Threatening, anti-gay email sent to wife of Liberty's Breanna Stewart - ESPN

MINNEAPOLIS — Two-time MVP Breanna Stewart on Tuesday said her wife received a threatening, anti-gay email following the New York Liberty's loss to the Minnesota Lynx in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals.

«Myself and my family, we're definitely doing OK,» Stewart told reporters Tuesday. «We're taking the proper precautions.»

Stewart reported the incident to the Liberty and to the league, while her wife, Marta Xargay Casademont, reported the incident to police.

«I think that for Marta, especially, I think it was, it is, terrifying,» Stewart said.

In Game 1 on Thursday, Stewart missed a free throw that would have given New York the lead with 0.8 seconds remaining in regulation, and she later misfired on a layup that would have tied it at the end of overtime.

The series is now tied 1-1 after Stewart and the Liberty bounced back in Game 2 in Brooklyn.

«With the spotlight of being in the Finals and everything like that, they said it makes the most sense to [file something formal],» Stewart said.

Stewart added «there was some other things happening at the same time» and that «threats continued to build after Game 1.»

"[The threat was] something that she couldn't not see," Stewart said of Xargay Casademont. «So the level of closeness was a little bit different. And I think that we just want to make sure, obviously, myself and Marta are OK, but our kids are the ones that are the safest.»

Stewart, a three-time Olympic gold medalist and four-time national champion at UConn, and Xargay Casademont have two children: Ruby, 3, and Theo, who turns 1 at the end of the month.

«There's another level of invasion happening there,» Stewart said. "[We want to make] sure that this isn't happening only just for a scare tactic. And if it is, it still is