{"id":1550811,"date":"2022-07-12T14:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1550811"},"modified":"2022-07-12T14:34:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:34:43","slug":"lebron-james-says-brittney-griner-shouldnt-even-want-to-come-back-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-says-brittney-griner-shouldnt-even-want-to-come-back-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Says Brittney Griner Shouldn\u2019t Even Want To Come Back To America"},"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\">26<\/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%2Flebron-james-says-brittney-griner-shouldnt-even-want-to-come-back-to-america%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=1550811&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>Detained WNBA superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/brittney-griners-wife-begs-biden-to-get-wnba-star-freed-from-russia\">Brittney Griner<\/a> ought to rethink whether she even wants to come home to America, said fellow basketball icon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lebron-james\">LeBron James<\/a>, who claimed the U.S. hasn\u2019t done enough to free her from Russian captivity.<\/p>\n<p>James made the shocking comment on \u201cThe Shop: Uninterrupted,\u201d an HBO show in which James and others, including Jon Stewart and Snoop Dogg, shoot the breeze about news, sports, and culture in a barbershop. When the conversation turned to Griner, James threw up a brick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, how can she feel like America has her back?\u201d James said. \u201cI would be feeling like, \u2018Do I even want to go back to America?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron James says if he were Brittney Griner, he&#8217;d question returning to the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f8y7bKtoZk\">https:\/\/t.co\/f8y7bKtoZk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TMZ (@TMZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZ\/status\/1546897635780562950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griner, the 6-foot, 9-inch center for the Phoenix Mercury, has been held in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\">Russia<\/a> on drug charges since February 17 despite U.S. diplomatic efforts to win her release. Last week, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wnba-superstar-brittney-griner-pleads-guilty-to-russian-drug-charges-admission-could-pave-way-for-swap?itm_source=parsely-api?utm_campaign=daily_shapiro&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=housefile&#038;utm_content=daily\">pleaded<\/a> guilty to bringing hashish oil into the country, although she said she did not intend to do so. She was playing in the off-season for a Russian team when she was allegedly caught with illegal vape cartridges at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The guilty plea sparked speculation it could pave the way for a prisoner swap. Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/01\/us\/politics\/brittney-griner-trial-russia.html\">reportedly<\/a> wants the release of arms dealer Viktor Bout, who is known as \u201cthe Merchant of Death\u201d and is serving a 25-year sentence in the United States, in exchange for Griner, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>James previously stoked outrage on the show in 2018 when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lebron-james-says-old-white-nfl-team-owners-have-frank-camp\">labeled<\/a>\u00a0NFL\u2019s owners a bunch of \u201cold white men\u201d and accused them of acting like slave masters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the NFL, they got a bunch of old white men owning teams, and they got that slave mentality,\u201d James said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s like, \u2018This is my team. You do what the f*** I tell y\u2019all to do or we get rid of y\u2019all.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More recently, he blasted NFL great Drew Brees for saying athletes who kneel during the national anthem were \u201cdisrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWOW MAN!!\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kingjames\/status\/1268268213013327872\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cIs it still surprising at this point. Sure isn\u2019t! You literally still don\u2019t understand why Kap was kneeling on one knee?? Has absolute [sic] nothing to do with the disrespect of [America] and our soldiers (men and women) who keep our land free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lebron-james-pandering-to-china-fails-to-win-him-chinese-release-date-for-space-jam-2\">defended<\/a> China despite its abysmal human rights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/china-committed-genocide-against-uyghur-muslims-independent-british-tribunal-finds\">record<\/a> when Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey spoke out in support of Hong Kong freedom activists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all talk about this freedom of speech, yes, we all do have freedom of speech but at times there are ramifications for the negative [sic] that can happen when you\u2019re not thinking about others and you\u2019re only thinking about yourself.\u201d He added, \u201cI don\u2019t want to get into a \u2026 feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn\u2019t educated on the situation at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detained WNBA superstar Brittney Griner ought to rethink whether she even wants to come home to America, said fellow basketball icon LeBron James, who claimed the U.S. hasn\u2019t done enough to free her from Russian captivity. James made the shocking comment on \u201cThe Shop: Uninterrupted,\u201d an HBO show in which James and others, including Jon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1550976,"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-1550811","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\/1550811","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}