{"id":473617,"date":"2026-02-17T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473617\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:58:08","slug":"breanna-stewart-signing-with-euroleague-team-will-join-after-unrivaled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473617\/","title":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart signing with EuroLeague team, will join after Unrivaled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breanna Stewart is signing with European powerhouse Fenerbah\u00e7e Opet in Turkey for the 2026 EuroLeague Final Six, the team announced Monday. The single-elimination tournament to decide the EuroLeague champion will be held in Spain April 15-19.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart is currently playing with Mist BC in her second season in Unrivaled, which she co-founded. The regular season concludes on Feb. 28, and the playoffs run through March 4. Stewart is scheduled to join Team USA for a March 7-8 training camp in Miami and then head to Turkey. She is not on the American roster for the FIBA World Cup qualifying tournament, which runs March 11-16.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart previously played for Fenerbah\u00e7e during the 2022-23 season. She led the team to the EuroLeague title and was named MVP of the Final Four (the format of the postseason tournament has since been modified). This season\u2019s Fenerbah\u00e7e roster was stacked even before Stewart\u2019s arrival, featuring WNBA All-Stars Kayla McBride, Gabby Williams and Emma Meesseman, as well as Iliana Rupert and Julie Allemand.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">D\u00fcnya Y\u0131ld\u0131z\u0131 Breanna Stewart yeniden Fenerbah\u00e7e Opet\u2019te! \ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc99\u270d\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/breannastewart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@breannastewart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kazand\u0131\u011f\u0131 tarihi ba\u015far\u0131lar, imza att\u0131\u011f\u0131 rekorlar ve ge\u00e7mi\u015ften bug\u00fcne dek kadrosunda yer alan d\u00fcnya y\u0131ld\u0131zlar\u0131yla T\u00fcrk Sporuna b\u00fcy\u00fck bir marka de\u011feri kazand\u0131ran T\u00fcrk Basketbolunun Lokomotifi\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/01q2vm2yKt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/01q2vm2yKt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fenerbah\u00e7e Opet (@fbkadinbasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fbkadinbasket\/status\/2023315240805351440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stewart hasn\u2019t played in Europe since that season due to a combination of factors, including injuries and the launch of Unrivaled, but she has always spoken positively about her experiences playing overseas. She previously played in Russia for multiple seasons before joining Fenerbah\u00e7e. Stewart is not the only WNBA player to double-dip during the WNBA offseason. McBride also played a short stint for Fenerbah\u00e7e in 2025 after the first Unrivaled season. Tiffany Hayes went to Turkey to play for Fenerbah\u00e7e rival \u00c7BK Mersin after the 2025 WNBA season and then came back to the U.S. for the 2026 Unrivaled season.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule of the EuroLeague Final Six also aligns well with Stewart\u2019s WNBA obligations in 2026. Per the prioritization clause of the current collective bargaining agreement, players are required to report by the start of the season or May 1, whichever is later. The last possible game for Fenerbah\u00e7e would be on April 19, allowing Stewart sufficient time to return stateside to the New York Liberty, or whichever team she happens to sign with during the WNBA offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Prioritization is expected to remain in the new CBA, but any new terms likely would not be phased in until 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, who is a vice president of the WNBA players\u2019 union, has been recently optimistic about the progress of the WNBA CBA negotiations. On her \u201cGame Recognize Game\u201d podcast, she said, \u201cOur recent CBA proposal that we got, there\u2019s movement, there\u2019s traction, we\u2019re finally headed in a direction, so I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart is signing with European powerhouse Fenerbah\u00e7e Opet in Turkey for the 2026 EuroLeague Final Six, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,99,1794,434],"class_list":["post-473617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-sports-business","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473617","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=473617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}