{"id":12498,"date":"2025-07-27T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12498"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:56:57","slug":"breanna-stewart-exits-liberty-loss-early-with-lower-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12498","title":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart exits Liberty loss early with lower leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"timestamp \">Jul 26, 2025, 08:17 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Liberty star Breanna Stewart left the team&#8217;s 101-99 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks on Saturday night after 3 minutes with a lower leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart had three points and a rebound before she left. Stewart seemed to injure the leg while running up the court. She went to the locker room and never returned to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No update, hopefully she&#8217;ll be OK,&#8221; Liberty coach Sandy Brondello said after the loss that snapped a five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>New York was playing the second half of a back-to-back. Stewart had a quiet scoring game in Friday&#8217;s win over Phoenix with just six points. She did have eight rebounds, five assists, two blocks and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart came into the game averaging 19 points, 6.8 rebounds and 4.0 assists on the season to help New York (17-7) to the second-best record in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time MVP hadn&#8217;t missed a game this season. After playing much of July at home, New York will be on the road for five of its next six games.<\/p>\n<p>New York also had two other injuries as Kennedy Burke had cramps and Leonie Fiebich has been dealing with a hand injury she suffered against Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s tough and resilient, she pushed through it,&#8221; Brondello said of Fiebich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 26, 2025, 08:17 PM ET NEW YORK &#8212; Liberty star Breanna Stewart left the team&#8217;s 101-99 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks on Saturday night after 3 minutes with a lower leg injury. Stewart had three points and a rebound before she left. Stewart seemed to injure the leg while running up the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[6118,442,1504,796,6119,968,988,945],"class_list":{"0":"post-12498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-breanna","9":"tag-early","10":"tag-exits","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-leg","13":"tag-liberty","14":"tag-loss","15":"tag-stewart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}