Back for its third season, Unrivaled unveiled its rosters Tuesday night, with Breanna Stewart, Arike Ogunbowale and Veronica Burton returning for defending champion Mist BC.
Remember what happened in Game 2 against Atlanta? The Liberty were trailing by three with 4.3 seconds left in overtime. They still had a reset timeout, which would have allowed them to advance the ball and attempt a more organised three-pointer.
The New York Liberty had a disappointing end to the 2026 WNBA season. New York was swept out of the playoff by Atlanta, extinguishing their hopes of a deep postseason run before they began.
How many of the WNBA players to record 20 double-doubles in a single regular season can you name in five minutes?
Las Vegas' A'ja Wilson and New York's Breanna Stewart headline the 2026 All-WNBA teams, as announced by the league on Saturday. Indiana's Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell as well as Minnesota's Olivia Miles join Wilson and Stewart on the first-team roster.
The Atlanta Dream and the Golden State Valkyries exchanged buckets in the first quarter until Angel Reese took it upon herself to answer the Valkyries’ smothering defense.
When the New York Liberty won the 2024 WNBA championship, the expectation was that they would keep up that success, and the formula would keep working.
The New York Liberty’s early WNBA playoff exit has raised doubts about head coach Chris DeMarco’s future. The first-year coach expects to return next season, but the team’s three biggest stars have not clearly supported him.
It’s not just the officials who are to blame for the New York Liberty timeout incident. In Game 2 against Atlanta, trailing by three in overtime with 4.3 seconds left, New York launched a desperation full-court shot instead of using a reset timeout to advance the ball.
Breanna Stewart made a firm demand of the New York Liberty front office after the team was swept 3-0 by the Atlanta Dream in the second round. In a closely fought Game 3, the Dream won 85-83 after DeWanna Bonner made two clutch free throws.
With 6.2 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Game 3 of the WNBA Semifinals, New York Liberty head coach Chris DeMarco finally called a reset timeout, something he had failed to do in Game 2 to everyone’s surprise.
Breanna Stewart has accomplished just about everything in the WNBA. The New York Liberty superstar, though, has now experienced a postseason first she would rather forget.
The WNBA semifinals concluded on Friday night as the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries punched their tickets to the 2026 WNBA Finals, each completing a clean three-game sweep of their semifinal matchups.
Angel Reese made two free throws, giving the Atlanta Dream a 3-point lead in overtime. 4.3 seconds left on the clock, the New York Liberty’s Leonie Fiebich takes the ball out of bounds and looks for an inbound pass.
Before New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart officially moves on from the Game 2 controversy, she put the WNBA’s refs on blast one more time. During the late stages of Game 2 of the Liberty-Dream series, Stewart missed a game-tying 3-pointer at the end of the overtime.
It turns out Breanna Stewart was right all along about that chaos at the end of overtime. Breanna Stewart threw serious shade at the refs postgame, saying they explicitly told her New York had zero reset timeouts left during those final 4.3 seconds in overtime.
Sports writer Jemele Hill has called out the official who was at the centre of controversy after the New York Liberty’s 101-98 loss to the Atlanta Dream in Game 2 of the WNBA second round.
As Angel Reese made her second free throw in overtime to make the score 101-98 in favor of the Atlanta Dream, the broadcaster can be heard saying, ”New York has a reset.
Unfortunately, Game 2 between the Atlanta Dream and New York Liberty ended in controversial fashion. The Dream defeated the Liberty in overtime to take a 2-0 series lead.
The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries are both one win away from meeting in the WNBA Finals after taking 2-0 leads in their respective best-of-five semifinal series.
Breanna Stewart was incredibly frustrated after the New York Liberty lost Game 2 of their second-round playoff series to the Atlanta Dream. The Liberty were dominant for most of the game before the Dream managed to claw their way back and force the game into overtime.
The No. 8-seeded New York Liberty must win at least one road game to upset the No. 4-seeded Atlanta Dream in the best-of-five WNBA semifinals. That just became a little easier.
Ahead of the second round, we break down Dream-Liberty and Valkyries-Aces with keys to each series below.
The Las Vegas Aces, New York Liberty, Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries were all Game 1 winners to get the upper hand in their first-round series.
Breanna Stewart had a game-high 34 points and 12 rebounds, and the eighth-seeded New York Liberty rallied after being down at halftime to defeat top-seeded Minnesota 91-75 Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis.
Breanna Stewart had 27 points on 10-for-14 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds Sunday afternoon as the visiting New York Liberty dominated the Toronto Tempo 106-69.
Breanna Stewart scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and the New York Liberty held on for a 93-81 win over the Minnesota Lynx on Friday night in Minneapolis.
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