{"id":30185,"date":"2025-07-23T02:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30185\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T02:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:39:08","slug":"emma-meesseman-addition-means-real-work-begins-now-for-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30185\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Meesseman addition means real work begins now for Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Meesseman\u2019s tremendous leap of faith <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/21\/sports\/liberty-signing-emma-meesseman-in-wnba-free-agency-coup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to join the Liberty midseason<\/a> is unlike anything we\u2019ve seen in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>Not even Sandy Brondello, who\u2019s been around the league since 1998, could think of a similar midseason acquisition of Meesseman\u2019s stature. <\/p>\n<p>Some have compared it to when Hall of Famer Sylvia Fowles forced a trade out of Chicago midseason in 2015 and helped the Lynx win a title that season.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Meesseman\u2019s situation is different. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Meesseman\u2019s tremendous leap of faith to join the Liberty midseason is unlike anything we\u2019ve seen in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-30185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185","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=30185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}