A seven-month WNBA offseason leaves us with an extra sharp hunger for hoops, especially for the defending champion, star-studded New York Liberty.
Their preseason contest on Friday night against the Connecticut Sun will be their first action since Game 5 of the WNBA Finals, 204 days earlier. The team’s path to repeating will be quite differentthan the one to the first championship in franchise history, given Betnijah Laney-Hamilton’s season-long absence, Kayla Thornton’s departure, and June’s EuroBasket competition, which will temporarily pluck three key pieces from the rotation.
Alas, none of our questions will be answered over two preseason games, the second of which will take place at University of Oregon, the alma mater of Sabrina Ionescu and Nyara Sabally.