Chicago Sky head coach Teresa Weatherspoon was spotted storming out of a press conference after Angel Reese and Co. lost to the Washington Mystics – the last-place team in the WNBA – on Friday night.
The 58-year-old, rookie head coach, who was already irritated with her team’s display in its narrow, 83-81 loss, walked out on reporters after just four minutes of questions, as the press conference seemed to have further put her into a bad mood. The question that made Weatherspoon boil over came when she was asked:
‘This next stretch of games, against the Fever and Wings, how are you going to use this as a measuring stick to assess whether not maybe some changes need to happen?’
Earlier in the press conference, the same reporter had asked Weatherspoon if she was considering a change in her starting lineup due to the team’s 4-8 record, as the Mystics took advantage of a 20-6 start to set the tone for the remainder of the game.
‘I’m not thinking of that. I’m thinking about going and winning game.We’ll figure it out,’ answered the former WNBA guard the first time the variation of the question came up.
Weatherspoon was a national champion in college at Louisiana Tech in 1988 before going onto enjoy a nine-year professional career in Italy and Russia.
She played for the New York Liberty in 1997, when the WNBA was created, receiving five All-Star nominations during her six-year stint on the team.
After retiring in 2004, Weatherspoon switched to coaching, guiding her alma matter’s women’s basketball team from 2008-2014.
Angel Reese and Co. will aim to bounce back against Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever on Sunday
In 2020, she was named as an assistant coach of the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans.
Three years later, she departed the men’s game before joining the Sky in October.
However, Reese & Co. have failed to hit the ground running under ‘T-Spoon,’ losing five of their last six games.
But they’ll attempt to rebound back against Caitlin Clark’s Fever after dropping their last game against their opponent, 71-70, earlier this month.
