Sports
With New York Liberty, Clara Wu Tsai Aims for First $1 Billion Women’s Sports Team
Wu Tsai created a superteam (and the WNBA’s defending champions) by treating star players like the pro athletes they are.
Wu Tsai with her stars, Sabrina Ionescu, Jonquel Jones and Breanna Stewart.
Photographer: Adrienne Grunwald for Bloomberg Businessweek
Breanna Stewart—the WNBA scoring leader, two-time champion and Finals MVP, perennial All-Star, four-time NCAA champion, WNBA and Olympics MVP, guaranteed first-ballot Hall of Famer with a 7-foot-1 wingspan—was an unrestricted free agent, and Clara Wu Tsai was hell-bent on persuading her to choose the New York Liberty.