Rookie Angel Reese set a brand new WNBA file on Sunday as she registered her thirteenth consecutive double-double for the Chicago Sky.
Reese, the seventh general choose on this 12 months’s WNBA draft, equalled Candace Parker’s earlier file for the league’s longest double-double streak on Friday.
The 22-year-old then claimed 17 factors and 14 rebounds for the Sky on Sunday as they misplaced 84-71 on the Seattle Storm.
Reese’s file got here a day after Caitlin Clark turned the primary rookie in WNBA historical past to file a triple-double because the Indiana Fever rallied to win 83-78 at residence to the New York Liberty.
First overall draft pick Clark, additionally 22, led the Fever with 19 factors, 12 rebounds and 13 assists.
Clark and Reese have each been chosen for the WNBA All-Star recreation in opposition to the US ladies’s nationwide group on 20 July and are in competition for this season’s Rookie of the Yr award having taken their rivalry from the faculty recreation into the WNBA.
Clark top-scored for Iowa within the 2023 NCAA championship recreation however Reese led LSU to a 102-85 win and was named the event’s Most Excellent Participant.
Clark helped Iowa avenge that defeat on this 12 months’s competitors, beating LSU 94-87 to achieve the Ultimate 4, though Iowa once more misplaced within the championship recreation – this time to South Carolina.