"THANK GOD FOR KIM MUKLEY" - Fans react after Angel Reese reveals snubbing Dawn Staley's USC for LSU

Chicago Sky star Angel Reese opened up about her move as she hosted her longtime manager, Jeanine Ogbonnaya, on her podcast on Monday. The power forward revealed she snubbed Dawn Staley's USC for the Tigers after a call with Kim Mukley.

In Monday's episode of her podcast, "Unapologetically Angel", the Maryland native disclosed how she transferred to LSU in 2022. Reese joined Maryland University after graduating high school and entered the transfer portal after her sophomore year, joining the Louisiana outfit.

During her conversation with her manager Jeanine, Angel Reese spoke about her move to LSU and how she snubbed USC:

"I'm not going to lie. I was so scared to like commit to LSU. Like that wasn't even actually even an option. I was literally going to go to South Carolina or Tennessee I think, and then Kim called me, and I was just like okay bet." Reese said.

A snippet of the podcast containing this interaction was later posted on X by Angel And Kamilla's X account and fans flocked to the comment section, with one handle thanking Kim Mukley:

"THANK GOD FOR KIM MULKEY AND LSU," a fan said.

Fans were also glad that she chose to pass on Dawn Staley and the Gamecocks, as many believed LSU was the right fit:

"She went exactly where she was meant to be," one fan said.

"Thank the heaven she didn’t. LSU was meant for her," another fan said.

"Thank god she didn’t," one fan said.

Here are some more reactions from fans.

"Dawn tried to recruit her twice! Angel and Rickea, or the skyscrapers in college, are interesting.. But what she accomplished at LSU, I can't envision her anywhere else truly a perfect storm/ luck of the draw story fr," one fan said.

"With everything we know and see now SC would’ve been a wrong move so bad lol.. they gon tell us Dawn would’ve prepared her lol she’s on the same team with a Dawn product.. honestly I don’t what she was gonna do for her. I’m so serious," another fan said.

Angel Reese beat Caitlin Clark's Iowa in the 2023 NCAA Championship game and brought the women's basketball title to Louisiana for the first time in history. The finals also broke multiple viewership records, which skyrocketed Reese and Caitlin Clark's stock.

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Angel Reese on leaving LSU and Kim Mulkey

During her hour-long podcast episode with Jeanine, Angel Reese not only discussed her decision to join LSU but how she unceremoniously decided to leave after the 2023-24 season. Although Reese did leave after her senior year, players whose playing career was affected by COVID-19 were allowed to extend for another year, but Reese decided not to.

The LSU star who won the NCAA championship in 2023 with LSU decided to end her time with the program in 2024 after the team lost to the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Elite Eight. Reese explained the decision behind her exit during the podcast, expressing she was done with college:

"Let's be realistic, I was tired of college, Not going to lie, I was tired. I'm not saying I got bigger than the program but I just outgrew it," Reese explained. [30:00]

Angel Reese declared for the WNBA draft in April 2024 and was drafted by the Chicago Sky in the first round as the seventh overall pick.