{"id":244688,"date":"2026-04-11T04:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244688\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:59:14","slug":"brittney-griner-headed-to-connecticut-sun-and-then-perhaps-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244688\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner headed to Connecticut Sun, and then perhaps Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Griner is finalizing a deal to join the Connecticut Sun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/48453207\/brittney-griner-finalizing-seven-figure-deal-join-sun-sources-say\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">ESPN reported<\/a> on Friday. Terms of the deal have not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>If Griner, 35, plays for more than one season, she could finish her career in Houston, where she grew up and played at Nimitz.<\/p>\n<p>Griner, a 10-time All-Star spent last season with the Atlanta Dream after playing the first 11 years of her career for Phoenix, which drafted her No. 1 from Baylor in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Griner, who has three gold medals, won a\u00a0WNBA title in 2014 with Phoenix and was the league&#8217;s leading scorer in 2017 and 2019. She was the defensive player of the year in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Griner missed the 2022 season when she was detained for nearly 10 months in Russia after authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis. She was freed in a prisoner swap when the U.S. released notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Griner is finalizing a deal to join the Connecticut Sun, ESPN reported on Friday. Terms of the deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-244688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}