{"id":235654,"date":"2025-09-18T05:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235654\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:49:14","slug":"breanna-stewarts-grit-couldnt-stop-liberty-from-letting-game-2-slip-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235654\/","title":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart&#8217;s grit couldn&#8217;t stop Liberty from letting Game 2 slip away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday night was a microcosm of the 2025 New York Liberty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have all the talent in the world but have not been healthy enough to consistently unleash it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Breanna Stewart tried her best to play with a sprained MCL in her left knee. She fought through pain and risked the chance of further injury \u2014 something she said she made peace with \u201cbecause I want to be out there with my team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But no one else was able to pick up the slack as the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/17\/sports\/sloppy-liberty-drop-game-2-to-mercury-to-push-season-to-brink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury throttled the Liberty 86-60<\/a> to force a winner-take-all Game 3 in Phoenix on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday night was a microcosm of the 2025 New York Liberty.\u00a0 They have all the talent in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[5336,1520,1502,62,2632,2225,67,132,68,232,105313],"class_list":{"0":"post-235654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-breanna-stewart","9":"tag-new-york-liberty","10":"tag-phoenix-mercury","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-columnists","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wnba","18":"tag-wnba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115223734916662176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235654","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=235654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}