{"id":212650,"date":"2025-09-09T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212650\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:07:10","slug":"liberty-ready-to-use-unlikely-luxury-to-their-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212650\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty ready to use unlikely &#8216;luxury&#8217; to their advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew the Liberty\u2019s injury-filled title-defense season would have an upside?<\/p>\n<p>It likely was difficult to find one for a team that searched for new and old players to plug holes for a franchise-high 18 starting lineups that has led to mixed results all season. <\/p>\n<p>They have had Sabrina Ionescu, Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones on the court together <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/07\/sports\/libertys-hopes-for-more-playoff-magic-rest-on-trio-of-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for just 13 games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, with less than a week until the playoffs kick off Sept. 14, the No. 5 seed Liberty are viewing their lineup inconsistencies and gaps as what coach Sandy Brondello called \u201ca luxury\u201d at Monday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who knew the Liberty\u2019s injury-filled title-defense season would have an upside? It likely was difficult to find one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5336,2338,405,403,1520,5226,5225,5228,5227,15534,62,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-212650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-breanna-stewart","10":"tag-jonquel-jones","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-liberty","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sabrina-ionescu","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-plus","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115174024494373098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212650","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=212650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}