New York Liberty general manager Jonathan Kolb spent the last few weeks reading the 'tea leaves via emojis' just like everyone else. It's been the longest year of his life, he said, and if he ever forgot why, his office served as a reminder.
It's more than having a"Big Three" of talent, like the Houston Comets, Minnesota Lynx and Brondello's former Phoenix Mercury before it. A super-team is pieced together through player movement and free agency, long absent in the W.
Not every element binds into a productive compound. In this case, there is proof that various element groupings of this Liberty compound do because in the women's game, overseas play is common and the best spend significant time in USA Basketball camps. They already know how to do this. “We just wanted to add to this roster,” Vandersloot said. “We didn’t want to come here and blow it up. We wanted to be additions and that was the most important part.”
The Liberty slipped into the postseason as the final No. 8 seed last fall and soared into title favorites with their latest additions. The reigning champion Las Vegas Aces, the super-team of the West, are also favorites having added two-time champion and two-time MVP Candace Parker to an already All-WNBA-laden roster. The franchise is, a source confirmed to Yahoo Sports, by reportedly setting up potential free agents with monetary deals outside their salary.
The preseason hype on a super-team is large and the window for a title is often short given the salaries involved. The Liberty will need to pay Ionescu next season when she comes off her team-happy rookie contract that pays her $86K in 2023. Stewart, Laney, Jones and Dolson will be unrestricted free agents in a year.
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