New York Liberty superstar Breanna Stewart has blessed Brooklyn with the highest-scoring season in WNBA history. Photo by Brandon Todd/New York Liberty
Breanna Stewart came to Brooklyn this past offseason with one purpose: helping the New York Liberty grab their first-ever WNBA championship.
Though the franchise’s chase for that thus-far elusive title won’t begin until the playoffs start kick off this month, the dynamic forward may have just wrapped up her second career WNBA Most Valuable Player award.
Stewart poured in 40 points and ripped down 10 rebounds en route to breaking the league’s all-time single-season scoring record Tuesday night in Dallas, lifting the red-hot Liberty to their season-high seventh straight win, 94-93, in front of 4,195 fans at College Park Center.
“To me she’s the MVP,” New York coach Sandy Brondello insisted of Stewart after she breezed past Diana Taurasi with her 861st point in the second quarter.
“She put 40 and 10 up today,” Brondello added. “But it’s not just the scoring and the rebounding. It’s the impact she has only every player on this team.”
With the game knotted at 93-93 and time winding down, Stewart snapped the deadlock with a free throw and secured a rebound on the other end after Dallas’ Satou Sabally misfired on a bank shot before the final buzzer.
A former two-time WNBA Finals MVP and the 2018 league MVP during her first six seasons in Seattle, Stewart shied away from taking too many plaudits for smashing the single-season scoring mark by 25 points with two games to play.
She pointed out that Diana Taurasi, the previous holder of the mark, achieved the feat in 34 contests. Stewart and the Liberty played in their 38th game Tuesday as the WNBA expanded to a 40-game regular season this year.
“The primary goal is that…
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