{"id":183263,"date":"2025-08-28T22:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183263\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:55:13","slug":"new-york-libertys-ionescu-jones-out-for-mystics-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183263\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Liberty&#8217;s Ionescu, Jones out for Mystics game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 28, 2025, 06:20 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Just when New York was finally getting healthy, the injury bug has bitten the Liberty again.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"3b205f4b-7b5d-0115-3a92-f8f35ff473ed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4066533\/sabrina-ionescu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"d5154a93-4a46-71af-8b55-f69328b84b54\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/2999101\/jonquel-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonquel Jones<\/a> are out for Thursday night&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"39c302ad-d5df-e0d0-33e8-1cffebc5bc75\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-mystics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Mystics<\/a>. Ionescu injured a toe on her left foot at the end of practice on Wednesday, and Jones wasn&#8217;t feeling well Thursday morning and was a late addition to the injury report.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/46087676\/wnba-2025-best-clutch-player-game-line-bueckers-collier-wilson\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1536975_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/46080942\/wnba-2025-25-25-players-caitlin-clark-paige-bueckers-angel-reese\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1537110_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome to the New York Liberty 2025,&#8221; coach Sandy Brondello quipped before her pregame news conference. &#8220;It&#8217;s been crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty just got star <a data-player-guid=\"4d83d500-2f40-c89e-4f85-62927c5abbeb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/2998928\/breanna-stewart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breanna Stewart<\/a> back on Monday after she missed 13 games with a bone bruise in her right knee. She&#8217;s still on a minutes restriction and can play about 25 minutes, Brondello said.<\/p>\n<p>The team is down to eight healthy players for the game against the Mystics. First-year Washington coach Sydney Johnson learned that two of the Liberty&#8217;s stars were out shortly before the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have a lot of people. We have major challenges in front of us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So it won&#8217;t be Sabrina and JJ, but it&#8217;ll be some others. I can guarantee you that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New York is 10-0 when Ionescu, Jones and Stewart finish games. It is 13-15 when they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty are in the thick of the playoff race, sitting a half-game behind Phoenix for the No. 4 seed in the playoffs and home-court advantage in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 28, 2025, 06:20 PM ET NEW YORK &#8212; Just when New York was finally getting healthy, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-183263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115108860731176663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183263","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=183263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}