{"id":198574,"date":"2026-04-15T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198574\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:24:08","slug":"liberty-re-sign-betnijah-laney-hamilton-after-missing-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198574\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty re-sign Betnijah Laney-Hamilton after missing 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Liberty<\/a>have re-signed <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/2593770\/betnijah-laney-hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Betnijah Laney-Hamilton<\/a>, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Laney-Hamilton, who was a key part of the Liberty&#8217;s championship run in 2024, missed the entire 2025 season recovering from a meniscus injury in her left knee that required surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 6-foot forward, who signed with the Liberty in 2021, missed 12 games in 2024 because of right knee issues but averaged 11.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists during the regular season. She started every postseason game during New York&#8217;s run to its first title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After being waived by the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-fever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indiana Fever<\/a> days before the 2020 bubble season, Laney-Hamilton signed with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-dream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> and enjoyed a breakout campaign, averaging career highs of 17.2 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.6 steals to go along with 4.0 assists. She won Most Improved Player that season and was named to the 2020 All-Defensive First Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">In 2021, Laney-Hamilton, 32, earned her first All-Star selection as a member of the Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TheNew York Libertyhave re-signed Betnijah Laney-Hamilton, the team announced on Wednesday. Laney-Hamilton, who was a key part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79109,3080,75891,79108,9,11,8915,10,12,11452],"class_list":["post-198574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-79109","tag-espn","tag-espnw","tag-laney-hamilton-betnijah","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}