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Breanna Stewart’s return to her original WNBA home was a successful one. Facing the Seattle Storm as an opponent for the first time ever, she led the New York Liberty to their third straight win of the season. The superstar admitted that it felt weird to be back as a visitor but nonetheless took care […]

The New York Liberty are playing on the road against the Seattle Storm on Tuesday, and it will be Breanna Stewart’s return to the place where she won two WNBA titles. Stewart opened up on the return. “To be honest, when you look at it, it hasn’t happened often in the WNBA,” Breanna Stewart said, […]

The New York Liberty had a mixed bag of a season in 2022. They finished with a record of 16-20, good for fourth place in the Eastern Conference. They made the playoffs as the seventh seed, but they were eliminated by the second-seeded Chicago Sky in the first round. After the season, however, they upgraded […]

The 2023 WNBA season is only a couple of days old and there’s already been some historic accomplishments. The New York Liberty may have lost their season opener against the Washington Mystics, but they bounced back in a big way in their home opener with with a 90-73 win against the Indiana Fever. Not only […]

Breanna Stewart has been a great player for so long that she’s bound to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame one day, and on Sunday she put her talents on display once again with a 45-point explosion against the Indiana Fever. Stewart, who scored 12 points in her season debut with […]

The New York Liberty played their home opener against the Indiana Fever in Brooklyn on Sunday, and Breanna Stewart is already making history for her new team. Breanna Stewart set a new career-high in points and now holds the Liberty franchise record for points in a game after scoring 45 against the Fever, according to […]

WNBA star Breanna Stewart is on the shortlist of players with her own signature sneaker. The two-time WNBA Champion is signed to PUMA and released her first signature model, the Puma Stewie 1, last year during her final season with the Seattle Storm. Ahead of her first season with her new-look New York Liberty squad, […]

New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu is not one bit bothered by the championship pressure on the team after trading for Jonquel Jones and signing Breanna Stewart this offseason. In fact, she’s loving it. Ionescu, the no. 1 pick of the 2020 WNBA Draft, admitted that she has been longing to be a title contender […]

The New York Liberty pulled off arguably the biggest move of WNBA free agency with the blockbuster signing of superstar Breanna Stewart and then followed that up with the signing of veteran guard Courtney Vandersloot to add to their earlier trade of Jonquel Jones. With Sabrina Ionescu already in place, the new additions figure to […]

The New York Liberty are ready to run the WNBA for the foreseeable future. Landing Breanna Stewart and Courtney Vandersloot in free agency and acquiring Jonquel Jones in a trade gives them a star-studded roster. With two stars in Sabrina Ionescu and Betnijah Laney already in town, their roster is set up to be special. […]

The New York Liberty is building something special. Just a day after signing two-time Finals MVP and 2022 scoring champion Breanna Stewart, versatile guard Courtney Vandersloot is also joining the franchise. Instead of a reporter announcing the news, she revealed her next move on Twitter: “#BREAKING Courtney Vandersloot is signing with the New York Liberty🗽✍🏼” […]

The New York Liberty sent shockwaves throughout the WNBA world on Wednesday after they announced the signing of former league MVP Breanna Stewart. This is widely considered one of the biggest free-agent signings in WNBA history, and for his part, Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant could not help but react to the big news. Morant […]

Just days after the reigning WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces made a big splash with the signing of Candace Parker, The New York Liberty has now also done so. Breanna Stewart is heading to the Big Apple to link up with Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones, forming one of the best trios in the league. […]

Brooklyn Nets’ superstar Kevin Durant shared a brutally honest reaction after Breanna Stewart signed with the New York Liberty on Wednesday, per Durant’s Twitter account. “Aye, don’t call my phone lookin for tickets this summer, they gone. Let’s get it @nyliberty,” KD wrote on Twitter.  The city of New York now has no shortage of […]

Breanna Stewart is heading to the New York Liberty. After contemplating whether she wanted to return to the Seattle Storm, who drafted her in 2016 with the first overall pick, the two-time champion will embark on a new journey in the Big Apple. Stewart joins 2021 MVP Jonquel Jones, who was acquired from the Connecticut […]

When a player like Breanna Stewart is available on the open market, you have to pull out all the stops to get her. The New York Liberty didn’t enlist Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant to join them in pitching to the two-time champion but he did make a pitch to Stewart on his own volition. […]

Breanna Stewart has narrowed her free agency search to the New York Liberty and the Seattle Storm, according to Rachel Galligan of Just Women’s Sports. Stewart, who is considered the top free agent of this year’s free agency class, is back to where she started last offseason when she took meetings with New York and […]

2018 WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart has made it known in the past the league needs to improve the conditions the players compete under in order to maximize the full potential of its product. She took another step Sunday afternoon to make that happen after tweeting out a plea to the rest of the world to […]

WNBA free agency finally opens on Saturday and there’s no doubt that Breanna Stewart will be the biggest name on the market. The former league MVP is going to be an unrestricted free agent and her decision is expected to make a significant impact on the landscape of the WNBA. Stewart has been dropping hints […]

Breanna Stewart is going to be the biggest name in this year’s edition of WNBA free agency as the 28-year-old looks to take the next step in her career. Her contract with the Seattle Storm has come to an end, and the 6-foot-4 forward is going to be free to choose which team she wants […]

A huge specter loomed over the 2022 WNBA season after Brittney Griner’s detainment in Russia seemed to have no resolution in sight. Griner is not only one of the most decorated players in the WNBA, she is also universally beloved among the basketball community. Thus, Griner’s detainment and later conviction became tough to bear for […]

WNBA free agency doesn’t start until after the New Year but front offices are already thinking about how to navigate a loaded 2023 free agent class. Here are the top free agents to look out for before free agency starts in two months. Breanna Stewart 2022 stats: 21.8 PPG, 7.6 RPG, 2.9 APG, 1.6 SPG, […]

Despite losing to WNBA Finals favorites Las Vegas Aces in the WNBA Semifinals, 2018 WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart of the Seattle Storm can hold her head high as she gave it her all in the elimination game, dropping 42 points in a crushing 92-97 loss. And it’s only going to get better for Stewart, affectionately […]

The Seattle Storm entered Tuesday night’s Western Conference semifinal series against the Las Vegas Ace trailing the best-of-five series two games to one. They were facing elimination on their home court and needed something to change. Well, future Hall of Famer Breanna Stewart certainly did her part. She stormed out the gates, pun intended, and […]

The 2022 WNBA Playoffs are heating up with just four teams remaining, including the star-studded Seattle Storm. Highlighted by Breanna Stewart, Sue Bird, Jewell Loyd, and more, the team finished with the second-best record in the Western Conference at 22-14. This is the organization’s seventh consecutive season in the playoffs, with two championships to their […]

The Seattle Storm are prepared to make a deep postseason run. The Storm enter play as the No. 4 seed and will host the Washington Mystics on Thursday, August 18th. The Storm will be an intriguing team to follow in the postseason since this is Sue Bird’s final year in the league. Bird, a WNBA […]

Seattle Storm superstar Breanna Stewart recently took a meeting in free agency with the New York Liberty, setting off plenty of speculation that the two-time WNBA champion would be making her way from the West Coast to the East Coast. However, Stewart is going to run it back with the Storm for at least one […]

One of the WNBA’s top stars could be changing teams ahead of the 2022 season. Seattle Storm superstar Breanna Stewart took a meeting with a large New York Liberty contingent this week in Los Angeles, according to Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes. While nothing is done yet, Haynes notes this meeting could signal the end of […]

After years upon years of one-game playoff series’ and playoff bye’s, the WNBA has finally switched up their format to include three rounds, all with a minimum of three games, and no playoff byes. This is now very similar to the NBA’s current playoff format, just on a smaller scale in terms of games and […]

The Seattle Storm was handed a potentially huge blow on Tuesday when superstar Breanna Stewart exited their game against Washington with an apparent foot injury. The team announced on Friday that she will now miss the last two games of the regular season and be re-evaluated prior to the postseason: STORM INJURY UPDATE: Breanna Stewart left […]

The Seattle Storm just secured the WNBA title after defeating the Las Vegas Aces in Game 3 of the WNBA Finals. There were more than a few folks that tuned in to the highly-anticipated matchup, including a couple of NBA personalities in Dwyane Wade and Ja Morant. Wade sent out his congratulatory message to the […]

The WNBA and the WNBA Players Association have reached an agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, though it is pending ratification by the players and the league’s Board of Governors, according to a league statement. This CBA is a monumental moment in WNBA history, as the changes in the eight-year pact will provide a […]

Kevin Durant is sporting some new kicks for the Golden State Warriors’ preseason game in Seattle and Draymond Green is already giving his opinion on KD’s footwear. Draymond is calling KD’s shoes the Breanna Stewart 11s because if there’s any basketball that embodies the city of Seattle it’s her. KD got on the @BreannaStewart 11's […]

The WNBA announced Sunday that 23-year-old Breanna Stewart of the Seattle Storm was named league MVP. This is a well-deserved honor for the former UConn star. In her third year in the WNBA, Stewart averaged 21.8 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. Liz Cambage was the runner-up and Elena Delle Donne rounded out the top […]