{"id":188302,"date":"2025-08-31T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188302\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:05:10","slug":"nyara-sabally-progressing-in-her-liberty-injury-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188302\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyara Sabally &#8216;progressing&#8217; in her Liberty injury recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Most of the work Nyara Sabally has put in over the past month while she\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/25\/sports\/liberty-will-play-it-safe-with-nyara-saballys-discomfort\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been sidelined with a nagging right knee issue<\/a> has happened behind the curtains.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s been doing stationary shooting and not much more outside of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>But the Liberty\u2019s shootaround Saturday ahead of their pivotal game against the Mercury that night offered a sight for sore eyes.<\/p>\n<p>With her team going over the final details on one end, Sabally was on the other side putting up shots out of subtle movement \u2014 backpedaling to the elbow \u2014 in the next step of her ramp-up process.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41241379;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36980406\" width=\"833\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kelsey-mitchell-0-indiana-fever-108273411.jpg\" alt=\"Kelsey Mitchell of the Indiana Fever dribbling the basketball as Nyara Sabally of the New York Liberty defends.\" class=\"wp-image-36980406\"  \/>Nyara Sabally defends during the Liberty\u2019s July 16 win against the Fever. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty haven\u2019t shared many details regarding Sabally\u2019s right knee. <\/p>\n<p>Sabally revealed in early June that she had a platelet-rich plasma injection in the knee to help with pain and swelling.<\/p>\n<p>Sabally has been limited to 15 games this season and hasn\u2019t played since July 16, which was the Liberty\u2019s final game before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36980408\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/new-york-liberty-center-nyara-107580224.jpg\" alt=\"New York Liberty player Nyara Sabally (#8) shoots a basketball during a game against the Los Angeles Sparks.\" class=\"wp-image-36980408\"  \/>Nyara Sabally goes for a rebound during the Liberty\u2019s July 3 game against the Sparks. Heather Khalifa for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Brondello said the team hoped to have her back before the regular season ends Sept. 11. <\/p>\n<p>After shootaround, the head coach told The Post that it\u2019s nice to see her making progress.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCovering the Liberty like never before\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Madeline Kenney&#8217;s Inside the Liberty, a weekly Sports+ newsletter.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we think highly of Nyara, and we feel for her because she\u2019s had some tough runs with injuries. Before she got injured, she was playing great that day,\u201d Brondello said. \u201cSo yeah, it\u2019s progressing. \u2026 Better late than never.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Most of the work Nyara Sabally has put in over the past month while she\u2019s been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1520,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-188302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-new-york-liberty","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115120696600330847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188302","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=188302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}