{"id":96396,"date":"2025-08-25T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96396\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:45:07","slug":"breanna-stewart-returns-to-liberty-lineup-after-missing-month-with-bone-bruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96396\/","title":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart returns to Liberty lineup after missing month with bone bruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart is back after missing a month with a bone bruise in her right knee.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/new-york-liberty\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-liberty\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Liberty<\/a> star said she&#8217;ll play on Monday night against Connecticut, marking her return after missing 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>Sabrina Ionescu, who missed Saturday&#8217;s loss against Atlanta after injuring her foot against Chicago on Thursday, also will play against the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart last played on July 26 when she left a few minutes into the game against Los Angeles. The Liberty went 5-8 without their star forward to fall to fifth in the standings at 22-15.<\/p>\n<p>New York started the season 9-0 before going 13-15 since when injuries started to hit the team. Jonquel Jones twice injured her right ankle and missed more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart is averaging 18.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.9 assists this season. She&#8217;s also a force on the defensive end with 1.4 steals and 1.4 blocks a game. Stewart\u00a0told the media\u00a0two weeks ago that she planned to return by her 31st birthday, which is Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champions have seven games left in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Cloud (nose) and Isabelle Harrison (concussion protocol) are both listed as questionable for the game Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart is back after missing a month with a bone bruise in her right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-96396","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\/96396","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=96396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}