{"id":858461,"date":"2026-09-24T02:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858461\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T02:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:38:09","slug":"new-yorks-breanna-stewart-sits-out-finale-with-left-knee-soreness-as-playoffs-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858461\/","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s Breanna Stewart sits out finale with left knee soreness as playoffs near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart missed the regular season finale against the Atlanta Dream with left knee soreness, coach Chris DeMarco said before the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome soreness crept in,\u201d DeMarco said. \u201cA play from the last game, and didn\u2019t wake up feeling great. We got a run here with the playoffs. It\u2019s just precautionary with soreness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart has helped New York to a 26-17 record, averaging 20.8 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists. She&#8217;s also been great on the defensive end with 1.4 steals and 1.3 per game blocks this season. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure yet on the workload piece or the availability,\u201d DeMarco said. \u201cHopefully she\u2019ll be ready for the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart talked to the media after shootaround on Wednesday and didn&#8217;t mention any sort of injury or soreness.<\/p>\n<p>She had missed one game earlier this season to rest. If Atlanta wins the game Thursday, the Dream would lock up the No. 4 seed in the playoffs. New York can only get as high as a sixth-seed with a victory. Otherwise they&#8217;ll finish eighth and play Minnesota in the first round that begin Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Atlanta beat New York 95-84 when they met Monday and Stewart had 27 points and 14 rebounds in 37 minutes in that game. It was New York&#8217;s third game in four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart missed the regular season finale against the Atlanta Dream&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3444,436,99,9815,434],"class_list":["post-858461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-wires-bot","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858461","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=858461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}