WNBA

REIGNING MVP TO WORK FOR LEAGUE >> Breanna Stewart will be a paid ambassador for the WNBA this season. The reigning MVP tore her Achilles tendon while playing overseas this winter and because the league has no injury list for teams, the Seattle Storm suspended Stewart without pay to free up a roster spot. The WNBA will pay Stewart in excess of the roughly $65,000 base salary she would have made with the Storm, agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas confirmed to the AP on Friday.