Chicago Sky players harassed outside team hotel: ‘Couldn’t even step off the bus’

Multiple Chicago Sky players shared their accounts of being harassed outside the team’s hotel Wednesday night, with star rookie Angel Reese saying a teammate had a camera put in her face as she got off the bus.

“This really is outta control and needs to stop,” Reese wrote on X.

finding out our teams hotel to pull with a camera as we get off the bus and put it in my teammates face & HARASS her is NASTY WORK. this really is outta control and needs to STOP.

— Angel Reese (@Reese10Angel) June 5, 2024

The Sky arrived in Washington D.C. ahead of their game against the Washington Mystics on Thursday night. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the team was harassed by a man targeting Chennedy Carter, who has received nationwide attention for her hard foul on Caitlin Clark in the Sky’s game against the Indiana Fever on Saturday. The WNBA later upgraded the foul to a Flagrant 1.

Sky forward Brianna Turner said she wasn’t at the scene of the incident, but “the absurd headlines recently has certainly created an unstable environment for our safety.”

I wasn’t present for the interaction from earlier, but what occurred isn’t acceptable. Didn’t realize that when we said “grow the game” that would be interpreted as harassing players at hotels. You are free to have your…