Angel Reese is having a sense of deja vu.
Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers appeared to make the same arms-out-celebration gesture Grizzlies star Ja Morant did last week at the Sugar Bowl on Monday, leading some critics to Morant, who just returned from 25 games, was suspended for the second time after firing a gun in an Instagram video that accused him of making a gun gesture.
Reese, the LSU women's basketball star who was embroiled in her own celebratory controversy with Iowa's Caitlin Clark during the NCAA Championship Game in April, responded to a photo on the Barstool X account comparing reactions to Ewers and Morant.
The account tweeted: “Quinn Ewers is having fun” and “Spraying imaginary bullets into section 113 after crash.”
“Lol, I've seen this before…” Reese wrote to X.
After Reese teased Clark during the championship game and made the same John Cena “you can't see me” hand gesture that Clark did during the Elite Eight, LSU won the national title. He famously pointed to her ring finger when he won it.
Reese's actions were criticized by many, but ESPN's Stephen A. Smith said at the time that it had something to do with race.
“We all know there's a black versus white issue here, because when Caitlin did it, people were celebrating and all they talked about was how great she was,” Smith said. He spoke on “First Take” in April. title game.
“But as soon as my sister stood up and threw the ball back in my face, half of the basketball world was like, 'Oh, no.' [in a mocking tone], “Well, that's not the classiest thing to do.” It was the exact same thing! ”
Morant responded to Barstool's Ewers' tweet with a crying-laughing emoji.
The Grizzlies guard was suspended eight games last year after firing a gun for the first time in an Instagram video, and 25 games for the second time.
He returned to the team on December 19th.
