{"id":6375,"date":"2022-08-04T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/sports-world-reacts-to-brittney-griner-guilty-news\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:05:19","slug":"sports-world-reacts-to-brittney-griner-guilty-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=6375","title":{"rendered":"Sports World Reacts To Brittney Griner Guilty News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tml-image--caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">PHOENIX, AZ &#8211; OCTOBER 8: Brittney Griner #42 of the Phoenix Mercury looks on during Game 5 of the 2021 WNBA Semifinals on October 8, 2021 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona.  (Photo by Jeff Bottari\/NBAE via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"tml-image--attribution\" itemprop=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1235775776\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bottari\/Getty Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moments ago, a Russian judge announced that WNBA star Brittney Griner had been found guilty on drug charges. <\/p>\n<p>Griner&#8217;s trial officially ended this Thursday.  Before the verdict was announced, he apologized for his actions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never wanted to hurt anybody, I never wanted to endanger the Russian population, I never wanted to break any laws here,&#8221; Griner said.  &#8220;I made an honest mistake and I hope your sentence doesn&#8217;t end my life here. I know everyone keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but I hope that&#8217;s far from this courtroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although Griner&#8217;s verdict has been announced, everyone is still waiting to hear what his sentence will be.  The prosecution would have asked for 9.5 years.<\/p>\n<p>The sports world is understandably frustrated by Griner&#8217;s verdict. <\/p>\n<p>That said, this is not a surprise. <\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s TJ Quinn reported Wednesday that Griner is &#8220;prepared for the worst&#8221; regarding her verdict and sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Griner could face up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Because U.S. officials have classified Griner as illegally detained, a possible prisoner swap with Russia is still on the table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thespun.com\/more\/top-stories\/sports-world-reacts-brittney-griner-guilty-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX, AZ &#8211; OCTOBER 8: Brittney Griner #42 of the Phoenix Mercury looks on during Game 5 of the 2021 WNBA Semifinals on October 8, 2021 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Jeff Bottari\/NBAE via Getty Images) Jeff Bottari\/Getty Images Moments ago, a Russian judge announced that WNBA star Brittney Griner had been found guilty on drug charges. Griner&#8217;s trial officially ended this Thursday. Before the verdict was announced, he apologized for his actions. &#8220;I never wanted to hurt anybody, I never wanted to endanger the Russian population, I never wanted to break any laws here,&#8221; Griner&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thespun.com\/.image\/c_limit,cs_srgb,fl_progressive,q_auto:good,w_700\/MTkxMTk2MjA1MTEwMjczNzcy\/2021-wnba-semifinals---phoenix-mercury-v-las-vegas-aces.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thespun.com\/.image\/c_limit,cs_srgb,fl_progressive,q_auto:good,w_700\/MTkxMTk2MjA1MTEwMjczNzcy\/2021-wnba-semifinals---phoenix-mercury-v-las-vegas-aces.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}