{"id":558735,"date":"2026-04-01T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558735\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:53:09","slug":"breanna-stewart-says-she-is-staying-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558735\/","title":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart says she is staying in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breanna Stewart made sure there would be no misunderstanding on where she stands with the New York Liberty ahead of WNBA free agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just gonna set the record straight here, I will be staying in New York,\u201d Stewart said on her podcast \u201cGame Recognize Game,\u201d which she co-hosts with NBA center Myles Turner. \u201cI\u2019m not planning on taking any free agency meetings, even though I am an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna be back in New York, and that\u2019s all there is to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, 31, joined the Liberty as a free agent ahead of the 2023 season. She won her second of two MVP awards and third of three championships since coming to New York.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart\u2019s return will add important stability, but the Liberty\u2019s roster is still in some flux. Stars Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones are also set to hit free agency, along with guard Natasha Cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart made sure there would be no misunderstanding on where she stands with the New York Liberty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-558735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558735","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=558735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}