Alexis Morris has accused her former national championship-winning LSU teammate, Angel Reese, of getting her excluded from the Unrivaled women’s basketball league.
Morris, 26, and Reese, 23, played two seasons together for the Tigers, one of which ended in NCAA championship glory, defeating Caitlin Clark and Iowa in a highly anticipated game in April 2023. The guard headed to the WNBA shortly after, where she was drafted in the second round by the Connecticut Sun, while Reese remained at the Tigers for one more season before going to the Chicago Sky.
A standout rookie campaign saw Reese earn All-Star honors, making her one of the higher-profile names to compete in the offseason women’s Unrivaled basketball league, which she won as part of Rose BC. Meanwhile, Morris never made a WNBA appearance after being drafted by the Sun and being waived during training camp. She then signed for the Harlem Globetrotters after starting the season in Turkey, Ilkem Yapi Tarsus, and heading to Iceland in 2024 to play for Grindavik.
Morris and Reese have had starkly different professional careers thus far, but their paths could have crossed again in Unrivaled. However, Morris has accused Reese of contributing to her exclusion from the basketball league. Morris also claimed that she played better than Reese and Clark during the 2023 national championship-winning campaign.
“I carried her a– … They robbed me of the Most Outstanding Player cause that s— was already written in bold,” said Morris in a TikTok live. “Y’all damn know I was the Most Outstanding Player in 2023.”
“What’s the difference?” she asked. Morris then added: “Magic Johnson said it, the Most Outstanding Player was neither Angel Reese nor Caitlin Clark, it was Alexis Morris.”
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It’s not the first time that Morris has publicly sounded off on Reese, who is a two-time WNBA All-Star. Reese’s attitude was questioned in 2023 after she was benched by Tigers head coach Kim Mulkey, who had Morris’ backing.
“You can’t pay me to bash Kim [Mulkey],” Morris wrote on X.
“Switched up to gang up on me. now yall fall-in out. don’t ever choose clout over loyalty free game. I showed real love not for marketing politics. but the realist always prevail.”
Reese’s attitude has since also been called into question in the WNBA. The Sky punished her for making comments “detrimental to the team” amid a struggling 2025 campaign.
Reese’s criticism saw the Sky suspend her for the first half of September’s matchup against the Las Vegas Aces.
However, Sky fans made their feelings clear about Reese’s punishment, cheering for their WNBA superstar during an appearance at one of their games towards the back end of the season.
