Clara Wu Tsai Pushes Liberty Toward $1 Billion Valuation

Clara Wu Tsai wants the liberty to become a franchise worth $1 billion after the New York Liberty won their 2024 WNBA championship. The title, the first in team history since the WNBA began nearly 30 years ago, has opened a bigger business target for the owners as the team’s profile keeps rising.

Wu Tsai and the Liberty

Wu Tsai owns the Liberty with her husband, Alibaba Group cofounder Joe Tsai, and she framed the championship ring in early March while standing in her Brooklyn town house. Inside that ring was the team phrase, “We All We Got! We All We Need!”

The Liberty now sit at the center of a market that has moved beyond a single title run. Barclays Center in Brooklyn is home court, and the franchise has become part of the wider surge in women’s basketball that has pulled in bigger crowds, more attention, and more commercial ambition around the team.

Barclays Center and Unrivaled

That rise was visible at Barclays Center on a sold-out night close to 18,000 seats, where the semifinals of Unrivaled were being played. Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher, and Jason Sudeikis were in attendance, but the loudest message came from the stands: “Pay the players!”

Some fans carried small black signs with the same phrase in white letters, and Barclays security guards quietly tried to confiscate some of them. The chant was meant to carry beyond the arena and into the contentious negotiations with the players’ union.

Unrivaled launched in 2025 and was created by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, the Liberty star forward who has become one of the faces of the team’s rise. Wu Tsai’s $1 billion goal sits on top of that momentum, with the title, the sold-out building, and the labor pressure all pointing at a franchise whose business ceiling is moving higher.