{"id":104177,"date":"2025-08-28T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104177\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:37:10","slug":"new-york-libertys-injury-woes-continue-as-ionescu-jones-out-vs-mystics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104177\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Liberty&#8217;s injury woes continue as Ionescu, Jones out vs. Mystics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Just when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/new-york-liberty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> was finally getting healthy, the injury bug has bitten the Liberty again.<\/p>\n<p>Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones missed Thursday night&#8217;s game against the Washington Mystics. Ionescu injured a toe on her left foot at the end of practice on Wednesday and Jones wasn&#8217;t feeling well Thursday morning and was a late addition to the injury report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the New York Liberty 2025,\u201d coach Sandy Brondello quipped before her pregame press conference. \u201cIt\u2019s been crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty just got star Breanna Stewart back on Monday after she missed 13 games with a bone bruise in her right knee. She&#8217;s still on a minutes restriction and can play about 25 minutes, Brondello said.<\/p>\n<p>The team is down to eight healthy players for the game against the Mystics. First-year Washington coach Sydney Johnson learned that two of the Liberty&#8217;s stars were out shortly before the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have a lot of people. We have major challenges in front of us,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it won\u2019t be Sabrina and JJ, but it\u2019ll be some others. I can guarantee you that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York is 10-0 when Ionescu, Jones and Stewart finish games. They are 13-15 when they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty are in the thick of the playoff race, sitting a half-game behind Phoenix for the No. 4 seed in the playoffs and homecourt advantage in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Just when New York was finally getting healthy, the injury bug has bitten the Liberty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-104177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}