{"id":1403028,"date":"2022-03-27T12:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T16:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403028"},"modified":"2022-03-27T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T16:59:54","slug":"wnba-legend-lisa-leslie-claims-she-was-told-not-to-make-a-fuss-over-brittney-griner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnba-legend-lisa-leslie-claims-she-was-told-not-to-make-a-fuss-over-brittney-griner\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Legend Lisa Leslie Claims She Was Told Not to &#039;Make a Fuss&#039; over Brittney Griner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwnba-legend-lisa-leslie-claims-she-was-told-not-to-make-a-fuss-over-brittney-griner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403028&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">One of the WNBA\u2019s most legendary figures, Lisa Leslie, revealed on a recent podcast that she was told not \u201cmake a big fuss\u201d over Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner\u2019s detention in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Griner has been detained in Russia since late February after vape cartridges containing hashish oil were found in her luggage at the Moscow airport.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat we were told, and again this is all sort of passed along through hearsay, but what we were told was to not make a big fuss about it so that they could not use her as a pawn, so to speak, in this situation, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-25-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the war<\/a>,\u201d Leslie said during the <em>I am Athlete<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FIpqekITK9U\">podcast,<\/a>\u00a0which was released on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner (Christian Petersen\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leslie added,\u00a0\u201cSo, to make it like it\u2019s not that important or don\u2019t make it where we\u2019re like, \u2018Free Brittney\u2019 and we start this campaign, and then it becomes something that they can use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones did not reveal who instructed her to not talk about Griner or who repeated the hearsay.<\/p>\n<p>When not playing for the WNBA\u2019s Phoenix Mercury, Griner plays basketball for Russian team\u00a0UMMC Ekaterinburg.<\/p>\n<p>Griner recently met with officials from the U.S. Consulate in Moscow who described her as being in \u201cgood condition.\u201d The Phenix Mercury star and Houston native also had her detention extended to May 19 by a Russian court. Under Russian law, the penalty for transporting drugs carries a sentence of up to ten years.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department has vowed to do everything they can to achieve Griner\u2019s release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the WNBA\u2019s most legendary figures, Lisa Leslie, revealed on a recent podcast that she was told not \u201cmake a big fuss\u201d over Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner\u2019s detention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}