The Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty tip off the WNBA finals on Sunday in a star-studded showdown of much-ballyhooed superteams. Our writers break down the series
The collective bargaining agreement ratified in 2020 relaxed restrictions on player movement by lowering the number of years teams can keep core players from five to two. No team has seized on the open market quite like New York, who signed the inestimable Breanna Stewart and All-Star point guard Courtney Vandersloot as free agents (and traded for former MVP Jonquel Jones) to join a young core led by Sabrina Ionescu and Betnijah Laney. And voilà: a superteam was born. BAG
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