The Olympic, NCAA and WNBA champion is one of the greatest of all time. Now she has helped found a league she hopes can transform the sport she loves<\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re on Broadway, in the audience at Radio City or marveling at what you just witnessed in Carnegie Hall, New York is the home for encores. But when it comes to one of the Big Apple\u2019s brightest stars, coming back out on the stage doesn\u2019t just mean another big performance. For Breanna Stewart, it means co-creating an entirely new sports league. Indeed, this Friday, \u201cStewie\u201d \u2013 whose New York Liberty team just won the 2024 WNBA title<\/a> \u2013 and 35 more of the biggest names in the sport will kick off the inaugural season of Unrivaled, a new three-on-three basketball league based in Miami and broadcast on TNT.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s incredible,\u201d Stewart tells the Guardian. \u201cWhen you look at the people who have been in [the WNBA] like seven, eight, nine-plus years, they\u2019re used to going overseas during the W offseason. We haven\u2019t been home. We haven\u2019t been marketable. We haven\u2019t really been around. Now, the season opener is \u2026 on TNT and there is no bigger platform than that.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Olympic, NCAA and WNBA champion is one of the greatest of all time. Now she has helped found a league she hopes can transform the sport she loves Whether you\u2019re on Broadway, in the audience at Radio City or marveling at what you just witnessed in Carnegie Hall, New York is the home for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}