{"id":35405,"date":"2025-09-17T12:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/stewart-ready-to-play-in-game-2-liberty-vs-mercury-despite-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:10:30","slug":"stewart-ready-to-play-in-game-2-liberty-vs-mercury-despite-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/stewart-ready-to-play-in-game-2-liberty-vs-mercury-despite-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart ready to play in Game 2: Liberty vs. Mercury, despite injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Breanna Stewart Ready for Game 2 Despite Injury<\/h2>\n\nNew York Liberty star Breanna Stewart has confirmed her participation in Game 2 of the WNBA playoff series against the Phoenix Mercury, despite suffering a knee injury during the first game.\n\nAfter undergoing medical tests, Stewart revealed that structurally everything is in order and that his plan is to play.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0916%2Fr1546603_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Breanna Stewart jugar\u00e1 en el Juego 2 de la serie contra las Phoenix Mercury, a pesar de sufrir un esguince de ligamento colateral medial en la rodilla izquierda en el Juego 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nDuring overtime of Game 1, Stewart fell to the ground and grabbed his left knee, leaving the game with just over two minutes remaining.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>What I felt at that moment scared me more than anything. I am very happy to have received the results of my MRI and to know that it is something I can play with.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Breanna Stewart<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nA win on Wednesday would allow the fifth-seeded Liberty to advance to the semifinals, where they would face the winner of the series between the Minnesota Lynx and the Golden State Valkyries. A loss would force a third game in Phoenix.\n\nIn Game 1, Stewart accumulated 18 points, six rebounds, and four assists in the Liberty&#8217;s 76-69 overtime victory.\n\nStewart leads the Liberty in points per game (18.3), blocks per game (1.4), and steals per game (1.4). In addition, she is second in rebounds with 6.6 per game.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>She&#8217;s a tough fighter. She is one of the engines of our team. So it&#8217;s a great relief for us.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Natasha Cloud<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breanna Stewart Ready for Game 2 Despite Injury New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart has confirmed her participation in Game 2 of the WNBA playoff series against the Phoenix Mercury, despite suffering a knee injury during the first game. After undergoing medical tests, Stewart revealed that structurally everything is in order and that his plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2438,1949,104,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-35405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-breanna-stewart","9":"tag-new-york-liberty","10":"tag-playoffs","11":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}