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An early favorite has emerged to land Phoenix Mercury legend Brittney Griner, who’s set to test free agency for the first time in her illustrious career.

Per Doug Feinberg of the Associates Press, Griner’s agent revealed that the future Hall of Famer met with several teams on Tuesday. Griner has spent her entire WNBA career with the Mercury.

Griner is currently playing for Phantom BC of the new 3-on-3 Unrivaled basketball league that kicked off its inaugural season last Friday. One purpose of Unrivaled is to give players the option to continue playing basketball in the United States during the WNBA offseason instead of going overseas.

According to the Bovada sportsbook, the Connecticut Sun are the early favorites to land Brittney Griner in free agency at +165. They have slightly better odds than the Mercury at +170, followed by the expansion Golden State Valkyries franchise at +400.

The 34-year-old Griner hasn’t showed any signs of slowing down. Last season, she averaged 17.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game while shooting a career-best 57.9 percent from the field.

Griner led the Mercury to a WNBA Championship in the 2014 season, one year after they selected her first overall. The 10-time All-Star won the WNBA scoring titles in 2017 and 2019 and has led the league in blocks eight times.

Brittney Griner Could Be The Final Piece To Get Connecticut Sun Over The Top

Connecticut has made the WNBA four times in their history (2004, 2005 2019 and 2022), but the franchise continues to await its first championship banner raising ceremony. Perhaps an all-time great like Griner could be the last piece of the championship puzzle for a Sun team that has reached the playoffs in eight consecutive years.

The Sun have been eliminated in the playoff semifinals in each of the last two years. They’ve come awfully close, but adding Griner would certainly increase their chances of finally winning it all.

VIDEO: Some Dude Just Dropped The Cold Hard Truth On Why All Of These NFL Prospects Are “Dating White Women”

Unless this is your first day in America, then you know race relations in this country dominate just everything, and that includes NBA and NFL drafts

During the most recent NFL Draft in Detroit, social media was buzzing as athletes showed up to the red carpet event with their girlfriends and family. Many of the incoming NFL rookies were African-American and were spotted with white women, which has become the usual theme for years.

The same thing happens with the NBA Draft.

This year, the discourse on the NFL Draft and NBA Draft has gotten even louder as African-American women openly pondered why so many of the players never have a partner that is the same race as them.

One guy on TikTok decided to answer that question by revealing that the vast majority of his division-1 friends in college or headed to the league are dating or married to white women and explained why.

He stated that some of them had told him that their white girlfriend looked up to Taylor Swift while their girlfriend looked up to Megan The Stallion. He then states the guy asks how many white women he has seen doing the Megan Thee Stallion challenge as opposed to Black women.

He then dove into another story of a friend who relayed that his Black girlfriend started to request money from him as soon as she found out about his NIL money. She wanted her hair and nails done. He then added that the Black women would be upset if they went to places like Chipotle, and she demanded steak houses.