{"id":170094,"date":"2025-09-20T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170094\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:21:07","slug":"liberty-stand-strong-against-sandy-brondello-criticism-following-disappointing-early-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170094\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty stand strong against Sandy Brondello criticism following disappointing early exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2013 It\u2019s easy after a team falls well below its anticipated potential to find someone or something to blame.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach is almost always \u2014 fair or not \u2014 the easiest target. A lot of times in the debates and commentary that spews on social media, the humanity of the team\u2019s leader gets lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Liberty stars stood ten toes down in their support of coach Sandy Brondello late Friday night after their season-ending <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/19\/sports\/libertys-wnba-title-defense-ends-in-crushing-game-3-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 3 loss to the Mercury<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean to anybody that kind of questions Sandy being here, like, this is a resilient group,\u201d Breanna Stewart said. \u201cShe has our back and we have hers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2013 It\u2019s easy after a team falls well below its anticipated potential to find someone or something&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[435,436,5551,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-170094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170094","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=170094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}