{"id":655034,"date":"2026-05-20T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655034\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:54:09","slug":"liberty-news-sabrina-ionescu-satou-sabally-injury-update-hint-at-imminent-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655034\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty news: Sabrina Ionescu, Satou Sabally injury update hint at imminent return"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Liberty<\/a> have started off the 2026 WNBA season at 3-1, and they are on the verge of receiving reinforcements as well. The Liberty have been without Sabrina Ionescu and Satou Sabally for the first four games<\/a> of the season due to injury, but they both received encouraging updates this week.<\/p>\n

Both Sabrina Ionescu and Satou Sabally were officially listed as questionable<\/a> on the Liberty\u2019s injury report for their upcoming game against the Golden State Valkyries, as per Jackie Powell of The IX Sports. While it\u2019s not a given that either player makes their 2026 debut, it does suggest that they are close to returning to the lineup.<\/p>\n

In addition, starting shooting guard Betnijah Laney-Hamilton was not present at Liberty practice due to a personal matter. Laney-Hamilton has made her return to the court after missing all of last season due to a knee injury and subsequent recovery.<\/p>\n

Ionescu did participate in training camp, but sustained both an ankle and foot injury during a preseason game against the Connecticut Sun, and she\u2019s been sidelined since. In Sabally\u2019s case, she developed a cyst and did not participate in training camp or preseason. Sabally was also sidelined during the offseason with Unrivaled due to lingering effects from the concussion she suffered during last year\u2019s WNBA Finals.<\/p>\n

Sabally was the Liberty\u2019s major offseason acquisition after signing with the team during free agency. With the Liberty looking to get back to contention, the versatile forward is expected to play a key role as one of the team\u2019s starting forwards.<\/p>\n

The Liberty are entering their first season with Chris DeMarco<\/a> at the helm as head coach following the decision to part ways with Sandy Brondello.<\/p>\n

The New York Liberty have started off the 2026 WNBA season at 3-1, and they are on the verge of receiving reinforcements as well. The Liberty have been without Sabrina Ionescu and Satou Sabally for the first four games of the season due to injury, but they both received encouraging updates this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Liberty have started off the 2026 WNBA season at 3-1, and they are on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,3675,16808,99,434,70753],"class_list":["post-655034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-satou-sabally","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-injury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655034","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=655034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}