{"id":117359,"date":"2025-08-29T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117359\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:42:07","slug":"new-york-finds-way-to-beat-washington-depsite-missing-three-starters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117359\/","title":{"rendered":"New York finds way to beat Washington, depsite missing three starters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Just when New York was finally getting healthy, the injury bug has bitten the Liberty again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Even without three starters, the Liberty found a way to rout the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/washington-mystics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Mystics<\/a> 89-63 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sabrina-ionescu-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jonquel-jones-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonquel Jones<\/a> missed the game. Ionescu injured a toe on her left foot at the end of practice on Wednesday and Jones wasn&#8217;t feeling well Thursday morning and was a late addition to the injury report. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/natasha-cloud-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Cloud<\/a> (broken nose) was still out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">\u201cWelcome to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/new-york-liberty-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Liberty<\/a> 2025,\u201d coach Sandy Brondello quipped before her pregame press conference. \u201cIt\u2019s been crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">New York did welcome back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/isabelle-harrison-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isabelle Harrison<\/a>, who had a season-high 16 points and provided a big lift for the Liberty, who had only eight healthy players for the game. The veteran forward missed about three weeks with a concussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">\u201cKnew having J.J. out, wanted to bring more aggressiveness and effort,&#8221; Harrison said. \u201dRebounding that we need to consistently have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Liberty just got star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/breanna-stewart-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breanna Stewart<\/a> back on Monday after she missed 13 games with a bone bruise in her right knee. She&#8217;s still working her way back, playing only 23 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">New York is 10-0 when Ionescu, Jones and Stewart finish games. They are now 14-15 when they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">\u201cThey have a lot of people. We have major challenges in front of us,\u201d Washington coach Sydney Johnson said. \u201cSo it won\u2019t be Sabrina and J.J., but it\u2019ll be some others. I can guarantee you that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Johnson was right as Harrison and the reserves stepped up, outscoring Washington&#8217;s bench 35-18. The three reserves made five of six 3-point attempts combined. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Liberty are in the thick of the playoff race, tied with Phoenix for the No. 4 seed in the playoffs and homecourt advantage in the first round. New York is a half-game behind third place Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Just when New York was finally getting healthy, the injury bug has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-117359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117359","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=117359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}