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Angel Reese Makes Kamilla Cardoso Admission After Sky-Sparks

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Parker Johnson | Last updated Jun 25, 2025 12:08 AM ET

Kamilla Cardoso set a new career high with 27 points in the Chicago Sky's 97-86 win against the Los Angeles Sparks on Tuesday night.

The No. 3 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft has put her full range of skills on display for the Sky this season, averaging 11.6 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. She even hit her first career three-pointer against Los Angeles.

Cardoso has become a fan favorite, as she has racked up 95,986 votes for the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game, good for No. 22 in the league in the recently-released early voting returns.

She has formed a dynamic frontcourt duo with Angel Reese that looks like the key to Chicago's future, but Reese still cannot believe that the Sparks allowed the Sky the chance to put the two "Sky Scrapers" together in the first place.

Cardoso's career night in her last game before joining Brazil for the FIBA Women's AmeriCup tournament this Saturday came in conjunction with a brilliant performance from Reese, too.

Reese finished with 18 points, 17 rebounds, six assists and four steals, blending her dominance on the glass with her playmaking ability that has blossomed since Chicago lost starting point guard Courtney Vandersloot to a season-ending knee injury.

Skyscrapers starting us off ️#skytown pic.twitter.com/zo5JhJ59HJ
— Chicago Sky (@chicagosky) June 25, 2025

"My teammates did a great job of finding me today," Cardoso said in the postgame press conference, alongside Reese.

The former LSU star added her two cents with a little shade toward the team they just defeated.

"And [the Sparks] didn't pick her at No. 2," Reese said, before admitting, "We got lucky."

Kamilla Cardoso was just asked about Angel Reese being drafted to the Sky as well.

“Nobody is going to get any rebounds on us.” #WNBADraft @WNBA @ForTheWin pic.twitter.com/b33rPkWBW3
— Meghan L. Hall (@ItsMeghanLHall) April 16, 2024

While Cardoso is making her talents known, it remains to be seen whether or not the Sparks made a good choice with the No. 2 overall pick in last year's draft, which they used on Stanford center Cameron Brink with Cardoso still on the board.

Brink has not played since tearing her ACL in just the 15th game of her rookie season in 2024. At the time, she was already averaging 7.5 points and 5.3 rebounds per game while chipping in 1.1 steals and 2.3 blocks on defense.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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