Because the Las Vegas Aces put together for the 2024 WNBA season, during which they goal to change into simply the second staff to ever three-peat as league champion, they’ll achieve this with out a prime HBCU star on their roster.
The Aces introduced that they had waived former three-time SWAC Defensive Participant of the 12 months Angel Jackson.
Preliminary information of Jackson’s launch was reported in an article posted by the Aces, which was later edited together with her title eliminated. Native staff reporter Callie Lawson-Freeman later confirmed the information.
The Jackson State product was launched, she took to Twitter after the information of her launch, and she or he merely mentioned, “15 can be again.”
15 can be again🙌🏾
— Angel🖤 (@hooper_angel15) Could 7, 2024
Jackson was chosen with the thirty sixth and closing choose of this 12 months’s WNBA Draft by the Las Vegas Aces.
This made her the seventh HBCU participant ever to be taken within the WNBA draft and the second Jackson State participant to be chosen within the earlier three years (Ameshya-Williams Holliday, 2022).
She was aiming to change into the primary HBCU participant to make an energetic WNBA roster since 2008, when former Howard middle was a member of the Washington Mystics.
The Las Vegas Aces are set to play their preseason opener this Saturday on the College of South Carolina (alma mater of star participant A’ja Wilson) in opposition to the Puerto Rican nationwide staff.
