inside the liberty What the WNBA’s World Cup break looks like for Liberty players who stayed behind By Madeline Kenney Published Sep. 11, 2026, 2:06 p.m. ET Jonquel Jones warms up before the Liberty's game against the Sky on Aug. 29, 2026. Michelle Farsi for the NY Post Jonquel Jones and Rebekah Gardner went on island time.
Sabrina Ionescu returned home to California to press reset, and stopped by the U.S. Open in Queens.
Anneli Maley squeezed in a European vacation with stops in Paris and Berlin to celebrate her newly inked WNBA standard contract.
Those are just some of the ways the Liberty’s non-participating players spent the unusual break in the WNBA schedule for the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup.
