UNCASVILLE – Poised to become one of the WNBA's breakout players, Bria Hartley instead begins the new season balancing on crutches. This is what can happen; the stress of an unrelenting playing schedule sometimes results in a stress reaction to the right foot.
So when the Washington Mystics opened the season last weekend with victories over the Connecticut Sun and New York Liberty, one of the league's young stars could do little more than watch.
"She began feeling it in training camp," Mystics coach Mike Thibault said. "She said it didn't feel 'normal' sore.' But this will not set her back too far.