Taken as a whole, the basketball community — men’s and women’s — is a relatively small one. Connections and relationships are key, helping to elevate a player’s game on the court and their standing off of it, when their career ends.
Angel Reese gets this. The Chicago Sky forward is only a rookie, but she has never forgotten her roots, or the people who helped her get to the WNBA — including former LSU Tigers teammate Hailey Van Lith, who recently celebrated an enormous achievement.
The social media-savvy Reese took to X (formerly Twitter) to congratulate Van Lith for making the 3×3 women’s basketball team that will take part in the Summer Olympics in Paris next month. Van Lith is part of an exclusive group going to France in July, and the news came after the guard had a difficult season under Kim Mulkey at LSU.