{"id":454217,"date":"2026-02-04T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454217\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:40:12","slug":"everything-i-do-is-for-him-brittney-griner-on-raising-son-bash-with-wife-cherelle-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454217\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everything I Do Is For Him\u2019: Brittney Griner on Raising Son Bash With Wife Cherelle | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

“They said as soon as you see them, everything that you thought mattered just goes out the window,\u201d Brittney Griner told CBS Sports<\/a> about seeing her little boy for the first time. \u201cThat’s literally what happened.”<\/p>\n

At the Sundance premiere of \u201cThe Brittney Griner Story,\u201d Griner offered a candid look at life since becoming a mom, and told People<\/a> that raising her son Bash \u2014 whom she and wife Cherelle welcomed in July 2024 \u2014 has dramatically reshaped her priorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Griner described parenting as \u201cso rewarding,\u201d joking about the sleepless early days but saying that coming home to Bash\u2019s smile makes her \u201cday just good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a June 2025 press conference<\/a>, Bash made his post-game debut, perched on mommy’s lap as he played with a Hot Wheels car. The WNBA star shared that her son is central to her motivation, saying he is her \u201cwhy\u201d and that many of her choices now revolve around creating a stable, loving home.<\/p>\n

Griner and Cherelle married in June 2019<\/a> after meeting as Baylor students, and the couple has been deliberately protective about family life while sharing select milestones with the public. They released Bash\u2019s first photos in late 2024<\/a>, and those images painted a picture of quiet domesticity, complete with a sweet nursery, late-night feedings, and falling asleep in the baby\u2019s room. Griner and Cherelle credited<\/a> routines and mutual support for helping them navigate a post-trauma chapter that included healing and reestablishing a sense of normalcy.<\/p>\n

Griner\u2019s openness about motherhood adds a human, domestic layer to a very public life. As she balances professional basketball, activism, and family, her message is clear: parenthood has given her new joy and a renewed sense of purpose. Seeing this softer, family-centered side of Griner reinforces the ongoing redemption arc of recovery, resilience, and reinvention that has shaped her public persona.<\/p>\n

She shared, “Everything I do is for him. I\u2019ll be proud of him once he\u2019s able to really realize everything. … I do it for him, [I] want to provide for him and show him the right way to do things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“They said as soon as you see them, everything that you thought mattered just goes out the window,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-454217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454217","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=454217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}