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During halftime of Sunday’s WNBA preseason game between the Connecticut Sun and the New York Liberty at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., the 10-time All-Star made it clear that she is not hanging up her sneakers anytime soon. “I got a chip on my shoulder. A lot of people counting me out, want to call me old, want to say I need to retire and s–t. I’m not,” Griner said during an interview before joining her team in the locker room.
The contracts of many of Kerr's current assistant coaches are expiring, and one of his trusted front-of-the-bench voices, Chris DeMarco, already left to take the New York Liberty head coaching position. Willie Green, the former Pelicans head coach and one-time Kerr assistant, is a possibility to return to the staff, league sources said.
Satou Sabally has agreed to sign a multiyear deal with the New York Liberty, her agent Zack Miller of WME Basketball told ESPN on Saturday. Also Saturday, Jonquel Jones agreed to sign a multiyear deal to return to New York, a source confirmed to ESPN.
WNBA free agency this year had the makings of a high-octane, drama-filled blockbuster. Instead, it’s shaping up to be nothing more than a blip. More than 100 players are set to become free agents as a result of most veterans signing contracts that expired following the 2025 season in anticipation of a new collective bargaining agreement. But after CBA negotiations carried on for more than 15 months, ultimately leading to a deal being reached in March, free agency was put on hold. Now, the league’s 15 general managers will have no more than two weeks to fill out their rosters, with free agency dates still not set by the league and training camp opening on April 19. “A lot of decisions will have to be done relatively quickly,” New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu said. “I think GMs have been working for a really long time, though.” Teams can’t officially negotiate with free agents yet. Players, meanwhile, have had less to say when it comes to their recruitment efforts. “I don’t know if I can answer that,” Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers said when asked about her efforts to woo impending free agents at USA Basketball camp. “But I’m friendly with everyone.”
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Anthony Slater: Chris DeMarco will be on the Warriors’ bench tonight and in near future, but will depart for the NY Liberty head job during this season. Timing TBD. Sabrina Ionescu reached out to Steph Curry during the hiring process to ask about DeMarco. Report for NBA Today
Chris DeMarco will be on the Warriors’ bench tonight and in near future, but will depart for the NY Liberty head job during this season. Timing TBD.
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 21, 2025
Sabrina Ionescu reached out to Steph Curry during the hiring process to ask about DeMarco.
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The next head coach of the WNBA's New York Liberty, according to league sources, will be one of these three finalists: Phoenix Mercury assistant coach Kristi Tolliver, former Nets assistant Will Weaver and Raptors assistant Jama Mahlalela.
So who are the top candidates for the Liberty? There does not appear to be much current momentum for Liberty assistant coach Sonia Raman, who previously spent four years as a Memphis Grizzlies assistant before moving into The W. New York very much seems to be looking for a new voice rather than hiring someone from Brondello's staff, with sources saying that former Liberty guard and current Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Lindsey Harding has interviewed with New York. Before joining JJ Redick's staff in Los Angeles, Harding notably won G League Coach of the Year honors while in charge of the Stockton Kings. Current Mercury assistant Kristi Tolliver is another known candidate to have interviewed strongly with the Liberty, sources said. Tolliver, who began her NBA coaching career with the Wizards and Mavericks while still playing in the WNBA, now has more than five years of bench experience.
Police arrested a man Wednesday for allegedly throwing a dildo at a New York Liberty game on Aug. 5 against the Wings. Charles Burgess, 32, faces two counts of assault for throwing the dildo at the arena. His throw didn’t make it onto the court, but instead struck a 12-year-old girl in the leg.
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No Liberty player has had a closer seat to the dramatic transformation of the organization than Sabrina Ionescu. Last September, in Game 2 of the Liberty’s first-round playoff series against the Atlanta Dream in Brooklyn, Ionescu was walking to the sideline to inbound the ball. She felt a hand reach out to her for a high five. It was Spike Lee. “I felt like New York was injected into my veins,” Ionescu said in a press conference following the game. The Academy Award–winning filmmaker returned for Game 5 of the Finals and has been to multiple games this season.
New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu won her second 3-point contest Friday night to kick off WNBA All-Star Weekend, becoming the second player to win multiple shootouts. Ionescu won by scoring 30 of the possible 40 points in the second round, beating reigning champion Allisha Gray, who had 22. Ionescu's 30 points tied Allie Quigley for the second most in a WNBA 3-point contest. Ionescu holds the record of 37, set in 2023. "I knew I wasn't going to get it when I missed a few on the front end," Ionescu said of the record. "But I mean, I could have gotten close. I just missed some easy ones at the end. I think I knew I was high up there, and I kind of locked out a little bit and started like listening to the crowd. But I mean, 30 is not too bad. So I'm happy with 30 as well."
ESPN’s broadcast of Tuesday night’s WNBA matchup between the Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty drew a big viewing audience. Madeline Kenney of the New York Post shared the numbers on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday. “The numbers from last night’s nationally televised Aces-Liberty game are in: The Liberty win averaged 701K viewers, peaking at 813K on ESPN,” Kenney said. “It was the most-watched non-Indiana WNBA game on ESPN (E1) since 1999.”
Caitlin Clark Effect Back in Full As Fever-Liberty Draws 2.2 Million Viewers Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images When Caitlin Clark is on national TV, the ratings go boom. Saturday’s game between the Fever and Liberty averaged 2.2 million viewers on ABC. ESPN announced that viewership peaked at 2.8 million and was the third-most-watched WNBA game ever on ABC. The matchup drew 76% more viewers than the average regular-season WNBA game on ABC last year. Clark had missed five games with a quad injury, during which time WNBA ratings sagged—although Indiana games even without Clark still did pretty well, all things considered, as Front Office Sports’s Colin Salao documented.