Two-time Chicago Sky All-Star power forward Angel Reese has drawn understandable comparisons to a former Chicago Bulls superstar.
Although her Sky are stuck in a second straight lottery-bound seasonal spiral, Reese has been enjoying another solid individual run in 2025 — when healthy, at least.
Now, Reese is earning comparisons to an ex-Chicago legend.
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NBA insider Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson also sees the game of another Hall of Fame forward in Reese’s play — Hall of Fame Los Angeles Lakers forward James Worthy. Like Reese (and Rodman), Worthy was a fastbreaking super-athlete who did his best work around the bucket.
Angel Reese is already a double-double machine — but which NBA legend does her game resemble?
I say @JamesWorthy42! Lakers HOF’er @ShowtimeCooper sees it too! @Reese10Angel tells me she’ll be watching game tape of the Lakers Hall of Famer.
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— 👑 Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson (@ScoopB) August 22, 2025
“I haven’t watched much of his game, but now that I know I’ll go back and watch some clips of him,” Reese said of Worthy during a postgame presser after her lottery-bound Sky played spoiler to the contending champion New York Liberty on Thursday.
Reese notched a 21-point, 10-rebound double-double. Fellow 2024 draftee and NCAA champ Kamilla Cardoso logged a 22-point, 15-board double-double of her own in the 91-85 win.
In 26 healthy contests for the 9-27 Sky this year, the 6-foot-3 LSU product is averaging 14.5 points on a career-best 46.4 percent field goal shooting and 77.8 percent free throw shooting, 12.2 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.3 steals and 0.6 blocks in 31.3 minutes.
She struggled mightily with even putbacks at the start of her second pro season, but her finishing in the post has at least improved of late. Still, Reese acknowledges her offensive game could use a bit more fleshing out.
“I mean nobody’s giving me jump shots. It’s not like I’m passing up jump shots,” Reese said. “Everybody’s guarding me up so I’m going to blow by them every chance that they get. The shots that I’ve taken this year when they have backed off me I have taken the shot either made it or or I missed it. So I know I’m just continuing to get better and just continue to build confidence.”
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One Chicago Hall of Famer on the men’s side, at least, made a big impact on Reese’s game. And he couldn’t shoot much, either. But that didn’t stop him from winning five championships, being named the Defensive Player of the Year twice, or making eight All-Defensive teams and a pair of All-Star and All-NBA squads.
“I watched Dennis Rodman,” Reese told Robinson.
The 6-foot-7 Southeastern Oklahoma State University wasn’t much of a jump shooter, either, and was less of a scorer. He only averaged double-digit points once in his career, in 1987-88.
“You always need a player that’s on a team that’s willing to do the dirty work and I’m always willing to do the dirty work however I got to get it,” Reese said. “We have great stars on our team that can do a lot of great things but I mean not a lot of times people want to do the dirty work. So I’m willing to go in there and get a black eye. I mean, I’ve been injured a lot so obviously, I’m in there banging for sure.”
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