{"id":1551889,"date":"2022-07-13T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551889"},"modified":"2022-07-13T08:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:36:52","slug":"lebron-james-seems-to-think-america-is-worse-than-a-russian-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-seems-to-think-america-is-worse-than-a-russian-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Seems To Think America Is Worse Than A Russian Cell"},"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\">24<\/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-seems-to-think-america-is-worse-than-a-russian-cell%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=1551889&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>LeBron James thinks the U.S. has not done enough for Brittney Griner, who pled guilty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/34205952\/detained-wnba-star-brittney-griner-pleads-guilty-drug-charges-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last week<\/a> to charges of drug possession after her arrest in a Russian airport, with the Lakers star saying that if he were in her shoes, he would be reconsidering coming back to America. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, how can she feel like America has her back?\u201d James said in a trailer for HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Shop.\u201d \u201cI would be feeling like, \u2018Do I even want to go back to America?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-12.png 720w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-12-271x300-1.png 271w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Griner was arrested in February after officials found vape canisters with cannabis oil in her luggage at a Moscow airport. She pled guilty last week, saying she didn\u2019t intend to pack them but left them in her bag while packing in a hurry. James\u2019 dig at the U.S. comes after Griner received a response last week from President Joe Biden to the letter she sent him over July Fourth voicing fears that she would never leave Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/jul\/08\/joe-biden-brittney-griner-letter-release-effort\">according<\/a> to The Guardian. <\/p>\n<p>A Black Lives Matter supporter and a vocal <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/29\/lebron-james-is-the-king-of-hypocrisy-when-it-comes-to-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critic<\/a> of the Rittenhouse acquittal and police, James doesn\u2019t keep his political views quiet. And though he claimed after pushback on Tuesday that he \u201cwasn\u2019t knocking our beautiful country\u201d with his Griner comments, it\u2019s actually communist China that James <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/lebron-twitter-china-1585710\">never has anything bad to say about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, when Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, James de-facto defended communist China, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/29\/lebron-james-is-the-king-of-hypocrisy-when-it-comes-to-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticizing Morey<\/a> as \u201cnot educated on the situation.\u201d The Lakers\u2019 star\u2019s concern with human rights abuses stops short of the people experiencing genocide in the Xinjiang Province. But after all, China is one of the NBA\u2019s biggest foreign markets, and of course, James couldn\u2019t risk blacklisting \u201cSpace Jam.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Beth Whitehead is an intern at The Federalist and a journalism major at Patrick Henry College where she fondly excuses the excess amount of coffee she drinks as an occupational hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James thinks the U.S. has not done enough for Brittney Griner, who pled guilty last week to charges of drug possession after her arrest in a Russian airport, with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"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-1551889","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\/1551889","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\/845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551889\/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=1551889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}