{"id":25250,"date":"2025-07-21T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25250\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:05:07","slug":"liberty-can-finally-feel-like-themselves-again-as-second-half-gauntlet-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25250\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty can finally feel like themselves again as second-half gauntlet begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The past few days surrounding the WNBA All-Star Game were filled with fun and productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Players partied, danced and made surprise appearances \u2014regardless of whether they wanted to \u2014 on Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman\u2019s 72-hour stream.<\/p>\n<p>They also used the weekend to regroup as a collective while <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/18\/sports\/wnba-players-say-initial-talks-with-league-were-wasted-opportunity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collective bargaining agreement negotiations heat up<\/a>. They <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/19\/sports\/wnbas-cathy-engelbert-counters-on-constructive-cba-talks-as-all-stars-send-message\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent a message Saturday night<\/a>, too, by wearing \u201cPay us what you owe us\u201d T-shirts.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty, specifically, had a strong showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The past few days surrounding the WNBA All-Star Game were filled with fun and productivity. Players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[14400,436,99,362,358,434],"class_list":["post-25250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250","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=25250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}