A year ago, things were not going well for the New York Liberty. They started out 1-7 following a rough training camp filled with injuries and late arrivals from overseas. As Howard Megdal reports in Sports Illustrated, there was one refuge for the Liberty’s new head coach, Sandy Brondello who had taken the Suns to the WNBA Finals the year before and was decidedly not used to losing. It was General Manager Jonathan Kolb’s office deep in the bowels of Barclays Center.
Every time Brondello walked into Kolb’s office, though, she’d see the three names on his whiteboard he’d been targeting since the previous offseason’s free agency: STEWART.