{"id":375676,"date":"2026-07-16T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375676\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:08:14","slug":"wnba-postpones-liberty-vs-wings-game-after-travel-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375676\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA postpones Liberty vs. Wings game after travel issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 The Liberty\u2019s game against the Dallas Wings on Thursday has been postponed to next week after New York experienced significant travel delays due to mechanical issues with the team\u2019s charter plane.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA announced Thursday morning that the contest will be moved to Monday at 8 p.m. ET. The Wings will honor all tickets purchased for the original gameday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Pauline Astier first shared the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/16\/sports\/liberty-get-stranded-for-10-hours-on-tarmac-in-nightmare-flight-delay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">travel disruptions on her Instagram story<\/a> around 10:25 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.77636719;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40001164\" width=\"458\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/new-york-liberty-forward-breanna-134222074.jpg\" alt=\"Liberty forward Breanna Stewart (30) with the ball against the Tempo on July 12, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-40001164\"  \/>Liberty forward Breanna Stewart (30) with the ball against the Tempo on July 12, 2026. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.71386719;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40001166\" width=\"421\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-134229487.jpg\" alt=\"Paige Buckers (5) of the Dallas Wings drives against the Sky on July 12, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-40001166\"  \/>Paige Buckers (5) of the Dallas Wings drives against the Sky on July 12, 2026. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201c10h apr\u00e8s toujours sur le tamarac,\u201d she wrote while sharing a photo of her sitting on the plane alongside developmental player Marine Fauthoux.<\/p>\n<p>That translates to, \u201c10 hours later, still on the tarmac.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty switched planes once before deboarding around 12:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCovering the Liberty like never before\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Madeline Kenney&#8217;s Inside the Liberty, a weekly Sports+ newsletter.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dallas also had its fair share of weather issues Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop Wednesday afternoon at DFW International Airport and Dallas Love Field, effectively pausing flights from departing and arriving as a storm hit North Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Severe thunderstorms in the New York area also caused flight delays.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty canceled shootaround Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A team spokesperson didn\u2019t return The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 The Liberty\u2019s game against the Dallas Wings on Thursday has been postponed to next week after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,14421,15442,154,14422],"class_list":["post-375676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}