{"id":1703321,"date":"2022-10-20T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703321"},"modified":"2022-10-20T10:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:17:35","slug":"potus-do-your-job-nbas-kyrie-irving-calls-on-biden-to-get-wnbas-brittney-griner-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/potus-do-your-job-nbas-kyrie-irving-calls-on-biden-to-get-wnbas-brittney-griner-home\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018POTUS, Do Your Job\u2019: NBA\u2019s Kyrie Irving Calls On Biden To Get WNBA\u2019s Brittney Griner Home"},"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%2Fpotus-do-your-job-nbas-kyrie-irving-calls-on-biden-to-get-wnbas-brittney-griner-home%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=1703321&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>Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving took to the microphone at midcourt before his team\u2019s season opener to call on President Joe Biden to do his job and find a way to bring WNBA star Brittney Griner home.<\/p>\n<p>Irving shared the bold challenge as he addressed the Barclays Center crowd on Wednesday night. Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison for bringing cannabis into the country, which she said was \u201can honest mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate us being able to share this floor together, all of us as brothers. But the big picture that\u2019s going on in the world is free our sister, Brittney Griner. Please,\u201d Irving shared with the home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPOTUS, do your job. Everybody do your job. Please bring our sister home. We wouldn\u2019t be doing our jobs to the best of our ability if we didn\u2019t stand for what we believe in,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving&#8217;s opening night message to Nets&#8217; fans end with a plea to free Brittney Griner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;POTUS do your job, everybody do your job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YESNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YESNetwork<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UhUofXUXP7\">pic.twitter.com\/UhUofXUXP7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1582880957689839617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griner, the Phoenix Mercury star center, was arrested in February for possessing vape canisters in her luggage with cannabis oil at a Moscow airport.<\/p>\n<p>Her arrest came four days before Russia invaded Ukraine. She has now been held for more than seven months. The 6-foot, 9-inch center was sentenced to nine years of imprisonment in August, just shy of the 10-year maximum sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never meant to hurt anybody, I never meant to put in jeopardy the Russian population, I never meant to break any laws here,\u201d Griner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0ahead of her verdict. \u201cI made an honest mistake and I hope that in your ruling that it doesn\u2019t end my life here. I know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but I hope that that is far from this courtroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA honored Griner on her 32nd birthday on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy Birthday Brittney Griner, we will not forget about you and we will not stop fighting for you. The W won\u2019t be the same until you\u2019re home,\u201d the league\u2019s Twitter account posted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Birthday Brittney Griner, we will not forget about you and we will not stop fighting for you. The W won\u2019t be the same until you\u2019re home \ud83e\udde1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreBG?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreBG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J5sO2EkGLL\">pic.twitter.com\/J5sO2EkGLL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WNBA (@WNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA\/status\/1582372188132233216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry also offered his support for Griner\u2019s release during his team\u2019s championship ring ceremony on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to continue to use our platform and the opportunity to shout out a very special member of the basketball community,\u201d Curry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/steph-curry-offers-support-griner-wnba-star-thanks-fans-birthday-rcna52906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the crowd before its season opener against the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Griner\u2019s case has been appealed in Russia. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wnbas-brittney-griner-russian-court-appeal-scheduled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeal date<\/a> has been set for a Moscow region court on October 25.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview earlier in October, Griner\u2019s wife, Cherelle Griner, said they were hoping for a prisoner swap, fearing that Brittney could be sent to a labor camp if the plans were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour life matters to me,\u201d Cherelle said she told Brittney. \u201cI want to get you back home, and I\u2019m going to continue to pray every day that the decision-makers in this situation will have mercy, and will sit down and they will, too, see your life matters and do whatever they can to agree on terms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving took to the microphone at midcourt before his team\u2019s season opener to call on President Joe Biden to do his job and find a way to bring WNBA star Brittney Griner home. Irving shared the bold challenge as he addressed the Barclays Center crowd on Wednesday night. 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