{"id":40242,"date":"2025-07-27T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40242\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:46:07","slug":"libertys-sabrina-ionescu-loses-her-mind-at-a-ref","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40242\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty\u2019s Sabrina Ionescu loses her mind at a ref"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s safe to say Sabrina Ionescu wasn&#8217;t happy.<\/p>\n<p>During the second half of the New York Liberty&#8217;s matchup with the Los Angeles Sparks on Saturday, Ionescu was ticked.<\/p>\n<p>Her ire was directed at an official, and the broadcast caught a heap of what Ionescu shouted at the ref.<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu first seems to be asking the referee, &#8220;Stop what?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then, at least four times, she yells, &#8220;T me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sabrina Ionescu was not asking to be T&#8217;d up &#8211; she was DEMANDING it \ud83d\ude02 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0SECQI6gZQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/0SECQI6gZQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CJ Fogler \ud83e\udee1 (@cjzero) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjzero\/status\/1949263821069291826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/news\/sparks-cameron-brink-injury-announcement-return-acl-tear\/d876f070f7df35ae016943e3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sparks announce latest plans for Cameron Brink injury return<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official didn&#8217;t listen.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the Liberty came up two points short to the Sparks.<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu had a monster game, with 30 points, eight rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n<p>But the viral moment of the night was this one, a meme-able sequence of Ionescu in utter disbelief with a referee and just begging to be reprimanded for it.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/news\/wings-paige-bueckers-sets-wnba-rookie-record-caitlin-clark\/c96b048cfa9b17931cedd5eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paige Bueckers set a new WNBA rookie record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s safe to say Sabrina Ionescu wasn&#8217;t happy. During the second half of the New York Liberty&#8217;s matchup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-40242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40242","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=40242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}