The New York Liberty came into the 2025 season with a lot of big goals and the roster to back them up. The 2024 WNBA Champions wanted to repeat that feat, a first for the franchise. Unfortunately, the team was plagued by injuries throughout the season and ended up ranked fifth with 27 wins and 17 losses—not a bad record or spot by any means, but certainly not where they wanted to be.
So the team made changes. Former head coach Sandy Brondello (now with the Toronto Tempo) departed, and the Liberty's front office brought in WNBA first-timer Chris DeMarco. Though he was greeted with a mixed response, DeMarco has approached the season with a lot of strategic playmaking, and the team has done its best to respond.
Unfortunately, the Liberty's 2025 problem is now their 2026 problem, and injuries have made it difficult for the team to advance. Last year, the Liberty had to contend with Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu, and Jonquel Jones all missing time on the floor; this year, Stewart and Jones have been healthy so far, but Ionescu missed several games at the beginning of the season, Satou Sabally has missed several games, and Leonie Fiebich has been out with a foot injury.
So what's a Championship-caliber team to do if it doesn't seem like a championship is within their reach? Dig in. As we saw last year with the Las Vegas Aces, at this point in the WNBA season, anything is possible. All-Star generally serves as a kind of demarcation point; it's the last little bit of fun before teams are absolutely forced to stare down the coming end of the season and their goals. It might not exactly seem like it, but the Liberty still has time to figure things out and right the ship.
It will take hard work, but New York has never shied away from that. It will also take some creative engineering on behalf of DeMarco, but he's demonstrated the ability to figure out new combinations of plays and players that can work for the team as people have moved in and out of rotation. More than all of that, it will take really, really wanting it—something the Liberty also doesn't lack. The battle is fairly steep (the team is currently ranked 7th in the league), but not impossible. To get to where they want to be at the end of the season, New York will just need to dig in.
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