To The Top
Slam|November 2018

Breanna Stewart Now Has A WNBA Championship, Mvp, Finals Mvp, Two All-star Nods, Four Ncaa Championships And An Olympic Gold Medal To Her Name. Oh, And Shes Barely 24 Years Old. Safe To Say Its Officially Stewies World, And Were All Just Living In It.

Howard Megdal
To The Top

IN THE MINUTES after Breanna Stewart won her first WNBA championship, her veteran teammate and league legend Sue Bird said something interesting about Stewart’s career arc.

“She clearly knows what it takes, and sometimes it just takes a couple of years to really figure out yourself in this league because it’s a very tough league to play in, and now here she is,” Bird said. She was sitting next to Stewart, who was seated directly behind her Finals MVP trophy, the Seattle Storm now champions of the WNBA world. “She’s figured it out. It’s probably going to get a little harder from here to be honest, but I think she’s ready for it.”

At the risk of disagreeing with Bird, it’s hard to see exactly how it gets more difficult for Stewart, now that she’s experienced precisely what it takes to win a WNBA title.

Consider how utterly at home she looked in the closeout game of the series against the Washington Mystics. Nevermind that she is job one on every scouting report on the Storm, with the general consensus of the league similar to the determination Mystics coach Mike Thibault reached: No matter how you play her, Stewart is going to get hers.

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