New York – Braina Stuart and her New York Liberty teammates are focused on the present and include protecting the WNBA Championship.
The camp opened on Sunday with the other 12 teams in the Liberty League. Know exactly how difficult it is to repeat as a Stuart Champion, Seattle has won two titles and failed to repeat every time. The only repeated champion in the WNBA was 2022 and Las Vegas Esses in 2023.
“The mentality is turning the page,” he said. “We had a lot of time to celebrate it, knowing what we did last year and now it is the building to be better. You know, we talked to spend a great night and night in the training camp and started with the whole season to keep sustainable.”
Most of Liberty’s main part is from last season’s title run that was the first of the franchise history. They also added Natasha Cloud and Isabel Harrison.
New York coach Sandy Broondello said, “I thought this was a great start.” We got some players that were really going to help us. Obviously, you know, no one is bigger than Natasha Cloud, “
Brondelo was not worried that Stuart was working on the way back from the offseason meniscus surgery last month. Stuart took part in the early Sunday practice and said he was “feeling great”. He will be more fully integrated in live practice next week.
Stuart said he felt that he had done something in the WNBA Final Game 5 last year and waited until the endless opening season ended to take care of it.
“I just needed to clean things and clean the meniskus,” he said. “And, it was a bit uncomfortable to work with it and and and when I was on the floor I want I want to play and to flow free and not really thinking about the other things.”
Stuart will return before the start of the season, Liberty has been lost for several months when Liberty is healed from his own knee injury.
“We must miss him so much this season,” Stuart said. “I think you know, as well as it gives people the opportunity to be out of it you know that Leoni (Fibich) will have a bigger role Mar Marina (Johannes’) is coming here. … It is just going to be just like the next woman and know that they will not take her place. But they are going to be the best version themselves.”
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