{"id":39942,"date":"2025-07-27T00:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39942\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T00:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:34:06","slug":"libertys-breanna-stewart-exits-vs-sparks-with-lower-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39942\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty&#8217;s Breanna Stewart exits vs. Sparks with lower leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 26, 2025, 08:17 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ad8ccde6-59b3-fbe6-2faf-a835fa224ca1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-liberty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Liberty<\/a> star <a data-player-guid=\"4d83d500-2f40-c89e-4f85-62927c5abbeb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/2998928\/breanna-stewart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breanna Stewart<\/a> left the team&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fc3d2f98-2a3d-9ef8-4d5b-b8d5168d7737\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/la\/los-angeles-sparks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> on Saturday night after 3 minutes with a lower leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced she&#8217;d be out for the remainder of the game. Stewart had three points and a rebound before she left. Stewart seemed to injure the leg while running up the court.<\/p>\n<p>New York was playing the second half of a back-to-back. Stewart had a quiet scoring game in Friday&#8217;s win over <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"514d18a9-00a8-d52b-dda2-37d707f19bd0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-mercury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix<\/a> with just six points. She did have eight rebounds, five assists, two blocks and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart came into the game averaging 19 points, 6.8 rebounds and 4.0 assists on the season to help New York (17-6) to the second-best record in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time WNBA MVP hasn&#8217;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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 26, 2025, 08:17 PM ET NEW YORK &#8212; New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart left the team&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-39942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}