IF THE Las Vegas Aces‘ team bus took the right detour to Sunday’s game against the Seattle Storm, it could pass a mural a couple of blocks northwest of Climate Pledge Arena.
Unveiled in March 2021, months after the Storm won a record-tying fourth WNBA championship, the mural depicts the team’s big three — Sue Bird, Jewell Loyd and Breanna Stewart — wearing the “Black Lives Matter” and “Say Her Name” T-shirts players used for warmups during the 2020 season played in a bubble in Bradenton, Florida.
That’s how Loyd hopes she’ll be remembered in Seattle: a key part of the iconic trio who brought home two titles in three years.
“I don’t think you could look at Seattle and not think of us three, as well as Lauren Jackson, as players who came in as young adults and kind of grew up into mature women,” Loyd told ESPN. “I think that’s really cool to be a part of that.”
Yet Loyd will be on the Aces’ bus Sunday. Her return to Seattle for the first time as a visiting player came much sooner than anyone had expected. After signing a contract extension in 2023 at the end of the Storm’s first season following Bird’s…
