GIVE US LIBERTY!
Brooklyn to host New York’s only pro women’s basketball team
BY JOE HITI
The New York Liberty will
be dribbling into Brooklyn
next year.
The city’s premier professional
women’s basketball
team will be relocating
from the distant suburbs of
Westchester to Barclays Center
in time for the 2020 season
after billionaire entrepreneur
Joseph Tsia — who also owns
the arena and the Brooklyn
Nets — purchased the WNBA
team in January.
Barclays Center’s president
and CEO said the move to Kings
County will help grow the
team’s following in the area.
“With many of our fans
based in the fi ve boroughs,
moving to Barclays Center
will make the Liberty more
centrally located, allowing us
to bring back the original fan
base and attract new supporters,”
said David Levy.
In addition to the new location,
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the Liberty also boast
the fi rst pick in the upcoming
WNBA draft next April, giving
the team an injection of
young talent to help the team’s
on-court success — which will
come as a welcome development
after a measly 10-and-24
record last season.
The move to Barclays will
also expand the potential audience
to 8,000 seats per-game,
compared to the 2,100-seat
capacity of the Westchester
arena where the team played
last season.
Tsia — the Tawianese-Candian
co-founder of Chinese ecommerce
conglomerate Alibaba
— came under fi re earlier
this month for blasting a fellow
basketball executive for
his support of the pro-democracy
protests in Hong Kong.
The 2020 WNBA season
will tip-off next May.
The New York Liberty playing the Seattle Storm on August 11, 2019 at Barclays Center.
Photo by Kostas Lymperopoulos
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