{"id":32509,"date":"2025-07-24T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32509\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:47:08","slug":"emma-meessemans-looming-arrival-gives-liberty-options-in-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32509\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Meesseman’s looming arrival gives Liberty options \u2014 in theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

On paper, it\u2019s exactly what the Liberty needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On paper, they just received an agreement from Emma Meesseman \u2014 the 2019 WNBA Finals MVP who has become one of the marquee international forwards during her two-plus years away from the league \u2014 to bolster their depth. <\/p>\n

On paper, and an ever-changing injury report<\/a>, three of their current frontcourt pieces in Breanna Stewart (March knee surgery), Jonquel Jones (just back from a second ankle-related absence this season) and Nyara Sabally (missed her seventh game of the year Tuesday) have dealt with injuries either before or during the season. <\/p>\n

On paper, Meesseman, whose captivating Liberty potential<\/a> is accompanied by the mystery of whether she can mesh with the reigning champion\u2019s systems on the fly, could allow for starters to rest more down the stretch and ensure they\u2019re healthy when the postseason begins.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On paper, it\u2019s exactly what the Liberty needed.\u00a0 On paper, they just received an agreement from Emma Meesseman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[435,14400,436,3675,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-32509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509","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=32509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}