{"id":102068,"date":"2025-08-28T00:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102068\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:52:07","slug":"brittney-griner-moves-up-history-book-in-wednesdays-home-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102068\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner moves up history book in Wednesday&#8217;s home game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brittney Griner continues to put together quite a career in the WNBA. Now with the Atlanta Dream, Griner picked up three rebounds in four minutes of play in the first half on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>With her second of the night, she now has more than 2,500 career rebounds in the WNBA, and sits 17th All-Time in WNBA history for rebounds. With just 21 more, she will catch Swin Cash, who is part of the WNBA Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BG has surpassed 2500 career rebounds with her second of the night. Griner currently sits 17th All-Time in WNBA history for rebounds and is 21 rebounds behind Hall of Famer, Swin Cash. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AEb5VJCNxa\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/AEb5VJCNxa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Dream PR (@ATLDreamPR) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATLDreamPR\/status\/1960851465875890460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griner&#8217;s minutes have been fewer and less lately, but she can still be quite productive for an Atlanta team that is showing signs of being a major contender in the league. On August 19 against Vegas, she played 26 minutes and scored 16 points while recording eight rebounds as well.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury\/news\/history-again-alyssa-thomas-mercury-win\/028b33c7cbd87fad89fe6ac6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">History again for Alyssa Thomas in Mercury win<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the season, she was scoring 10.1 points and averaging 5.5 rebounds heading into the affair on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>For the Dream, they have the best record in the East, and third third-best record in the league. They started the game one game back of Las Vegas for second, only behind the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n<p>MORE WNBA NEWS:<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner continues to put together quite a career in the WNBA. Now with the Atlanta Dream, Griner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-102068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}