Angel Reese Boyfriend: What’s Confirmed in 2026 

If you have typed Angel Reese boyfriend into a search bar this week, the answer is now clear. As of July 29, 2026, Angel Reese is publicly in a relationship with Orlando Magic center Wendell Carter Jr. The couple confirmed their relationship after going public in late 2025 following months of public support and media speculation.

So this page does something different. It gives you the dated status on the relationship question, then spends the rest of its time on the parts of her life she has put on the record. 

The confirmed record 

Detail	Status as of July 29, 2026	Where it comes from
Relationship status	In a relationship with Orlando Magic center Wendell Carter Jr.	Publicly confirmed after going public in late 2025
Full name	Angel Reese	Basketball Reference profile
Born	May 6, 2002, Randallstown, Maryland	Basketball Reference profile
Team	Atlanta Dream, No. 5, forward, listed 6-3	Official Dream roster
College	Maryland, then LSU	LSU athletics bio
WNBA draft	First round, No. 7 pick, 2024	Basketball Reference profile
All-Star selections	2024, 2025, 2026	LSU athletics bio and Dream releases

Notice what the middle column does. It separates confirmed facts from the social media speculation that fills most search results, so you can scan the difference in about ten seconds. 

Key takeaways 

• Angel Reese is currently in a relationship with Orlando Magic center Wendell Carter Jr. The couple went public with their romance in late 2025 after months of public support and media speculation.

• Her team is the Atlanta Dream now, not the Chicago Sky, and plenty of older pages still get that wrong. 

• Through 25 games this season, she was averaging 15.4 points and 11.5 rebounds. 

• Her business side runs from a Reebok signature shoe to an ownership stake in a media company. 

• A rival coach was suspended in July 2026 after a comment about her. 

What Reese has put on the record 

Reese regularly shares updates through her podcast, Unapologetically Angel, and across her social media platforms. While she has always kept much of her private life away from public attention, her relationship with Orlando Magic center Wendell Carter Jr. became public in late 2025.

Since then, the couple has occasionally appeared together publicly, but Reese continues to keep most details of the relationship private while remaining focused on her basketball career and growing business portfolio.

Why the Angel Reese boyfriend question keeps trending 

Reese arrived in professional basketball already famous. The 2023 national title, the rivalry storylines, the brand deals and the podcast all built an audience that follows her past the box score. Search interest in her personal life follows the same curve as her fame, which is why the question spikes every time she has a big game. 

There is a harder edge to that attention, and it is measurable. According to a Pew Research Center survey of 10,093 US adults, 33% of women under 35 said they had been sexually harassed online. Only 11% of men that age said the same. A young woman with millions of followers sits at the sharp end of that pattern, and our women’s sport coverage keeps running into it. 

Past relationships: what can be verified 

Angel Reese’s only publicly confirmed relationship is with Orlando Magic center Wendell Carter Jr. The couple went public in late 2025 after months of speculation and public appearances together.

Before that announcement, numerous rumors linked Reese to various athletes and public figures, but none were ever confirmed by Reese or supported by official sources. As with all athlete profiles, only publicly confirmed relationships are included here.

From Randallstown to Baton Rouge to Atlanta 

Angel Reese was born on May 6, 2002, in Randallstown, Maryland, and she is 24. She started her college career at Maryland before transferring to LSU, where her national profile began. 

Her LSU numbers still read like a typo. She set an NCAA record with 34 double-doubles in the 2022-23 season, won the national championship, and was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player. 

In Baton Rouge, she led the SEC in scoring at 18.6 points and rebounding at 13.4 boards for two straight seasons. SEC Player of the Year followed in 2024. In all 67 games she played there, she scored in double figures. For more careers built the same way, our athlete profiles archive is the place to start. 

Chicago drafted her seventh overall in 2024. Reese led the league in rebounding as a rookie and finished second in Rookie of the Year voting. On August 25, 2024, she pulled down 22 boards in one game against Las Vegas. Two seasons later, she was in Atlanta. 

Her 2026 season, by the numbers 

Season	Team	Games	Points	Rebounds	Assists
2024	Chicago Sky	34	13.6	13.1	1.9
2025	Chicago Sky	30	14.7	12.6	3.7
2026	Atlanta Dream	25	15.4	11.5	2.4

Read the rows left to right, and the trend is clear. Her scoring has climbed every year. Her rebounding has stayed near the top of the league, and through 25 games this season she sat second in the WNBA on the glass behind Jessica Shepard. 

Atlanta named her a 2026 All-Star reserve on July 7, alongside teammates Allisha Gray and Rhyne Howard. That made three selections in three professional seasons. At the All-Star Game in Chicago, she set up Dominique Malonga for the first dunk the event had seen since 2022. 

The season has had a sour note too. On July 18, 2026, the league suspended Toronto head coach Sandy Brondello for one game. The reason was an inappropriate comment about Reese during a 111-92 loss in Atlanta the night before. League officials were blunt about it, saying they expect all coaches and team personnel to uphold the highest standards of professionalism and respect. 

The businesses and brands behind the name 

Her endorsements are the part of the story most gossip pages skip, and they are the part with real numbers behind them. 

• Reebok, signed on October 17, 2023, the first athlete brought in under Shaquille O’Neal’s basketball division. 

• The Angel Reese 1, her signature shoe, was announced in July 2025 and released that September. It is still on sale in several colorways. 

• Reese’s, the Hershey’s partnership that landed in August 2024, complete with an apparel run. 

• McDonald’s, a co-branded meal in February 2025. 

• Togethxr, the women’s sports media company she took an ownership stake in during September 2025. 

• Unrivaled, the 3v3 offseason league co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, where she plays between WNBA seasons. 

Add Amazon, Bose, Coach, Wingstop and Xfinity, and the shape of it becomes obvious. She is building a portfolio, not collecting logos. If the shoe end of that interests you, our basketball equipment reviews cover what the on-court gear does. 

How we handle stories about athletes’ private lives 

Simple rule. We only report relationships that have been publicly confirmed by the athlete or through reliable public reporting. Rumors and social media speculation are not presented as fact.

That rule loses us traffic on queries like this one, because the pages that invent an answer will always sound more satisfying than the page that tells you nobody knows. It also means you can trust the rest of what you read here. You can see the wider standard in how Gamerlume reports on athletes. 

Where to go from here 

Follow the season as Angel Reese continues to build her basketball career with the Atlanta Dream. While her relationship with Wendell Carter Jr. is now publicly known, she remains focused on her performance on the court and her expanding business ventures.

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