With a heroic effort as two of its starters sat out due to injury, the Las Vegas Aces beat the New York Liberty 70-69 in a closely fought Game Four to win the 2023 WNBA championship Wednesday night in Brooklyn. The win sealed back-to-back titles for the franchise. Forward A’ja Wilson earned the Finals MVP
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2023 WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart. Photo: WNBA. New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart is the 2023 WNBA Most Valuable Player the league announced today. She is the first MVP in Liberty franchise history. This is Stewart’s second WNBA MVP honor. She is the eighth player in league history to win the award multiple times, joining
Liberty fans have waited 27 seasons for a W.N.B.A. title, and on Friday night, it showed. The atmosphere at Barclays Center was electric for New York’s opening postseason game against the Washington Mystics. Fans waved white playoff towels, booed every call that didn’t go their way and cheered for each celebrity featured on the scoreboard,
New York Liberty General Manager Jonathan Kolb is the 2023 WNBA Basketball Executive of the Year. Kolb, in his fifth year as General Manager, earned the honor for the first time. He is the first New York executive to win the award. “I am profoundly humbled to be named this year’s WNBA Basketball Executive of
Two superteams, the Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty, dominated the W.N.B.A. season, as expected. They were so good that only two others teams in the 12-team league even managed a winning record. A final between them has the potential to be a classic. But first, they will have to make it through
The New York Liberty (24-6) took down the league-leading Las Vegas Aces 82-63 in the third annual WNBA Commissioner’s Cup competition Tuesday night. Liberty forward/center Jonquel Jones earned the MVP award with 16 points and a game-high 15 rebounds. Teammate Marine Johannès scorched the Aces from three-point land with five three-pointers at Michelob Ultra Arena
How to Read Futures Odds The WNBA season is set to kick off tomorrow, May 19 with four games. With a stacked roster that includes the additions of veterans Candace Parker and Alysha Clark, the Las Vegas Aces are the favorites to win the 2023 championship according to major sportsbooks. FanDuel, BetMGM, and DraftKings all
With the WNBA Finals and World Cup over, it’s time to take a look back at what each WNBA team did this season and forward at what their offseason goals should be. Next up is the sixth installment in our series: the No. 7 seed New York Liberty, who lost in the first round of
CHICAGO (Aug. 17, 2022) – New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu. Photo: Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images. Twitter thread recap The New York Liberty (1-0) stunned the Chicago Sky (0-1), 98-91 on the road, to open the WNBA playoffs Wednesday night. Natasha Howard and Sabrina Ionescu led the charge to take down the defending champions
The WNBA Playoffs are officially underway and all eyes are focused on the defending champion Chicago Sky. To kick off their quest to repeat, they took on the no. 7 seed New York Liberty on their home court. The Sky came into this postseason conquering much of the high expectations they have dealt with all
The New York Liberty are heading to the playoffs in a season where they were once 1-7 after a seven-game losing streak and once 9-17 after a five-game losing streak. On the day they fell to 9-17, they were 2.5 games out of a playoff spot with 10 games to go. With an 8-5 stretch
The New York Liberty are no longer in playoff position. Their perfect record during this much-talked-about final eight-game stretch is no more. They had narrowly averted a let down on Wednesday and the path seemed clear for them to keep rolling; next up was a Saturday night matchup against a Phoenix Mercury team that they
The Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty just completed a stretch where they played each other three times in nine days, and some of their box score stats deserve a second look. Here are few numbers that stand out from those three games: Wednesday, July 6 — Liberty 116, Aces 107 New York
The New York Liberty allowed Sophie Cunningham of the Phoenix Mercury to score a career-high 23 points Thursday night at the Footprint Center in Phoenix. When Cunningham scored on a layup with 4:46 to go in the second, it gave her 19 points and increased the Mercury lead to a game-high 16. The nights New
Over the last year, Stefanie Dolson has won at every level. She was a starter on the gold medal 3×3 Olympic team in the summer of 2021. She followed that up by winning her first WNBA championship as a member of the Chicago Sky, making some pivotal plays in the pick-and-roll down the stretch of
The Liberty are not sure what the full identity of their revamped team should be. But they are certain about one aspect of it. “I want teams to kind of be scared of us when they have to be on offense,” said forward Natasha Howard, who won the W.N.B.A.’s Defensive Player of the Year Award
Nyara Sabally was taken fifth overall in this year’s WNBA draft. She will be joining her former Oregon teammate Sabrina Ionescu in New York, playing for the Liberty. At least that’s the plan for 2023. Sabally has already been ruled out for the 2022 season due to her knee issues. Nyara Sabally, the No. 5
Every week, Cat Ariail writes about a women’s basketball issue that deserves some examination off the court. This week, in light of Howard Megdal’s report for Sports Illustrated that the New York Liberty were fined $500,000 for chartering flights for their players, Cat decided to talk things through with Zack Ward and Sabreena Merchant to
The New York Liberty needed a center in free agency and they have reportedly acquired one in Stefanie Dolson, who made key plays down the stretch of the 2021 Finals-clinching game for the Chicago Sky and starred for Team USA’s 3×3 team en route to gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. New York native Stef
Breanna Stewart, a two-time WNBA champion and three-time WNBA All-Star, met with New York Liberty executives this week, which could close the book on her time with the Seattle Storm. Along with Sue Bird, Stewart is one of the Storms’ two stars who are unrestricted free agents this offseason. Bird recently announced her intentions to
The 2021 New York Liberty have the distinction of being the team with the lowest winning percentage to ever make the playoffs. That being said, they gave the eventual runner-up Phoenix Mercury a run for their money in the first round. And their record probably should have been better. They would have made the playoffs
Oct 17, 2021; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Phoenix Mercury head coach Sandy Brondello during the second half of game four of the 2021 WNBA Finals against the Chicago Sky at Wintrust Arena. Photo: Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports After parting ways with the Phoenix Mercury last month, Sandy Brondello lands in New York. The coaching veteran takes
Sandy Brondello is most well known for winning the WNBA title in her first year as the head coach of the Phoenix Mercury — her second year as a head coach in the league. That was 2014, Brittney Griner’s second year as a pro. Griner was the hyped up No. 1 of the “Three to