Chicago Sky Veteran Acts Fast With Unfiltered Response to Angel Reese’s Age Taunt

The Sky have been missing a steady point guard, and it’s shown. Courtney Vandersloot’s comeback this year was meant to change that, but an ACL tear limited her to just seven games. So, as the 2025 season wraps up, while others chase playoff glory, Chicago’s already drafting next year’s script. The big cliffhanger, all thanks to Angel Reese? Whether Vandersloot will even make a return appearance.

In her infamous interview with the Chicago Tribune, Angel Reese had said, “We can’t rely on Courtney to come back at the age that she’s at. I know she’ll be a great asset for us, but we can’t rely on that. We need someone, probably a little younger with some experience, somebody who’s been playing the game and is willing to compete for a championship and has done it before.”

To be fair, plenty of people shared those doubts. An ACL tear is always tough, but at the tail end of a career, it raises even bigger question marks. Add to that the numbers: the average WNBA player is just 28, and the typical career doesn’t stretch much beyond five years. Sobering, if not surprising. But, as Diana Taurasi once said, “why can’t old people dream, too? What, there’s an age limit to being great?” Now, Vandersloot, drafted in 2011 and with a 14-year career behind her, is choosing to take and prove the motto right.

In a recent statement, Courtney Vandersloot seems to have rebuffed all the claims about her age and reaffirmed her desire to come back next year and be the Chicago Sky’s point guard. “Contrary to what people or say, or think, my age is actually not a factor,” Vandersloot said. “I am coming back. I’m going to come back better than ever, because that’s what I’ve done. I’ve put myself in the position to come back and compete, even at this age.”

Courtney Vandersloot, who will be 37 by the time next season begins, returned to the Chicago Sky after playing two seasons with the New York Liberty. Before joining the Liberty, Vandersloot had spent 12 years with the Chicago Sky. She had the ball-handling duties during the team’s lone championship-winning season in 2021. In the 2025 season, she returned with hopes of mirroring her partnership with Candace Parker. However, due to the injury early on in the season, we could not witness how her pairing with Angel Reese would have been.

And Vandersloot isn’t the only one with a blunt take. “I think I just don’t really care. I’m so over all of this s—. If I was younger, it would have affected me more. But I’m grown and I just don’t care… We just here trying to do our jobs on a day-to-day,” Ariel Atkins had said. While Rachel Banham said that she was “blindsided” by Reese’s comments. However, Elizabeth Williams did have a really measured take, saying, “[Reese] obviously doesn’t want to disrespect us or anything like that. Ultimately I think the goal of [the interview] was just to share things she wanted to see in the future for the team and improvements that could be made”. 

“She just has to be mindful of the language she uses,” Williams had added and Reese reflected that later in her apology, saying that her words were taken out of context because she didn’t use them carefully. Yet, with the season still ongoing, many WNBA insiders were against the timing of her comments rather than her words. The after-effects of her comments also resulted in a half-game suspension for Angel Reese.

Now, there are talks of the Chicago Sky potentially moving on from Reese after her detrimental comments, as Annie Costabile of FOS had reported. However, Reese’s mother has once again jumped in the defense of her daughter.

Will the Chicago Sky part ways with Angel Reese?

There is a belief among some sources that Reese’s future in Chicago may not be reparable,” Costabile wrote in her report. She also posted her article on X, which was titled, “Angel Reese’s Sky Future Uncertain After Torching Teammates”.

Then, on Wednesday, September 3, Angel Webb Reese shared her thoughts on X, making her feelings public. “A LIE DON’T CARE WHO (TELLS) IT!!!,” she wrote. Mother Reese didn’t offer any additional explanation, but fans quickly linked the post to the comments made by Front Office Sports journalist Costabile.

Now, Webb Reese is famously quick to defend her daughter, so fans’ assumptions aren’t surprising. Yet, with Costabile’s track record of accurate reporting clashing with Reese’s mother apparently labeling the claims as false, the offseason is shaping up to be packed with drama.