{"id":148699,"date":"2025-08-15T20:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148699\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T20:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:19:16","slug":"breaking-down-liberty-playoff-scenarios-first-round-matchups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148699\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking down Liberty playoff scenarios, first-round matchups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Jonquel Jones said she pays no mind to the WNBA standings despite the postseason being just one month away. Her focus is on the team the Liberty are playing next.<\/p>\n<p>But the Liberty are in jeopardy of potentially losing what could be a home-court advantage in the WNBA semifinals <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/14\/sports\/sloppy-liberty-stretch-bringing-questions-as-matchup-with-rival-looms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">if they don\u2019t course-correct as soon as possible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New York (21-12) dropped to third place after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/14\/sports\/liberty-fade-late-in-fourth-quarter-of-tough-road-loss-to-aces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday\u2019s loss to the Aces<\/a>. Going into Friday night, just 2.5 games separate the second-place team from fifth place in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Given the parity in this year\u2019s standings and the Liberty\u2019s inconsistent play, it\u2019s difficult to predict where the reigning WNBA champions will finish in terms of seeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Jonquel Jones said she pays no mind to the WNBA standings despite the postseason being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[233,2473,234,50914,1488,1520,2229,1494,62,2225,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-148699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-caitlin-clark","9":"tag-golden-state-valkyries","10":"tag-indiana-fever","11":"tag-inside-the-liberty","12":"tag-los-angeles-sparks","13":"tag-new-york-liberty","14":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","15":"tag-seattle-storm","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115034637229240449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}