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Alexa PhilippouJul 21, 2025, 01:48 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Emma Meesseman<\/a>, the 2019 WNBA Finals MVP who hasn’t appeared in the league since 2022, has committed to joining the defending champion New York Liberty<\/a>, sources told ESPN on Monday.<\/p>\n Meesseman’s arrival to New York will be subject to the length of time it takes to go through the visa application process, sources said.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n The 6-foot-4 forward from Belgium has been a huge difference-maker when she has played in the league. The two-time WNBA All-Star averaged 12.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game for the Chicago Sky<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n Before that, she had played seven seasons with the Washington Mystics<\/a>, where she helped lead them to a championship in 2019 and became the first reserve to win Finals MVP in the process.<\/p>\n Meesseman, who earlier this summer competed in EuroBasket with Belgium, also considered the Minnesota Lynx<\/a> and Phoenix Mercury<\/a>, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n Her decorated international resume includes two nods on Olympic All-Star Five teams (in Tokyo and Paris), two EuroBasket MVP honors and three consecutive EuroLeague MVP bids.<\/p>\n With Meesseman’s commitment, the rich get richer as as the Liberty seek to become the fourth WNBA franchise — and just the second in the past 20 years — to repeat as champions. The Liberty already boast some of the WNBA’s top players in Breanna Stewart<\/a>, Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> and Jonquel Jones<\/a>, the latter of whom is expected back this week from an ankle injury that has sidelined her much of the season.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexa PhilippouJul 21, 2025, 01:48 PM ET CloseCovers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-26866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866","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=26866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPreviously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
\nStanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer<\/p>\n