Angel Reese claims Chicago Sky teammate was harassed outside team hotel

Angel Reese has claimed that one of her Chicago Sky teammates has been harassed outside the team's hotel amid her WNBA row over Chennedy Carter's bodycheck on Caitlin Clark. 

A day after being ejected for the first time in her pro career, Reese, 22, revealed that she was hard-pressed by paparazzi along with her teammates upon their arrival at the team's hotel in Washington DC. The Sky play the Mystics on Thursday. 

Reese shared on X, Wednesday: 'finding out our team hotel to pull with a camera as we get off the bus and put it in my teammates face & HARASS her is NASTY WORK. 

'this is really outta control and needs to stop,' she added. 

Reese's teammate and Sky forward Isabelle Harrison followed up on the incident too: 'WOW!!! Thank GOD for security. My teammate being harassed at our hotel is insane! Couldn't even step off the bus!!!' 

It remains unclear which member of the Sky was allegedly harassed. 

Earlier on Wednesday, the league rescinded the second technical foul that was assessed to Reese against the New York Liberty barely 24 hours earlier. 

Reese was thrown out of the game after receiving two technical fouls following a brief interaction with official Charles Watson. The rookie forward appeared to say something to Watson and then quickly waved her hand.

'I tried to get an explanation. I did not,' Sky coach Teresa Weatherspoon said postgame. 'I don't know to this moment what has happened.'

Head official Maj Forsberg said in a pool report that Reese's technical fouls were for 'disrespectfully addressing' the official and then for 'waving her hand in dismissal.'

Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball was at the game and said on X that he would pay the $400 fine that Reese would face from the league for getting the two technical fouls.

If a player receives seven technicals in the regular season they are assessed a one-game suspension. On Saturday, Reese was fined $1,000 for failing to talk to the media after Chicago's loss in Indiana.

In that game, Carter - Reese's teammate - shoulder shot to Clark, knocking the Fever point guard to the floor before an inbound pass during the third quarter. 

In the aftermath of the hard foul, questions and discussions about the physicality in the WNBA came to surface. The league ended up taking action by upgrading the play to a flagrant-1 violation foul a day after the contest on Sunday. 

Though the WNBA hasn't explicitly commented on the physical plays involving Clark, the Carter-Clark collision had people talking across not only the sports media landscape, but also shows like 'The View.'  

There's no shortage of opinions on the physicality that the No. 1 pick of the WNBA Draft has faced this season, either arguing that not enough is being done to protect her, that she is being targeted by other players because of the media attention she receives, that race is a factor or that it is just the natural competitive evolution in the growing sport of women's basketball.

Going into Thursday's games, Clark is currently 11th in average fouls drawn per contest, averaging 4.2 per contest, tops among rookies in that category. She is third overall in total fouls drawn with 46, but the Fever (2-9) have played the most games.

Clark has said she won't let the physical play get into her head and that she will continue to play her game. 

At times, however, her frustration has shown when she feels she doesn't get a call. She has been hit with a league-leading three technical fouls. A seventh technical during the regular season would result in a one-game suspension.