Breanna Stewart sends clear Liberty message with Game 2 availability

Breanna Stewart knows that playing on a bum knee comes with the risk of further injury. 

But it’s a chance she was prepared to take considering what was on the line. 

“I’m willing to take that because I want to be out with my team,” Stewart said before Wednesday’s first-round Game 2 against the Mercury. “And they told me that structurally everything looks good, so my plan is to go.” 

Stewart sprained the MCL in her left knee on an and-one layup in overtime of Game 1’s win in Phoenix.