by Daniel Johnson
June 30, 2025
The “mebounds” assortment is reasonably priced, a lot of the items which embody hats, T-shirts, sweatshirts and slides.
Angel Reese, like she does on the courtroom, is constant to observe her shot and switch missed pictures into alternatives. This time, the missed pictures are criticisms of her potential to show her personal missed pictures into rebounds, which critics have pejoratively termed “mebounds.” Reese is taking the slight, these pictures at her, and turning them into alternatives for charitable donations.
As The Athletic stories, Reese, who lately filed a trademark for the time period “mebounds,” has adopted that effort up with a brand new merchandise assortment using the time period, with a proportion of the proceeds set to “help cyberbullying prevention by The Angel C. Reese Basis.”
There might also be extra from Reese on the best way; she additionally filed a trademark for the time period “Reesebounds.” The “mebounds” assortment is reasonably priced; a lot of the items, which embody hats, T-shirts, sweatshirts, and slides, vary in worth from $28 to $75.
Reese, ever the savvy businesswoman, famous in a TikTok video posted across the time that the trademark was filed, says that she noticed the time period as a worthwhile strategy to improve her model profile.
“Whoever got here up with the ‘mebounds’ factor, y’all ate that up as a result of ‘mebounds,’ rebounds, ‘crebounds’ … something that comes off that board, it’s mine,” Reese mentioned, the final half an allusion to a remark made by a play-by-play announcer who was on the decision for certainly one of her video games. “And a model? That’s six figures proper there.”
Reese filed the “mebounds” trademark utility on June 14, and she or he filed the appliance to trademark “Reesebounds” on June 20, each of that are nonetheless pending examination meant for attire use.
In solely her second season within the WNBA, Reese has already established herself as a traditionally vital rebounder, holding probably the most rebounds within the first 50 video games of a profession in WNBA historical past. She can be the quickest participant in WNBA historical past to file 500 factors and 500 rebounds, reaching this feat in 38 video games.
Reese is at present averaging a double-double, placing up 11.7 factors a sport and 12.3 boards a sport to go together with 3.6 assists and 1.8 steals whereas capturing 39% from the sector for the Sky. Reese additionally lately recorded her first profession triple-double on June 15.
Reese has been requested to do extra this season in head coach Tyler Marsh’s system, the place she is being utilized in an analogous method as Las Vegas Aces ahead A’ja Wilson and New York Liberty ahead Breanna Stewart, she is anticipated to deliver the ball up the ground after rebounds and can be accountable for facilitating the offense.
Reese has additionally been surrounded by veterans on this yr’s iteration of the Sky, a departure from the workforce’s composition final yr, which Marsh informed the outlet would assist Reese develop her different expertise.
“It’s (veteran expertise) one thing you possibly can’t actually put a worth on,” Marsh mentioned. “These are individuals who’ve been round this league and have proven their worth a very long time on the courtroom, however they actually have worth in our locker room as nicely relating to our youthful gamers, and type of exhibiting them the ropes on the right way to work, and the right way to be knowledgeable.”
He continued, “It’s about creating area, and making defenses trustworthy, what it finally does is open up the paint. We don’t wish to restrict (Reese) simply to being a rebounder, as a result of she’s a lot greater than that, her potential is a lot greater than that.”
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