{"id":1935929,"date":"2023-05-23T01:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T05:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brittney-griner-convicted-drug-smuggler-goes-0-2-in-wnba-return\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T01:03:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T05:03:19","slug":"brittney-griner-convicted-drug-smuggler-goes-0-2-in-wnba-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brittney-griner-convicted-drug-smuggler-goes-0-2-in-wnba-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug smuggler Brittney Griner loses both games in WNBA comeback."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fbrittney-griner-convicted-drug-smuggler-goes-0-2-in-wnba-return%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=1935929&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--><h2>Phoenix Mercury Suffers Defeat After Kamala Harris&#8217; Pep Talk<\/h2>\n<h3>Summary:<\/h3>\n<p>Brittney Griner, the Phoenix Mercury&#8217;s center, lost both of her first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-unprecedented-move-nhl-team-calls-on-league-to-suspend-rival-player-after-cheap-shot\/\" title=\"In Unprecedented Move, NHL Team Calls On League To Suspend Rival Player After Cheap Shot\">regular season games<\/a> in the WNBA. Griner, who was released from a Russian prison for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ariz-rep-biggs-blasts-biden-for-halting-border-wall-construction\/\" title=\"Ariz. Rep. Biggs blasts Biden for halting border wall construction\">drug smuggling<\/a> in exchange for Viktor Bout, recorded only three assists in both games. The Mercury lost 71-94 to the Los Angeles Sparks and 69-75 to the Chicago Sky. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband met with Griner and her wife before the game in Los Angeles, where Harris delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-chris-cuomo-must-go-after-lying-about-his-brothers-scandal-again\/\" title=\"OPINION: Chris Cuomo Must Go After Lying About His Brother\u2019s Scandal Again\">pep talk<\/a> to the team. The mainstream media and liberal establishment want to force the general public to care about the WNBA, but it&#8217;s unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n<h3>Details:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Griner, a notorious ball hog, put up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brittney-griner-convicted-drug-smuggler-goes-0-2-in-wnba-return\/\" title=\"Drug smuggler Brittney Griner loses both games in WNBA comeback.\">stat-padding individual performances<\/a> in her first regular season games since her release from prison.<\/li>\n<li>The Mercury lost both games, with Griner recording only three assists.<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 10,000 people attended the Sparks-Mercury game, which was slightly more than 50% of the stadium&#8217;s capacity.<\/li>\n<li>Harris delivered a pep talk to the team before the game, but the Mercury lost by 23 points.<\/li>\n<li>The mainstream media and liberal establishment want to force the general public to care about the WNBA, but it&#8217;s unlikely to happen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> Viktor Bout, who was released in exchange for Griner, was convicted of conspiring to murder American citizens. Paul Whelan, a former Marine arrested in 2018 on trumped-up charges of espionage, was not included in the prisoner swap with Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom line:<\/strong> The WNBA is unlikely to gain widespread popularity, despite efforts by the media and liberal establishment to promote it in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris&#8217; pep talk, but her team lost by 23 points. Griner, a former prisoner and left-wing activist, has yet to win a game this season despite her impressive individual stats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1935930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[6887,3754,5642,6960,6849,4318,22767,7188],"class_list":["post-1935929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-brittney","tag-comeback","tag-drug","tag-games","tag-griner","tag-loses","tag-smuggler","tag-wnba"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935929","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}