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John Kruk Takes Strange Shot at Angel Reese During Phillies Broadcast

Strange broadcast moment focused on her rebounding prowess.

Kyle Koster

Phillies announcer John Kruk had some thoughts about Angel Reese's rebound totals during Tuesday night's broadcast.
Phillies announcer John Kruk had some thoughts about Angel Reese's rebound totals during Tuesday night's broadcast. / Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK
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[Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly connected Angel Reese addressing Kruk's comment.]

The Philadelphia Phillies were enjoying a 6-0 lead over the Chicago White Sox in the sixth inning on Tuesday night when announcers Tom McCarthy and John Kruk took a bit of a detour. McCarthy offered an on-air birthday shoutout to his former high school basketball teammate, who apparently was a force on the offensive glass.

"He was a heck of a basketball player," McCarthy said. "Played at Rider and Monmouth. It's all because I missed a lot of shots and he cleaned them up."

"I don't want to say anything, but there's someone here in Chicago that does that a lot," Kruk chimed in.

This was an obvious reference to Chicago Sky star Angel Reese, who routinely has her game diminished by accusations that she has inflated rebound figures because she cleans up a lot of her misses. McCarthy predicted that they'd be getting some tweets about this particular exchange.

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Kyle Koster
KYLE KOSTER

Kyle Koster is an assistant managing editor at Sports Illustrated covering the intersection of sports and media. He was formerly the editor in chief of The Big Lead, where he worked from 2011 to '24. Koster also did turns at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he created the Sports Pros(e) blog, and at Woven Digital.

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