As expected, pregame festivities featured many smiles and warm remarks, and then the New York Liberty went out and destroyed the Chicago Sky on Thursday night.
It was Chicago’s home-opener, the Liberty’s first road game, and the first time Courtney Vandersloot would see her former team since the championship parade last October.
The future Hall of Famer amicably returned to her former franchise this offseason, in search of a larger (starting) role and the friendly confines of her old home.
Said Sloot of her time in New York: “There was a lot that happened in those two years.