Angel Reese’s debut broadcast on Chicago Sky racks up a massive 493,000 views on X after fans became furious with the WNBA for not showing the game.

The WNBA debuts of Angel Reese and Kamila Cardoso were widely viewed on a fan’s livestream on social media after the league’s app failed to broadcast the game.

The former LSU star and her South Carolina counterpart made their professional debuts and teammates when the Chicago Sky took on the Minnesota Lynx on Friday night.

The WNBA streaming app had incorrectly listed the game as available, causing confusion among fans. The league later clarified that only Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever debut was airing.

Luckily, X user @hayheyitsalli stepped in to ensure fans could watch the Chicago game.

‘Do you want me to try to stream the game here?’ She wrote. “No promises about quality, but I can try.”

The WNBA app mistakenly listed the game as available, causing confusion among fans

Even though his team lost, Reese scored 13 points and nine rebounds in 24 minutes in his debut.

The user, who appears to be a Lynx fan, streamed the game live from her seat at the Target Center. While viewership varied throughout the broadcast, the video has over 493,000 views at the time of this writing.

The user also posted a screenshot showing that the stream peaked at 173,381 live viewers.

“These are all some of the WILDEST numbers, WOW,” he tweeted.

After being asked about the postgame broadcast, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve stated that fans should pay @hayheyitsalli $3 per view.

“Anyone you saw should send the person three dollars, I don’t even know who it is,” Reeve said. ‘I guess what I would say is that the growth is happening very quickly. It’s very accelerated. And I’ve been saying this in our own organization: that business as usual will no longer work.

“You will be left behind and this is an example.”

Additionally, Reeve noted how he understands the broadcasts to be “all about” Clark’s debut.

The WNBA app only streamed Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever’s 76-79 loss to Dallas.

In addition to Reese, former South Carolina star Kamila Cardoso also made her debut for the Sky.

“People want to see that, but they also want to see, you know, that it’s not just about Caitlin,” Reeve said. Anyway, this isn’t Caitlin’s fault. It’s more, you know, the recognition that there is a general enthusiasm for the WNBA in a way that we haven’t seen before. And so we have to capitalize to really make sure that this is a movement.”

However, Reese finished the game with 13 points and nine rebounds in 24 minutes. On the other hand, Cardoso scored six points and four rebounds in 13 minutes as the Sky fell 81-92 to Minnesota.

Results aside, Sky coach Teresa Weatherspoon praised the rookies on their debut performances.

‘This is a learning process for all of us. And we’re going through that process the right way,” Weatherspoon said. ‘We’ve got our leaders guiding them, pulling them along. Keeping them confident. That’s what matters. So we’re in a great place, and they’re in a tremendously great place.’ .