{"id":644548,"date":"2026-05-15T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:13:17","slug":"liberty-sign-alexandra-fowler-for-final-developmental-spot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644548\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty sign Alexandra Fowler for final developmental spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Thursday will be a day to remember for Aussie forward Alexandra Fowler.<\/p>\n

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The former University of Portland forward filled the Liberty\u2019s final developmental spot, signing a contract with New York on Thursday morning ahead of the team\u2019s 100-82 win over Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fowler, who had 12 points in Thursday\u2019s win, was at morning shootaround with the Liberty. It\u2019s unclear whether she\u2019ll suit up for the Liberty\u2019s fourth game in a week.<\/p>\n

Fowler didn\u2019t think she\u2019d have a WNBA opportunity for a few years. Much to the 24-year-old\u2019s surprise, she was invited to the Liberty\u2019s training camp last month.<\/p>\n

Fowler played in both of the team\u2019s preseason games. She had eight points, five rebounds, an assist and two steals in her debut with the team April 25. She went scoreless in the Liberty\u2019s second preseason game while still managing to contribute two rebounds and three steals.<\/p>\n

Fowler was among the cuts May 6 to trim the team\u2019s roster to the league-mandated 12-player limit.<\/p>\n

Fowler said she had been \u201cjust chilling\u201d in New York in the time since.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way that the WNBA is heading, women\u2019s sports and all that and being able to have the opportunity to have development spots, I think it\u2019s really cool just to learn and soak in, take everything in,\u201d Fowler told The Post. \u201cI just want to be a sponge. \u2026 We have so many vets and so many great players, so I think it\u2019s cool for me to be able to learn from them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alexandra Fowler, posing for a picture during Media Day earlier this month, signed a contract with the Liberty on May 14, 2026. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Fowler is coming off a WNBL championship run with the Australian club Townsville Fire. She averaged 10.8 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.1 steals in 28 games last season while shooting 51.4 percent from the field and 40.5 percent from behind the arc.<\/p>\n

Fowler has several notable accolades to her name. She was named the 2024 WNBL\u2019s Rookie of the Year and later earned Most Valuable Player honors at the 2025 FIBA Women\u2019s Asia Cup after helping the Opals win gold while averaging 11.8 points and 7.2 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Prior to going pro, Fowler played four seasons at the University of Portland, where she finished as the program\u2019s all-time leader in points (2,132), field goals made (832), career field goal percentage (55 percent) and rebounds (882.). She\u2019s the only player in the Pilots\u2019 history to make the All-West Coast Conference First Team four times. She also led the conference in scoring twice.<\/p>\n

Given her history in Portland, Fowler said it\u2019s all the more special for her to start her new contract while in town.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world works in crazy ways,\u201d she said. \u201cA lot of my family and friends and all my coaches and staff are coming to the game, so I think it\u2019s going to be pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rebecca Allen was upgraded to questionable for Thursday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Allen was a full participant in shootaround for the second consecutive time. The Liberty were expected to have an update on Allen, whose season debut has been delayed due to left leg soreness.<\/p>\n

Allen also missed the Liberty\u2019s preseason action for reconditioning purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Thursday will be a day to remember for Aussie forward Alexandra Fowler. \u00a0We\u2019ve got you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[278197,99,13969,278196,434],"class_list":["post-644548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alexandra-fowler","tag-sports","tag-the-liberty","tag-university-of-portland","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644548","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=644548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}