{"id":800803,"date":"2026-05-16T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/800803\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:04:15","slug":"why-things-are-looking-up-for-jonquel-jones-after-uneven-liberty-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/800803\/","title":{"rendered":"Why things are looking up for Jonquel Jones after uneven Liberty start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 There was one clear, though not readily available, fix for the Liberty\u2019s disorganized start to Thursday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Sabrina Ionescu.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty opened the season without Ionescu after she injured her left foot in the team\u2019s final preseason game. An MRI exam the following day showed that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/04\/sports\/sabrina-ionescu-to-miss-start-of-liberty-season-with-left-foot-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she avoided significant injury<\/a>, but the lead guard was still sidelined for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu is due to be reevaluated early next week. The hope is she\u2019ll be in the lineup for the Liberty\u2019s next game Thursday against the Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 There was one clear, though not readily available, fix for the Liberty\u2019s disorganized start to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":800804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[5336,50914,2338,1520,2229,15534,62,2225,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-800803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-breanna-stewart","9":"tag-inside-the-liberty","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\/116584871881139751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800803","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=800803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}