Stewart and Liberty making history

Already off to the best start in franchise history, Breanna Stewart and the league-leading New York Liberty aren’t interested in slowing down as they prepare for their much-anticipated rematch with the visiting Minnesota Lynx.

Instead, they’d like to keep breaking new ground.

New York (16-3) won its fourth straight regular-season game Sunday with a come-from-behind 81-76 triumph over the Atlanta Dream in front of 10,823 fans at Downtown’s Barclays Center.

The Liberty also rebounded nicely from their gut-wrenching 94-89 loss to the Lynx (14-4) last week at Long Island’s UBS Arena in the Commissioner’s Cup in-season tournament final.

Though that defeat didn’t count toward its regular-season record, New York is anxious to prove it doesn’t have a soft spot when it comes to Minnesota, where they also suffered an 84-67 setback on May 25.

A month later, the Lynx denied the Liberty a chance to be the first-ever back-to-back Commissioner’s Cup champions.

Sunday was an opportunity for New York to re-affirm itself as the team to beat in the WNBA, and last year’s Most Valuable Player was at the forefront of her team’s resurgence.

After falling behind by as many as 16 points in the first half, the Liberty stormed back to take the final three periods, including a 10-0 spurt to begin the fourth quarter that put them ahead to stay.

“We started slow. A little bit rusty I suppose. We had to dig deep,” admitted Liberty coach Sandy Brondello.

No one dug deeper than Stewart, who missed six of her first seven shots before entering the type of zone that has made her the league’s best player since she arrived in New York last year.

The 6-foot-4 forward made six of her final 10 attempts from the floor, buried a trio of 3-pointers, ripped down a team-high 12 rebounds, handed out three assists,…