{"id":398403,"date":"2026-01-10T02:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398403\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T02:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:27:21","slug":"unrivaled-despite-injury-ionescu-will-still-be-involved-in-2nd-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398403\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrivaled: Despite injury, Ionescu will still be involved in 2nd season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After all of Unrivaled 2026\u2019s participating players were announced and rosters were revealed, one name was noticeably missing: Sabrina Ionescu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The league and Ionescu now have provided an explanation for her absence. Although she will not be totally absent from Sephora Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While not playing because of an undisclosed injury she suffered during the 2025 WNBA season with the New York Liberty, Ionescu still will be involved with the league through various initiatives, including appearing on television broadcasts. Last season, Sabrina played for Phantom BC, averaging 18.2 points, 7.0 rebounds and 4.1 assists across her nine games played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">While I\u2019m disappointed I couldn\u2019t play this season, I\u2019ll be rooting for the Phantom. I\u2019m looking forward to working with Unrivaled through content and broadcast opportunities and continuing to support the league\u2019s success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After all of Unrivaled 2026\u2019s participating players were announced and rosters were revealed, one name was noticeably missing:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,18419,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-398403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-unrivaled","10":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398403","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=398403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}