{"id":218073,"date":"2025-09-11T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218073\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:47:12","slug":"inside-the-stakes-of-libertys-quest-to-repeat-as-wnba-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218073\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the stakes of Liberty&#8217;s quest to repeat as WNBA champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot Liberty fans are expecting from their team in the next few weeks as the playoffs tip off.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with the obvious \u2014 mounting <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/11\/sports\/examining-libertys-strength-and-weaknesses-in-playoff-battle-vs-mercury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a credible bid for back-to-back WNBA titles<\/a> by finding some semblance of the team that started the season before injuries and lackadaisical play sent them spiraling downward.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when the Liberty were without a doubt the best team in New York, giving the city some hope after the Knicks were eliminated in the Eastern Conference finals. They took off running, earning a franchise-best 9-0 start to a season.<\/p>\n<p>They were the team to watch. They were the team to beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a lot Liberty fans are expecting from their team in the next few weeks as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[27432,5336,2338,1520,2229,15534,62,2225,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-218073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","9":"tag-breanna-stewart","10":"tag-jonquel-jones","11":"tag-new-york-liberty","12":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","13":"tag-sabrina-ionescu","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115185506554341191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218073","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=218073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}