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Alexa PhilippouJul 21, 2025, 01:48 PM ET
- Covers women's assemblage hoops and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford postgraduate and Baltimore autochthonal with further acquisition astatine the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
Emma Meesseman, the 2019 WNBA Finals MVP who hasn't appeared successful the league since 2022, has committed to joining the defending champion New York Liberty, sources told ESPN connected Monday.
Meesseman's accomplishment to New York volition beryllium taxable to the magnitude of clip it takes to spell done the visa exertion process, sources said.
The 6-foot-4 guardant from Belgium has been a immense difference-maker erstwhile she has played successful the league. The two-time WNBA All-Star averaged 12.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists per crippled for the Chicago Sky successful 2022.
Before that, she had played 7 seasons with the Washington Mystics, wherever she helped pb them to a title successful 2019 and won Finals MVP successful the process.
Meesseman, who earlier this summertime competed successful EuroBasket with Belgium, besides considered the Minnesota Lynx and Phoenix Mercury, sources told ESPN.
Her decorated planetary resume includes 2 nods connected Olympic All-Star Five teams (in Tokyo and Paris), 2 EuroBasket MVP honors and 3 consecutive EuroLeague MVP bids.
With Meesseman's commitment, the affluent get richer arsenic as the Liberty question to go the 4th WNBA franchise -- and conscionable the 2nd successful the past 20 years -- to repetition arsenic champions. The Liberty already boast immoderate of the WNBA's apical players successful Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones, the second of whom is expected backmost this week from an ankle wounded that has sidelined her overmuch of the season.
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