![]() It was one of the more dominant individual performances you will ever see on a basketball court.īreanna Stewart of the Seattle Storm became the first player in WNBA finals history to finish with 35 points and 15 rebounds this year in a Game 1 win over the Las Vegas Aces. Her 37 points were one shy of the finals record. Driving finger rolls, turnaround fadeaways, cutting lay-ups, one three-pointer after another: she could not be stopped. That’s when Stewart found another level and simply took over, tearing off the first 11 points of the final period, restoring Seattle’s double-digit lead and finishing with 15 in the quarter. After three quarters, Stewart was on a game-high 23 points, but the resilient Aces had kept within touching distance throughout and only trailed by two entering the fourth. Behold her performance in Game 1 of the WNBA finals against the top-seeded Las Vegas Aces in October. ![]() Somehow, the upstate New York native came back this year even better than before. ![]() Not only did the rehab cost her the entire 2019 WNBA season, but the severity of the injury meant there was no guarantee she would return to her otherworldly form. Stewart ruptured an achilles tendon in April 2019 while playing for Dynamo Kursk in the Euroleague Women championship game. Two years ago, when the Olympic gold medalist won the WNBA’s Most Valuable Player award and hauled her team to a championship, the Storm had every look of a dynasty-in-waiting. ![]() After capturing four NCAA championships and a record four Final Four most outstanding player awards in four seasons at the University of Connecticut, she was chosen by Seattle with the No 1 overall pick of the 2016 WNBA draft and picked right up where she left off in Storrs. Stewie wins everywhere she laces them up: for college, club and country. ![]()
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