{"id":144687,"date":"2025-09-15T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/144687\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:08:09","slug":"breanna-stewart-injures-left-knee-in-new-york-libertys-game-1-win-over-phoenix-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/144687\/","title":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart injures left knee in New York Liberty\u2019s Game 1 win over Phoenix Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Breanna Stewart injured her left knee midway through the overtime of New York\u2019s 76-69 win Sunday over the Phoenix Mercury in Game 1 of their best-of-three playoff series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stewart drove baseline and was fouled. She went down and grabbed her left knee. After a New York timeout, Stewart attempted the free throw, but missed it. She had a knee brace over the injury, but came out a minute later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">New York coach Sandy Brondello said after the game that her star had asked to come out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stewart, who had 18 points and six rebounds before leaving the game, missed about a month of the season with a bone bruise on her other knee she suffered in late July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The series shifts to New York for Game 2 on Wednesday night, giving her an extra day to recover from the injury. The Liberty have had a difficult season with injuries. Besides Stewart being out for a month, Jonquel Jones missed significant time early in the year with a sprained ankle and Sabrina Ionescu was out for a few games late with a toe injury she suffered in practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">If Stewart can\u2019t play Tuesday, New York has depth with Emma Meesseman, who they signed in August. Meesseman won a WNBA Finals MVP in 2019 while playing with Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Breanna Stewart injured her left knee midway through the overtime of New York\u2019s 76-69 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-144687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}