NEW YORK \u2014 New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart left the team’s\u00a0101-99\u00a0loss to the Los Angeles Sparks on Saturday night after 3 minutes with a lower leg injury.<\/p>\n
Stewart had three points and a rebound before she left. Stewart seemed to injury the leg while running up the court. She went to the locker room and never came back to the bench.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo update, hopefully she’ll be okay,\u201d New York Liberty coach Sandy Brondello said after the loss that snapped a five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
New York was playing the second half of a back-to-back. Stewart had a quiet scoring game in Friday’s win over Phoenix with just six points. She did have eight rebounds, five assists, two blocks and two steals.<\/p>\n
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 league.<\/p>\n
The two-time WNBA MVP hadn’t missed a game yet 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
New York also had two other injuries as Kennedy Burke had some cramps and Leonie Fiebich has been dealing with a hand injury she suffered against Phoenix.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe’s tough and resilient, she pushed through it,\u201d Brondello said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart left the team’s\u00a0101-99\u00a0loss to the Los Angeles Sparks on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-26913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26913","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=26913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}