Defending champions New York Liberty may have lost to the Golden State Valkyries on Tuesday night, but they still clinched a spot in the 2025 WNBA Playoffs. That means for many New Yorkers, there’s hope to repeat the joy and jubilance of 2024, when the Liberty took their first-ever WNBA Championship win.

The Liberty’s spot in the playoffs comes not due to one of their own victories — at least not directly — but because of the Phoenix Mercury’s win over the Indiana Fever on the same night that the Liberty faced the Valkyries.

It’s been a tough, injury-ridden season for the New York Liberty. And in postgame interviews , team members expressed their disappointment that they’re heading to the postseason primarily because of the way the rest of the standings shake out.

But the team still

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