SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Liberty\u2019s title defense officially begins in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n
How valiant of a fight they will put up will be fascinating to see.<\/p>\n
The Liberty up to this point haven\u2019t played like a championship-caliber team. Their defensive chemistry has been hampered by injuries to several key players, but the best teams find ways to win in the face of adversity. And the Liberty haven\u2019t been able to do that on a consistent basis<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then again, the Liberty are the defending champions. If the team wins it all come next month, we won\u2019t be talking about what happened in the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Liberty\u2019s title defense officially begins in less than two weeks. How valiant of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[650,435,4890,436,4892,3675,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-125710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aja-wilson","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\/125710","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=125710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}