Breanna Stewart already has an extensive trophy collection at age 24: four NCAA titles at UConn, the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year award and this season’s MVP honor. So there was absolutely nothing unexpected about her performance in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals on Sunday in a 75-73 Storm victory. Nor about what she did in Friday’s Game 1, an 89-76 Storm win that set the tone for this series.
Still, when you come up big when the spotlight is the brightest and the stakes are highest, that’s how you build “legend” points. Stewart scored 25, plus had 7 rebounds and 3 assists, as the Storm took a 2-0 lead in the WNBA Finals on Sunday. That followed her 22 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists in the opener.cheap nfl nike jerseys from china
If you’re a longtime Seattle fan, it might have made you think about the last time Seattle was in the WNBA Finals — 2010 — and another stellar performance by a Storm MVP post player.
Of course, Bird referring to her own closing game of the semifinals as “lucky” is self-deprecatingly hilarious. If point guards were more fairly considered for the season MVP award, Bird would also have one by now. But her point about the consistency of Stewart’s success is well taken, because that requires mental toughness and no fear of the moment, as well as pure physical skill.
Stewart has that feeling for being good all the time, but also knowing how to find another gear to really crank it up. Jackson had that, too, and Stewart celebrated the Storm’s previous dynamic duo with Bird’s and Jackson’s names on her sneakers for Sunday’s game.
Bird is still at it, Jackson is cheering on the Storm while watching the series from her home in Australia, and both, no doubt, are proud of Stewart. Other than two missed free throws with 16.9 seconds left — which could have come back to haunt the Storm, but didn’t — Stewart did her MVP best.nfl cheap jerseys nike
“Right from the jump, I just wanted to be really aggressive,” Stewart said. “You knew that this was Game 2, and they were going to come out like a better D.C. team than we saw in Game 1.
