A Just released York Liberty occurs as Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in New York City. It is one of a eight original WNBA teams that began to view action within 1997, as well one of a virtually all successful teams within WNBA history. Despite making a WNBA playoffs about each year & appearing in the WNBA Finals several times, it keep around however to win the championship. A team derives its title from either a Statue of Liberty. It is a sister team of the New York Knicks.

Uniforms: 2003 - Present: white with teal, blue & orange trim & "Liberty" on the chest within weak blue letters home. Primary color is blue on tour by using "New York" on the chest inside whiten letters. A Liberty logotype is on the left leg of the shorts. 1997 - 2002: white by owning the blacken line above the shoulders home, nigrify with a green line on tour.

Franchise history
A adage "Always the bridesmaid, never the bride," could be utilized to describe a Liberty. Whilst the WNBA opened around 1997, a Liberty was one of a 1st teams to order a streaming video player & it signed college whiz Rebecca Lobo to a contract. Lobo was wounded presently thenceforth, yet & her injuries one of these days led to her retirement many seasons late. Despite this, point guard Teresa Weatherspoon emerged as a star and a Liberty mass produced it to the 1997 championship game, where a team misused to the Houston Comets. Around 1999, it returned to the WNBA Finals, in which they once again faced Comets. Around game Ii, Teresa Weatherspoon's halfcourt shot by owning 1 2nd leftover gave a Liberty a of these point win that attached the series deuce games to ii. Nevertheless, the Liberty misused a third game of a series & the Comets turn into champions for a third straight period.

A Liberty afterward returned to the finals within 2000 and 2002, but misused over again to the Comets & to the Los Angeles Sparks, respectively. Within 2001, Weatherspoon became the WNBA's 100%-period help leader, &, Sue Wicks once a back-higher center to Lobo, likewise proved to exist as a worthful streaming video player, making the 100%-Star game. 1998 and 2003 were a exclusively years a Liberty failed to produce the playoffs.

2003 marked the transition for the Liberty, by having team leader Teresa Weatherspoon's WNBA career winding down, fan favourite Becky Hammon emerged as a star player. A 2004 season saw Hammon replacing Weatherspoon at the team's starting point guard spot.

Six games in a period of the 2004 year were moved to Radio City Music Hall as Madison Square Garden was hosting the 2004 Republican National Convention. These games marked a foremost period Radio City got hosted a agent sporting event since the Roy Jones Jr. boxing match held inside 1999.

By owning team leader Tari Phillips being signed to the Houston Comets, Ann Wauters emerged as a force at a team's starting center position inside 2005. But, she was wounded midway through the year. A loss of Wauters wwhen felt as a team was swept two games to none by the Indiana Fever in the number 1 spherical of the playoffs.

Players of note

Hall of Famers

Current stars
Elena Baranova Erin Thorn Becky Hammon Vickie Johnson Crystal Robinson Ann Wauters

Retired numbers

Not to be forgotten
Rebecca Lobo Kym Hampton Tari Phillips K.B. Sharp Teresa Weatherspoon Tamika Whitmore Sue Wicks

Coaches and others
Head Coaches: Nancy Darsch (1997 - 1998), at present an Adjunct Coach by having a Minnesota Lynx Richie Adubato (1998 - 2004) Pat Coyle (2004 - Present)

General Managers: Carol Blazejowski (Hall of Famer)