Whether you’re on Broadway, in the audience at Radio City or marveling at what you just witnessed in Carnegie Hall, New York is the home for encores. But when it comes to one of the Big Apple’s brightest stars, coming back out on the stage doesn’t just mean another big performance. For Breanna Stewart, it means co-creating an entirely new sports league. Indeed, this Friday, “Stewie” – whose New York Liberty team just won the 2024 WNBA title – and 35 more of the biggest names in the sport will kick off the inaugural season of Unrivaled, a new three-on-three basketball league based in Miami and broadcast on TNT.
“It’s incredible,” Stewart tells the Guardian. “When you look at the people who have been in [the WNBA] like seven, eight, nine-plus years, they’re used to going overseas during the W offseason. We haven’t been home. We haven’t been marketable. We haven’t really been around. Now, the season opener is … on TNT and there is no bigger platform than that.”
