{"id":1188205,"date":"2020-06-16T23:44:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T03:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1188205"},"modified":"2020-06-17T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:49:11","slug":"wnba-star-breanna-stewart-revealed-her-frightening-childhood-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/wnba-star-breanna-stewart-revealed-her-frightening-childhood-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Breanna Stewart Revealed Her Frightening Childhood Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The #MeToo movement seems like\na lifetime ago as the nation leaps from one national topic to the next. But it\nwas just three years ago when sexual harassment and abuse of women was at the\nforefront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was when one of the most\naccomplished women\u2019s basketball players of all time, just 22 years old at the\ntime, came forward to tell her own story of abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a new WNBA season on the horizon, Breanna Stewart\u2019s<\/a> return from an April 2019 torn Achilles should be easy compared to having to what she was forced to endure as a pre-teen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WNBA will return to the court next month<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Breanna Stewart missed the 2019 WNBA season while recovering from an injury. | Phil Walter\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The WNBA<\/a> has announced that it will prepare for and play its 2020 season beginning next month at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, with no fans in attendance due to continuing measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will mark the return of Seattle Storm power\nforward Breanna Stewart, already one of the most accomplished women\u2019s\nbasketball players ever. She missed the entire 2019 WNBA season\nafter tearing her Achilles while playing for Dynamo Kursk in the EuroLeague\nfinal last spring. She spent last summer as a paid ambassador for the WNBA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was the first pause in a rapid rise to the\ntop that began with being selected the national high school player of the year\nas a senior and then a four-year career at UConn, where she was a three-time AP\nPlayer of the Year. The Huskies went 151-5 with four NCAA Division I\nchampionships during the Stewart era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was followed by being drafted No. 1 overall\nby Seattle. Stewart averaged 20.0 points and 8.8 rebounds a game over his first\nthree WNBA seasons. She was selected the regular-season and playoff finals MVP\nin 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breanna Stewart reveals a childhood secret<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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