Here's What You Need To Know About LSU's Angel Reese & Why She's Beefin' With The White House
She accepted an NCAA trophy and declined an invitation to DC.
LSU's Women's Basketball organization recently took home the NCAA championship and all eyes are on the team's forward, Angel Reese. She was getting heat for using a hand gesture to taunt another player and she publicly denied Jill Biden's request to visit the White House.
After the game, Reese stared at Iowa player Caitlin Clark and pointed to her ring finger to allude to where her championship ring would go. Clark had made a similar gesture earlier, however, there was a public outrage about Reese's actions and not Clark's.
“I don’t fit the box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. Y’all told me that all year. But when other people do it, and y’all don’t say nothing...It was bigger than me tonight. And Twitter is going to go into a rage every time," she said in a post-game press conference.
The NCAA champions annually get an invite to the White House. However, Jill Biden wanted to host both the winning and losing teams this year, but Reese wasn't having it.
On April 4, she told the I Am Athlete podcast hosts that if the roles were reversed, she doesn't think LSU would have been invited. She said the First Lady's excuse was to represent good sportsmanship, but she wonders if it would have still happened had she not made the hand gesture.
According to NPR, Biden rescinded her dual invite to go back to the way things were, but Reese says she and the team aren't interested.
"You felt like they should have came because of 'sportsmanship,' right? They can have that spotlight. We'll go to the Obama's," Reese said on the podcast.
She also said that the First Lady wanted to go to the locker room before the game, but the team denied her entry because President Joe Biden apparently didn't put Baton Rouge on his bracket to win.
The First Lady apologized, but Reese said she is not ready to accept Biden's apology.
What does the Angel Reese gesture mean?
During the NCAA Championship, Angel Reese pointed at her ring finger and looked at Cailtlin Clark, a Guard for the opposing Iowa team.
The gesture was to allude to the place where her championship ring would go.
What did the First Lady say about LSU women's basketball?
First Lady Jill Biden watched the game from the stands and said that she wanted both LSU and Iowa to be invited to the White House. Historically, it is known that only the winning team gets a visit.
Reese wasn't too happy about this and even tweeted that it was a "joke" to her.
Biden's Press Secretary took to the social media app to clarify what her boss meant:
"Her comments in Colorado were intended to applaud the historic game and all women athletes. She looks forward to celebrating the LSU Tigers on their championship win at the White House."
How old is Angel Reese?
Angel Reese is only 20 years old. Her birthday is on May 6, 2002. She will be turning 21 years old shortly.