NEW YORK — Sabrina Ionescu’s season had just ended with a disheartening defeat, the type of fourth-quarter collapse in a do-or-die playoff game that tends to linger on the mood.
Yet Ionescu, the star and face of this Liberty franchise, remained entirely optimistic about her circumstances. After all, she said, it was only a year ago that she sat at “the low point” of her professional career, when the former first overall pick couldn’t shake the ankle pain that sabotaged her first two WNBA seasons.
Now she’s an All-Star with evidence to undermine the naysayers, even if it didn’t carry over to the playoffs.
