{"id":183399,"date":"2025-09-26T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183399\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:23:09","slug":"libertys-nyara-sabally-will-sit-out-offseason-to-rest-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183399\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty&#8217;s Nyara Sabally will sit out offseason to rest knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nyara Sabally won\u2019t play this offseason in order to rehabilitate her right knee issue, Liberty general manager Jonathan Kolb said <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/25\/sports\/jonathan-kolb-believes-liberty-have-massive-opportunity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at Thursday\u2019s year-end press conference<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sabally entered this season riding the high of being the Liberty\u2019s hero in Game 5 of the 2024 WNBA Finals. <\/p>\n<p>She also had a strong offseason showing with her offseason team, Fenerbah\u00e7e in Turkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37217546\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2224316908-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nyara Sabally #8 of the New York Liberty looks on before the game against the Atlanta Dream on July 13, 2025 at Barclays Center Arena in Brooklyn, New York. \" class=\"wp-image-37217546\"  \/>The Liberty\u2019s Nyara Sabally looks on before the game against the Dream on July 13, 2025 at Barclays Center. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>But Sabally <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/05\/sports\/nyara-saballys-injury-history-complicates-her-liberty-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was never healthy enough<\/a> to impact the Liberty the way she had hoped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sabally had an issue flare up in her right knee just three games into the season. The backup center was limited to 17 games total and missed all but two games after the All-Star break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She had two injections in her knee over the course of the season, but nothing seemed to provide the long-term solutions necessary <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/30\/sports\/nyara-sabally-progressing-in-her-liberty-injury-recovery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for her to play at full strength<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were very optimistic with her coming into the year, and then her body just wouldn\u2019t allow what her heart and mind wanted to do,\u201d Kolb said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sabally, 25, averaged career highs in points (5.4) and rebounds (4.5) in her limited play this season. <\/p>\n<p>She has one year remaining on her rookie deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nyara Sabally won\u2019t play this offseason in order to rehabilitate her right knee issue, Liberty general manager Jonathan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,99,434],"class_list":["post-183399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183399","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=183399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}