{"id":5638,"date":"2022-06-03T01:07:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T01:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/adam-silver-discusses-nba-s-role-in-securing-griner-s-release"},"modified":"2022-10-18T05:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:49:13","slug":"adam-silver-discusses-nba-s-role-in-securing-griner-s-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/adam-silver-discusses-nba-s-role-in-securing-griner-s-release","title":{"rendered":"Adam Silver Discusses NBA&#8217;s Role in Securing Griner&#8217;s Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA commissioner said that the league is &#8220;working in lockstep with the U.S. government and outside experts.&#8221; View the original article to see embedded media. It has been 105 days since WNBA star Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia after customs agents claim they discovered vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow. Ahead of Game 1 of the 2022 NBA Finals on Thursday, commissioner Adam Silver told reporters in a news conference that the league is working to bring the Mercury star back home as soon as possible. &#8220;It is something that all of us should be heard on, contacting your representatives and others,&#8221; Silver said . &#8220;We are working in lockstep with the U.S. government and outside experts &#8230; to expedite her release in any way that we can.&#8221; During the league&#8217;s draft lottery on May 17, Silver told ESPN&#8217;s Malika Andrews that the NBA had a &#8220;huge responsibility&#8221; to Griner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA commissioner said that the league is &#8220;working in lockstep with the U.S. government and outside experts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,1],"tags":[257,122,256,58,298],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-lottery","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}