{"id":176581,"date":"2025-09-23T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176581\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:20:08","slug":"liberty-part-ways-with-sandy-brondello-wont-renew-her-contract-despite-2024-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176581\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty part ways with Sandy Brondello, won&#8217;t renew her contract despite 2024 championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Liberty are moving on from Sandy Brondello. The team announced Tuesday that it will not renew Brondello&#8217;s contract for next season, ending their partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes one season after Brondello led the Liberty to its first WNBA championship. In a statement, the franchise thanked Brondello, acknowledging she leaves the team as the winningest coach in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>After a fantastic eight-year run with the Phoenix Mercury, in which Brondello led the team to a championship in her first season, Brondello was hired by the Liberty ahead of the 2022 WNBA season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty experienced a rocky first year under Brondello before posting two straight seasons with a 32-8 record. While the team fell short of a championship in 2023, it bounced back to win it all in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty got out to a hot start in 2025, winning their first nine games. From there, however, the team just 18-17 the rest of the way, falling to fifth seed in the playoffs. They didn&#8217;t last long in the postseason, as the Liberty were eliminated by the Mercury on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Following that loss, Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu were asked about critics who believed Brondello should be fired after the team. Stewart seemed <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA_NewYork\/status\/1969257524579676577\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shocked by the idea;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shocked by the idea<\/a>, muttering an expletive before shutting it down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To anybody that kinda questions Sandy being here, this is a resilient group,&#8221; Stewart said. &#8220;And she has our back and we have hers. The way that she continued to kind of deal with the cards she was dealt was incredible. It wasn&#8217;t easy for anybody but she came in every day with a positive attitude and a mindset to put us in our best positions possible and best foot forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu nodded along in agreement as Stewart defended Brondello. At the end of that answer, Steward reiterated, &#8220;We have Sandy&#8217;s back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In four seasons with the Liberty, Brondello posted a 107-53 record. She won the WNBA coach of the month award three times during her tenure with the club, the most recent coming in May.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Liberty are moving on from Sandy Brondello. 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