Angel Reese took to social media to explain her season-ending injury — a small crack in a bone in her wrist that will require surgery, which she is having Tuesday.
“I fell on my hand when I got the and-1, when I fell back [and] fell on my hand, and it is a small crack in my bone,” Reese said in a video posted to her TikTok account late Sunday night.
“Basically, the doctors told me that I could either not get surgery or have surgery. The risk of not having surgery — I could literally have arthritis at 22 years old. That wasn’t an option. The bone could literally crack and completely shatter. Right now, it’s like a hairline. … They’re going to put a small screw in it. And I wasn’t going for it getting any bigger.”
Reese said she’ll be in a hard cast for four weeks and then a soft cast for two.
“Long term, I literally could have not played anymore because this is a very hard place to heal because the blood flow is little to none,” she said while pointing to her right wrist, which was wrapped in a black soft cast.