This past winter, the New York Liberty went on an acquisition spree unprecedented in W.N.B.A. history. At a recent meeting, Jonquel Jones, Breanna Stewart, and Courtney Vandersloot explained how they teamed up.
This past winter, the New York Liberty went on an acquisition spree unprecedented in W.N.B.A. history. Jonquel Jones, a six-six center with a silky jump shot, arrived via a trade. Breanna Stewart, a former UConn star, and Courtney Vandersloot, a hawk-eyed point guard, signed free-agent deals. At a recent preseason practice at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, a group of reporters appraised the new arrivals.
The Liberty wasn’t always a strip-steak-and-ginger-shot team. For years, the franchise languished under the ownership of James Dolan, the owner of the Knicks. In 2018, he banished the Liberty from Madison Square Garden, forcing the team to play its home games at the Westchester County Center, a five-thousand-seat venue in White Plains. In 2019, Joe and Clara Tsai, the owners of the Brooklyn Nets, bought the team from Dolan and ended its suburban exile.
The Nets learned this lesson recently. Their experiment with super-team status ended in frustration in February, with the departures of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. “When I watched them play, it felt very much like a bunch of individual people doing their individual thing,” Jones said. “Didn’t seem like there was any cohesiveness to what they had going on.”
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