A WNBA superteam is forming.
On Saturday, ESPN reported that free-agent All-Star guard Satou Sabally has agreed to a multiyear contract with the New York Liberty, additional cementing the staff as certainly one of, if not the most effective coming into the 2026 season.
Final 12 months, Sabally began 39 video games for the Phoenix Mercury, averaging 16.3 factors, 5.9 rebounds and a couple of.5 assists per sport. Through the Mercury’s run to the WNBA Finals, Sabally averaged 19 factors and 7 rebounds per sport.
New York Liberty make free-agency splash with Satou Sabally signing
Sabally’s transfer to New York reunites the three-time All-Star, who in 2023 was named Most Improved Participant, with Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu. The 2 have been teammates at Oregon from 2017-20 and chosen Nos. 1 (Ionescu) and a couple of (Sabally) within the 2020 WNBA Draft. The duo have unfinished enterprise after their ultimate collegiate season — when Oregon went 31-2 and was one of many high contenders to win the NCAA Match — was canceled earlier than March Insanity started because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whereas they by no means received a championship collectively in Eugene, Sabally and Ionescu have an awesome shot of successful a title with the Liberty, who received their first WNBA championship in 2024. Final season, they exited in Spherical 1 after shedding the best-of-three sequence to the Mercury.
Earlier this offseason, two-time MVP Breanna Stewart introduced she’d be returning to New York after coming into free company as certainly one of over 100 WNBA gamers on the open market. On Saturday, ahead Jonquel Jones, one other free agent, agreed to a multiyear contract to stay with the group, per WNBA insider Madeline Kenney.
