There's one huge Angel Reese fact that WNBA fans forget about in Caitlin Clark rivalry

Angel Reese's second WNBA season has been an unequivocal nightmare.

She has struggled. The Chicago Sky has struggled. It's been rough.

On Saturday, the Sky lost by 30 to a Fever team missing Caitlin Clark due to injury.

Much of the shine of Reese as a rookie has worn off. She still has major supporters of course, but this isn't a piece meant to bring her down.

Rather, it's a reminder of the one fact that it seems most people forgot almost immediately upon Clark and Reese's entry into the league.

It feels logical to assume Reese was the No. 2 overall draft pick behind Clark in 2024. She wasn't.

Reese was chosen at No. 7.

That's not a bad spot. It's certainly a place you can get a solid WNBA player. But there was never an assumption she'd be a superstar.

The Sky picked a different frontcourt player, South Carolina center Kamilla Cardoso, at No. 3 in the same draft.

Reese has leaned into a lot of the narratives and the attention, at times. But really, much of the actual basketball expectation placed on her has come from the outside.

She's a historically effective rebounder who struggles to score efficiently. The Sky weren't going to get a flawless player with the seventh pick in any draft.

Clark was the unquestioned No. 1 pick as a legendary, generational talent.

Reese wasn't those things, and that's why she went seventh.

What has happened since shouldn't actually be all that surprising.

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