New York Liberty's Breanna Stewart sat down with PS to talk about Unrivaled, the upcoming WNBA playoffs, and her new shoe, which has garnered controversy.
Breanna"Stewie" Stewart has been booked and busy as of late. The New York Liberty forward just came off an Olympic run, bringing home a gold medal alongside the rest of. She's also preparing for playoffs , and is deep in the execution phase of Unrivaled, the first 3-on-3 league for elite players during the WNBA off season.
Besides debuting a brand-new style of 3-on-3 basketball, played on a 70-by-50-foot compressed court, Unrivaled is paying out six-figure salaries — the highest in women's sports history — and offering all 30 inaugural players an equity stake in the league. This is unheard of, as"As elite basketball players and also moms, we get it. We get both sides of it," Stewart says.
"Our league is is one of the strongest and probably most outspoken leagues of all of professional sports, and we continue to fight for our 144 and with that, there is no tolerance for racism or discrimination. Because as you know, as working women, we're constantly fighting for more, and we're going to use our platform not only to speak up for ourselves, for our teammates, our friends, our families," Stewart says."This is what we do here, so you gotta get with the program.
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