{"id":40095,"date":"2025-07-27T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40095\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:08:09","slug":"a-furious-sabrina-ionescu-dared-the-refs-to-give-her-a-tech-after-liberty-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40095\/","title":{"rendered":"A furious Sabrina Ionescu dared the refs to give her a tech after Liberty call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Liberty superstar guard Sabrina Ionescu went off on the referees during Saturday night&#8217;s home loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/los-angeles-sparks\/149\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Sparks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> over a questionable call.<\/p>\n<p>After the refs wiped away a crucial Ionescu three on what they deemed was an illegal screen on Liberty center Jonquel Jones in the game&#8217;s third quarter, Ionescu became irate and argued with the officials over the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu got so mad that she dared the refs to give her a technical foul, which they of course obliged. She was absolutely furious, and with the way WNBA officiating has gone this season, you could understand why.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re sure New York will seek clarification with the league on what exactly happened here.<\/p>\n<p>New York losing at the last second made this sequence even worse, as did losing superstar forward Breanna Stewart to an injury during the contest.<\/p>\n<p>It was an all-around bad day for the Liberty, and Ionescu&#8217;s anger exemplified that.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/wnba\/2025\/07\/26\/sabrina-ionescu-dared-refs-tech-liberty-wnba\/85391981007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:A furious Sabrina Ionescu dared the refs to give her a tech after Liberty call;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">A furious Sabrina Ionescu dared the refs to give her a tech after Liberty call<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Liberty superstar guard Sabrina Ionescu went off on the referees during Saturday night&#8217;s home loss to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[435,14400,3029,436,3675,99,434],"class_list":["post-40095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095","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=40095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}