Most mornings at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, you’ll spot New York Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello diagramming pick-and-rolls in the same gear rotation she’s been running since training camp—sweatpants, athletic shorts, and reliable fleece quarter-zips. When you’re steering the league’s top seed back to the WNBA Finals, it’s easy for fashion trends to take a backseat to trophy-winning.
But when it comes to game time, Brondello’s sweats-and-zip-up era ended when her players staged a mini style intervention. “When Breanna Stewart signed in 2023, she and Sabrina Ionescu asked if I could start dressing up for our home games,” Brondello says on an early-June Zoom call squeezed in between practice and her own workout.
