Shaq shocks Angel Reese by saying she should wear revealing clothes in games to make more money

As a instrumentality of women's basketball, Shaquille O'Neal has his ain ideas astir really to make much liking successful nan WNBA. He shared 1 of those ideas pinch Chicago Sky rookie prima Angel Reese, and he sewage a dispute response. 

During an question and reply connected Reese's podcast "Unapologetically Angel" this week, O'Neal brought up an outfit Reese wore disconnected nan tribunal and referenced it arsenic a imaginable business strategy for Reese and others to waste much merchandise. 

The outfit O'Neal referenced was a grey long-sleeve apical pinch short, grey shorts Reese wore during an quality connected "Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'n Out," a sketch drama and conflict rap improv crippled show. 

"Imagine you had connected nan aforesaid small shorts you had connected astatine ‘Wild 'n Out’ show dunking. How galore T-shirts you gon’ sell?" O'Neal suggested to Reese during nan podcast. 

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Angel Reese attends Game 5 of nan 2024 WNBA Finals betwixt nan Minnesota Lynx and nan New York Liberty Oct. 20, 2024, successful Brooklyn, N.Y. (Melanie Fidler/NBAE via Getty Images)

The proposal prompted an impassioned consequence from Reese, who raised her sound and exclaimed that she's "not imagining anything!" 

But O'Neal was insistent. 

"The aforesaid small shorts you had connected astatine 'Wild ‘n Out.’ ... I'm conscionable saying," he repeated. 

Reese didn't hold agelong to unopen nan speech down and alteration nan topic, yelling "OK, each right, each right, each right" to interrupt and extremity him from continuing. 

O'Neal's comments came aft he had suggested different measurement to amended WNBA viewership would beryllium to little nan basket, truthful much players could dunk. 

"Bro, first of all, I for illustration really y’all are starting to get into fashion," Shaq said. "Bro, a beautiful woman dunking connected nan rim? I’m watching that each day."

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Reese pushed back, saying she did not judge women dunking was going to make overmuch of a quality and hates "when men opportunity that."

"I consciousness for illustration it still wouldn’t beryllium bully enough. It’s ne'er bully enough," Reese said. "People ever disrespect women regardless. They are ever going to not springiness america nan aforesaid worth arsenic a man. So I don’t deliberation that."

Reese's quality connected "Wild 'n Out" drew mixed reviews from fans. 

Hip-hop creator and media mogul Joe Budden said retired against Reese for making nan quality and drafting off-court contention to herself during an section "The Joe Budden Podcast." 

"I've seen Angel Reese wildin' out. I don't cognize if I've seen her connected ‘Wild ’n Out,'" Budden said. "Angel Reese won't beryllium her f----in' a-- down. ... She won't spell beryllium down location for a second. There's worth successful it.

"This is going to sound for illustration I'm telling women what to do. But I ain't."

Angel Reese of Team WNBA during a crippled against nan USA Basketball women's squad during nan 2024 WNBA All-Star Game July 20, 2024, astatine Footprint Center successful Phoenix, Ariz. (Tyler Kaufman/NBAE via Getty Images)

Budden besides compared Reese's off-the-court habits to her longtime rival and chap rookie prima Caitlin Clark's.

"Whoever [Reese] sewage is telling her to spell popular up everywhere. That's not what Caitlin Clark's group are saying, not to make it racial. ... We conscionable connected immoderate prima rookie s--- now," he said. 

Reese's willingness to definitive herself contempt nan fearfulness of nationalist backlash dates backmost to her capacity successful nan 2023 NCAA women's hoops title game, erstwhile her LSU Tigers hit Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes for nan title that year. 

At nan extremity of nan game, Reese mocked Clark by pointing astatine her digit to punctual her who was getting nan title ring. It was a infinitesimal that went viral and sparked a heated statement betwixt Reese fans and Clark fans that has only gotten hotter arsenic they've made it done their first WNBA season. 

Reese launched her ain podcast earlier she was moreover done pinch her rookie play and has kept releasing episodes each week moreover aft her WNBA play ended early owed to a wrist wounded successful early September. 

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Angel Reese, right, and Caitlin Clark during nan 2nd half June 23, 2024 astatine Wintrust Arena successful Chicago.  (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The podcast has stirred contention aggregate times, including nan first section erstwhile she said retired against fans of rival subordinate Caitlin Clark, alleging they had sent her decease threats and made definitive AI images of her and sent them to her family. 

In her astir caller episode, Reese interviewed nan ex-girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs tight extremity Travis Kelce astir their past relationship. The question and reply drew a flurry of criticism, peculiarly from fans of Kelce's caller girlfriend, Taylor Swift. 

Still, Reese's beingness and characteristic has drawn much attraction and fans to women's basketball, moreover if she hasn't altered her wardrobe connected nan tribunal yet. While Clark is credited arsenic being chiefly responsible for nan caller detonation successful fame for women's hoops astatine nan assemblage and pro levels, nan Reese-Clark rivalry has added different magnitude and tie for fans. 

Reese has much followers connected societal media than Clark, pinch 1.4 cardinal much followers connected Instagram, 170,700 much followers connected X and a staggering 4.11 cardinal much connected TikTok. Reese's willingness to definitive herself disconnected nan tribunal could beryllium a large logic why. Clark has been much reserved arsenic a pro. 

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