I mean, it it's it's it's bad product. It is bad bad product. And you guys cannot expect the fans to stick around for this.
Shout out to Caitlyn Clark for trying to go out there and put on a show. Shout out to her for trying to go out there and put on a show. Marina Mabberry, you had Clark pulling up from the parking lot.
You know, she did what she could do. She tried to entertain the people. you know, but I mean I mean again overall it's bad product.
You got Angel Reese missing layups. You got I mean shout out to Dominique Malanga for the dunk. That was fire.
Clean flush outside of Caitlyn Clark early flurry. She actually tried I actually saw Caitlyn Clark playing offense and defense. She was actually trying to get steals.
She actually played somewhat hard. Andrew Wilson admits it. I was trying to get out of the way.
A Asia Wilson says I was trying to get out of the way. It's the Allar game. Asia Wilson was ready for the You ever blocked a shot that you didn't mean to block, right?
I Angel was not supposed to do that. I was trying to get out of the way. I do not like to block shots um during Allstar games cuz what am I doing?
Um so yeah, no, I've never had that happen to me and I'm so sorry. Angel Ree showed up to the 2026 All-Star game at the United Center and barely played like she wanted to be there at all. And now, less than 48 hours after that game wrapped, the chatter inside League circles isn't about whether she gets picked again next year.
It's about whether anybody actually wants her back on that stage in the first place. The clumsiest player ever, sloth [screaming] down once again. Why can Angel Reese not stay up on her own two feet and always on the floor, man?
Is it those shitty rebots? What is it? You always on the ground like the piece of trash that you are.
Look at you. The clumsiest player ever. Always tripping over her own two feet.
Always flopping on the floor. Shoes always coming off. Angel Reese, you need to go get checked out slow.
This was supposed to be the one night all season where Reese and Caitlyn Clark finally shared the same court under fair, neutral conditions. No home crowd tilting anything. No coach protecting her minutes, just cameras, a stacked roster, and every player getting evaluated on what they actually brought that night.
That's the whole point of an All-Star game. Strip away the regular season noise, and just watch who actually competes when the format gives everyone an equal shot at the spotlight. As Dude, a [laughter] Asia Wilson is like, "Dude, just go make a layup, please.
Like, just can we get this over with? Please, just make a layup. " Angel Reese doesn't look at and she gets blocked.
Asia Wilson looks at her and laughs in her face. Folks, this is how bad this is how bad Folks, how does this even happen? How does this even happen?
And for Ree specifically, this was supposed to matter even more than it did for most of the other players in that locker room. [music] She'd spent the weeks leading up to the game publicly unhappy about getting snubbed from the starting lineup, calling the whole selection process disrespectful. So, walking into United Center, she had every reason in the world to come out and make a statement.
Prove the doubters wrong. Show the league she belonged in that starting five after all. Instead, what fans got was a performance that did the exact opposite of proving anything.
My goodness was the arrival of Barbie. And after she arrived, she took the court. And Asia Wilson, well, let's just say she got the best of Angel Ree.
Angel Reese was so bad that Asia Wilson literally blocked one of her shots. Didn't even mean to. Didn't even mean to.
Was trying not to really play any defense on her. And all Asia could do was laugh. What she brought was a string of missed-free layups that a middle school player would be embarrassed by.
Uncontested looks under the rim. The kind of shot she's built her entire reputation on finishing. And she kept clanking them off the front of the iron.
No hand in her face, no traffic, just Reese, an open rim, and a shot that wouldn't fall. That's not bad luck. That's a player who looked completely disengaged from the moment the ball tipped off.
It's worth pointing out how basic these misses actually were. This wasn't a contested fadeaway or a tough angle in traffic where you can chalk it up to a defender doing their job. Then there's the sequence everyone's replaying today.
Reese got what looked like a completely free run at the basket. The kind of breakaway that's basically a layup line drill in an exhibition setting where nobody's supposed to actually defend hard. Asia Wilson trailed the play and by her own account afterward, she wasn't even trying to contest it.
Play the an clip. I mean the age of Ree clip. I mean just just terrible.
Like, what the hell is that? What is that? Asia Wilson is laughing at her like, "How did you even do that?
We know you mess up all the time, but how did you how did you muster up that? How did you find a way to do that? " Look, she wants that.
I mean I mean come on girl. I mean Wilson has said flat out that she was actually trying to get out of the way rather than step in and block the shot, which is standard all-star etiquette when someone's got a clean run to the rim. And she still ended up swatting it clean off the glass.
Reese then tripped over her own feet, jogging back down the floor, stumbling in a way that had nothing to do with contact or a defender being in her path. Think about how rare that actually is. Asia Wilson is one of the most respected veterans in the league.
Someone who's played in this exact exhibition setting for years and knows exactly how to hold back and let a scorer through. For her to still end up blocking the shot purely by accident tells you everything about how slow and unprepared Reese looked on that specific play. This wasn't a defender playing hard.
This was a defender actively trying not to interfere and Reese still couldn't get past her. Block the shot that you didn't mean to block. I Angel was not supposed to do that.
[music] I was trying to get out of the do not like to block shots um during allar games cuz what am I doing? Um so yeah, no, I've never [music] had that happen to me and I'm so sorry. Wilson apologized for it after the final buzzer.
She said she doesn't like blocking shots during all-star games because the whole format is built around letting scorers cook and giving fans a show, not around playing real defense. She said she's never had a moment like that happen to her before where she blocked a shot she was actively trying to avoid contesting. And she said she was sorry about it landing on Ree specifically.
But here's the thing that apology can't undo. It happened because Reese was moving so slow and so out of rhythm that even a defender trying not to block her still managed to get there in time. That's not on Wilson.
If anything, that apology says more about Wilson's character than it does about the actual play itself. Now, to be fair to Ree for one second, she wasn't the only one coasting out there. All-Star games across every league are notorious for loweffort defense and showcase style scoring runs, and this year's WNBA edition was no different in that regard.
players were lobbing alley oops with zero resistance, letting scorers walk into threes and generally treating the whole thing like a scrimmage instead of a competitive basketball game. At this rate, do away with the All-Star game. Just name All Stars.
[music] Throw the weekend away. Or if you just going to give them a weekend off in the middle of the season, that's fine. Give them the weekend off.
Don't have no events. Just let the players go on vacation for the weekend or whatever they're going to do and do away with this because this is terrible. people like $400 for that.
And Caitlyn Clark had to call them out. Angel Reese looking terrible. Rolling her ankles out of nowhere, getting layups, missed layups, blocks.
I mean, just Asia Wilson missing. I mean, it's just terrible product. Terrible product.
Gabby Williams, horrible. Kalia Copper air balling 13t jump shot. Just bad product all around.
I'm disgusting. That lack of urgency showed up in the final score, too. A track meet with almost no actual defense played by either side for most of the 40 minutes.
Fans on social media were pointing out within the first quarter that nobody out there looked like they wanted to actually compete. And by halftime, that sentiment had basically become the entire storyline of the broadcast. Fans pay attention to these games specifically because they want to see the league's best players compete against each other without the burden of a long regular season grind.
[music] When that competitive spirit is missing across the board, the entire event loses its purpose. But even accounting for that general loweffort trend across the whole roster, Ree still managed to stand out as the worst offender on the floor. Everybody else was jogging through possessions.
She was tripping through them. Incredible year for the Lynx. Clark again.
Rims out on a three. [music] Here's Clark. Will she try again?
You bet. Caitlyn Clark with three logo bombs. Which is exactly what makes Caitlyn Clark's night stand out so much by comparison.
While almost everyone else on that floor treated the game like a glorified practice session, Clark actually played like she wanted to win it. She was pulling up from well beyond the ark with defenders closing out on her, driving into contact instead of settling for the easy, uncontested look everyone else was taking, and pushing pace in transition even when her teammates weren't matching that energy. She was the one player all night who looked like she remembered there was a scoreboard.
What made it even more noticeable is that Clark didn't need to play that hard. She's already established. She didn't have anything to prove coming off a snub narrative the way Reese did.
And yet she was the one bringing actual defensive pressure, actual shot creation, actual competitiveness to a night where nobody would have blamed her for coasting like everyone else. That's the part that really flips the whole story on its head. The player with the least to prove was the only one trying and the player with the most to prove barely showed up.
Allstar weekend Caitlyn Clark is a different Caitlyn Clark. I [ __ ] with Allstar Weekend Caitlyn Clark. Not to say I don't [ __ ] with Caitlyn Clark any other time.
I just don't [ __ ] with all the [ __ ] and [ __ ] like that. I don't [ __ ] with all that. Even when I think back to last year Allstar weekend, Caitlyn Clark was having a good [ __ ] time.
A good [ __ ] Allstar weekend. Caitlyn Clark seems like a cool ass [ __ ] I don't know if that's just me or or or everybody else not or or everybody else seeing the same [ __ ] too. [music] Her vibe is just totally different.
She seem like a a cool ass [ __ ] to be around. Like she be on some on some on some If you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. I ain't Here's the part that's really fueling the don't bring her back chatter.
This wasn't Reese's first All-Star weekend where the performance didn't match the buildup. She's made a habit this season of talking a big game publicly. Whether it's calling out the voting process as disrespectful or suggesting fans didn't show up for her the way they should have and then failing to back any of it up when the cameras are actually rolling and the stakes are admittedly low in an exhibition setting.
All-star selection, at least partially, comes down to a player vote. The people in that locker room, the ones guarding her every single night during the regular season, watched all of this happen in real time from the bench and on the floor. Performances like this one don't just disappear once the final buzzer sounds.
They stick in the memory of the exact people whose opinions factor into next year's voting process. This was a disaster. Supposedly 19,000 people showed up.
Every one of them left there needing therapy. Can you imagine if you paid real money to get into this thing? If these folks been playing uh basketball in my backyard, I'd had I'd have had to once again got up, shut my curtains.
I'd have been like, "That's I I mean, it was on over here and I just was focused on the live stream I was on. If it wasn't for that live stream, I I would have turned it off. I couldn't have done it.
I I just I'd have tapped out like it was UFC. [ __ ] let me go. And look, nobody's saying every player has to treat an All-Star game like game seven of the finals.
That's not how these events work. And holding every single participant to that standard would be unfair. But there's a difference between playing loose and playing checked out entirely.
Clark managed to find that balance all night, staying aggressive and competitive without turning it into a grudge match. Ree, on the other hand, looked like she'd rather be anywhere else on the planet than on that floor in Chicago. And it showed in literally every possession she touched.
Late in the game, with the outcome basically decided, most players are still up on their feet cheering teammates on, clapping for highlight plays, engaging with the crowd a little. That's exactly why the idea of her getting quietly phased out of future all-star appearances isn't some wild internet conspiracy. It's a pretty logical read of the tape.
Leagues want players in these showcase events who bring energy, who give fans something to actually watch, and who represent the sport well on the one weekend of the year built entirely around entertainment value. A player who can't finish open layups, gets blocked by someone actively avoiding contact, and trips over her own feet jogging back down the floor isn't exactly making a case for a returning invitation. Heat.
Hey, heat. Hey, heat. The reaction online afterward pretty much confirmed all of this.
Clips of the block and the stumble spread fast, and the tone from most fans wasn't sympathetic. It was closer to disbelief that a player with her level of hype couldn't put together one clean, competitive showing on a night specifically built to be low pressure. Meanwhile, highlight compilations of Clark's drives and pull-ups were getting shared with a completely [music] different tone.
One built around genuine praise for actually trying to make the game watchable when almost nobody else on that floor seemed interested in doing the same. The gap in reaction says a lot on its own. When a player underperforms and fans still find ways to defend them, that usually means there's still goodwill in the tank.
Most of the players on that floor at the United Center didn't hold up their end of that job, treating the whole thing like an afterthought instead of an opportunity. Angel Ree was the most visible example of that lack of effort, missing shots she should make in her sleep, getting blocked by someone who wasn't even trying to block her, and stumbling over her own two feet in front of a national audience. Caitlyn Clark was the lone exception, the only player who actually seemed to remember that fans paid for tickets expecting a real basketball game and not a glorified layup line.
And that gap between the two of them on the same floor on the same night is exactly why so many people are now openly wondering if Angel Reese gets an invite back to this stage at all next Yeah.
