Complicating the matter of Reese's availability has been a tendency to pick up technical fouls this season. In the WNBA, a player receives an automatic suspension upon receiving their eighth technical foul of the year, and Reese is dangerously close to receiving that punishment.

Angel Reese entered the All-Star break playing the best basketball of her young career, but was unable to pick up where she left off in the Chicago Sky's first game back on Tuesday, a 91-68 loss to the league-leading Minnesota Lynx.

As Chicago gears up for a postseason push, head coach Tyler Marsh made lineup changes. Marsh and the rest of the Sky’s coaching staff decided to start Angel Reese, thrusting her back into the starting lineup after the WNBA All-Star missed the team’s previous game for “precautionary reasons” with a leg injury.