“How can she feel like America has her back?” James said. He dribbled that back on Twitter saying, “my comments (weren’t) knocking our beautiful country. I was simply saying how she’s probably feeling emotionally … #BringHerHome.” But we all need to realize we’re culpable in this. Brittney Griner earns about $230,000 a year playing for the Phoenix Mercury, where she’s one of the league’s biggest and most recognizable stars. James earns more than double that (about $520,000) per game – not to mention all of his endorsements and entrepreneurial moves that prompted Forbes to rank him as the first active NBA player to become a billionaire.

So at what point is Brittney Griner responsible for Brittney Griner’s actions?

So how much does Brittney Griner make playing in Russia? Reportedly about $1 million. So there’s the answer for anyone wondering why was Brittney Griner in Russia in the first place? The argument will be, of course, that the NBA generates more revenue than the WNBA. But that’s the result of American sexism, and if the NBA is looking to offset the inequality between men and women by helping to subsidize the WNBA, then it needs to invest more. The current pay gaps are unconscionable.

American sexism is the reason no one cares about inferior athletes playing a sport? Tell me is American ageism the reason we don’t broadcast peewee football nationwide?

“If it was LeBron, he’d be home, right?” she said. “It’s a statement about the value of women. It’s a statement about the value of a Black person. It’s a statement about the value of a gay person. All of those things. We know it, and so that’s what hurts a little more.” I'll put it plainly. Given how U.S. media has prioritized white damsels in distress, could you imagine how Griner’s case would play if she were a waifish Hollywood blonde, stolen from her spouse on minor charges by a nasty and opportunistic European regime?

Ah so America is racist, just not racist enough to force Lebron to seek athletic contracts overseas, but racist.

This person is clearly mentally deranged. Thousands of white people have been falsely accused of crimes in black and brown countries with our state department doing nothing and the media not even paying attention. They live in such a bubble that her knowingly committing a crime in a country she was seeking employment is her being a victim because she could make more money in Russia.