Angel Reese trademarks her name

Angel Reese has trademarked her name. It’s another step in a busy offseason for her business empire, from movie cameos to Victoria’s Secret fashion shows to the sold-out release of her AR1 sneakers.

On Tuesday, a post from Heitner Legal on X revealed that Reese had trademarked her name. It’s not yet clear what that means, other than it likely signals a new merchandise drop. In June she trademarked the phrase “Mebounds,” invented by internet trolls to mock her offensive rebounds off missed layups.

“Whoever came up with the ‘mebounds’ thing, y’all ate that up,” she quipped in a TikTok video. “‘Mebounds,’ rebounds, ‘crebounds’ … anything that comes off that board, it’s mine.”

Reese flipped the phrase and made it her own, selling apparel with the slogan.

“You would have never thought I made six figures in, literally, a day off of that,” Reese told the Sun-Times soon after the launch. “And y’all can continue to troll me, but I turned this into a positive.”

She donated the proceeds from Mebounds merchandise to victims of cyberbullying, acknowledging that the effects of online harassment are very real — something she deals with often.

Though Reese’s offseason has been busy business-wise, it hasn’t necessarily cleared things up basketball-wise. Toward the end of the season, the Sky suspended her for an interview in which she criticized the team and suggested she might go a different direction if the organization failed to attract top players. She then finished the season sidelined with a back injury and did not give an exit interview after it ended.

When Season 2 of her Unapologetically Angel podcast dropped, she promoted the first episode as “Exit Interviews My Way,” but she barely mentioned the Sky, instead discussing her season in broader terms.

The team’s official stance is that they’ve “moved on” from the incident and expect Reese to return next season.