RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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When Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese sees a basketball coming off the glass, only one thing crosses her mind.
"Anything that goes up is mine," Reese said on Monday, Aug. 24. "I want to be one of (the best) when I walk away from the game. So just being able to ... be consistent every night is something I'm looking forward to doing."
That mentality was on display in the Dream's 78-71 win over the Los Angeles Sparks , during which Reese set a WNBA single-game record with 26 total rebounds (18 defensive and eight offensive boards). Reese added 11 points in the victory, marking her 27th double-double of the season, one shy of tying Alyssa Thomas' WNBA record set in 2023.
That's not the only milestone Reese reached. With her historic rebounding on Monday, Reese also set a new single-season record with 458 total rebounds. Reese surpassed the previous mark of 451 rebounds set by Las Vegas Aces center A'ja Wilson in 2024. And Reese's record will only grow with six regular-season games remaining for the Dream.
26 REBOUNDS. A NEW WNBA RECORD. DEFENSIVE FORCE. Constantly elevating and rewriting the record books. Angel Reese now holds the record for the most rebounds by a player in a single game in WNBA history 👏 pic.twitter.com/CLuN2V3IWQ
— Atlanta Dream (@AtlantaDream) August 25, 2026 Dream guard Allisha Gray said she was in disbelief looking at the final box score following the win.
"I was looking at the stat thing and I'm like, 'Dang, 20 something,'" she recalled in her postgame interview. "I don't think in my life I got more than 10 rebounds. So that's just a talent. I'm just in awe just watching her rebound."
Reese is averaging a double-double for a third consecutive season, averaging a career-high 16.1 points, 12.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists through 37 games. She leads the league in rebounds per game, total rebounds (458), offensive rebounds (5.0 per game) and double-doubles (27).
Reese has been a double-double machine since being selected out of LSU with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2024 draft by the Chicago Sky. In her rookie season, Reese recorded 15 consecutive double-doubles to set a record for the longest streak since Candace Parker had 12 in a row between the 2009 and 2010 seasons.
Reese also set a single-season franchise record for total rebounds (446) for the Sky and became the fastest WNBA player to reach 20 double-doubles in a season in her first year in the league.
The 24-year-old was traded to the Dream in the offseason after two seasons in Chicago and picked up right where she left off. Reese recorded the 57th double-double of her career on June 9 to set a new WNBA record for the most double-doubles through a player's first 75 games. The feat tied Blake Griffin for the second-most in that time span if you factor in the NBA. Only Shaquille O'Neal (63) recorded more double-doubles through the first 75 games of their career over the past 40 years, according to ESPN. Tim Duncan and David Robinson each had 53.
Reese credited Atlanta head coach Karl Smesko for helping her improve her rebounding and shooting abilities, saying her coach "put confidence in me every day."
"He works with my shooting every single day," Reese said on Monday. "Me being able to knock down threes, being consistent in my jump shot, finishing around the basket. And my teammates too, they put in a lot of work. It helped me a lot. They get mad at me when I don't shoot it. So I just continue to just stay poised and push through everything."
That's not the only milestone Reese has achieved this year. She reached 900 rebounds in only 71 games on May 29, the fastest to that mark in WNBA history. She scored the 1,000th point of her WNBA career in the Dream's 91-75 win over the Connecticut Sun on June 2.
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