Angel Reese said she manifested this moment. Then she celebrated it like only she can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the Atlanta Dream swept the New York Liberty on Friday night to punch their ticket to the WNBA Finals, Reese reportedly treated her teammates to a celebratory dinner in New York City \u2014 a fitting cap to a night the franchise had waited 13 years for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The party kept going on Sunday. The Dream were field-side at Mercedes-Benz Stadium as the Atlanta Falcons hosted the Baltimore Ravens, and the Finals-bound squad was introduced to the crowd to a huge ovation. The players showed off custom jerseys made for the occasion, and Reese \u2014 never one to miss a moment \u2014 even showed off some arm strength while she was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has been quite a first season in Atlanta for the 24-year-old. Traded from the Chicago Sky in April, Reese won the 2026 Defensive Player of the Year award, led the league with 12.1 rebounds per game, set a new single-season record with 521 boards, and averaged a career-best 16.4 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She saved her best for the closeout game. Reese poured in a team-high 22 points in Friday’s 85-83 Game 3 win at Barclays Center, scoring 10 in the first quarter \u2014 including two three-pointers \u2014 and added nine rebounds, three assists, two blocks and a steal. It got heated along the way: she exchanged words with Sabrina Ionescu in the second quarter and drew matching technicals with Jonquel Jones later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The series-clincher followed her playoff career-high 23 points in Game 2, when she hit two free throws with 4.3 seconds left in overtime to seal a 99-98 win. Atlanta is now 13-0 this season in games where Reese makes a three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dream did it short-handed, too. Allisha Gray missed her second straight game with a left-hand injury, though there is hope she could be ready for the Finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Atlanta is 5-0 this postseason and riding a 10-game winning streak into Saturday’s Game 1 at San Francisco. Reese made one thing clear after the sweep: “The job is not done.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sources: USA Today (Oct 12, 2026); NY Post (Oct 10, 2026); Baller Alert (Oct 10, 2026); ClutchPoints (Oct 10, 2026).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Angel Reese said she manifested this moment. Then she celebrated it like only she can. After the Atlanta Dream swept the New York Liberty on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angel-reese","category-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacancyatmeta.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}