{"id":396419,"date":"2026-01-09T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396419\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:52:09","slug":"ionescu-sidelined-for-unrivaleds-2nd-season-due-to-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396419\/","title":{"rendered":"Ionescu sidelined for Unrivaled&#8217;s 2nd season due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MEDLEY, Fla. &#8212; <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4066533\/sabrina-ionescu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> will not play in the second season of Unrivaled because of an injury sustained during the WNBA season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 3-on-3 women&#8217;s basketball league, which began its second season Monday, announced the news Thursday, saying that Ionescu will still be involved with off-court initiatives and partnership opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The four-time WNBA All-Star with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Liberty<\/a> played for Phantom BC during Unrivaled&#8217;s first season and averaged 18.2 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;While I&#8217;m disappointed I couldn&#8217;t play this season, I&#8217;ll be rooting for the Phantom,&#8221; Ionescu said in a statement. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to working with Unrivaled through content and broadcast opportunities and continuing to support the league&#8217;s success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Ionescu joined <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/3917450\/napheesa-collier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Napheesa Collier<\/a> as stars who have been ruled out for Unrivaled&#8217;s second season. Collier, an Unrivaled co-founder and the league&#8217;s 2025 MVP, was set to have surgery on both of her ankles and will be sidelined four to six months.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEDLEY, Fla. &#8212; Sabrina Ionescu will not play in the second season of Unrivaled because of an injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[191645,352,25688,17650,436,3,99,434],"class_list":["post-396419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-191645","tag-espn","tag-espnw","tag-ionescu-sabrina","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396419","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=396419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}