{"id":167394,"date":"2025-08-22T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167394\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:49:09","slug":"what-roller-coaster-liberty-need-to-address-before-true-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167394\/","title":{"rendered":"What roller-coaster Liberty need to address before true title defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty are in the final push of the regular season, and with only 1 \u00bd\u00a0\u00a0games separating the No. 2 and 5 seeds, the playoff picture remains murky.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday saw New York<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/21\/sports\/liberty-cant-get-out-of-their-own-way-in-stunning-loss-to-lowly-sky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> suffer a stunning loss to the Sky<\/a> that dropped the defending champs to fourth in the WNBA standings \u2014 a place the Liberty don\u2019t want to be since it\u2019d mean they\u2019d have to get through the league-leading Lynx to get back to the WNBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 48 hours after that embarrassing loss, the New York is heading to Atlanta for a pivotal game against the Dream that has some serious playoff implications.<\/p>\n<p>One game separates the two teams in the standings. And while the Liberty are 2-1 against the Dream this season, Saturday\u2019s showdown carries multiple tiebreaker implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liberty are in the final push of the regular season, and with only 1 \u00bd\u00a0\u00a0games separating the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[5336,50914,1520,2229,15534,62,2225,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-167394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-breanna-stewart","9":"tag-inside-the-liberty","10":"tag-new-york-liberty","11":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","12":"tag-sabrina-ionescu","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115074391355001452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167394","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=167394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}