Brittney and Cherelle Griner Had a Perfect Baby Boy, You Can Call Brittney “Pops” Now

As WNBA All-Star Weekend begins today and the Paris Olympics approach, a person might be wondering…. have Brittney and Cherelle Griner invited a new human into their household in the form of a human baby yet? Because it would suck if Brittney was in Paris for the Olympics when the baby got born!!!! Well great news: Griner revealed today that their baby indeed got born on July 8th, and that he is perfect and comes in at 7 pounds 8 ounces. It feels important that he was born on 7/8 and is 7 pounds 8 ounces right? Probably that is good luck. She told the reporter that she’ll be going by “Pops,” which’s also what she calls her own father.

The Griners announced in April that they were expecting a baby in July, and have been sharing very cute pictures on instagram to get everybody excited and it has worked we are all excited.

Griner has been on the “might be out for personal reasons” list for a few games this month, leaving us all wondering if perhaps she was leaving the option not to play open in case her wife gave birth.

In an interview with Megan Rapinoe The Cut in May, Griner revealed that they’d be naming their kid Bash Raymond Griner. “I’m super excited for this next chapter of my life. Anybody who knows me knows I love kids. I’ve always been right there with my nieces, my nephews. I just love family time. The country, down South side of me comes out,” Griner told Megan Rapinoe. “I can’t wait to go fishing and off-roading and teach them everything my dad taught me, them coming to me for advice and watching them learn something or figure something out for the first time. That’s going to be the biggest joy. Screw the championships and all the trophies and all that; that’s going to be the highest peak of my life right there.”

Congratulations to the very happy parents!

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6 Comments

  1. Didn’t Griner already have kids with her ex-wife? The ex-wife that Griner plead guilty to domestic violence against? Kids that she subsequently tried to abandon until she was court-ordered to pay child support?

      • I’m not a sports gay so I didn’t really follow Brittney Griner pre-Russian detention. Just looked up the story with her ex-wife and it’s totally crazy – she announced their split the day after the pregnancy announcement?! Seems like a very toxic relationship and I hope both women are in a better place now and that their twins are happy and healthy!

    • Wow, this is a really intense and one-sided framing of a very complicated family law situation! Let’s look back at the actual facts and court documents (before tearing down the character and reputation of a masculine Black lesbian):

      The domestic violence charges went both ways.

      BG’s ex, Glory Johnson, identifies as “not a lesbian.”

      According to court documents, Glory was cheating on BG throughout the relationship with Glory’s ex-boyfriend, and BG found text message evidence to that effect. Glory Johnson then tried to get awarded $20,000/MONTH in spousal support. They were married for 28 days before BG filed paperwork seeking to end the marriage. BG asserted that neither of them should get spousal support.

      I don’t see any evidence that BG attempted to “abandon” those kids. I see lots of evidence pointing to her marrying a straight woman who got pregnant IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE WEDDING with IVF against BG’s wishes and/or without BG’s full knowledge or consent and then attempting to get awarded a MASSIVE divorce settlement, despite the fact that they were married for *less than a month.* Does that seem normal to you?

      https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2015/07/23/brittney-griner-marriage-annulment-glory-johnson-cheating-sexual-relations-man/30585031/

  2. one day we needa talk bout the stud baby daddy DEBACLE hot damn these studs acting like they daddies out here runnin from ex wife child support. studs supposed to show how they better than men but a lot just as dl dirtyyyy -toxic masculinity in the hood IS A REAL THING. more good stud daddy representation please-britney be triflin.

  3. Didn’t Griner already have kids with her ex-wife? The ex-wife that Griner plead guilty to domestic violence against? Kids that she subsequently tried to abandon until she was court-ordered to pay child support?

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