It took 27 years for the Liberty to safe a WNBA championship — the league’s final current unique franchise to take action.
And now they’ll see the championship banner ascend to the Barclays Middle rafters earlier than taking up the Las Vegas Aces in a home-opener on Might 17, the Liberty introduced Monday.
Right here’s the total 2025 schedule for the NY Liberty
– New York will open its 2025 marketing campaign at Barclays Middle in opposition to the Las Vegas Aces on Saturday, Might 17 the place the staff will commemorate its first title in franchise historical past. pic.twitter.com/cQfSoPXrp8
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The 2024 semifinals rematch would be the first recreation for the Liberty in a record-breaking 44-game common season schedule. The shift comes after the league expanded to 40 video games through the 2023-24 seasons. In 2025, every staff will break up the 44-game schedule with 22 house and away video games.
Opening evening for the 2025 WNBA season will happen a day prior on Might 16, with the Golden State Valkyries, the league’s latest franchise, set to host the Los Angeles Sparks. Additionally, the 2024 WNBA Finals runner-up Minnesota Lynx will head to Dallas to face the Wings, who personal the No. 1 general decide within the upcoming draft, on opening evening.
The Washington Mystics will host the Atlanta Dream for the primary matchup between the 2 groups on opening evening.
WNBA All-Star Weekend is ready to happen from July 18-19 in Indianapolis. The Liberty may have 5 days of relaxation between regular-season video games through the break, which is a large distinction from the 29-day break between regular-season video games in 2024 as a result of Olympic Break.
Moreover, the Libs, who’ve been featured in each Commissioner’s Cup Finals video games, hope to make it again to the in-season event title recreation that takes place on July 1.
Listed here are extra key dates for the Liberty through the historic 2025 season:
NEW TEAM IN TOWN
Sandy Brondello’s squad will get their first seems on the WNBA’s thirteenth franchise — the Valkyries — on Might 27 and Might 29 at Barclays Middle. With the brand new franchise set to choose within the growth draft this Friday, there’s an opportunity a well-recognized face that when donned Liberty seafoam may very well be carrying Valkyrie violet subsequent spring.
The Might matchups in Barclays Middle can even be a homecoming for Valkyries GM Ohemaa Nyanin, who served as Liberty assistant GM underneath Jonathan Kolb from 2022-24.
FIRST CUP GAME
The Liberty’s street again to a 3rd in-season event remaining begins on June 1, a Cup Sport matchup in opposition to the Connecticut Solar at Barclays Middle.
It’s the primary of 5 video games in opposition to Japanese Convention opponents. Whereas every Japanese Convention staff performs 5, Western Convention groups will play six with the addition of Golden State.
Japanese Convention groups will play both three Commissioner’s Cup video games at house and two on the street, or two at house and three on the street. Western Convention groups will play three video games every at house and on the street. All intraconference Cup video games will rely towards a staff’s regular-season win-loss file.
The staff from every convention with the highest file in Commissioner’s Cup video games will compete for a $500,000 prize pool within the Commissioner’s Cup Championship. As well as, $120,000 in cryptocurrency will probably be added to the prize pool, which incorporates $5,000 for every participant within the championship recreation.
In 2023, Jonquel Jones received Commissioner’s Cup Sport MVP after serving to the Liberty defeat the Las Vegas Aces at Michelob Extremely Enviornment. Final season, the Liberty — who needed to play the title recreation at Lengthy Island’s UBS Enviornment following a puzzling schedule battle — missed out on the additional money after dropping to Napheesa Collier and the Lynx.
VISITING PAIGE BUECKERS?
The Dallas Wings will host the Liberty on July 28, giving the defending champs a doable first look at presumptive No.1 general decide Paige Bueckers. Bueckers, who nonetheless has one 12 months of NCAA eligibility remaining, might type a dynamic backcourt alongside star Arike Ogunbowale if she decides to forgo a remaining season at UConn.
In six video games this collegiate season, Bueckers is averaging personal-bests in factors (22.0), field-goal proportion (62.7) and three-point proportion (46.4) to associate with 4.5 assists, 4.5 rebounds and a couple of.5 steals per recreation.
FINALS REMATCH
Two days after a doable matchup in opposition to Bueckers, the Libs will lastly meet the Lynx on the street on July 30. The primary 2025 matchup will probably be practically 10 months after the Liberty eradicated the Lynx in Sport 5 of an exhilarating WNBA Finals collection.
The Liberty will then face off in opposition to the Lynx three extra occasions the next month: Aug. 10 (house), Aug. 16 (away) and Aug. 19 (house).
LAST GAME
Brondello and her staff conclude the 2025 season on the street in opposition to Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky on Sept. 11.
