{"id":40053,"date":"2025-07-05T06:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40053\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:11:13","slug":"natasha-clouds-wnba-all-star-game-case-isnt-straightforward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40053\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Cloud&#8217;s WNBA All-Star Game case isn&#8217;t straightforward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/02\/sports\/libertys-jonquel-jones-pissed-she-wasnt-named-wnba-all-star-starter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be well represented<\/a> at All-Star weekend in Indianapolis later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu were named All-Star starters earlier this week. And coach Sandy Brondello was tabbed to coach Team Napheesa Collier because the Liberty had the second-best winning percentage as of Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two more Liberty players \u2014 Natasha Cloud and Jonquel Jones \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/03\/sports\/libertys-natasha-cloud-thrilled-her-philadelphia-will-have-a-wnba-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are holding out hope<\/a> they\u2019ll hear their names called Sunday when the league unveils the 12 reserves, who are picked by the league coaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jones had a case to be an All-Star starter, averaging 15.6 points and 11.3 rebounds in the first six games before spraining her right ankle. She\u2019s been limited to just nine games, and while there\u2019s not a required minimum games played to be named an All-Star, it seems unlikely considering the circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liberty will be well represented at All-Star weekend in Indianapolis later this month.\u00a0 Breanna Stewart and Sabrina&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1520,62,2225,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-40053","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-sports-plus","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114799148266781220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40053","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=40053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}