Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese received her first ejection from a WNBA game on Tuesday, but one of her NBA counterparts is willing to stand up and take the financial hit for her.
Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball offered to pay whatever fine Reese gets for the two technical fouls she got in the Sky’s 88-75 loss to the New York Liberty on Tuesday.
“Ref that threw out @Reese10Angel is weak btw,” Ball wrote in a social media post. “You know who you are (Keep ya money Angel I got you).”
Reese appreciated the sentiment.
“appreciate you gang!” she wrote back to Ball with a pair of emojis.
Technical fouls come with a standard fine in the WNBA. For each of the first three technical fouls a player receives in a season, they get hit with a $200 fine. The fines climb up to $400 for each technical foul when a player commits their fourth through sixth technical foul of the season. If a player receives a seventh technical foul during the season, they’re hit with an $800 fine plus a one-game suspension.
Tuesday’s technical fouls were the first two Reese received in her career, so she’s in line to receive a $400 fine.
Reese got the technical fouls after she picked up her fifth foul with just over 2:30 left in Tuesday’s game. She turned her head toward official Charles Watson, appearing to say something before waving her hand as she was whistled for the technical fouls in a matter of seconds. Lead official Maj Forsberg explained to reporters that the technical fouls were called on Reese because she was “disrespectfully addressing” and “waving her hand in dismissal” at Watson.
