Vandersloot made her Chicago homecoming this season after signing with the Sky as a free agent. Her return was a welcome move on both sides. The Sky needed Vandersloot as much as she craved comfort. Vandersloot was coming off a challenging season with the Liberty that came to a bittersweet end.

According to Ben Pickman of The Athletic, the Liberty are valued at $450 million after raising capital from a group of investors, which "is believed to be a record across professional women’s sports and is more than double that of the last publicly known capital raise made by a WNBA franchise."

When Clara Wu Tsai, an owner of the New York Liberty, and Keia Clarke, the chief executive, were deciding on the look of the team’s first championship rings — the ones unveiled to great fanfare on Saturday in a televised ceremony just before the Liberty’s first game of the season — they wanted three things.

Clara Wu and Joe Tsai have moved the Liberty further into the history books with a record-setting valuation for women's sports.

Liberty forward Kennedy Burke didn’t know she was breaking a WNBA record Thursday when she fired up a 3 in the fourth quarter.

The Liberty announced the big news on social media shortly after the win, and Ionescu just had to flex the feat via her own Instagram stories. Ionescu did not need any words for her post because, in truth, the record in itself says it all.

Another investor, Julia Koch, has reportedly shown interest in buying a minority share of the New York Giants.

Indiana hosts the New York Liberty after Natasha Howard scored 26 points in the Indiana Fever's 81-76 victory over the Atlanta Dream