The Reese household is sprinkled with basketball stardust.

Angel Reese is the WNBA rookie phenom who went toe to toe with Caitlin Clark in college before being drafted No. 7 overall by the Chicago Sky and shaking up women’s basketball.

Angel Reese has become a huge star in the WNBACredit: Getty
Julian ‘JuJu’ Reese is Angel’s younger brother, who’s looking to end his college basketball career with a bang and a national title before making the jump to the pros.

6ft 10in basketball prospect Julian wears No. 10 for the University of Maryland and is NBA Draft eligible after this season.

Much like his famous older sister, Julian is a double-double machine. He dropped 18 points and 10 rebounds in a 76-75 win against Villanova earlier in the season, and had 19 points and 11 rebounds in his home finale against Northwestern recently.

Julian averaged 13.1 points, 9.0 rebounds, 1.2 assists, and 1.6 blocks for Maryland in the Big Ten Conference this season.

The senior forward has recorded 14 double-doubles, which are tied for second in the Big Ten and 16th nationally. His 9.0 rebounds are also tied for the third-most in the league.

Over his four years, the Baltimore native has over 1,443 points and 987 rebounds for his career at Maryland.

He is one of just five players in program history that has surpassed 1,400 points/900 rebounds.

He currently ranks third all-time in career rebounds and is on pace to become just the second player in program history to go over 1,000.

After the regular season, Reese was named to the All-Big Ten Honorable Mention Team for the third consecutive season.

The apple didn’t fall far from the tree when it comes to the Reeses.

Julian and Angel, whose parents are former hoopers, grew up playing basketball together in Maryland, and both attended the same high school, St. Frances Academy in Baltimore.

The 21-year-old Juju had multiple college offers when he was a high school talent and the nation’s No. 48 prospect, but he chose Maryland as he wanted to represent his local team.

Angel also suited up for the Terrapins women’s team from 2020 to 2022. That was before she transferred to LSU where she defeated Clark in an epic national title game and became a mainstream star raking in millions of dollars in NIL deals.

Juju is currently the starting forward for Maryland, where he has played for three seasons so far, starting in his freshman year.

Reese broke out as a sophomore, posting the third-highest single-season field goal percentage in program history (63.2 percent), starring for a team that reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

The rising college senior has established himself as one of the Big Ten’s top big men in the years since. He averaged 13.7 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game last season, which ranked among the top five players in the Big Ten in each of the latter two categories.

Juju is an elite rim protector who could be a late second-round pick in the 2025 NBA DraftCredit: Getty

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The elite rim protector also posted the second-most double-doubles in the Big Ten last season (15), behind former Purdue giant Zach Edey who’s now suiting up for the Memphis Grizzlies and throwing down Ja Morant’s alley-oops.

“He knows our drop coverage really well,” Maryland head coach Kevin Willard said of Reese in March 2024.

“He’s a smart basketball player. So it makes life on everybody else a little bit easier.

“And he’s 6-foot-10, he’s physical, and he throws his body around, which really helps in this league.”

Julian and Angel have remained close throughout the latter’s ascension to superstardom.

The two siblings often credit each other with helping to shape their careers, with Julian even called her ‘an inspiration’ in one viral video.

“Consistency is [key emoji],” Angel recently commented after he posted a season-high 21 points.

In 2022, the Sky star told Sports Illustrated that she always brings up he brother whenever businesses tell her they’re looking for a male athlete to partner with for prospective endorsements deals.

“They’re like, ‘Do you know any players?’ And I’m like, ‘My brother?’ ” she said.

“I try to include him in as many deals as I can because once I’m able to leave here [Maryland], hopefully we can sign with the same agency and do everything together, and my mom can just be right there, too. I think it’ll be easy for both of us.”

Julian will look to replicate what Reese did in college and win an NCAA championship at the conclusion of March Madness.

The Terrapins star forms a potent one-two punch with five-star recruit Derik Queen, a 6ft 10in McDonald’s All-American center who’s a gifted passer and big time rebounder.

“Yeah, I mean, I’m excited about it because they’re both great passers,” coach Willard said of Maryland’s frontcourt duo.

“They’re both willing passers. I think you’re gonna have to guard one of them in the post. If you put your four-man on Derik, we’re going to post up Derik. If you put your four-man on JuJu, good luck. We’ll do a lot of high-low stuff. We’ll do some empty-side pick-and-roll things.

In ESPN’s 2025 mock draft, Queen is projected to go 24th overall to the Dallas Mavericks.

Other projections list Reese as a potential second-round draft pick – like LeBron James’ son Bronny.

Julian is yet to declare for the draft, which will be headline by projected No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg, the Duke Blue Devils star who’s already lit up a Team USA basketball squad including LeBron James and Steph Curry.

Reese will look to be a part of that 2025 class. Should Juju make it to The Association, he and big sister Angel would become only the seventh siblings to suit up in the NBA/WNBA.

The Terrapins (24-7, 14-6 Big Ten) are now viewed as a team that can potentially win it all when the NCAA Tournament gets underway later this week.

The fourth-seeded Terrapins prepare for their first-round game on Friday against Grand Canyon in Seattle.