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Report – Sky Fire Teresa Weatherspoon after one season as coach

Report – Sky Fire Teresa Weatherspoon after one season as coach

Vaseline 1 month ago

The Chicago Sky fired head coach Teresa Weatherspoon after just one season with the team, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday night, citing multiple league sources.

Sky rookie star Angel Reese appeared to confirm the news on social media, saying she was ‘heartbroken’.

Weatherspoon was hired on October 12 and led the Sky to a 13-27 record. Chicago remained in the playoff position for much of the second half of the season, despite struggling with a 3–13 record after the Olympic break. Ultimately, losing Reese to a wrist injury on September 7 was too much to overcome.

Reese had a strong season, setting a WNBA record with 15 consecutive double-doubles. Reese, the No. 7 draft pick out of LSU, averaged 13.6 points and 13.1 rebounds in 34 games. She thanked Weatherspoon in an emotional post on X on Thursday evening.

“I am literally at a loss for words knowing what this woman meant to me at such a pivotal point in my life,” Reese wrote. “She was the only person who believed in me. The one who trusted me. Many don’t even know what it’s like to be a black woman in sports when no one believes in you. You had a tough job. All the crazy circumstances that that we went through this year and when your back was against the wall, you always believed.

“I came to Chicago because of YOU. You were an unsung hero in my life. In a short time we built a relationship that will last forever.”

Weatherspoon played in the WNBA from 1997, the league’s first year, to 2004, with seven seasons in New York and one in Los Angeles. She has also coached at the college level, at her alma mater, Louisiana Tech, and in the NBA with the New Orleans Pelicans.