, score, or any other aspect of any WNBA Competition shall, in the sole discretion of the Commissioner, be subject to a fine, suspension, and/or dismissal and disqualification from any further association with the WNBA.”
The Women’s National Basketball Players Assn., the Wings and the Dream didn’t immediately reply to requests for remark.
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