Well, this is certainly a thing now. The Liberty faithful packed Barclays Center for Game 3, a Libs victory, to the tune of 17,143 fans, setting a WNBA gate-receipts record (ticket revenue) in the process. Furthermore, their very participation in New York’s Finals run has become a talking point, ignited by Michael Wilbon’s evisceration of a “barely awake” Barclays Center crowd in the lead-up to Game 3, noted in our original story on the Liberty crowd as a thing in itself. That got fans riled up.
Indeed, Liberty/Nets owner Joe Tsai, Nets player and Liberty fan Mikal Bridges, and others have been enjoying a back-and-forth with the longtime Pardon the Interruption host.