Angel Reese Expresses After-Injury Support for Fellow WNBA Rookie Cameron Brink
When Angel Reese witnessed Los Angeles Sparks forward Cameron Brink being carried off the court on Tuesday night, she did not think twice to show her support for him. The rookie Chicago Sky player expressed her worries on social media.
Brink was hurt when he went to the ground in the first four minutes of the first quarter during the Sparks’ loss to the Connecticut Sun. The rookie did not return to the game and needed to be helped off the floor.
Regretfully, the Sparks announced some unfavorable information on Wednesday. In her left leg, Brink sustained an ACL tear. The rookie’s first WNBA season has probably come to an end, even though Los Angeles has not commented further on the situation as of yet.
In her 15 games as a rookie with the Sparks, Brink has started every game. She averages 7.5 points, 2.3 blocks, and 5.3 rebounds per game in the WNBA, demonstrating her strength as a defensive player. Her average number of steals per game is 1.1 as well.
Although Brink has been consistent throughout the season in Los Angeles, on June 7 she recorded her first double-double in the WNBA with one of her best games in an 81-72 victory over the Dallas Wings. She had ten points, ten rebounds, and three blocks at the end of the game.
The rookie also had her top offensive performance on May 26, scoring a season-high 21 points in an 84-83 loss to the Wings.
In the 2024 WNBA Draft, Reese was chosen at number seven overall, and Brink was chosen at number two. The two rookies obviously have a great deal of respect for one another, despite their intense competition on the court.
An occasionally amiable columnist arrived at Sky practice on Tuesday, eager to introduce herself to rookie Angel Reese. She wanted to talk to her about life at 22, about taking a big bite out of it with a new job, new city, happiness, homesickness, fears, and dreams.
Writers for columns also dream, usually about revealing interviews like that.
Nowhere on the to-do list was addressing any of the things Reese has said, done, or been accused of saying or doing that have brought critics out of the woodwork and the worst of them out from under their rocks to sling vile and abusive insults and epithets—mmany of them straight-up racist—aat her.
She might benefit from a vacation from all of that, it was thought. It would have to be sufficient punishment to meet and respond to a well-meaning intruder’s questions.
The word “catastrophe” immediately sprang to mind because it went so well.
Soon after, it became evident that brief responses, usually consisting of one or two words, were the norm. And that, despite the fact that Reese had essentially dismissed a few questions with a dismissive “I am good,” something was amiss.
However, she was not very good. When the conversation, as it was, got off to such an unlucky start, she was asked if she knew why.
