{"id":398137,"date":"2026-01-09T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398137\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:45:23","slug":"sabrina-ionescus-status-for-unrivaled-revealed-after-suffering-injury-during-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398137\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Ionescu&#8217;s Status for Unrivaled Revealed After Suffering Injury During WNBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Sabrina Ionescu will not participate in Unrivaled&#8217;s second season due to an injury suffered during her 2025 campaign with the WNBA&#8217;s New York Liberty, per an <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ayabdeen\/status\/2009378254533149154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">announcement<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;While I&#8217;m disappointed I couldn&#8217;t play this season, I&#8217;ll be rooting for the Phantom,&#8221; Ionescu, who played with Phantom BC in 2025, said in a statement. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to working with Unrivaled through content and broadcast opportunities and continuing to support the league&#8217;s success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Those opportunities include &#8220;select on-air appearances with TNT Sports,&#8221; the league&#8217;s broadcast partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The statement did not reveal the injury preventing Ionescu from playing this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ionescu, who starred at Oregon before joining the Liberty in 2020, has played six WNBA seasons. She averaged 18.2 points, 5.7 assists and 4.9 rebounds last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This year&#8217;s Unrivaled season began on Monday. The second campaign features two new teams, Hive and Breeze, for a total of eight. The season runs until March 4, when the championship is set to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Ionescu will not participate in Unrivaled&#8217;s second season due to an injury suffered during her 2025 campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-398137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398137","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=398137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}