People don’t just watch the WNBA because of Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark — they watch it because of Angel Reese too. Reese and Clark got into it in a heated battle during their teams’ season opener, and to be fair, the eyes were on the Chicago Sky center as well as Clark.
Reese made a splash last season as a rookie, finishing as the WNBA’s leader in rebounds, and she’s off to a hot start this season, having recorded 17 boards (seven offensive) in the season opener. She’ll hope to better that tonight in Chicago’s home opener at 8 p.m. ET against the reigning champion New York Liberty.
The Sky are 12-point underdogs at DraftKings Sportsbook, with the point total set for 164. Below, I’ve detailed my favorite prop bet centered around Reese.
Best Angel Reese Prop Bet on DraftKings Sportsbook
Angel Reese 15+ Rebounds (+140)
Frankly, it’s pretty easy to rack up rebounds when you primarily camp out in the paint and shoot five-for-14 from the field, and Reese did in the season-opening game. She snagged 15 or more rebounds in 11 of her 34 starts during her rookie season, when she shot just 161-for-403 (40.0%) from two-point range, and she’s shown no signs of improving as a post scorer, although she seems to be experimenting with a three-point shot early in the season. But finishing is even harder against a star-studded roster that allowed just 32 points in the paint in its season-opening game and was also fairly solid in the category in 2024. Both of the Liberty’s bigs — two-time MVP Breanna Stewart and 2021 MVP Jonquel Jones — were named to the WNBA All-Defensive teams last season. New York’s opponents shot just 59.3% from the restricted area last season, the second-worst mark in the league.
That shouldn’t stop Reese from getting rebounds, though; neither Stewart nor Jones, despite their interior defensive prowess, were particularly elite individual rebounders. Despite standing six-foot-six, three inches taller than Reese, Jones only managed 9.0 boards per game last season, and Stewart averaged 8.5. Reese’s 14.4% offensive rebounding percentage led the league by nearly three percentage points, and her total rebounding percentage was 4.4 percentage points better than Jones’. In their season-opening win over the Las Vegas Aces, the Liberty gave up 41 total rebounds, including 16 to A’ja Wilson, so it’s not at all far-fetched that Reese could grab 15.
