{"id":227301,"date":"2025-10-20T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227301\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:48:07","slug":"liberty-star-jonquel-jones-has-offseason-ankle-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227301\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty star Jonquel Jones has offseason ankle surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty star Jonquel Jones shared that she had surgery on her leg, as seen in a video she shared Monday to her Instagram Story.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time WNBA All-Star had surgery on her right ankle, sources told The Post\u2019s Madeline Kenney.<\/p>\n<p>Jones sprained her right ankle twice this past season, which caused her to miss a month of action.<\/p>\n<p>New York Liberty star Jonquel Jones is seen in a video she shared to her Instagram Story after undergoing right ankle surgery.  Instagram\/Jonquel Jones<\/p>\n<p>Jonquel Jones had surgery on her right ankle, a source told The Post\u2019s Madeline Kenney. Instagram\/Jonquel Jones<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurgery done,\u201d the 2021 WNBA MVP wrote. \u201cOfficially Day 1 of recovery.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jones, who showed her father sitting at her bedside in the clip, did not elaborate on her surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Bahamian player sprained her right ankle in the Liberty\u2019s 86-78 win over the\u00a0Washington Mystics on June 5 \u2014 and then re-aggravated the injury during a 89-81 loss to the Mercury on June 19.<\/p>\n<p>Jonquel Jones #35 of the New York Liberty handles the ball during the game against the Phoenix Mercury during Game 3, Round One of the 2025 WNBA Playoffs on September 19, 2025 at PHX Arena in Phoenix, Arizona.    NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The news comes a month after the defending champions were eliminated by the Mercury in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Jones had three points, eight rebonds and four assists in the Liberty\u2019s 79-73 season-ending loss to Phoenix in Game 3 on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Four days later, the Liberty announced they had fired head coach Sandy Brondello, and the coaching search <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/17\/sports\/the-coaching-carousel-trend-at-the-center-of-libertys-search\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remains ongoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jones finished the regular season averaging 13.6 points, 8.1 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.1 blocked shots per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jones is set to become a free agent this offseason, along with Liberty co-stars Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu and nearly every veteran player in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the utmost confidence that they want to be back with us,\u201d Liberty general manager Jonathan Kolb said on Sept. 25 of the trio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liberty star Jonquel Jones shared that she had surgery on her leg, as seen in a video she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,12200,3457,82,630],"class_list":["post-227301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227301","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=227301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}