New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu on May 12, 2025. / Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu isn’t satisfied after just one WNBA title. Nah, she’s already gearing up for another.
As the Liberty prepared to raise their 2024 Championship banner into the Barclays Center rafters on Saturday afternoon, Ionescu laid out her team’s goal for the 2025 season in just five words: “We gotta run it back.”
“We’re so thankful, thank you guys for being part of this championship journey with us,” the guard said in full, while addressing the crowd. “We gotta run it back. So we need the energy, we need the love, we need the support. Thank you!”
Watch that below:
Sabrina Ionescu with a message to the crowd at @barclayscenter 🗣️
“Thank you for being apart of this championship journey with us…. we gotta run it back!”
WNBA Tip-Off presented by CarMax pic.twitter.com/MYyIcktCrL
— WNBA (@WNBA) May 17, 2025
The Liberty also on Saturday received their championship rings, which Ionescu wasted no time showing off.
The whole thing was so electric you could almost forget the team had a game to play—New York is currently taking on the Las Vegas Aces in its first game of the season. Vegas was leading by one at the end of the first quarter.
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Published May 17, 2025
Brigid Kennedy is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in November 2024, she covered political news, sporting news and culture at TheWeek.com before moving to Livingetc, an interior design magazine. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, dual majoring in television, radio and film (from the Newhouse School of Public Communications) and marketing managment (from the Whitman School of Management). Offline, she enjoys going to the movies, reading and watching the Steelers.
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