On Saturday, the Atlanta Dream delivered a commanding performance, defeating the Mystics 109–77 in a significant Commissioner’s Cup game. Rhyne Howard led the team with 19 points, shooting an impressive 71% from three-point range. She also contributed three assists and achieved a game-high of six steals. Allisha Gray added 15 points and five assists, demonstrating precision with 12 of 15 successful free throws.
The spotlight, however, was on Angel Reese. She matched her season’s best scoring 18 points, collected 17 rebounds, completed a flawless 10-for-10 from the free-throw line, and added four steals and a block to her performance. With this, the Dream now have a 7–3 record, leading the Eastern Conference.
Reese has accomplished the feat of recording over 50 double-doubles in her first 75 career games, a milestone reached by only four players across both the WNBA and NBA. She is now one double-double away from tying with Blake Griffin for the most in such a span. Reese’s latest achievement comes just before her match against the Chicago Sky, the team that traded her.
Reese expressed dissatisfaction with the Sky’s direction in late 2025. She informed the Chicago Tribune about a potential need to look for better opportunities if the team’s prospects did not improve, leading to her suspension for half a game by the Sky for comments considered damaging. The relationship deteriorated, culminating in her trade to Atlanta on April 6, 2026, in exchange for two first-round picks in 2027 and 2028.
Dream GM Dan Padover praised Reese as “a dynamic talent and a perfect fit for what we are building in Atlanta,” and her performances have validated this outlook through the first ten games. Notably, Reese became the fastest player in WNBA history to achieve 50 career double-doubles in her debut with the Dream, doing so in just 65 games and breaking Tina Charles’s previous record of 75 games. She is now one away from Blake Griffin on the historic first-75-games list.
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