US women’s basketball stars A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart have been the two most prominent women in basketball for many years, often going head to head with each other. Stewart went to the University of Connecticut for college, a perennial superpower in women’s basketball. She won four championships while there. Wilson, who was two years younger than Stewart, went to her hometown University of South Carolina and led them to their first national championship. Her playing for the Gamecocks helped them become a basketball powerhouse.

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Now that they both play in the WNBA, they are once again on the other side of the ball. For Stewart to win a 2020 championship with the Seattle Storm, she needs to defeat Wilson and the Aces. For both of Wilson’s championships, she needed to get past Stewart: in 2022, they faced each other in the semifinals in Seattle, and in 2023, Stewart’s Liberty lost to Wilson and the Aces in the finals. Even their shoe contracts are with different companies. Stewart released the Stewie 1s with Puma. Wilson’s upcoming A’Ones are with Nike.However, their mutual respect is still evident. Wilson told Olympics.com earlier this year that Stewart was a player she was looking forward to playing with in Paris.