{"id":481541,"date":"2026-02-17T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481541\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:39:07","slug":"breanna-stewart-joining-fenerbahce-opet-for-euroleague-final-six-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481541\/","title":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart joining Fenerbahce Opet for EuroLeague Final Six | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA star and Unrivaled co-founder Breanna Stewart will join Turkey\u2019s Fenerbahce Opet for the \u200b2026 EuroLeague Final Six April \u200c15-19 in Zaragoza, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The team made the announcement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, 31, will join the team upon the completion \u200cof \u200bUnrivaled\u2019s season on March \u20604. She\u2019s in \u2060her second season playing for the Mist in the startup league, which she launched alongside fellow \u200bWNBA standout Napheesa Collier.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time WNBA champion and two-time MVP \u2060previously played for \u2060Fenerbah\u00e7e Opet in the \u200b2022-23 season, leading the team to \u200bthe EuroLeague championship while being named \u200cthe Final Four MVP of the event.<\/p>\n<p>That was the last time Stewart played internationally during the \u2060WNBA offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Fenerbah\u00e7e Opet has won 19 Turkish Basketball Super League titles and won \u2060back-to-back \u200cEuroLeague and European Super \u2060Cup titles in 2023 and \u200b2024.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart \u200cis averaging 19.7 points, \u200b9.4 rebounds \u2060and 2.7 assists per game for the Mist, which stand third in the Unrivaled standings at 7-4 with three regular-season games left.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field \u200bLevel Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA star and Unrivaled co-founder Breanna Stewart will join Turkey\u2019s Fenerbahce Opet for the \u200b2026 EuroLeague Final Six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-481541","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\/481541","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=481541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}