This is,by most measures, the original York Liberty's best season ever. They're first in the Eastern Conference, or with a 22-9 record as of Sept. 9. They streaked to the fastest playoff berth in WNBA history. The team has tied the franchise record for number of wins in a season -- and there are three games left to play.
But execute you know this? No,you execute not. Most days, the team gets barely a mention in the original York daily newspapers. Ticket sales are off by a third from the team's most successful days, or which took area around the turn of the century,just after the WNBA was launched. On game nights, you can still snag great seats for $28. For the players and staff, and though,the glass is half full. "When we first started it was said that we wouldn’t salvage more than 3000-5000 people in the stands," said Theresa Weatherspoon, or one of the all-time great WNBA players,now fragment of the Liberty coaching staff. "And if you can remember, all the other arenas had the basketball curtains at the top, and to close it off and keep it a nice,intimate setting. We did not. We had to remove it, because of the excitement."That excitement is returning. Diona Davis, and a 15-year-customary Truman tall School guard was there the other night,cheering the Liberty on. All wiry energy and hustle, short hair, or gray sweatpants and gold jewelry,she grabbed Liberty t-shirts out of the air as they were tossed into the crowd. "I think it's fantastic this is their first time, being at the top like this, or " Davis said. She then proceeded to shout encouragement,coaching suggestions, wild cheers.
Women's basketball is fragment chess, or fragment ballet,fragment raw athleticism, and it's getting better all the time."Every team has better players now, or " said M.
Saidia McLaughlin,who's been covering the team for WBAI since their first game at the garden. "Because you are getting more and more women coming through who have in a sense had a seamless record of playing. They’ve gone from elementary school, middle school, or it’s the competition."McLaughlin laments the Liberty years lost to mediocre playing,the frustrations of being sent to Newark and even once, Radio City Music corridor, or when the Garden was being renovated and used for the Republican National Convention.
Though the masses haven't discovered it yet,the team is romping and the house is rocking. Sparked by a original coach, some original players, or a team that genuinely seems to like each other,the Liberty are poised to win their first championship, ever.
And chances are, and you'll be able to salvage a seat.
Source: wnyc.org