{"id":72732,"date":"2025-07-18T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72732\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:23:09","slug":"liberty-better-off-for-having-been-tested-in-wnba-first-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72732\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty better off for having been tested in WNBA first half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty finally caught a much-needed break.<\/p>\n<p>The first half of the Liberty\u2019s season can be divided into three distinct sections: a strong start, a rocky middle and a promising ending.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champions had several epic second-half rallies and dominant stretches during which <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/06\/sports\/why-new-york-liberty-deserve-to-be-considered-best-team-in-wnba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they looked to be on a tier<\/a> shared only with the Lynx.<\/p>\n<p>Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/13\/sports\/libertys-sabrina-ionescu-to-compete-in-3-point-contest-at-wnba-all-star-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are All-Stars again<\/a>, and Kennedy Burke <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/12\/sports\/kennedy-burkes-blossoming-offensive-game-providing-liberty-firepower\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is shooting a whooping 49.3% from deep<\/a>, the best mark in the league among players who have attempted at least 50 3s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liberty finally caught a much-needed break. The first half of the Liberty\u2019s season can be divided into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50914,2338,1520,2229,15534,62,2225,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-72732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-inside-the-liberty","9":"tag-jonquel-jones","10":"tag-new-york-liberty","11":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","12":"tag-sabrina-ionescu","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114874456734610651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72732","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=72732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}