{"id":596553,"date":"2026-04-11T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596553\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:32:09","slug":"connecticut-sun-to-sign-10-time-wnba-all-star-brittney-griner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596553\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Sun to sign 10-time WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/sports\/connecticut-sun\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Sun<\/a> are reportedly preparing to make a big splash for their final season in Uncasville.<\/p>\n<p>Contracts were not eligible to be signed until Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year old Griner is a Houston native and played collegiately at Baylor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/sports\/article\/connecticut-sun-sale-moving-houston-mohegan-wnba-21346550.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sun will move to Houston<\/a> for the 2027 season. The franchise has been in Connecticut since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise was sold to Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta\u2019s Fertitta Entertainment for $300 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Griner, a 6-foot-9 center, played for the Atlanta Dream in 2025 after a successful run with the Phoenix Mercury. She missed the 2022 season after being detained in Russia for 293 days.<\/p>\n<p>Griner, the No. 1 pick of the 2013 WNBA Draft, averaged 9.8 points and 5.2 rebounds for the Dream in a career-low 20.8 minutes per game. An eight-time blocks leader in WNBA play, she averaged 1.2 a year ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Connecticut Sun are reportedly preparing to make a big splash for their final season in Uncasville. Contracts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,222053,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-596553","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-ct-insider","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596553","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=596553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}