Breanna Stewart Reveals Details of Her New Contract with New York Liberty

Earlier this month, New York Liberty star forward Breanna Stewart made it clear that her decorated WNBA career would continue in New York.

“I’m gonna just set the record straight here: I will be staying in New York,” Stewart said on her “Game Recognize Game” podcast with Myles Turner. “I’m not planning on taking any free agency meetings, even though I am an unrestricted free agent. My family is set up here, we’re solid here. I’m gonna be back in New York, and that’s all there is to it.”

Stewart officially signed her new contract with the Liberty and provided an update on the latest episode of “Game Recognize Game.”

“It’s a three-year standard max contract, which is like 17% of the cap, and that will fluctuate as the cap fluctuates,” Stewart said. “But I think the biggest thing is, for us, we needed to make sure that we’re able to really keep all the best players on the team. That’s why you’ll see a few of us probably in the millions, and then everybody else trying to get as much as they can while also having a great team.”

Under the new collective bargaining agreement, which was ratified on March 24, the standard max contract is $1.19 million. The supermax contract begins at $1.4 million, and the league’s salary cap starts at $7 million, up from $1.5 million last season.

Last weekend, in the biggest shakeup of the offseason, three-time All-Star forward Satou Sabally agreed to a multiyear contract to join the Liberty in free agency. New York also retained 2021 WNBA MVP and 2024 WNBA Finals MVP Jonquel Jones on a new multiyear deal.

On Thursday, ESPN’s Alexa Philippou reported that Sabally’s contract is for two years, with $815,000 owed in 2026 and $855,750 owed in 2027. The deal is fully guaranteed.

Stewart, Jones, and four-time All-Star guard Sabrina Ionescu led the Liberty to their first WNBA title in franchise history by beating the Minnesota Lynx in the 2024 WNBA Finals.

Ionescu was the Liberty’s No. 1 overall draft pick in 2020, while Jones and Stewart arrived in New York during the 2023 offseason. Stewart departed the Seattle Storm, with whom she’d won two WNBA championships, in free agency, while Jones was acquired in a three-team trade.

Stewart is one of the winningest players in basketball history. The two-time WNBA MVP won two championships in high school, four national titles at UConn, three WNBA titles, three World Cup gold medals, three Olympic gold medals, two EuroLeague championships, and, most recently, an Unrivaled championship.

A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces are the active dynasty of the WNBA, but the Liberty have as good a shot as anyone to add to the trophy cabinet in 2026, especially after bumping their “Big 3” to a “Big 4.”

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This story was originally published April 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM.