The Liberty entered this season as title favorites, only to bow out of the playoffs in the first round 12 days ago.<\/p>\n
It was a letdown, for sure. The Liberty had so much talent on paper, but never got healthy enough to really put the pieces together.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what 2026 might bring<\/a>. Sandy Brondello won\u2019t be back<\/a>, but Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones are all expected to return<\/a>.<\/p>\n Who might join them \u2014 with a new collective bargaining agreement, an expansion process for two new teams and a massive edition of free agency all likely in store \u2014 remains a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liberty entered this season as title favorites, only to bow out of the playoffs in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[435,4890,436,4892,3675,99,358,434,23316],"class_list":["post-196693","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","tag-wnba-free-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196693","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=196693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}