{"id":288196,"date":"2022-08-04T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=288196"},"modified":"2022-08-04T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:51:39","slug":"wnba-superstar-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-nine-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wnba-superstar-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-nine-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA superstar Brittney Griner sentenced to nine years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA superstar Brittney Griner has been sentenced to nine years behind bars in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/08\/04\/brittney-griner-apologizes-in-russian-court\/\">TMZ<\/a>, Griner has just been sentenced to nine years behind bars in the case. She was also slapped with a fine. She will have the opportunity to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>In all likelihood, Griner won\u2019t serve the sentence in its entirety. <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/biden-administration-offers-russian-arms-dealer-in-exchange-for-brittney-griner\/\">U.S. and Russian officials have been negotiating a prisoner swap that would reportedly include a Russian arms dealer nicknamed \u201cThe Merchant of Death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griner issued the mea culpa at another hearing in her drug case &#8230; telling the Moscow courtroom she was deeply sorry for inadvertently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/03\/05\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-detained-russia-customs-officials-drug-charge-prison\/\"><strong>packing hashish oil<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in her luggage back in mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to apologize to my teammates, my club, my fans and the city of [Yekaterinburg] for my mistake that I made and the embarrassment that I brought on them,&#8221; the WNBA superstar said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to also apologize to my parents, my siblings, the Phoenix Mercury organization back at home, the amazing women of the WNBA, and my amazing spouse back at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA superstar Brittney Griner has been sentenced to nine years behind bars in Russia. The has been also fined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":288195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-288196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wnba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/08\/d99fce2880c741f994ce589abeb9c850_md.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288196"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=288196"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=288196"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=288196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}