{"id":20695,"date":"2013-04-18T15:20:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20695"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:20:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:20:16","slug":"brittney-griner-no-1-pick-by-phoenix-mercury-in-wnba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20695","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner No. 1 Pick By Phoenix Mercury In WNBA\u00a0Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL, Conn. \u2014 <strong>Brittney Griner<\/strong> left an indelible mark on women\u2019s college basketball. Now she\u2019s ready to take on the pros.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Mercury took Baylor\u2019s star center with the top pick in the WNBA draft Monday night. Despite knowing she was going first, the two-time AP Player of the Year admitted she was extremely nervous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true, I\u2019m like a little kid in Disney World the first time meeting all the characters,\u201d <strong>Griner <\/strong>said. \u201cSitting at the table they said 15 seconds and my heart started beating so fast. I was grabbing the tablecloth underneath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured:\u00a0Brittney Griner, left, shakes hands with WNBA President Laurel J. Richie after the Phoenix Mercury selected Griner as the No. 1 pick in the WNBA basketball draft, Monday, April 15, 2013, in Bristol, Conn.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL, Conn. \u2014 Brittney Griner left an indelible mark on women\u2019s college basketball. Now she\u2019s ready to take on the pros. The Phoenix Mercury took Baylor\u2019s star center with the top pick in the WNBA draft Monday night. Despite knowing she was going first, the two-time AP Player of the Year admitted she was extremely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}