ATLANTA \u2014 Liberty fans have been clamoring for Chris DeMarco to give Spanish rookie Raquel Carrera an extended run. Her potential as a modern big is tantalizing.<\/p>\n
But with Han Xu playing well as Jonquel Jones\u2019 backup, there aren\u2019t enough minutes to go around, which has left Carrera patiently waiting for her turn.<\/p>\n
Until Monday, which coincidentally happened to be the four-year anniversary of when the Liberty traded for Carrera.<\/p>\n
Jones fell ill before tip-off against the Sun. The Liberty made the decision to start Han in her place and told Carrera about 30 minutes before the game to be ready for a larger role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Liberty fans have been clamoring for Chris DeMarco to give Spanish rookie Raquel Carrera an extended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4890,14400,436,4892,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-701805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-inside-the-liberty","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701805","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=701805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}