The 2023 WNBA Finals are finally here, and it’s a game fans will love. The defending champion Las Vegas Aces will face the new-look New York Liberty on Sunday in a best-of-five game to determine the ultimate champion. Both the Liberty and Aces feature MVPs, All-Stars, and future Hall of Famers.
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Recently, a four-time All-Star admitted to forming a WNBA “superteam” with Breanna Stewart and Jonquil Jones, joining the likes of LeBron James and Kevin Durant in their ambitions .
New York Liberty forms a ‘super team’
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The New York Liberty are often considered the underdogs of the WNBA, but their newly crowned superteam champions are in the news, giving New York the best chance at a long-awaited first WNBA championship. Although the Liberty was one of the league’s founding teams, it has never won a championship in its 26-year history.
In the WNBA’s 26 seasons, teams from 11 different cities have won championship trophies. Celebrations were heard in four time zones across the continental United States, from coast to coast and north to south. Yet in this story of WNBA victory, one important city’s name was conspicuously missing from the winner’s circle. As far as championships go, New York, the city that never sleeps, does take a nap.
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However, in a transformative 2022 offseason, the Liberty borrowed tactics from basketball icons Kevin Durant and LeBron James. They carefully formed a “super team” and achieved amazing results in the women’s basketball world. They formed a “super team”, adding basketball superstars such as Breonna Stewart, Courtney Vandersloot and Jonquel Jones, as well as the return of Sabrina Ionescu, catapulted herself into the upper echelons of women’s basketball.
Recently, New York Liberty key player Sabrina Ionescu admitted to forming the WNBA’s “Super League” with Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones team”.
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Sabrina Ionescu revealed on a recent episode of Good Morning America that she orchestrated the roster makeover. The host asked the team a question that many people wanted to ask, “How did this all start? Did anyone text someone and say, ‘Hey, I want you to come here?'”
Sabrina Ionescu replied: “Yeah, I did.”
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She continued, “Just expressing my vision, but also knowing what we can achieve if we work together. Who we are as people, we understand that it takes a lot of sacrifices for us to come together and want to win and have that on the field. So many great players. “We all have to know we are in the right place… have the right mentality and have the same goals and I believe we all share the same vision. “
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If the Liberty can ride that wave, the WNBA could see history being made.
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