Breanna Stewart, the biggest name in this year’s WNBA free agency class, will take her talents to the Big Apple to join the Liberty.
On the first day that teams are now allowed to sign players, Stewart tweeted a video with a Statue of Liberty emoji to confirm her decision.
Stewart, 28, made the decision to return to her home state after the former MVP recently narrowed her choices down to New York or a return to the Storm, where she’s spent her first six WNBA seasons. Stewart’s seismic signing shakes up the entire WNBA landscape in a big way, with the Syracuse native now set to move back to the East coast to form an intriguing “Big 3” alongside All-Star guard Sabrina Ionescu and newly-acquired star center Jonquel Jones, whom N.