This time a week ago, a “pissed off” Breanna Stewart sat in front of the media and took accountability for costing her team a Game 1 win in the 2024 WNBA Finals with a missed free throw and botched layup at the end of regulation and overtime, respectively.
“I think what really is kind of driving and motivating me is we have an opportunity to change it,” Stewart said. “I have an opportunity to change it.”
If she had been so inclined, she could haved played a recording of those comments for her postgame press conference on Friday night. Stewart finished with just 11 points on a disastrous 5 of 21 from the field in the New York Liberty’s 82-80 loss to the Minnesota Lynx in Game 4.
Instead of celebrating a championship — Stewart’s third and the first in franchise history — the Liberty will have to head back to Brooklyn with a winner-take-all Game 5 looming.
On the very first possession of the game, Stewart watched a 3-pointer spin around the rim and pop out. So it would go for the two-time MVP, who simply didn’t have it in Game 4. She missed her first eight shots, which included wide open 3s and point blank layups.
Somehow, it got worse.
Stewart went 1 of 8 in the fourth quarter, with four…
