The Minnesota Lynx forward is playing her best basketball, making her the early frontrunner for the league's most coveted award.

According to Ben Pickman of The Athletic, the Liberty are valued at $450 million after raising capital from a group of investors, which "is believed to be a record across professional women’s sports and is more than double that of the last publicly known capital raise made by a WNBA franchise."

New York Liberty owners sold shares in the WNBA team at what would be a record valuation of $450 million for a women's pro sports franchise, The Athletic reported Thursday.

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Liberty forward Kennedy Burke didn’t know she was breaking a WNBA record Thursday when she fired up a 3 in the fourth quarter.

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After one week of the regular season, the Indiana Fever and New York Liberty already have made WNBA history. On Saturday, the defending champion Liberty and the Caitlin Clark-led Fever meet in an early blockbuster clash in Indianapolis. The Liberty (2-0 ...

The WNBA offseason is an eternity when compared to most professional sports leagues. That was true yet again this winter, even with an expansion draft, a wild free agency period and Unrivaled entering the mix.