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Brittney Griner becomes 'pops' after birth of her first baby with wife Cherelle

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Updated 17:00 28 Jul 2024 GMT+1Published 17:01 28 Jul 2024 GMT+1

Brittney Griner becomes 'pops' after birth of her first baby with wife Cherelle

Griner made the announcement before jetting off to Paris for the Olympics

Ella Scott

Ella Scott

Featured Image Credit: Getty Images/ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Ethan Miller

Topics: Celebrity, Parenting, Sex and Relationships, Sport, Olympics, US News

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Team USA Olympian Brittney Griner has revealed she wants her newborn son to refer to her as ‘pops’.

Tomorrow (July 27), the 33-year-old is due to appear in her third consecutive Olympic tournament as the US Women’s Basketball team meets Japan in the preliminary round of Group C.

Ahead of the summer games in Paris, the two-time gold medalist took part in the WNBA All-Star Weekend for Team USA Basketball where she played 14 minutes and contributed 10 points to the team’s 117-109 loss against Team WNBA.

But just days before taking to the court, Griner spoke to CBS Sports' We Need To Talk, anchor Terrika Foster-Brasby, who congratulated her for becoming a mom with her wife Cherelle, 32.

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Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle have welcomed their first son. (cherelletgriner/Instagram)
Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle have welcomed their first son. (cherelletgriner/Instagram)

“One other job that you’re about to get into that is really hard and really scary,” the journalist began. “You’re about to be a mom.”

The ten-time WBNA All-Star quickly corrected Foster-Brasby and playfully revealed she would be known as ‘pops’.

“You’re about to be a pops?” queried the anchor before Griner doubled down and said: “Yeah, pops.”

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“I’m super excited. I guess I’ll just drop it he’s here,” she continued. “Seven pounds eight ounces. Yeah, that’s my man he is amazing.

“They say as soon as you see them everything that you thought mattered just goes out the window and that’s literally what happened.”

The basketball star has been married to her wife since 2019. (cherelletgriner/Instagram)
The basketball star has been married to her wife since 2019. (cherelletgriner/Instagram)

Griner went on to admit that while it ‘sucks’ to leave her wife of five years and their son behind to play in the Olympics, she was sure that he would ‘understand’.

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Earlier this year The Phoenix Mercury veteran revealed that she thought she was heading for divorce after being sentenced to nine years in a Russian labor camp in February 2022.

The athlete was initially arrested at Moscow Airport in February 2022 and spent almost 10 months in the Russian prison system before returning to the United States in December.

"My basketball career would be over. I’d be in my early forties and out of shape, would have to find a new way to provide for my wife,” she wrote in her new memoir, Coming Home. “And Relle. She assured me she’d wait, but ten years was ridiculous.

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“I went through so many emotions being locked up, and just thinking about nine years,” she continued.

“We planned on having kids and doing all these amazing things together, and now I'm thinking, ‘Is that going to happen? How can I ask her to wait?’”

However, Cherelle remained faithful and the pair were reunited following Griner’s release via a prison swap.

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