{"id":497276,"date":"2026-02-24T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497276\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:05:07","slug":"wnba-star-angel-reese-sends-message-to-brittney-griner-after-unrivaled-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497276\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Angel Reese Sends Message to Brittney Griner After Unrivaled Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/brittney-griner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brittney Griner<\/a> remains one of the most accomplished veterans in women\u2019s basketball. A 12\u2011season <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a>  star and champion, she has been a dominant force in the paint for much of her career, winning a title with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix_mercury\/17278\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a>. Griner has earned 10 All-Star selections and is a two-time Defensive Player of the Year. She has also represented the U.S. internationally, winning three Olympic gold medals. <\/p>\n<p> In 2025, Grinner joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/atlanta_dream\/17251\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> on a one-year deal. She averaged 9.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in 39 games, and helped her team finish with the league\u2019s third best record, earning a playoff berth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner remains one of the most accomplished veterans in women\u2019s basketball. A 12\u2011season WNBA star and champion,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-497276","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\/497276","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=497276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}