Angel Reese reveals $8K lease as she laughs over WNBA wage
Angel Reese acquired actual about her funds and joked she’s “residing past my means.”
In a current Instagram Dwell video, the Chicago Sky ahead stated her WNBA wage doesn’t cowl her lease, which is $8,000 monthly.
Reese, a Maryland native, has an house in Chicago. It’s unclear if she has different residence(s).
“Hatin’ pays them payments child. I simply hope y’all know the WNBA don’t pay my payments in any respect. I don’t even suppose that doesn’t pays one in all my payments,” Reese stated.
“Actually, I’m attempting to think about my lease lease for the place I keep at. Let me do the maths actual fast… I don’t even know my wage — 74 [thousand]?” she requested somebody off to the aspect who was not within the video.
Reese, who filmed the video whereas in New York for the Victoria’s Secret Vogue Present on Tuesday, was shocked on the end result after she calculated the numbers.
“I’m residing past my means!” she stated whereas hysterically laughing. “Syke!”
That’s when she stated her lease is $8,000.
“I’m residing past my means like y’all suppose,” she quipped.
Reese, who the Sky chosen out of LSU with the No. 7 total choose on this 12 months’s WNBA draft, made $73,439 in her first season.
She is projected to make $74,909 subsequent season, as decided by the WNBA’s present collective bargaining settlement.
That doesn’t embody Reese’s earnings from endorsement offers, model partnerships and ventures outdoors of the WNBA.
Reese is also signed to play with the newly-formed Unequalled 3×3 league, which begins on Jan. 17, and simply landed a broadcast contract with TNT.
Reese was the primary athlete to signal with Reebok’s NIL roster in October 2023.
She grew to become a high NIL earner after main LSU to an NCAA title that 12 months.
A few of her endorsement offers embody Reese’s, Beats by Dre, Coach, ZOA vitality drink, Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit and Elevating Cane’s. She additionally has a clothes line at Dick’s Sporting Items.
Reese, who’s been open about her love for designer style and baggage, introduced she was declaring for the 2024 WNBA Draft in a photoshoot unfold in Vogue.