DiDi Richards lit up when she was asked to identify her favorite non-basketball moment of the 2021 WNBA season.
“Me, off the court, I think would be Napa,” the smiling Liberty guard told the media in late September, though she took issue with the sweetness of the wine, an opinion echoed by the teammate sitting next to her on the podium, Michaela Onyenwere, who immediately nodded at the sound of the word “Napa.” Richards visibly relaxed as she recounted the trip. “Napa was so much fun, though. It was just an opportunity for us to get together as a team and just be beautiful, and you all know I love that. So I was just planning for days what I was going to wear to Napa once they told us.”
After the trip, then Liberty guard Jazmine Jones said the team’s owners “treat us just like they treat the NBA team.”
