Caitlin Clark rejects Angel Reese high-five at FIBA World Cup qualifiers

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The rivalry betwixt Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese got immoderate caller fuels Friday. 

A clip is making the rounds of Clark ignoring Reese's motion for a high-five during a crippled for the FIBA World Cup qualifiers. As Reese held her manus retired for her Team USA teammate, Clark walked successful the different direction.

The U.S. won the crippled 91-48 implicit Puerto Rico.

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Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese  (Getty Images)

There has been suspected hostility betwixt Clark and Reese dating backmost to their gathering successful the 2023 NCAA women's hoops title game. 

Reese taunted Clark by pointing to her ringing digit during the game, prompting outrage and sparking an ongoing feud betwixt fans. 

Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes got revenge connected Reese's LSU Tigers a twelvemonth aboriginal successful the Elite Eight, but the hostility deed a full caller level erstwhile the players reached the pros for their rookie WNBA seasons.

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Angel Reese taunts Caitlin Clark

LSU's Angel Reese, right, reacts successful beforehand of Iowa's Caitlin Clark during the 2nd fractional of the NCAA nationalist title April 2, 2023, successful Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

In their archetypal WNBA play successful 2024, Clark took a bid of questionable fouls from Reese's Sky passim the 2024 season, including 1 from Reese June 16. 

In 2025, the 2 had a heated speech aft Reese pushed Fever guardant Natasha Howard successful the backmost arsenic she grabbed an violative rebound disconnected a miss by teammate Rebecca Allen. Reese brought the shot low, and Clark fouled her earlier she went up for a shot. Reese fell to the ground.

Reese got up from the level and got into the look of Clark.

Referees reviewed the play and determined Clark utilized her near manus to shove Reese to the floor. They upgraded the idiosyncratic foul connected Clark to a flagrant foul. And Reese and Aliyah Boston of the Fever were issued method fouls.

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Angel Reese looks on

Angel Reese (5) of the Chicago Sky and Caitlin Clark (22) of the Indiana Fever during the 2nd fractional June 23, 2024, astatine Wintrust Arena successful Chicago. (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"Nothing malicious astir it, conscionable a bully instrumentality foul," Clark told ESPN's Holly Rowe.

Now, the 2 stars are teammates for the U.S. arsenic they effort to marque the FIBA World Cup, but fans tin astir apt inactive consciousness an awkward dynamic betwixt them. 

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