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BREANNA STEWART HAS spent the past several hours in stiletto heels, and her hair has been teased so many times that it must be self-conscious. So it's a relief when her day ends, finally, at an after-hours dinner at Bobby Flay's Bar Americain, just outside the melodic jangle of the Mohegan Sun casino floor. Stewart's parents have spent much of this April night waiting for the photo shoots to end. They woke early this morning and drove 300 miles from upstate New York to Uncasville, Connecticut, to see her get drafted into the WNBA, and somewhere around 10 p.m., after scanning the steak tartare and duck confit on the menu, they settle in to exhale.
For a family that temporarily kept her awards on the floor of the basement this spring so the dog wouldn't gnaw on them, all this rock-star attention has taken them aback. Stewie, who used to put her head down and say "Ummm" during interviews, had a handler whisking her around earlier in the evening. Meanwhile, a crowd lined up outside the arena hours before the draft, all to watch the inevitable: Stewart holding up a jersey from the Seattle Storm, the team that drew the No. 1 pick in the draft lottery seven months earlier
Read more http://espn.go.com/wnba/story/_/id/...orm-pick-breanna-stewart-draft-night-pinnacle
For a family that temporarily kept her awards on the floor of the basement this spring so the dog wouldn't gnaw on them, all this rock-star attention has taken them aback. Stewie, who used to put her head down and say "Ummm" during interviews, had a handler whisking her around earlier in the evening. Meanwhile, a crowd lined up outside the arena hours before the draft, all to watch the inevitable: Stewart holding up a jersey from the Seattle Storm, the team that drew the No. 1 pick in the draft lottery seven months earlier
Read more http://espn.go.com/wnba/story/_/id/...orm-pick-breanna-stewart-draft-night-pinnacle
