Angel Reese has officially replaced the nickname “Bayou Barbie.”
Well, in a way.
Former LSU star and new member of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky Posted earlier this week on She said she needed a new nickname because she now plays in the Windy City instead of Baton Rouge.
“Now that I’m in Chicago I need a new name lol catchy and cute name like Bayou Barbie,” she wrote on Wednesday’s X with both a crying face and eyes emoji.
Now, on Thursday, she revealed she has a new alter ego, but that’s not really the case completely It’s about getting rid of the bayou name.
“Hey everyone, this is Chi Barbie here,” she said on TikTok on Thursday. “I’m still going to be Bayou Barbie, but I want everyone to know that I’m going to Chicago now. [are] It’s basically already taken me over to Chicago. The love from Chicago runs deep and mad as so many people have reached out to me. So I’m Chee Barbie. I’m a Barbie from Baltimore, and I’ll always be a Barbie from the Bayou. ”
Reese’s career with the LSU Tigers ended in a loss to Caitlin Clark and Iowa in the Elite Eight of this year’s NCAA Tournament, which drew 12.3 million viewers on ESPN.
Reese was drafted seventh overall by the Sky on Monday and will play for new head coach Teresa Weatherspoon, who played for then-assistant coach Kim Mulkey (now the LSU coach) in the 1980s. He said he was excited about it. Louisiana Tech University.
“It was a great conversation with T-Spoon. You know, she was coached by Coach Mulkey, so I was thinking maybe I should go there,” Reese said Monday night. . “The conversation was so much fun and she felt like a mother to me. I knew her as a Black woman and as a head coach and everything she had done at the NBA level.”
The 2023-24 SEC Player of the Year was a driving force for the Tigers, leading the conference in both scoring (18.6 points per game) and rebounding (13.4 points per game).
This time, she will team up with South Carolina national champion Camila Cardoso.
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Nevertheless, Reese said he had personal business to attend to in Chicago before taking the court for his first game, scheduled for May 15 against Dallas.
“So I’m almost arriving in Chicago and I need a hairstylist, nail technician, eyelash technician, waxer, facial, esthetician, all of that,” she said on TikTok.
“So I want everyone to comment on the best places, the best girls, the people who are doing it, because you have to be consistent.”
