Just when the sports world thinks it has Angel Reese figured out, she changes the script entirely. The LSU star-turned-WNBA standout has never been content to exist in one lane, building a brand that stretches far beyond the basketball court. Whether she’s launching business ventures, making bold fashion statements, or stepping into new media spaces, Reese has made a career out of keeping fans guessing.

Now she’s unveiling her most surprising move yet, and it has nothing to do with hoops.

“The list goes on: a model, a podcaster, an actress. I’m going to be a chef. I am actually gonna start culinary school soon,” said Angel Reese when asked what other career alternatives she would have pursued had she not been a basketball player by Women’s Health Australia.

The fact that a player like Angel Reese would now go to culinary school to refine her cooking skills wasn’t a life update people were expecting, and it took many by surprise. Well, that was also the only one left on her bucket list as she had already modeled for top brands, including Victoria’s Secret, started her own podcast channel,” Unapologetically Angel” in 2024, and lent her voice to the upcoming movie Goat.

And now what awaits us is seeing Angel Reese go in full chef mode, educating us with her hidden Gordon Ramsay-style of gastronomy. Well, she certainly has the time on her hands as the WNBA and WNBPA are still engrossed in finding a suitable solution to getting the CBA deal done.

WNBA Submits Latest Proposal To The WNBPA

The league has recently put forward a proposal after months of deliberation. This new proposal offered concessions on player housing and facility standards, which the players had been demanding for a long time.

First-year players and players on a minimum salary would be provided a one-bedroom apartment for the first three years of the CBA, while developmental players would be provided a studio apartment, a source familiar with the negotiations confirmed to CBS Sports.

Well, though this housing arrangement isn’t entirely new and has been part of the program since 1999, there will be an upgrade: the accommodations won’t be as basic as before.

This proposal came right after the Feb 2 meeting, when the league did not come up with anything, and the two parties just spent the meeting glossing over the same objectives. Though the league has not answered most of the players’ union’s questions, it has somewhat resolved the housing issues many players faced.

The latest salary cap agreed by the league is around $5.65 million in 2026, a close source to CBS Sports revealed, considerably higher than the WNBA’s 2025 salary cap of about $1.5 million. The minimum salary back then was around $66,000, and the supermax was about $250,000.

But the main problem is that the two sides are yet to see eye to eye on the new CBA, in which the WNBPA is explicitly asking for 30% of gross revenue, moving the salary cap in 2026 to around $10.5 million and a max salary around $2.5 million. The league is still mum on the matter, and that is pushing back the dates.

Just getting the deal won’t automatically start the season, as there’s a double expansion draft for the Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire that has to be handled, and time is slipping through the fingers like water with all these unnecessary delays.

In that case, the waiting period might get a bit longer, and in the worst-case scenario, there just might not be a WNBA 2026 season after all. Angel Reese will probably get more time to level up her cooking skills then.