{"id":2012016,"date":"2023-08-25T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnba-update-brittney-griners-team-in-last-place\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:17:13","slug":"wnba-update-brittney-griners-team-in-last-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnba-update-brittney-griners-team-in-last-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner&#8217;s team at the bottom in WNBA standings."},"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\">18<\/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-update-brittney-griners-team-in-last-place%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=2012016&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--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>&#8216;Anti-racist&#8217; activist and\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnba-update-brittney-griners-team-in-last-place\/\" title=\"Brittney Griner's team at the bottom in WNBA standings.\">convicted drug smuggler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meteorite-that-fell-on-u-k-driveway-contains-rare-materials\/\" title=\"Meteorite That Fell On U.K. Driveway Contains Rare Materials\">recently returned<\/a><\/a> from &#8216;mental health&#8217; absence<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure>\n  <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s happening<\/strong>: WNBA employee Brittney\u2064 Griner\u2062 and her team, the Phoenix Mercury, have\u2062 achieved sole possession of last place in the male-subsidized women&#8217;s basketball league.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Mercury\u200b lost by 29 points to the Los Angeles Sparks \u200con Wednesday \u200bin front of 3,469 fans, or 18 percent of the capacity at Crypto.com Arena. That brings their record to 9-24 on the season.<\/li>\n<li>Griner, \u200cwho recently returned to the team after \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/brittney-griner-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missing three games<\/a> earlier this month to &#8220;focus on \u200bher mental \u200dhealth,&#8221; did not play due to\u200c &#8220;health and safety protocols.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Crucial context<\/strong>: Griner is an outspoken &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; activist and a \u200bconvicted \u200ddrug smuggler. In\u200b 2022,\u200c the Biden administration \u200bsecured her release\u200c from a Russian labor camp in <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/a-shameful-prisoner-swap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exchange<\/a> \u200b for\u200b Viktor Bout, a\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-derangement-porn\/\" title=\"Trump Derangement Porn\">notorious arms dealer<\/a> \u2064known as the &#8220;Merchant of Death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The former convict was\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnba-update-brittney-griner-takes-mental-health-break-as-team-struggles-to-avoid-last-place\/\" title=\"WNBA Update: Griner's 'Mental Health' Break Amid Team's Last Place Struggle\">recently granted permission<\/a> to travel by <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/wnba-player-demands-private-jets-for-entire-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">private jet<\/a> \u2062to and from WNBA games\u2062 for \u2064&#8221;safety&#8221; reasons while the rest of \u2062her team flies\u200c commercial.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why it \u2063matters<\/strong>: It\u200d doesn&#8217;t. No one\u2064 cares about the WNBA. Thanks for\u200b reading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA player Brittney Griner, known for her activism against racism, has made a comeback after taking a break for mental health reasons. Unfortunately, her team, the Phoenix Mercury, now holds the last position in the male-supported women&#8217;s basketball league. They suffered a 29-point defeat against the Los Angeles Sparks, witnessed by a crowd of 3,469.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2012017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-2012016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2012016","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=2012016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}