'Over 110 days, now how could she feel like America has her back?' LeBron James said. 'I would be feeling like, 'Do I even want to go back to America?''
Reuters reported from the courtroom that WNBA star Brittney Griner entered a guilty plea Thursday and could face up to 10 years in prison.In a trailer for the latest episode of his show"The Shop," LeBron James said if he was in Brittney Griner's situation, he would have doubts about wanting to return to the U.S. after being a detainee in Russia.
"Over 110 days, now how could she feel like America has her back?" James said."I would be feeling like, 'Do I even want to go back to America?'" Last month, the Los Angles Lakers star shared a Twitter post demanding that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris do what they can to bring Griner back home.
Griner has been incarcerated in Russia since Feb. 17 after law enforcement arrested her at an airport outside of Moscow due to possession of vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her bag. Griner has since
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