Angel Reese is scoring massive each on and off the court docket.
On Tuesday, April 15, the 22-year-old Chicago Sky basketball participant introduced that she is formally a home-owner.
Subsequent to inexperienced verify emojis, she wrote “Retired my momma” and “Grew to become a home-owner” over a photograph of herself smiling as she stood in a kitchen holding a big cutout of a home key.
“All at 22,” she wrote, including, “So blessed.”
Within the backside proper facet of the picture, Reese wrote, “Knocked off 2 BIG issues off my imaginative and prescient board within the first 4 months of the brand new yr!”
The professional athlete acquired a ton of congratulatory messages throughout her social media platforms.
On X, she seemingly responded to critics who beforehand questioned her previous selections by reposting her accomplishments from a fan web page and including a few messages of her personal.
“They stated ‘she must cowl up’ so i went cowl on VOGUE,” she wrote.
Her message was seemingly in response to naysayers weighing in on her “inappropriate” outfit decisions.
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Reese added, “they stated ‘she will’t afford her hire’ so i went & purchased a home.”
The WNBA star discovered herself on the middle of a debate in October 2024 after she shared that her reported $73,439 wage from the sports activities group was not sufficient to cowl her dwelling bills.
“I simply hope y’all know, the WNBA do not pay my payments in any respect,” Reese advised her followers on X. “I do not even suppose it pays one among my payments, actually.”
“I am dwelling past my means!” she joked about her $8,000 a month hire.
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Following extra criticism about her wage versus her spending habits that very same month, Reese shared a tweet that learn, “Do y’all not see the collaborations and endorsements Angel has? I’m certain she doesn’t see that 8k depart her account.”
“Sister these people don’t use frequent sense in any respect….,” Reese wrote in response.
The basketball star and social media sensation has offers with Reebok, Hershey’s Reese’s Items, Beats by Dr. Dre and Good American. She additionally hosts her personal podcast, Unapologetically Angel.
In January 2025, Reese celebrated her mom, “Mama Angel,” turning one other yr older by paying off her mortgage.
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“Earlier than we sing ‘Completely satisfied Birthday,’ you stated that in case your mortgage was paid off that you’d retire otherwise you received’t work,” the basketball star advised her mother, whose actual identify is Angel Webb Reese, throughout an episode of Unapologetically Angel. “You may decide if you wish to work nonetheless, your mortgage as we speak has been paid.”
After telling her mom that she might nonetheless work to maintain herself busy if she selected, the athlete added: “That was my greatest purpose in life to retire you and pay your mortgage.”