The New York Liberty entered Saturday’s home-opener 2-0, but hadn’t really exploded out of the gate just yet. They squeaked by the Washington Mystics on Tuesday in a disorganized game, both on the court and in the first broadcast of New York’s new over-the-air TV deal.
And while they rolled in Game Two, a wire-to-wire victory defined by Breanna Stewart’s excellence, it was over an Indiana Fever team that hasn’t lived up to the Caitlin Clark-induced hype. No, the team who just had the #1 pick getting rolled by the Eastern Conference’s two best teams to open their season isn’t surprising, but a -57 point differential in the first 80 minutes of their season set a new WNBA record.