This isn’t the way it was supposed to be. Sabrina Ionescu, overall No. 1 pick in WNBA Draft, rookie and potential franchise player, should have been racking up wins and big numbers at Barclays Center, leading her New York Liberty into their new home after two years of exile in White Plains.
Instead, the NCAA Womens’ Player of the Year out of Oregon is in Bradenton, Florida, at the WNBA’s “bubble” (or “wubble,” if you prefer), about a hundred miles southwest of the NBA’s version in (officially) in Lake Buena Vista. We don’t even know if she visited New York on her way from home outside San Francisco to Bradenton.