With the return of reigning league Most Valuable Player Breanna Stewart, former MVP Jonquel Jones, forward Betnijah Laney-Hamilton and a backcourt of Sabrina Ionescu and Courtney Vandersloot, the Liberty are poised to again challenge back-to-back champion Las Vegas.
And plenty of Brooklynites want to see if they can do it.
According to the Associated Press, sales for upcoming WNBA games are up 93% compared to this same time last preseason.
The Liberty are behind only the rival Aces in this ongoing uptick in sales.
New York’s sales for this much-anticipated campaign, which will kick off in Washington on May 14, are up 30 percent on StubHub, known as the world’s largest ticket resale platform.
Last year, New York had 17,143 fans show up for Game 3 of the Finals and 16,581 came to see the season end in heartbreaking fashion on Game 4.
The Liberty faithful will have their first chance to see their team reboot the chase for Title I on the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush on May 18, when first overall pick and NCAA phenom Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever come to Brooklyn.
Clark was a big factor in StubHub reporting that it had record sales for last month’s NCAA Tournament.
Fans won’t get to see the Aces here until Sept. 8, but Vegas helped draw 11,615 fans here in its final regular-season visit last Aug. 28.
That was deemed a sellout crowd since the upper bowl of Barclays was closed.
But the Finals proved that the Liberty could sell out the entire building, which holds 17,732 without standing room, or at least come close.
That’s something the organization is doubtlessly eager to do at some point this year, even if it means waiting until the Finals in October.
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