{"id":43141,"date":"2025-08-03T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43141\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:07:11","slug":"liberty-beat-sun-in-meessemans-debut-snap-four-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43141\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty beat Sun in Meesseman&#8217;s debut, snap four-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 Sabrina Ionescu scored 36 points, Emma Meesseman had 11 points in her return to the WNBA and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/new-york-liberty\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-liberty\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Liberty<\/a> snapped a four-game losing streak with an 87-78 win over the Connecticut Sun on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jonquel Jones added 21 points and nine rebounds for the Liberty (18-10), who were without All-Star Breanna Stewart for a fourth-straight game because of a bruised knee.<\/p>\n<p>Tina Charles had 17 points and eight rebounds and Anneesah Moorow 16 points and nine rebounds for the Sun (5-22), who handed the Liberty their worst loss of the season on Friday 78-62. Bria Hartley added 12 points and Marina Mabrey 10.<\/p>\n<p>Meesseman, a former finals MVP who last played in the league in 2022 before winning the EuroLeague Women&#8217;s MVP the last three seasons, did all her damage in the second half. Ionescu had 10 rebounds for her first double-double of the season to go with her fifth 30-point game as she finished a point shy of her career best. She also surpassed 1,000 assists, the third-fastest to reach that milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu had 16 points of New York&#8217;s first 20 and the Liberty scored the last nine of the first quarter to take a 25-19 lead that they never relinquished. She had 20 and Jones 13 for a 45-38 lead at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Meesseman got on the scoreboard with a pair of free throws early in the third quarter, and scored seven during a 9-2 surge that saw the Liberty turn a four-point lead into the first double-figure lead of the day, 54-43. New York took a 66-57 lead into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 Sabrina Ionescu scored 36 points, Emma Meesseman had 11 points in her return to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-43141","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\/43141","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=43141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}