Each of the past two seasons, the Aces opened at home with a pregame championship celebration.
On Saturday, though, they’ll experience what it’s wish to be on the opposing end of a banner-and-ring ceremony.
For Aces coach Becky Hammon, Saturday’s celebration of the Liberty will bring “mixed emotions.”
Hammon spent the primary eight years of her playing profession with the Liberty and went to a few WNBA Finals with the team, but never won.
Last season, the Liberty captured their first championship and eliminated the Aces within the WNBA semifinals in the method.
“I actually have plenty of respect for this organization, plenty of respect for Joe and Clara [Tsai], the Liberty just typically. They gave me my first likelihood,” Hammon said Friday after practice. “So I keep my personal opinions out of it. We’re about winning the sport. And I believed last 12 months, I believed they were the very best team. The very best team gets rings.”
Saturday won’t be Chelsea Gray’s first time attempting to play spoiler to a team’s ring night.
The Aces’ veteran guard opened the 2018 season at Minnesota.
Gray, then with the Sparks, helped Los Angeles put a damper on the Lynx’s championship ring night by handing the defending champions a season-opening loss.
“It’s sort of a more incentive that the away team at all times tries to destroy the ring night,” Gray said Friday after practice. “That’s at all times the important thing to all the things. That’s sort of the mantra of the sport.”
Leonie Fiebich joined the Liberty for her first practice of the season on Friday.
Whether she’ll play within the season opener stays unclear.
Fiebich was listed as “questionable” on the team’s availability report Friday evening, and coach Sandy Brondello said the German wing could be a “game-time decision.”
“We’ll see how she responds tomorrow,” Brondello said. “But I’m hopeful. It’d be nice to have her.”
If Fiebich is unavailable, Kennedy Burke could also be promoted to the starting lineup.
Breanna Stewart, who will add a 3rd WNBA championship ring to her collection Saturday, said she recently brought her award collection to Recent York from Seattle.
Stewart hasn’t established a dedicated spot for her rings, medals and trophies yet. But she has made it clear to her young daughter that her rings aren’t toys.
“I don’t want those things to hit the bottom after which crack or something,” Stewart said. “That’s a conversation that I don’t wish to have together with her.”
Each of the past two seasons, the Aces opened at home with a pregame championship celebration.
On Saturday, though, they’ll experience what it’s wish to be on the opposing end of a banner-and-ring ceremony.
For Aces coach Becky Hammon, Saturday’s celebration of the Liberty will bring “mixed emotions.”
Hammon spent the primary eight years of her playing profession with the Liberty and went to a few WNBA Finals with the team, but never won.
Last season, the Liberty captured their first championship and eliminated the Aces within the WNBA semifinals in the method.
“I actually have plenty of respect for this organization, plenty of respect for Joe and Clara [Tsai], the Liberty just typically. They gave me my first likelihood,” Hammon said Friday after practice. “So I keep my personal opinions out of it. We’re about winning the sport. And I believed last 12 months, I believed they were the very best team. The very best team gets rings.”
Saturday won’t be Chelsea Gray’s first time attempting to play spoiler to a team’s ring night.
The Aces’ veteran guard opened the 2018 season at Minnesota.
Gray, then with the Sparks, helped Los Angeles put a damper on the Lynx’s championship ring night by handing the defending champions a season-opening loss.
“It’s sort of a more incentive that the away team at all times tries to destroy the ring night,” Gray said Friday after practice. “That’s at all times the important thing to all the things. That’s sort of the mantra of the sport.”
Leonie Fiebich joined the Liberty for her first practice of the season on Friday.
Whether she’ll play within the season opener stays unclear.
Fiebich was listed as “questionable” on the team’s availability report Friday evening, and coach Sandy Brondello said the German wing could be a “game-time decision.”
“We’ll see how she responds tomorrow,” Brondello said. “But I’m hopeful. It’d be nice to have her.”
If Fiebich is unavailable, Kennedy Burke could also be promoted to the starting lineup.
Breanna Stewart, who will add a 3rd WNBA championship ring to her collection Saturday, said she recently brought her award collection to Recent York from Seattle.
Stewart hasn’t established a dedicated spot for her rings, medals and trophies yet. But she has made it clear to her young daughter that her rings aren’t toys.
“I don’t want those things to hit the bottom after which crack or something,” Stewart said. “That’s a conversation that I don’t wish to have together with her.”
