Liberty star Breanna Stewart is planning to return to Euroleague’s Fenerbahce Opet in April after the Turkish club offered her “something that I couldn’t refuse.”
Stewart’s decision to return to overseas play after co-founding Unrivaled — which allows some WNBA stars the opportunity to stay stateside — shocked many fans, but she told The Post this week the opportunity “came out of the blue.”
Stewart said she received an unexpected text from her agent containing a formal offer from Fenerbahce. The two-time WNBA MVP initially questioned whether it’d even be possible to pull off scheduling-wise.
“[Fenerbahce] offered me something that I couldn’t refuse, and the fact that I’ll go and play in the Final Six and that’s it,” said Stewart as part of an exclusive conversation with The Post ahead of Unrivaled’s March 2 debut at Barclays Center. “Any kind of stipulation or anything that I needed, they were willing to compromise with me literally to make it possible. And I think it’ll be cool. Obviously, going back to Turkey, I didn’t think I would be going back overseas.”
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