Reese appeared to try to explain that her gesture was not aimed at a referee, but she still received the technical foul and was thus ejected from the game. Reese became the first player in Unrivaled history to get ejected from a game.

Reese received back-to-back technical fouls before the ejection, a first for the new women's 3x3 basketball league.

Angel Reese became the first player to be ejected from a game in the startup Unrivaled league on Saturday, then called an article covering it "clickbait."