{"id":102817,"date":"2025-08-22T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102817\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:12:07","slug":"what-roller-coaster-liberty-need-to-address-before-true-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102817\/","title":{"rendered":"What roller-coaster Liberty need to address before true title defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty are in the final push of the regular season, and with only 1 \u00bd\u00a0\u00a0games separating the No. 2 and 5 seeds, the playoff picture remains murky.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday saw New York<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/21\/sports\/liberty-cant-get-out-of-their-own-way-in-stunning-loss-to-lowly-sky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> suffer a stunning loss to the Sky<\/a> that dropped the defending champs to fourth in the WNBA standings \u2014 a place the Liberty don\u2019t want to be since it\u2019d mean they\u2019d have to get through the league-leading Lynx to get back to the WNBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 48 hours after that embarrassing loss, the New York is heading to Atlanta for a pivotal game against the Dream that has some serious playoff implications.<\/p>\n<p>One game separates the two teams in the standings. And while the Liberty are 2-1 against the Dream this season, Saturday\u2019s showdown carries multiple tiebreaker implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liberty are in the final push of the regular season, and with only 1 \u00bd\u00a0\u00a0games separating the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[435,4890,436,4892,3675,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-102817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-inside-the-liberty","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}