{"id":452002,"date":"2026-02-01T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452002\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:26:08","slug":"the-brittney-griner-story-review-the-basketball-great-still-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452002\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Brittney Griner Story\u2019 Review: The Basketball Great Still Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of close-circuit video footage in a film has a way of suggesting a crime. The images from a ceiling surveillance camera of the basketball star <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5330249\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brittney Griner<\/a> approaching the screening machinery in the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow and, a short time later, of the security officers working their way through her baggage offers a case in point. Only the crime in the \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39150002\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Brittney Griner Story<\/a>\u201d \u2014 an <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0756519\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a> \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1408430\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30 for 30<\/a>\u201d documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival \u2014 isn\u2019t the half-empty cannabis cartridge pen they find but the wrongful detainment of an American citizen for political purposes. Doubtful? You won\u2019t be after watching the biographical dive into the live and ordeal of the WNBA star by director <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1677210\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandria Stapleton<\/a> (\u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33473000\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Combs: The Reckoning<\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly four years since Griner was tried and sentenced to nine years in prison and then released in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The use of close-circuit video footage in a film has a way of suggesting a crime. The images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[1975,1976,64,63,726,447,1977,1972,1973,344,44,85,1974,434,427],"class_list":["post-452002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}