Wnba Deletes Post That Appears To Show Angel Reese And Paige Bueckers Wagering On Dream-wings Game

The WNBA has deleted a societal media station that appears to show 2 of its prima players, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers, making a $400 stake pinch each different connected their teams’ crippled — an enactment that seems to beryllium successful usurpation of nan league’s corporate bargaining agreement.

The post was made Wednesday day connected X up of that night’s crippled betwixt Reese’s Atlanta Dream and Bueckers’ Dallas Wings successful Arlington, Texas, and deleted soon after. It featured a video that showed Bueckers talking to a reporter, who mentions that “at All-Star weekend, you and Angel made a stake pinch each different connected this game.”

Bueckers appears to jokingly play dumb. “We did?” she asked.

The video past cuts to footage of Reese and Bueckers, apparently astatine believe during last weekend’s All-Star festivities successful Chicago, joking astir and making a friends wager pinch each different connected nan Dream-Wings crippled later that week.

“If y’all win, you get your 400,” Reese appears to opportunity earlier adding that if Atlanta wins, “you beryllium maine 400.”

Reese had 22 points and 12 rebounds successful her team’s 82-81 triumph against nan Dream. During a postgame news conference, Reese laughed retired large erstwhile a newsman made reference to nan wager she had pinch Bueckers.

“Yeah, I’ll beryllium requesting my Apple Pay aft this,” Reese said.

Reese besides apparently was alluding to nan stake erstwhile she added nan hashtag #cuatrocientos (Spanish for 4 hundred) to an X station later that night.

Bueckers, who had 16 points successful nan loss, was not asked astir nan stake aft nan game.

According to Article XIV, Section 5(c) of nan league’s CBA, “Any subordinate recovered by nan Commissioner aft a proceeding to person been blameworthy of wagering (directly aliases indirectly), aliases of offering aliases attempting to wager, money aliases thing of worth connected nan outcome, score, aliases immoderate different facet of immoderate WNBA Competition shall, successful nan sole discretion of nan Commissioner, beryllium taxable to a fine, suspension, and/or dismissal and disqualification from immoderate further relation pinch nan WNBA.”

The WNBA, nan Women’s National Basketball Players Assn., nan Wings and nan Dream did not instantly respond to questions regarding imaginable disciplinary action against Reese and Bueckers.