says he was not bashing the United States by questioning the country's effort to bring imprisoned WNBA star Brittney Griner back from Russia, where she pleaded guilty to drug possession charges last week and now faces a decade behind bars.'[I] wasn't knocking our beautiful country,' the Lakers forward tweeted Tuesday.James took criticism after suggesting on a recent episode of his show, The Shop, that Griner may not want to come back to the US due to a perceived lack of support from the Biden . Griner, who plays professionally in Russia during the WNBA offseason, was returning to the country in February, when police claim she was found in possession of cannabis oil at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport.
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