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Brittney Griner’s legal team has filed an appeal following her sentencing in Russian court earlier this month to nine years behind bars. As previously reported, the U.S. said back in May that Griner had been “wrongfully detained” after Russian officials found vape cartridges containing a small amount of hash oil. On Aug. 4, she was sentenced […]
WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner was reported earlier this year to have been arrested at an airport in Moscow, with questions still surrounding the widely condemned incident months later. While the arrest itself took place back in February, the 31-year-old Phoenix Mercury player still remains detained in Russia, which was recently determined to […]
Liz Cambage reportedly had multiple behavioral issues while on the Australian Opals team, including an outburst where she hurled racial slurs at another team. Prior to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Cambage called Nigerian players “monkeys” during a five-minute rant in Las Vegas, which ended in her walking away from her teammates. The Sunday Telegraph acquired video […]
Shayeann Day-Wilson and her teammates didn’t know each other very well when she arrived at Duke University midway through the 2021-22 preseason. After all, Shayeann had found her way to Duke to play for former WNBA All-Star Kara Lawson at the very last minute after having to decommit to Syracuse University due to a coaching scandal. Then, […]
During an interview on the I Am Athlete podcast this week, WNBA legend Lisa Leslie revealed that she was advised not to make a “big fuss” over Brittney Griner’s detainment in Russia. “What we were told, and again, this is all sort of passed along through hearsay, but what we were told was to not make […]
Sue Bird is WNBA royalty and in the middle of her 18th season, with 11 All-Star nods and four titles on her resume, she is uniquely qualified like few other individuals to offer up an opinion on just about everything related to the league that’s celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Including some Twitter beef […]
On this week’s Complex Sports Podcast, Lexie Brown joins the guys to talk about her ongoing WNBA situation, staying ready to play, what she’s doing outside of basketball, Drake albums, and much more. Before that, the guys get into the NBA playoffs and Julio Jones situation. Source link قالب وردپرس
Draymond Green has some advice for women athletes fighting for equal pay: stop complaining and take action. The three-time All Star made the controversial comments during a recent video interview with Kerith Burke, an NBC Sports Bay Area reporter who pressed Green on his previous tweets regarding the gender wage gap within sports. Green insisted he fully supported […]
Shaq was nearly unstoppable during his time in the NBA. But when it comes to broadcasting, he may have met his match. On Candace Parker, isn’t interested in gender-specific handicaps to make the WNBA as appealing as its male counterpart. During Tuesday’s Inside the NBA on TNT, Shaquille O’Neal came up with an idea that would level […]
Former Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler has sold her share of the WNBA team Atlanta Dream. The Associated Press reports that real estate investor Larry Gottesdiener has now become the lead owner, with the three-member investor group rounded out by former Dream guard Renee Montgomery and Suzanne Abair, president of Gottesdiener’s firm, Northland Investment Corp. Loeffler […]
