Teresa Weatherspoon guides Chicago Sky to victory over Liberty in emotional New York homecoming

Sky won the battle in the paint to get the win for Weatherspoon

By Erica Ayala May 24, 2024 at 12:03 am ET• 3 min read

NEW YORK -- As she has almost every year since her retirement in 2004, Teresa Weatherspoon returned to the city where she became a WNBA legend. However, Thursday night's visit was drastically different than any of her previous ones. The iconic Liberty guard was back as the head coach of the Chicago Sky for a game against the organization she represented for seven years.

"Who knew? Who knew? Who knew?," Weatherspoon repeated at morning shootaround when asked to react to coming back as a head coach in the league she helped build. 

"This is where I played. Blood, sweat, tears here. So of course, I feel a certain way. It's home for me. These people loved me. They gave me all of them as I tried to give them all me," Weatherspoon said hours before coaching against her former team for the first time. 

Weatherspoon's Liberty played at Madison Square Garden back then, not the team's Barclays Center home of today, but that didn't change the emotions of the Hall of Fame player, who was literally the cornerstone of the team and league when the WNBA began play in 1997.