{"id":572766,"date":"2026-04-08T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:51:08","slug":"why-liberty-alanna-smith-could-be-the-perfect-free-agency-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572766\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Liberty, Alanna Smith could be the perfect free agency match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberty are one of several teams that have expressed interest in reigning co-Defensive Player of the Year Alanna Smith, multiple sources told The Post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 29, set the rumor mill ablaze this week when she told an Australian reporter that she planned to test the free agency waters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m open to any opportunity,\u201d said Smith, who was in Australia to support her sister signing a developmental deal with the WNBL\u2019s Tasmania Jewels. \u201cLike I said, I think it\u2019s about best fit, and you know, I loved Minnesota but a lot of teams are looking different this year so I think I\u2019d be doing a disservice to myself if I wasn\u2019t exploring other opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith and New York could be a match made in heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liberty are one of several teams that have expressed interest in reigning co-Defensive Player of the Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,99,358,434,23316],"class_list":{"0":"post-572766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-new-york-liberty","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-sports-plus","11":"tag-wnba","12":"tag-wnba-free-agency"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572766","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=572766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}