{"id":549541,"date":"2026-03-28T01:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:42:10","slug":"tough-choices-liberty-face-as-expansion-draft-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549541\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough choices Liberty face as expansion draft looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty might have to take a calculated risk in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/26\/sports\/wnba-expansion-draft-order-determined-fridayhere-are-the-rules\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">next week\u2019s expansion draft<\/a> and leave Breanna Stewart and\/or Jonquel Jones unprotected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It sounds crazy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stewart and Jones are franchise cornerstones and very much in the Liberty\u2019s plans for 2026. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re also two premier players in the league and any team would be happy to build around them.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liberty might have to take a calculated risk in next week\u2019s expansion draft and leave Breanna Stewart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,99,358,434,2940,23316],"class_list":["post-549541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-draft","tag-wnba-free-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549541","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=549541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}