Get Ready, Guys: Breanna Stewart Is Basketball’s Future
The WNBA’s reigning Most Valuable Player, Breanna Stewart, is living halfway across the globe, still putting up numbers with Dynamo Kursk, a team in the Russian Women’s Premier League. But when she decides to weigh in on a pressing issue, the time zone doesn’t matter.
Early on the morning of March 25, the NCAA’s dedicated March Madness Twitter account tried to pretend it was anything other than a profitable brand, firing off a post with a brief clip from the TV show Parks and Recreation. The brand was attempting to express how angry it was at having to wait three days until tournament play resumed. (Note: Brands do not have feelings.)
Of course, what the brand seemingly forgot is that there were plenty of games that very evening, thanks to the NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament. Despite it being a ham-fisted attempt at humor, Stewart isn’t one to suffer fools gladly.
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