How stunning Angel Reese trade impacts Caitlin Clark's Fever
Is the rivalry over?
How stunning Angel Reese trade impacts Caitlin Clark's Fever originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Angel Reese is a member of the Chicago Sky no longer.
While Caitlin Clark gets set to lead the Indiana Fever into the 2026 season, Reese is joining her second WNBA team in three seasons. Traded to the Atlanta Dream in a shocking deal on Monday, Reese joins a loaded team that is pursuing its first championship since it joined the WNBA in 2008. MORE: Angel Reese trade details With Reese no longer in Chicago, does that bring an end to her "rivalry" with Clark, one that began when Clark played at the University of Iowa and Reese starred for LSU?
The short answer is "no. " On the contrary: the on-court rivalry might become more intense than ever. The Dream and the Fever are scheduled to meet four times in the 2026 regular season, beginning with a Commissioner's Cup game on June 4.
Those games come after an intense first-round playoff series in 2025, in which the sixth-seeded Fever upset the odds and eliminated the third-seeded Dream in three games. Though Reese has left a geographic rival of the Fever, she is joining a competitive rival that will stand in Indiana's way as it tries to reach the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2015. The Dream's Finals drought is even longer: Atlanta last reached the championship series in 2013, when Reese was 11 years old.