{"id":646988,"date":"2026-05-16T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646988\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:18:08","slug":"why-things-are-looking-up-for-jonquel-jones-after-uneven-liberty-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646988\/","title":{"rendered":"Why things are looking up for Jonquel Jones after uneven Liberty start"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 There was one clear, though not readily available, fix for the Liberty\u2019s disorganized start to Thursday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Ionescu.<\/p>\n

The Liberty opened the season without Ionescu after she injured her left foot in the team\u2019s final preseason game. An MRI exam the following day showed that she avoided significant injury<\/a>, but the lead guard was still sidelined for two weeks.<\/p>\n

Ionescu is due to be reevaluated early next week. The hope is she\u2019ll be in the lineup for the Liberty\u2019s next game Thursday against the Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 There was one clear, though not readily available, fix for the Liberty\u2019s disorganized start to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[435,4890,14400,436,4892,3675,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-646988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-inside-the-liberty","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646988","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=646988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}