The New York Liberty re-signed Breanna Stewart, Jonquel Jones, and Sabrina Ionescu to multi-year deals Friday, retaining the core of their 2024 WNBA title team.
Breanna Stewart, Jonquel Jones, and Sabrina Ionescu remain committed to the New York Liberty long-term. Each of the three stars was announced to have received multi-year contracts.
"This is an incredibly historic moment for the New York Liberty franchise," Liberty general manager Jonathan Kolb said in a statement. "Re-signing Breanna, Jonquel, and Sabrina reflects the trust, sacrifice, and shared purpose that define what it means to represent the Liberty, this city, and our fanbase. These three cornerstone players chose to invest in each other and in the long-term legacy of this organization."
Since 2023, Stewart, Jones, and Ionescu have produced a 16.8 net rating across 1,733 regular-season minutes together. The Liberty is 70-16 when all three start, producing the highest winning record by any trio with at least 50 starts since 2002.
Stewart earned All-Defensive Second Team honors in 2025, her sixth straight year on an All-Defensive team. The 6-foot-4 forward won the 2023 WNBA MVP the same year she set the Liberty's single-season scoring record at 23.0 points per game. She also doubled the WNBA's previous single-season mark for 40-point outings that season with four.
The Syracuse, New York, native has averaged 20.8 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 3.6 assists across 109 regular-season games with New York. Stewart owns three WNBA championships and two Finals MVP awards. She is one of three players in league history carrying a career scoring average of at least 20 points per game and one of two players to win MVP honors with multiple franchises. Stewart was also named the 2026 Unrivaled Championship MVP earlier this year.
"I am staying in New York, my family is set up and solid here," Stewart said. "I'm committed to the Liberty, and I'm excited to continue to invest in my teammates, in the community, and in a franchise that has already given me so much. I promise to keep fighting to bring more championships to the greatest city in the world."
Jones, the 2024 WNBA Finals MVP, posted eight straight postseason double-doubles during the 2023 playoffs to tie the longest such streak in league history. The 6-foot-6 center from Freeport, Bahamas, is a five-time All-Star and four-time All-Defensive pick who added All-WNBA Second Team and All-Defensive Second Team honors in 2024.
In 110 regular-season games with New York, Jones has averaged 13.0 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 2.6 assists. The Liberty is a perfect 34-0 any time she logs a regular-season double-double. The 2023 Commissioner's Cup MVP is also the only player in WNBA history with at least 10 postseason double-doubles for two different teams.
"It was always about staying here in New York, because this is home," Jones said. "This is my foundation, and this is where I want to be."
Kolb pointed to Jones's frontcourt production as the through-line behind the Liberty's recent winning.
"From our 2023 Commissioner's Cup championship and 2024 WNBA championship to a 34-0 record when she posts a double-double, one constant in our biggest winning moments has been Jonquel Jones," Kolb said.
Ionescu returns off her fourth consecutive All-WNBA selection in 2025. She averaged 18.2 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 5.7 assists last season, becoming just the third player in league history to reach all three marks in a single year. The Walnut Creek, California, native finished 10th in the WNBA in scoring and seventh in assists.
The No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft, Ionescu has put up averages of 16.7 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 5.9 assists across 181 regular-season games through six seasons in New York. Her four career triple-doubles rank second in WNBA history. The four-time All-Star set the league's single-season 3-point record in 2023 with 128 makes and became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 400 career 3-pointers. She now holds Liberty's all-time record with 460.
"Continuing to play for the New York Liberty means everything — this city is truly home," Ionescu said. "We've built something special here, and I'm locked in on bringing another championship to the city and our fans."
Ionescu, Stewart, and Jones became the first trio of teammates to earn All-WNBA honors in the same season in franchise history in 2024.
New York begins its 30th season with a preseason matchup against the Indiana Fever at Barclays Center on Saturday, April 25.