The New York Liberty faced an obvious let-down spot on Wednesday night in Los Angeles, playing a young, bad Sparks team they’d beaten by thirty-five points two weeks ago, in the middle of their second West Coast road trip in less than two weeks. Not the last game of it, where teams make one last strong push before getting home to experience, in the Liberty’s case, nearly a week between games.
The Los Angeles game was also sandwiched between a pair of homecomings for New York’s leaders: Sandy Brondello to Phoenix, where the Liberty won on Monday, and Breanna Stewart to Seattle, where they’ll play Friday.