Good for her.
This past Sunday, the New York Liberty of the WNBA secured their first championship in the franchise’s 28-year history. But while the city of New York celebrated its first basketball title in 51 years and one of the league’s founding eight franchises got off the schneid, my first thoughts went to the University of Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu who finally got what was likely taken from her four years ago — a championship.
Sure, she was the league’s number one overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft and even earned a gold medal this past summer in Paris as a member of the USA women’s basketball team. But it’s what she and her Ducks team lost as the result of the pandemic that has and probably still haunts the 26-year-old…