Breanna Stewart enjoyed a red-hot August.
She doesn’t intend to cool down in September, especially with the New York Liberty beginning the postseason quest for their first-ever WNBA championship later this month.
That likely spells doom for her former Seattle teammates, who will be at Downtown’s Barclays Center Thursday night for the finale of a home-and-home series.
The reigning WNBA Most Valuable Player averaged 23.8 points in eight games last month after the league-best Liberty (27-6) returned to action following the Olympic break.
Stewart led New York in scoring in all but one of those contests and is coming off back-to-back 32-point performances, the last of which came at the expense of the Storm (20-13) last Friday night.
The three-time gold medalist as a member of Team USA, and two-time Finals MVP during her six-year tenure in Seattle has made a habit of lighting up her ex-teammates since signing here in 2023.
In six matchups since leaving the Emerald City, Stewart is putting up 23.3 points per game, the highest scoring average of any opposing player in Storm history.
The Liberty have won all six of those contests, including last weekend’s 98-85 triumph when Stewart became the first New York player ever to record consecutive 30-point efforts.
She reminded the sellout crowd of 15,800 at Climate Pledge Arena what they have been missing by draining 10-of-16 shots, including 3-of-4 from 3-point range while pulling down five rebounds and handing out six assists in a team-high 35 minutes.
“I mean, she had a complete game tonight,” Liberty coach Sandy Brondello gushed of Stewart.
After spearheading Seattle to championships in 2018 and 2020, as well as winning her first league MVP with the Storm in that first title year, Stewart came here to lift New York to the same heights.
Though they lost in four tough games to reigning back-to-back champion Las Vegas in Stewart’s first year, the Liberty are on top of the WNBA standings and ready to make another…
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