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Sports Illustrated
Greg Bishop

Breanna Stewart Is Bridging the Gap in Women’s Basketball

Breanna Stewart adored her father-in-law, Josep Xargay, a basketball superfan who rooted for two players with everything he had. He hardly ever missed a game, not even during his daughter Marta’s stints with the Spanish national team as it traveled all over the world and won an Olympic silver medal. 

He flew to Bangkok and Arizona to watch Marta play, and to Seattle and New York City to cheer for her wife, known worldwide as Stewie, morphing his passport into a collage of love and basketball.

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