{"id":654770,"date":"2026-05-07T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654770\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:39:10","slug":"liberty-rule-out-sabrina-ionescu-satou-sabally-for-fridays-wnba-season-opener-vs-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654770\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty rule out Sabrina Ionescu, Satou Sabally for Friday’s WNBA season opener vs. Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Liberty released their first game status injury report for the 2026 WNBA season ahead of the team\u2019s season opener on Friday against the Connecticut Sun, and it\u2019s a doozy.<\/p>\n

The Liberty will be without five players on Friday night. Sabrina Ionescu (left foot), Satou Sabally (cyst) and Rebecca Allen (left leg) were all ruled out due to injuries, while Raquel Carrera and Leonie Fiebich have international commitments.<\/p>\n

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Ionescu will miss the game due to a left foot injury she sustained in New York\u2019s final preseason game on May 3, which coincidentally was also against the Sun.<\/p>\n

The Liberty guard rolled her ankle in the preseason finale, and further testing showed that she avoided major injury. Still, she is expected to miss <\/a>at least the first two weeks<\/a>\u00a0of the season\u00a0and will be re-evaluated.<\/p>\n

Sabally didn\u2019t play in the preseason and had been listed out with a sickness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There has been no further information released about the cyst that Sabally is dealing with, and whether she is in danger of missing New York\u2019s second regular-season game on May 10 against the Washington Mystics.<\/p>\n

The veteran forward has yet to make her debut for the Liberty, with whom she signed a two-year, $1.67 million deal after spending the 2025 season with the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Liberty released their first game status injury report for the 2026 WNBA season ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[104805,49,48,3458,21595,7079,3461,24527,4644,4659,198032,82,23761,737,630],"class_list":["post-654770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2026-wnba-season","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-leonie-fiebich","tag-liberty","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-rebecca-allen","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-satou-sabally","tag-season-opener","tag-sports","tag-the-liberty","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654770","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=654770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}