Angel Reese Shattered a WNBA Rebound Record That Had Stood for a Decade

Angel Reese keeps rewriting what’s possible for a rookie in this league. Saturday night in Atlanta, she did something no WNBA player has ever done before, and she made it look almost routine.

The Dream beat the Indiana Fever 113-96 at State Farm Arena. That score alone is notable. Atlanta dropped 113 points, a franchise record. But the real story happened midway through the third quarter.

Reese grabbed her eighth rebound of the night with 4:29 left in the period. That board pushed her past 1,000 career rebounds in just 79 games. The previous fastest mark belonged to Tina Charles, who needed 89 games. Reese beat that by 10 games. Ten. That’s not just breaking a record. That’s demolishing it.

She finished with 18 points and eight boards in the win. Rhyne Howard led everyone with 24 points. Allisha Gray added 21, Naz Hillmon chipped in 19, and Jordin Canada put up 12 points and 12 assists. Every Dream starter scored in double figures. That kind of balance is tough to beat.

The Fever actually led at halftime, 59-56. They shot 61 percent from the floor and 60 percent from three. Kelsey Mitchell had 16 in the first half. Caitlin Clark had 15. Indiana looked sharp. But the Dream punched back after the break, outscoring them 28-15 in the third quarter. A 13-0 run, with six points from Reese, flipped the game entirely.

Atlanta is now 11-4, tied with the Las Vegas Aces for second place in the standings. Only Minnesota sits ahead of them. The Dream have won two straight against Indiana, and they’ve done it with a rookie center making history along the way.

Some context on that rebounding record: Charles set it in 2011, her third season. Reese got there in her second. She averaged 13.1 boards per game as a rookie last year and hasn’t slowed down. The league has never seen a player this dominant on the glass this quickly.

The Dream led 84-74 going into the fourth and never looked back. The 113 points they scored is a new high for the franchise. They had fun with it too. After the game, Reese posted a photo on Instagram of herself holding the game ball with a simple caption: “History.”

She’s not wrong.