Aces forward Candace Parker (3) celebrates after scoring a three-pointer during the second half of a WNBA preseason basketball game against the New York Liberty at Michelob ULTRA Arena on Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Las Vegas.

Source: https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/aces/3-takeaways-from-aces-dominant-preseason-win-over-liberty-2777023/

Adding to the intrigue of where Stewart will end up is the possibility of it being with the New York Liberty to form a superteam with 2021 WNBA MVP Jonquel Jones and longtime Sky floor general Courtney Vandersloot.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky-and-wnba/2023/1/21/23562615/fact-or-fiction-breaking-down-free-agency-rumors

ATLANTA (AP) — NaLyssa Smith scored 23 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to help the Indiana Fever end a WNBA record-tying 20-game losing streak with a 90-87 win over the Atlanta Dream on Sunday.

Source: https://www.wishtv.com/sports/indiana-fever/fever-end-record-20-game-losing-streak-with-90-87-win-over-atlanta/

Attendees included Aces stars and Kelsey Plum, who won the WNBA All-Star skills challenge earlier in the day.

Source: https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/wnba/wnba-all-stars-show-off-glamour-on-orange-carpet-photos-2872393/

Beal is anticipated to go in the first round of the 2019 WNBA Draft.

Source: https://ksusentinel.com/2023/04/11/who-is-brea-beal-who-is-brea-beals-boyfriend-find-out-everything-about-them/

Before 2020 in the WNBA, players earned only half their salary when they were out while pregnant, getting fully compensated only after the new collective bargaining agreement was enacted.

Source: https://www.dailybreeze.com/2023/01/22/swanson-did-las-vegas-aces-discriminate-against-dearica-hamby-she-thinks-so/

Before tip-off, we asked fans about the rising popularity of women’s sports, whether they think the city could sustain a WNBA expansion and what they’d suggest for a new team name.

Source: https://torontolife.com/city/we-could-call-them-the-t-rexes-toronto-wnba-fans-explain-why-they-want-a-team-of-their-own/

Breanna Stewart is the biggest WNBA free agent on the market this offseason and the former MVP has a host of teams courting her, including the Seattle Storm where she’s spent her entire career.

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/national/story/2023-01-20/breanna-stewart-headlines-wnba-free-agency-list

Brittney Griner and her Phoenix Mercury teammates were confronted by a 'provocateur' at the Dallas airport on Saturday, the WNBA said.

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/see-it-with-my-own-eyes-canadian-teen-in-war-torn-ukraine-to-film-documentary-1.6434167

Brittney Griner recently signed a one-year contractto stay with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and will be one of the stories of the 2023 WNBA season given she hasn’t played since 2021 due to missing the 2022 WNBA season while in detention in Russia.

Source: https://thyblackman.com/2023/03/25/baylor-should-retire-brittney-griners-number/

Brittney Griner recently signed a one-year contractto stay with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and will be one of the stories of the 2023 WNBA season given she hasn’t played since 2021 due to missing the 2022 WNBA season while in detention in Russia.

Source: https://thyblackman.com/2023/03/25/baylor-should-retire-brittney-griners-number/

Bryant has personally seen the value of top draft picks in the WNBA.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/sports/sparks/story/2023-01-04/sparks-gm-karen-bryant-wnba

Commissioner Cathy Engelbert addressed expansion, but only vaguely at the WNBA Draft in April.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky-and-wnba/2023/5/7/23714638/wnba-expansion-a-hot-button-topic-as-roster-cuts-begin

Dallas Wings forward Satou Sabally competes during the WNBA All-Star skills competition at Michelob ULTRA Arena on Friday, July 14, 2023, in Las Vegas.

Source: https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/wnba/aces-liberty-split-all-star-weekend-competitions-2872152/

Eventually, Vandersloot transitioned her court vision to the WNBA.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/10/01/courtney-vandersloot-key-reason-liberty-are-game-away-from-finals/

Facing their premier Eastern Conference competition, the Connecticut Sun (25-12) at Barclays Center, the Liberty (29-7) showed why they’ve been the best team in the WNBA over the last month with their fifth straight victory, this one a dominant 89-58 win.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/09/02/liberty-breanna-stewart-dominate-rival-connecticut-sun/

Fans can also thank free agency as the WNBA witnessed the birth of the superteam era.

Source: https://fansided.com/2023/02/28/wnba-free-agency-2023-winners-losers-shockers/

For Notre Dame head coach, Niele Ivey, a former WNBA player and mother of Detroit Pistons rookie, Jaden Ivey, Cassandre’s talent and potential are immense.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9432274/montreal-prosper-siblings-basketball/

He compared the exchange to last December’s U.S.-Russian prisoner swap between WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner and Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout following her trial and conviction on drug possession charges in Moscow.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/world-news/2023/05/belgium-iran-conduct-prisoner-swap-in-oman-freeing-aid-worker-and-diplomat-convicted-in-bomb-plot/

Her 806 points are creeping toward Tasuri’s WNBA season record of 860, set in 2006.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/why-the-liberty-may-be-the-nyc-superteam-that-actually-delivers/