{"id":398283,"date":"2026-01-09T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398283\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:25:19","slug":"sabrina-ionescu-sidelined-for-unrivaleds-2nd-season-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398283\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Ionescu sidelined for Unrivaled&#8217;s 2nd season due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MEDLEY, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Sabrina Ionescu will not play in the second season of Unrivaled because of an injury sustained during the WNBA season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 3-on-3 women\u2019s basketball league, which began its second season on Monday, announced the news Thursday, saying that Ionescu will still be involved with off-court initiatives and partnership opportunities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The four-time WNBA All-Star with the New York Liberty played for Phantom BC during Unrivaled\u2019s first season and averaged 18.2 points and seven rebounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhile I\u2019m disappointed I couldn\u2019t play this season, I\u2019ll be rooting for the Phantom,\u201d Ionescu said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to working with Unrivaled through content and broadcast opportunities and continuing to support the league\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ionescu joined Napheesa Collier as stars who have been ruled out for Unrivaled\u2019s second season. Collier, an Unrivaled co-founder and the league\u2019s 2025 MVP, was set to have surgery on both of her ankles and will be sidelined four-to-six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEDLEY, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Sabrina Ionescu will not play in the second season of Unrivaled because of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-398283","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\/398283","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=398283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}