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Brittney Griner and her wife, Sherrell, are the proud parents of a baby boy.
The Phoenix Mercury WNBA player announced the news on CBS Sports’ “We Need to Talk,” saying, “He’s here … 7 pounds, 8 ounces. This is my guy.”
The star expressed his joy at becoming the baby’s “dad,” saying excitedly, “He’s amazing! They say the moment you see him, everything you think is important goes out the window, and that’s exactly what happened.”
“I’m kind of sad that I have to go, but at the same time… I think he’ll understand,” she added, referring to Britney joining the U.S. team at the Paris Summer Olympics.
“My phone is completely filled with him now,” she said, and looks forward to plenty of updates.
Britney and Sherrell announced their pregnancy in April, more than a year after Griner was released from Russian custody.
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Britney Griner and wife Sherrelle are expecting their first child
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They are Announced “I can’t believe we’re less than 3 months away from meeting our sweet baby girl,” she wrote on Instagram, along with a photo of baby Griner’s ultrasound and her hand, and added the hashtags “#BabyGrinerComingSoon #July2024.”
Britney endured a terrifying ordeal when she was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport with less than a gram of cannabis oil in her luggage in February 2022. She later pleaded guilty to drug charges in the hope of receiving a lenient punishment.
However, in August of that year, the basketball player was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison and fined more than $16,000 for allegedly smuggling drugs into Russia.
She was eventually released in December 2022 through a prisoner swap, with help from President Joe Biden.
