Two-time champion Breanna Stewart has introduced her intentions to play for the New York Liberty in the course of the 2023 WNBA season.
Stewart spent her whole WNBA profession with the Seattle Storm and received two titles in seven years with the franchise.
She took to social media to make the announcement on Wednesday, tweeting an image of the Empire State Constructing along with her nickname “Stewie” in lights. She additionally confirmed off a Liberty exercise prime in a TikTok video.
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![Breanna Stewart reacts to the referee during the final game of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup between the USA and China on October 1, 2022 in Sydney, Australia.](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/02/640/320/Breanna-Stewart.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Breanna Stewart reacts to the referee in the course of the remaining recreation of the FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup between the USA and China on October 1, 2022 in Sydney, Australia.
(Steve Christo – Corbis/Corbis by way of Getty Photos)
February 1 marked the primary day WNBA free brokers can formally signal contracts and provide sheets for the 2023 season.
“It is undoubtedly been a curler coaster of feelings and I made a decision to go to New York as a result of I wish to proceed to be nice,” Stewart stated throughout an look Wednesday afternoon on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.” “I wish to go the place I can proceed to assist this league get higher, proceed to boost the bar.
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“I really feel like, why not go to the most important market in all of sports activities and I am actually excited to go after their first championship.”
Stewart was chosen No. 1 total within the 2016 draft. She went on to be named to 4 All-Star groups and was the league’s MVP in 2018. She was compelled to take a seat out the next season with an Achilles damage .
She averaged 20.three factors and eight.6 rebounds per recreation in her profession.
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Earlier than reaching the WNBA, Stewart had a formidable collegiate profession with the UConn girls’s basketball staff.
She received 4 nationwide titles in 4 seasons with the Huskies. Stewart additionally received two gold medals with Workforce USA on the Olympics.
![Breanna Stewart greets the crowd after the win against Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Women's Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia on September 27, 2022.](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/09/640/320/Breanna-Stewart3.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Breanna Stewart greets the gang after the win towards Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Girls’s Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia on September 27, 2022.
(AP Photograph/Mark Baker)
Now he joins a Liberty staff that is able to compete for a championship. New York’s roster already featured Sabrina Ionescu, who was the highest choose within the 2020 draft. Former WNBA MVP Jonquel Jones was additionally just lately acquired by the Liberty and will present a big increase to the frontcourt the staff.
![Storm forward Breanna Stewart shoots against Minnesota Lynx forward Jessica Shepard, Aug. 3, 2022, in Seattle.](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/08/640/320/Breanna-Stewart-1-copy.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Storm ahead Breanna Stewart shoots towards Minnesota Lynx ahead Jessica Shepard, Aug. three, 2022, in Seattle.
(AP Photograph/Ted S. Warren)
Two-time NBA champion and Brooklyn Nets celebrity Kevin Durant beforehand talked about throughout a podcast that he hoped Stewart would determine to return to New York.
“Yeah, do not ring my cellphone in search of tickets this summer time, they’re gone. Let’s get it,” Durant tweeted.
Billionaire Joseph Tsai owns the Nets and Liberty, and each groups play house video games on the Barclays Middle in Brooklyn.
The Storm have now seen Stewart depart in the identical offseason that legendary participant Sue Chook retired. Seattle’s entrance workplace has plenty of work to do earlier than the season begins, because the staff at present solely has two gamers beneath contract by way of the 2023 season.
The Storm should still be following Courtney Vandersloot, who just lately stated she wouldn’t be returning to the Chicago Sky.
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One other profitable WNBA free agent choice got here Saturday when two-time league MVP Candace Parker introduced she is going to signal with the defending champion Las Vegas Aces.