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Breanna Stewart

PF · 6′4″ · Current team: New York Liberty

Regular season · Jul 25, 2025 · PHO 76 @ NYL 89 · Final

Breanna Stewart 6 points on 3-of-12 vs Mercury (Jul 25, 2025)

ANSWER

6 PTS · 3-of-12 FG · 0-of-3 3P · 31:12 MIN

Usual before this game: 19.6 PTS · 14.2 FGA · 32.8 MIN, from 22 regular-season games

2nd-lowest Game Score of 23 games this season: 5.9 against a usual 16.5 (-10.6)

Season-low 6 points (previous low 8, set on Jul 6, 2025)

SURPRISE SCORE
96Unusual
below usual

No more than 4 in 100 games by players at this level finish this far below their usual.

For a player who plays every game, a game this far below the usual comes about once or twice a season.

How the score works

Why did Breanna Stewart score 6 points?

In 31:12 against the Mercury on Jul 25, 2025, Breanna Stewart scored 6 points: 3-of-12 from the field (25.0%), 0-of-3 from three, no free throw attempts. Coming in, Stewart had averaged 19.6 points on 14.2 shots in 32.8 minutes, from 22 regular-season games. No earlier game this season was as low as 6 points. This game had the 2nd-lowest Game Score of 23 games this season. The 25.0% from the field compares with a usual 47.8%. From two-pointers, 6 points against a usual 12.4; from free throws, 0 points against a usual 5.4; from threes, 0 points against a usual 1.8. Stewart played 31:12 against a usual 32.8 minutes; per 36 minutes the Game Score was 6.8, against a usual 18.2. At home against the Mercury, the Liberty won 89-76. The box score records what changed, not why: it holds no injury, matchup or coaching information.

Generated from the box score and this season's game log. How the score works

01

What changed

Stewart in this game against the usual line

This game against the usual line
StatThis gameUsual (22 games)Change
Minutes31:1232.8-1.6
Points619.6-13.6
Shots (FGA) · FG%12 · 25.0%14.2 · 47.8%-2.2 · -22.8
3PA · 3P%0-of-32.9 · 20.3%+0.1
FTA · FT%0-of-06.6 · 82.8%-6.6
Rebounds86.7+1.3
Assists54.0+1.0
Turnovers32.2+0.8
UsageUsual: minutes-weighted average of per-game usage, 22 games20.326.5-6.2
Game Score per 36 minutes6.818.2-11.4
02

Points by shot type

Twos, threes and free throws: the changes add up to the points change

Points by shot type against the usual line
Shot typeThis gameUsual (22 games)Change
Threes0 (0-of-3)1.8 (0.6-of-2.9)-1.8
Twos6 (3-of-9)12.4 (6.2-of-11.3)-6.4
Free throws0 (0-of-0)5.4 (5.4-of-6.6)-5.4
Total619.6-13.6
03

Game Score

One measure of the whole box score line

5.9 against a usual 16.5 (-10.6)

Its five parts
The change in Game Score, by part
PartChange
Scoring, net of shot attempts-13.1
Rebounds+1.2
Assists+0.7
Steals and blocks+1.0
Turnovers and fouls-0.4
Total-10.6
04

Season so far

Regular season, in date order

Game Score in each of this season's 23 games, oldest first, this game last: 23.6, 9.6, 12.8, 21, 25.8, 9.3, 15.8, 19.3, 16.2, 16.4, 15.7, 26, 14.6, 18.8, 11.4, 16.3, 16.7, 2.5, 12.9, 16.3, 25.9, 17, 5.9

2nd-lowest Game Score of 23 games this season.

05

Context

From the rows this page already reads

  • The Liberty won 89-76 at home against the Mercury.
  • Earlier regular-season meetings with the Mercury this season: 35 points (Jun 19, 2025), 17 points (Jun 27, 2025).
06

What this page cannot tell you

The same on every performance page

Limits

Box scores record what happened, not why: no injuries or health, defensive assignments, matchups, coaching decisions or play-by-play.

METHOD

Game Score against the player's own usual line. How rare a gap is comes from WNBA regular-season games of 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, checked on 2026.