{"id":438540,"date":"2023-06-25T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438540"},"modified":"2023-06-25T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:53:31","slug":"griner-is-wnba-all-star-for-ninth-time","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/griner-is-wnba-all-star-for-ninth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Griner is WNBA All-Star for ninth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brittney Griner was named a WNBA All-Star for the ninth time in her career and a little over six months after being released from a Russian prison.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Mercury center said before the start of the season that she&#8217;ll need some time to come back to her full abilities after the 10 months she spent in Russia, but everyone was left astonished by how good she played for Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>She averaged 19.1 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game this season for the struggling Mercury that finished dead last in the Wester Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2023 WNBA All-Star Starters have been announced \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f A&#8217;ja Wilson (captain)<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Breanna Stewart (captain)<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Arike Ogunbowale<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Aliyah Boston<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Jewell Loyd<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Brittney Griner<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Chelsea Gray<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Nneka Ogwumike<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Satou Sabally<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Jackie Young <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EbmuRQNvB4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EbmuRQNvB4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1673018802320158721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A&#8217;ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces and 2018 MVP Breanna Stewart of the New York Liberty were named the two captains for the All-Star Game, which will be played on July 15 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brittney Griner was named a WNBA All-Star for the ninth time in her career and a little over six months after being released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":438541,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16813,18413],"news_category":[16711],"gn_keywords":[20107,18415],"acf":{"announce":"She overcame 10-month spell in Russian prison to show her talent once again this past season","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438540"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438540"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}