What’s a season without a little adversity?
The New York Liberty would prefer not to know, but over the last ten days, they’ve lost Jonquel Jones to a four-to-six-week ankle injury, Leonie Fiebich to EuroBasket, and three of four games. Perhaps I jinxed them.
Still, provided Jones can make a full recovery by August, their championship aspirations remain unchanged. In sea foam speak, adversity can mean that they’re no longer favored to set the WNBA single-season wins record.
But it’s enough to question where the 10-3 Liberty will be by then.