A crowd of 9,314 fans gathered Tuesday at Wintrust to watch the Sky mark the final home stand of a dominant 25-9 season and say goodbye to one of the greatest players in the history of women’s basketball, Sue Bird.
Lake County native Kari Juszczyk remembers the first time she turned on ESPN to see Sue Bird playing basketball.
To fans grasping for one last look at a generational talent, Tuesday offered one of the final guaranteed opportunities to see Bird in action. “She means so much, not only for the game of basketball, but just for young women in sports to grow up and see someone so dominant,” Audrey Goodrich said. But Collins couldn’t stand the idea of missing the chance to see Bird in person. So she flew nearly 1,000 miles to Chicago for the closest game she could manage, arriving as early as possible to watch Bird warm up with her teammates.
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