NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart had an MRI on her left knee, which she injured Sunday, according to a person familiar with the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Monday because no official announcement has been made.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stewart’s status for Game 2 on Wednesday of the best-of-three series with the Phoenix Mercury is unknown. The\u00a0Liberty won the opener\u00a0in overtime over Phoenix.<\/p>\n
ESPN first reported the MRI.<\/p>\n
The Liberty’s star forward drove baseline and was fouled with 3:01 left in overtime. The knee appeared to buckle and she went down and grabbed it. 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York coach Sandy Brondello said after the game that her star had asked to come out.<\/p>\n
Stewart, who had 18 points and six rebounds before leaving the game,\u00a0missed about a month\u00a0of the season with a bone bruise on her other knee she suffered in late July.<\/p>\n
The Liberty have had a difficult season with injuries. Besides Stewart being out for a month,\u00a0Jonquel Jones\u00a0missed 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
If Stewart can’t play Wednesday, New York has depth with\u00a0Emma Meesseman, who they signed in August. Meesseman won a WNBA Finals MVP in 2019 while playing with Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart had an MRI on her left knee, which she injured Sunday, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-147116","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\/147116","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=147116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}