<p>Detained WNBA superstar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brittney-griners-wife-begs-biden-to-get-wnba-star-freed-from-russia">Brittney Griner</a> ought to rethink whether she even wants to come home to America, said fellow basketball icon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lebron-james">LeBron James</a>, who claimed the U.S. hasn&#8217;t done enough to free her from Russian captivity.</p>
<p>James made the shocking comment on &#8220;The Shop: Uninterrupted,&#8221; an HBO show in which James and others, including Jon Stewart and Snoop Dogg, shoot the breeze about news, sports, and culture in a barbershop. When the conversation turned to Griner, James threw up a brick.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, how can she feel like America has her back?&#8221; James said. &#8220;I would be feeling like, &#8216;Do I even want to go back to America?'&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">LeBron James says if he were Brittney Griner, he&#39;d question returning to the United States. <a href="https://t.co/f8y7bKtoZk">https://t.co/f8y7bKtoZk</a></p>
<p>&mdash; TMZ (@TMZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1546897635780562950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Griner, the 6-foot, 9-inch center for the Phoenix Mercury, has been held in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia">Russia</a> on drug charges since February 17 despite U.S. diplomatic efforts to win her release. Last week, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wnba-superstar-brittney-griner-pleads-guilty-to-russian-drug-charges-admission-could-pave-way-for-swap?itm_source=parsely-api?utm_campaign=daily_shapiro&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;utm_content=daily">pleaded</a> guilty to bringing hashish oil into the country, although she said she did not intend to do so. She was playing in the off-season for a Russian team when she was allegedly caught with illegal vape cartridges at the airport.</p>
<p>The guilty plea sparked speculation it could pave the way for a prisoner swap. Russia <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/us/politics/brittney-griner-trial-russia.html">reportedly</a> wants the release of arms dealer Viktor Bout, who is known as “the Merchant of Death” and is serving a 25-year sentence in the United States, in exchange for Griner, according to The New York Times.</p>
<p>James previously stoked outrage on the show in 2018 when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lebron-james-says-old-white-nfl-team-owners-have-frank-camp">labeled</a> NFL’s owners a bunch of “old white men” and accused them of acting like slave masters.</p>
<p>“In the NFL, they got a bunch of old white men owning teams, and they got that slave mentality,” James said. “And it’s like, ‘This is my team. You do what the f*** I tell y’all to do or we get rid of y’all.’”</p>
<p>More recently, he blasted NFL great Drew Brees for saying athletes who kneel during the national anthem were &#8220;disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.”</p>
<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">&#8220;WOW MAN!!&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/kingjames/status/1268268213013327872">tweeted</a>. &#8220;</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Is it still surprising at this point. Sure isn’t! You literally still don’t understand why Kap was kneeling on one knee?? Has absolute [sic] nothing to do with the disrespect of [America] </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">and our soldiers (men and women) who keep our land free.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>James also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lebron-james-pandering-to-china-fails-to-win-him-chinese-release-date-for-space-jam-2">defended</a> China despite its abysmal human rights <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-committed-genocide-against-uyghur-muslims-independent-british-tribunal-finds">record</a> when Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey spoke out in support of Hong Kong freedom activists.</p>
<p>“We all talk about this freedom of speech, yes, we all do have freedom of speech but at times there are ramifications for the negative [sic] that can happen when you’re not thinking about others and you’re only thinking about yourself.” He added, “I don’t want to get into a … feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand.”</p>

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