{"id":801535,"date":"2024-04-03T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=801535"},"modified":"2024-04-04T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:49:44","slug":"the-bayou-barbie-is-headed-to-the-w-angel-reese-declares-for-the-2024-wnba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wnba\/the-bayou-barbie-is-headed-to-the-w-angel-reese-declares-for-the-2024-wnba-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bayou Barbie is Headed to the W: Angel Reese Declares for the 2024 WNBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LSU star Angel Reese has officially declared for the WNBA, and she did so on her terms by announcing the decision via Instagram<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angel Reese, the Bayou Barbie, began her career at the University of Maryland before transferring to LSU for her junior year. That season, she averaged a double-double of 23 points and 15 rebounds while becoming a standout on and off the court\u2014from her social media presence to gracing the cover of SLAM 243 alongside teammate and star Flau’jae Johnson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I just wanted to figure out who Angel Reese really is,” Reese told us back in 2023<\/a><\/strong>, prior to winning the NCAA championship. “Coming to LSU, I feel like I figured out who I am. I’m able to be myself here. It’s just something I really love.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2023-24 SEC Player of the Year explained<\/a> her decision to Vogue’s Leah Faye Cooper, which she shared just a week before the start of the NCAA Tournament. “I want to start at the bottom again,\u201d she said on her playing in the WNBA. \u201cI want to be a rookie again and build myself back up; I want to be knocked down and learn and grow at the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LSU star Angel Reese has officially declared for the WNBA, and she did so on her terms by announcing the decision via Instagram on Wednesday. Angel Reese, the Bayou Barbie, began her career at the University of Maryland before transferring to LSU for her junior year. That season, she averaged a double-double of 23 points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":801540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[65197,62969,63726],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-801535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wnba","tag-2024-wnba-draft","tag-angel-reese","tag-wslam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801551,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801535\/revisions\/801551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801535"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=801535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}