{"id":599288,"date":"2026-04-22T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599288\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:07:28","slug":"australian-guard-anneli-maley-getting-shot-in-libertys-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599288\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian guard Anneli Maley getting shot in Liberty’s training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anneli Maley had just three days between returning from a short stint playing in China and heading off to New York for the Liberty\u2019s training camp.<\/p>\n

The Australian guard had a chance between obligations to play in a game for the Perth Redbacks of the NBL1. She almost decided to stay home to rest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t gonna play,\u201d Maley said Tuesday. \u201cBut then I was like, \u2018Oh come on. It could be fun.\u2019 And then it was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fun indeed. Maley set a single-game scoring record, pouring in a whopping 65 points on 72.4 percent shooting. She drained four of seven 3-point attempts, grabbed 17 rebounds and handed out five assists.<\/p>\n

Maley was dominant, her performance clinical. It was a very different, more confident version of Maley from even three to four years ago when her scoring didn\u2019t match her rebounding and defending prowess.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it was quite the tone to set heading into Liberty training camp this week<\/a>, where she\u2019s fighting for another WNBA opportunity. <\/p>\n

Though it does feel like the Liberty\u2019s 12-player roster is all but set, Maley could be in contention for New York\u2019s final developmental spot.<\/p>\n

Maley is signed to a training camp contract \u2014 jargon for a one-year, minimum contract (unguaranteed). <\/p>\n

\"AnneliAnneli Maley grabs a pass during the Liberty\u2019s training camp on April 21, 2026 at Barclays Center. Corey Sipkin for New York Post<\/p>\n

The Liberty would have to waive her, and she\u2019d have to clear waivers, though, before they could turn around and sign her to a developmental contract, which was introduced in the new collective bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n

Each WNBA team has two developmental spots. French point guard Marine Fauthoux already took the Liberty\u2019s first one.<\/p>\n

Maley has been invited to WNBA training camps in the past, including the Chicago Sky in 2023. She\u2019s grateful for the chance to be back in the mix.<\/p>\n

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This time around, Maley said she\u2019s planning to be herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI play really hard, so scoring is not my first priority,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m a really, really good rebounder. I\u2019m a hustle player. I leave everything out there, like, I just want to play harder than everyone else and I just want that to be seen and hopefully a bit of my personality shines through all that.\u201d<\/p>\n

An added bonus to this specific opportunity is she gets to share the court with her former Oregon teammates Sabrina Ionescu and Satou Sabally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re great, great people,\u201d said Maley, who played the 2017-18 season at Oregon. \u201cI was really bad in college. \u2026 I kind of sucked. So I just rode the bench and watched them do their thing. But great human beings and it\u2019s cool. It is a weird thing that \u2026 nine years later, to be able to be on the court with them when from afar, I\u2019ve watched their careers just be amazing. \u2026 And yeah, again, I sucked in college, so it\u2019s really still random that I\u2019m playing in the league.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anneli Maley had just three days between returning from a short stint playing in China and heading off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,99,434],"class_list":["post-599288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599288","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=599288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}