Angel Reese Has Officially Made “Mebounds” One of the Funniest Debates in the WNBA
Angel Reese has spent the entire season doing something remarkably simple:
Getting the basketball.
The “Mebounds” jokes have followed her for years, with critics arguing that too many of her rebounds come after her own misses.
At this point, though, the joke is getting harder to make with a straight face.
Reese just finished one of the most ridiculous rebounding stretches in WNBA history.
She grabbed a league-record 26 rebounds against Los Angeles, broke A’ja Wilson’s single-season rebounding record and then set the league’s single-season record with her 29th double-double.
She also won Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the second consecutive week.
So yes, make the “Mebounds” jokes.
They’re funny.
But pretending Reese is only getting rebounds because she misses shots is selling what she’s doing extremely short.
The woman is legitimately elite on the glass.
And here’s the best part: Reese has embraced the joke.
She turned “Mebounds” into merchandise and reportedly turned the trolling into a six-figure business while using some of the proceeds to support her foundation’s work against cyberbullying.
That’s the part people should probably appreciate.
She got mocked.
She turned it into money.
Then she went out and broke the damn rebounding record anyway.
Maybe the real Mebounds were the records we broke along the way.
