{"id":36259,"date":"2025-07-31T06:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36259\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:33:15","slug":"liberty-star-breanna-stewart-out-indefinitely-with-bone-bruise-in-right-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36259\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty star Breanna Stewart out indefinitely with bone bruise in right knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart has a bone bruise in her right knee and the team has no timetable for her return, coach Sandy Brondello said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure she&#8217;s right for the playoffs,\u201d Brondello said before the Liberty played the Minnesota Lynx in a WNBA Finals rematch. \u201cBut hopefully, we can get her back sooner than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A two-time WNBA MVP, Stewart was hurt early in the Liberty\u2019s 101-99 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>She had three points and a rebound. Stewart seemed to injure the leg while running up the court and exited about three and a half minutes into the game. She went to the locker room and never returned to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>A seven-time all-star, Stewart is averaging 18.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.9 assists. New York owned the second-best record in the WNBA at 17-8 entering Wednesday&#8217;s matchup and trailed the Lynx by four games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart has a bone bruise in her right knee and the&hellip;\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-36259","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\/36259","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=36259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259\/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=36259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}