SThe seeds for the Liberty’s super-team were sown in January. Now they’re playing host to the Connecticut Sun Sunday in Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals.
Back then, the Liberty could only pitch the vision of a giant championship lead. They started with a recruiting trip to Turkey to chase formerThen, a second former MVP, Jonquel Jones, saw a chance to play with Stewart and forced a trade to make it happen.
“I think just the hunger and the awareness to know the moment that we’re in and the potential that this team has,” Stewart said after practice Saturday. “And making sure that no matter what we do, we do it to the fullest and realize that these opportunities don’t come often, and making sure that we just make the most of it.
“I just felt like it was time for me to make that change in my career and go to go to a new place,” Jones said. “Then I had the opportunity to join Sloot and Stewie and the members of this team already. I just felt like it was something that was going to be extremely special, and a team that would be able to reach that mountaintop in something that I haven’t done in my career. So I feel really good about that.
“I know, right? It’s weird. It’s like a movie or something,” Jones said with a laugh. “But at the end of the day, we came together with a common goal. And for us, Connecticut is that next step that we’re focusing on. And we understand that, like I said, it’s going to be a fight. It’s going to be a lot going on. But it’s not really about me, it’s about our team together and us putting our best foot forward.
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