{"id":331633,"date":"2023-05-20T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T09:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=331633"},"modified":"2023-05-20T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T09:06:08","slug":"brittney-griner-returns-to-play-in-wnba-i-appreciate-everything-a-little-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/brittney-griner-returns-to-play-in-wnba-i-appreciate-everything-a-little-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner returns to play in WNBA: I appreciate everything a little more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After putting the most complicated period of her life <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/brittney-griner-released-from-russian-custody-us-confirms\/\">behind her<\/a>, Brittney Griner is back on the WNBA court in a Phoenix Mercury jersey, 579 days since the last time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/37688877\/welcome-back-griner-marks-wnba-homecoming-vp-hand\">Via ESPN)<\/a> What I went through and everything, it just means a little bit more to me now. So I want to be able to stand. I was literally in a cage and could not stand the way I wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just being able to hear my national anthem, see my flag, I definitely want to stand. Now everybody that will not stand or not come out, I totally support them 100 percent. That&#8217;s our right, as an American in this great country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Griner put together 18 points, 6 rebounds, 4 blocks and 2 assists in the loss against the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a night for BG \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>In her debut back on the court, BG went off for 18 PTS, 6 REB, 4 BLKS, &amp; 2 AST <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BGisBack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BGisBack<\/a>  | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WNBATipOff23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WNBATipOff23<\/a> presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarMax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CarMax<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EjCPMs5KQE\">pic.twitter.com\/EjCPMs5KQE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WNBA (@WNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA\/status\/1659798965854916608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By All-Star, I hope to be exactly where I want to be,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/37688877\/welcome-back-griner-marks-wnba-homecoming-vp-hand\">Griner said<\/a> of the league All-Star Game in July. &#8220;Not having to limit my minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate everything a little bit more. That has changed. Tomorrow is not guaranteed; you don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s going to look like. So I think that&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve changed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griner started her 10th season in the league <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":331632,"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":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-331633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wnba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/brittney-griner-mercury.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331633","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331633"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=331633"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=331633"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=331633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}