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What’s Angel Reese’s Net Worth and Salary?

Angel Reese is a professional basketball player from the United States with a net worth estimated at $1.5 million. She played college basketball at both the University of Maryland and Louisiana State University. In the 2024 NBA Draft, she was selected as the seventh pick in the first round and made her debut with the Chicago Sky on May 15, 2024. During her high school career, Reese garnered McDonald’s All-American honors and was ranked the #2 player in her class by ESPN in 2020. While at Louisiana State University, she contributed to the team’s first national championship victory and was named the Most Outstanding Player. Additionally, she established SEC and NCAA single-season records for rebounds and double-doubles, respectively. In her rookie NBA season, Reese was honored as a WNBA All-Star and also represented the United States national team, making her debut at the 2023 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup where the team won a silver medal.

Contracts & Salary

In 2024, Angel signed a four-year contract worth $324,383 with the Chicago Sky, featuring a base salary of $73,439. Comparatively, Caitlin Clark’s rookie WNBA contract was worth $338,056 over four years, with a starting base salary of $76,565.

Endorsements

Angel Reese has secured several lucrative endorsement deals, with her most significant agreements being with Beats by Dre, PlayStation, McDonald’s, Reebok, and Raising Cane’s.

Early Life

Born on May 6, 2002, in Randallstown, Maryland, Angel Reese is the child of Angel and Michael Reese. Her mother played college basketball at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame; she taught Angel the sport. While Reese does not share a close bond with her father, he had a professional basketball career in Austria, Luxembourg, Cyprus, and Portugal. Growing up, she was raised by her mother and maternal grandparents and has a younger brother named Julian who plays basketball at the University of Maryland. Her stepbrother, Mikael Hopkins, and her cousin Jordan Hawkins are both professional basketball players. Young Angel participated successfully in a Baltimore County recreational league, playing on boys’ teams and in older age groups. Initially a point guard, she switched positions following a growth spurt in her freshman year of high school. In addition to basketball, Reese engaged in gymnastics, track, ballet, and swimming. She was also part of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) program, Team Takeover. At St. Frances Academy, where she was a four-year varsity basketball team member, she made the honor roll. In her freshman year, she earned All-Metro first team honors from “The Baltimore Sun” and was named to the High School Nationals all-tournament team, helping her team clinch the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland (IAAM) A Conference title with a 30–1 record.

Reese received All-Metro first team accolades as a sophomore, leading her team to another IAAM A Conference championship. She was named MVP after competing in the Capital Classic. In her junior year, she faced suspension for an incident during a scrimmage but still earned All-Metro Player of the Year recognition after helping her team secure the IAAM A Conference title. During her senior year, the team won the title once more, and she was invited to the Jordan Brand Classic and McDonald’s All-American Game, both of which were ultimately canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Reese was awarded All-Metro Player of the Year and crowned High School Female Athlete of the Year by “The Baltimore Sun.” She concluded her high school career with 1,720 points, the second-highest in school history. Also a volleyball player, she helped her team secure the IAAM C Conference championship in her freshman and sophomore years. Angel received scholarship offers from over 20 NCAA Division I programs and announced her commitment to the University of Maryland in November 2019. At Maryland, she pursued a major in communications, which she later changed to interdisciplinary studies after transferring to Louisiana State University.

College Career

During her freshman year at the University of Maryland, Reese underwent surgery for a fractured foot, which temporarily sidelined her. However, she later contributed to the team’s wins in the Big Ten Conference tournament and regular season titles, averaging 10 points per game and earning a spot on the Big Ten All-Freshman Team. After the season, she progressed to compete in the USA Basketball 3X Nationals, where the Maryland 3×3 team secured a silver medal. As a sophomore, Angel was named to the first-team All-Big Ten and received third-team All-American honors from the AP, averaging 17.8 points per game while becoming the school’s first player to record a double-double average since 1975.

Following her sophomore season, Reese transferred to Louisiana State University, breaking the school’s single-game rebounding record with 28 rebounds shortly after joining the team. She further shattered the record for consecutive double-doubles and earned both All-Defensive Team honors and first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) recognition. Named the Most Outstanding Player of the Greenville Regional 2, she set an SEC rebounding record in the Final Four. Her contributions were pivotal in leading her team to victory in the 2023 NCAA championship, where she also earned Most Outstanding Player honors, setting the NCAA single-season record with 34 double-doubles. Reese garnered first-team All-American honors from the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) and the AP, along with being selected for the WBCA Coaches’ All-America Team. In her junior year, she averaged an impressive 23 points and 15.4 rebounds per game, marking the first player in over 15 seasons to achieve such stats. She was awarded the Corbett Award for Louisiana’s top female amateur athlete.

As her senior season approached, Angel was named preseason SEC Player of the Year and AP preseason All-American. Over her senior year, she claimed the “Sporting News” Athlete of the Year award and the SEC Player of the Year award, while also earning selections to the SEC All-Defensive Team and first-team All-SEC. The team advanced to the Elite Eight during the 2024 NCAA tournament, and the USBWA recognized her with first-team All-American honors alongside WBCA Coaches’ All-American accolades. During her senior season, she averaged 18.6 points per game, and her average of 14.4 rebounds while at LSU is the highest in SEC history. Reese officially declared for the WNBA draft in April 2024.

Professional Career

In the 2024 WNBA Draft, Reese was selected as the seventh overall pick. She made her professional debut with the Chicago Sky on May 15th, scoring 12 points and grabbing eight rebounds. By June 20th, she recorded her seventh consecutive double-double, marking the longest streak by a rookie in the league’s history. When she achieved her tenth consecutive double-double on June 30th, Angel broke the record for the longest single-season streak. She was named Rookie of the Month while averaging 14.5 points and 13.2 rebounds per game. In July, she was chosen to participate in the WNBA All-Star Game, where she scored her 13th straight double-double, breaking the league’s record for the longest double-double streak across multiple seasons. Subsequently, she received recognition as the WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week on July 9th.

Personal Life

Between 2023 and early 2024, Angel was in a relationship with Cam’Ron Fletcher, a basketball player from Florida State. In 2023, she founded the Angel C. Reese Foundation, aiming to provide equal opportunities in sports, education, financial literacy, and other sectors where girls have been historically underrepresented. By May 2024, she had become a part-owner of DC Power FC, a professional soccer team competing in the USL Super League.

Awards and Career Highlights

Angel has received several accolades, including the BET Awards’ Sportswoman of the Year in 2023 and 2024, as well as the Best Breakthrough Athlete award at the 2023 ESPY Awards. She was a member of the Big Ten All-Freshman Team in 2021, named to the Big Ten All-Defensive Team and First-team All-Big Ten in 2022, and made the First-team All-SEC and SEC All-Defensive Team in 2023 and 2024. In 2020, Reese was recognized as a McDonald’s All-American and earned Third-team All-American honors (AP) in 2022, First-team All-American (AP) and Unanimous first-team All-American in 2023, and First-team All-American (USBWA) and WBCA Coaches’ All-American in 2023 and 2024. Notably, she received the Most Outstanding Player award in the 2023 NCAA Tournament and was named SEC Player of the Year in 2024 and honored as a WNBA All-Star.