{"id":31241,"date":"2025-07-29T06:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31241\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:52:10","slug":"wnba-staring-down-its-emerging-load-management-predicament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31241\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA staring down its emerging &#8216;load management&#8217; predicament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 About 2 \u00bd hours before the Liberty played the Wings on Monday, another key player was added to the defending champions injury report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy Burke joined Breanna Stewart (<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/27\/sports\/liberty-avoid-worst-case-scenario-with-breanna-stewart-injury-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">right leg<\/a>) and Nyara Sabally (rest) in being listed as \u201cout\u201d for the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Burke left Saturday\u2019s loss to the Sparks with lower body cramps. She was sidelined for Monday\u2019s game for \u201crest,\u201d according to the team\u2019s injury report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The injury designation of \u201crest\u201d is being used more than ever this WNBA season, which includes 44 regular-season matches, the league\u2019s most games to date.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 About 2 \u00bd hours before the Liberty played the Wings on Monday, another key player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4657,49,48,3459,3457,4658,82,2089,630],"class_list":["post-31241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dallas-wings","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241","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=31241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}