And we know our W fans are going to be excited to see her wherever we go. “But this year, it’ll be filled with joy. “When we go to the city, and it’s our first game there, that’s going to be a ‘BG’ game, just like it was for us last year,” Nygaard said. I think we’ll just have patience early, but these players really want to win.”Īs for Griner’s first season back in the league following a nearly 10-month detainment in Russia, Phoenix’s second-year head coach Vanessa Nygaard told media earlier this week that they’re preparing for the spotlight to follow them throughout the year. We haven’t had much of a training camp to be quite honest with all our players - the big three coming in - and that’s unfortunate, but it is what it is. “But you know, ‘on paper’ doesn’t mean anything at the moment. “I think we put a really good team - we’ve had a great offseason,” Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello told media on Tuesday.
#WINGS OF LIBERTY ALL IN PLUS#
Meanwhile, the Liberty signed two MVPs of their own in 2018 MVP Breanna Stewart and 2021 winner Jonquel Jones, plus they added last year’s assists leader Courtney Vandersloot. But Las Vegas will open the season without head coach Becky Hammon after she was suspended for two games without pay following a month-long investigation into allegations by former Aces player Dearica Hamby, who claimed to have been bullied and manipulated for being pregnant.
The Aces kept nearly every piece from their championship team and then added another superstar to their roster with two-time WNBA MVP Candace Parker. Fans will get their first view of all of it when the regular season tips off this weekend, kicking off an expanded 40-game schedule for each team that features every franchise in action over Friday and Saturday. The 27th WNBA season already has an electricity about it, thanks to the return of Brittney Griner and the anticipation over two new “super teams” hitting the court, led by reigning champion Las Vegas Aces and the new-look New York Liberty.
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