{"id":750461,"date":"2026-06-20T23:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750461\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:58:12","slug":"relive-the-libertys-first-ever-wnba-game-with-those-who-were-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750461\/","title":{"rendered":"Relive the Liberty&#8217;s first-ever WNBA game with those who were there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Lobo pulled her flimsy headphones over her ears and pressed play on her Walkman on the bus ride over to the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, Calif.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was June 21, 1997.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lobo had spent months promoting this new U.S. women\u2019s basketball league. On her way to the arena, she passed a massive billboard with her face on it alongside Lisa Leslie\u2019s and the tagline: \u201cWe got next.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, it was finally time for the fun part: the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebecca Lobo pulled her flimsy headphones over her ears and pressed play on her Walkman on the bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,174316,632,17228,3457,82,2089,630],"class_list":["post-750461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hannah-storm","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-nbc-sports","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750461","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=750461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}