{"id":159901,"date":"2025-08-20T01:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159901\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:56:13","slug":"jonquel-jones-responds-to-courtney-williams-punk-a-team-diss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159901\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonquel Jones responds to Courtney Williams’ ‘punk-a** team’ diss"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Liberty<\/a> forward Jonquel Jones<\/a> responded to recent comments by Minnesota Lynx guard Courtney Williams<\/a>, who called the Liberty a \u201cpunk-a** team\u201d during a livestream appearance alongside teammate Natisha Hiedeman and newly signed guard Jaylyn Sherrod.<\/p>\n

The comment, made after Sherrod joined the Lynx earlier this month following her release from the Liberty, added fuel to what\u2019s already become one of the WNBA\u2019s most heated rivalries.<\/p>\n

When asked about the remark<\/a>, Jones said, \u201cIt’s kind of been taking me aback a little bit, to be honest with you. So I don’t know. I haven’t had a chance to really talk to her in person yet, but it’s just, it is what it is,\u201d as reported by Lucas Kaplan of Swish Theory on Bluesky.<\/p>\n

Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello also weighed in<\/a> Monday ahead of the two teams\u2019 final regular-season meeting, saying she confronted Hiedeman about the comment in jest and acknowledged the existence of a rivalry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard about the \u2018punk-a**\u2019 thing,\u201d Brondello said, as reported by Jack Maloney of CBS Sports. \u201cI saw Jaylyn and I saw Natisha Hiedeman and I said \u2018Who\u2019s calling us a punk-a** team?\u2019 And she said, \u2018Not me, not me!\u2019 I think rivalries are great. Do we have a rivalry? They play it down. Of course we have a rivalry, and it\u2019s great for the league.\u201d<\/p>\n

The teams have had a tense history, particularly after last year\u2019s WNBA Finals, where the Liberty defeated the Lynx in five games<\/a>. Two of those games went to overtime, and Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said afterward the championship was \u201cstolen,\u201d citing officiating. MVP candidate Napheesa Collier later said she would \u201cnever get over\u201d the loss.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has won all three meetings against New York this season, though both teams have battled injuries. Breanna Stewart has missed all three contests for the Liberty, and Collier has been absent for the Lynx\u2019s last two games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Liberty currently sit in third place and are fighting for playoff positioning. A postseason rematch with Minnesota remains possible, and with added tension perhaps inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Liberty forward Jonquel Jones responded to recent comments by Minnesota Lynx guard Courtney Williams, who called…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2338,1520,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-159901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-jonquel-jones","9":"tag-new-york-liberty","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115058611757003953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159901","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=159901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}