[SPORT] Breanna Stewart's long-awaited and vindictive return to the WNBA almost two years after her serious injury

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The MVP of the WNBA in 2018 and the last World Cup broke the Achilles in April 2019. This Saturday she returned in the opening game of the season with a memory of Breonna Taylor, killed by the police

 

 

On April 14, 2019, the Achilles tendon of what was then the best basketball player in the world broke. It was during the Euroleague final against UMMC Ekaterinburg, while Breanna Stewart defended the colors of her European team, the Kursk Dynamo. The versatile power forward, who only a few months before had conquered the sky of the WNBA and World Cup MVP (and both titles), was beginning an ordeal to which this Saturday has definitely put an end.

 

 

It was in the opening game of the WNBA, which faced the Seattle Storm against the New York Liberty, on the premises, the IMG Academy, enabled for the 12 teams that will fight for the title in Tampa Bay in a short season of 22 games, away from the luxuries and comforts of the Disney World bubble. The duel, which had the appeal of the debut of the promising Sabrina Ionescu (the number one in the last draft failed her eight triple attempts, although she finished with 12 points, six rebounds and four assists), ended with a victory for the Storm (87 -71), and with a performance by Stewart that recalled his dominant times: 18 points, eight rebounds and four steals.

Like everything that surrounds North American sport, the event was also marked by racial protests, by the Black Lives Matter. Stewart, who has been actively involved in the protests in Seattle for the past few weeks, starred in an emotional pre-speech in which she had a memory for Breonna Taylor, who died in March after being shot by police in Louisville.

 

 

About to turn 26, he returned to the WNBA two years later from Stewart, who in February signed precisely with the UMMC Ekaterinburg with whom he already played two games in the Euroleague (just before the stoppage due to the coronavirus pandemic) , after months of hard physical recovery, is hopeful news for women's basketball.