{"id":807374,"date":"2026-08-09T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807374\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T00:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:30:08","slug":"liberty-rookie-marine-fauthoux-really-happy-to-have-standard-wnba-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807374\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty rookie Marine Fauthoux ‘really happy’ to have standard WNBA deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberty guard Marine Fauthoux, who began the season on a developmental contract, was counting down each game she\u2019d be allowed to play as she approached the 12-game limit.<\/p>\n

First, the 25-year-old French rookie began her tenure focused on a lengthy rehab for an ACL tear. Then, Fauthoux became important at her job \u2014 becoming a mainstay in the offense as ex-teammate Betnijah Laney-Hamilton fell out of the rotation and the team dealt with multiple injuries.<\/p>\n

Just like that, she approached double-digits games played without inking a standard WNBA contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the beginning it was easy for me because I was like on my rehab situation. So I was like \u2018OK I will have opportunity\u00a0[an] to be back on the court,’\u201d she said before realizing \u201cI have two more games and I\u2019m done. So it was kind of not stressful, but I was in the situation of like \u2018What are we doing?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it was hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, Fauthoux\u2019s situation became much easier after the Liberty signed her to a multi-year deal on Thursday<\/a>. Her signing was a corresponding move to Laney-Hamilton, who the Washington Mystics claimed on waivers Sunday, being released.<\/p>\n

Fauthoux would\u2019ve been allowed to play just one more game under a developmental contract, which is a new deal introduced under the 2026 collective bargaining agreement that allows each team to sign up to two players outside of its 12-player roster.<\/p>\n

Fauthoux played in Wednesday\u2019s win over the Seattle Storm<\/a>, bringing her to 11 games played for the season. After a developmental player plays 12 games, the current team has rights to convert that player to a standard deal. If not, other WNBA teams have the option to sign that player.<\/p>\n

Fauthoux said Saturday that she\u2019s \u201creally happy\u201d to stay with the Liberty, which she preferred.<\/p>\n

The option for Fauthoux to agree to terms on a multi-year deal with Liberty was a no-brainer in her mind.<\/p>\n

The deal ensures the guard stays as a key component on first-year head coach Chris DeMarco\u2019s bench.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe plays so hard. She plays so hard, but she does a lot of things,\u201d DeMarco said of Fathoux, who entered Sunday averaging 4.5 points on a 40.5% clip, 2.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 14.5 minutes per game.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike you can\u2019t be at a bar hanging out and the game\u2019s going on and be like, \u2018Fauthoux is a good player.\u2019 You have to actually watch the game and watch like the little things that she does. On defense, she\u2019s in a shell. She\u2019s early when they hit the pocket. Offensively, she sets somebody up in pick and roll \u2014 defense [is] out of position. She races the ball. Two people have to come over. She finds shooters. Like she does all these little things that really help winning in the end, and that\u2019s what you know we love out of basketball\u00a0players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liberty guard Marine Fauthoux, who began the season on a developmental contract, was counting down each game she\u2019d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[13970,265440,99,434],"class_list":["post-807374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-liberty","tag-marine-fauthoux","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807374","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=807374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}