NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart is feeling better after suffering a bone bruise in her right knee late last month and hopes to be back by the end of the month.<\/p>\n
The two-time WNBA MVP hurt her knee in the Liberty’s\u00a0101-99\u00a0loss to the Los Angeles Sparks on July 26 and talked before New York’s game against Minnesota on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel great. I just finished working out on the court in the back,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s really just kind of giving my leg, the bone a little bit of time while we have it. But hoping to be back sooner than later and really just wanting to be back with my team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stewart has been rehabbing the injury and Liberty coach Sandy Brondello said she thought her star forward could be back by the end of August.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like this is the hardest part for me because I\u2019ve been out. Like I\u2019ve been out, but I\u2019m not usually out when I can go back in. So I want to be back,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n
One non-negotiable, Stewart said, was that she wanted to be back before her birthday on Aug. 27.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m on the training staff to let me be back to free me a little bit. But definitely, like, before my birthday,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Stewart celebrated her daughter Ruby’s fourth birthday on Saturday, taking her to a trampoline park.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t planning on being injured, so it\u2019s a little bit less than ideal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Stewart felt the injury in her knee in the loss to Los Angeles. She had three points and a rebound.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like when I stepped, I just like felt something in my knee a little bit, but I don\u2019t know, I think I just irritated it,” she said.<\/p>\n
A seven-time All-Star, Stewart is averaging 18.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.9 assists. Stewart was disappointed that she will miss all the games with Minnesota in a WNBA Finals rematch as the two teams play four times in a three-week span that Stewart is out for.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate this, but I\u2019ll be on the bench,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart is feeling better after suffering a bone bruise in her right knee late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-59454","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\/59454","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=59454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}