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• Brittney Griner opens up about her life since welcoming her son, Bash
• During the Sundance Film Festival premiere of The Brittney Griner Story, the boy mom shared how "rewarding" it is to come home to her son
• The couple married in June 2019 after meeting years earlier when they were students at Baylor University

Brittney Griner is opening up about her motherhood experience so far.

The WNBA star, 35, who welcomed her son Bash in July 2024 with her wife Cherelle, chatted exclusively with PEOPLE at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of The Brittney Griner Story on Tuesday, Jan. 27, about how it's been raising her son. Brittney tells PEOPLE that it's been "so rewarding" to watch her son grow up.

"Oh my God. It is a lot. I see why everybody says goodbye to sleep, especially in the early days, but it's so rewarding. I come home, [and] he's smiling. My day's just good then," she says.

Brittney and Cherelle married in June 2019 after meeting years earlier when they were students at Baylor University. About five years later, they shared the exciting news that they were growing their family, and shortly after, their son joined them.

"They said as soon as you see them, everything that you thought mattered just goes out the window,” Brittney told CBS Sports about seeing her little boy for the first time. “That's literally what happened."

Back in November 2024, a few days before Thanksgiving, the couple shared Bash’s first photos.

"Family shoots have become a team effort around here," Cherelle told CBS Mornings. "It’s a series of smiles, tears, feeding and naps. We love every second and can’t wait to take our first Christmas picture as a family."

The pictures showed the proud parents holding their baby boy, who donned a little skeleton onesie with his hunter-green nursery in the background.

“Bash may have the best room in the house,” Brittney wrote beside the same photos when she shared them on Instagram one day later. “Relle and I both fall asleep with Bash at night in that chair. We love every detail from his amazing book wall collection to his comfortable crib! He sleeps like a big man in his room alone.”

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In a June 2025 press conference, Bash made his post-game debut, where he sat on Brittney's lap and played with a Hot Wheels car. When asked what keeps her going, she said her motivation was, of course, her son.

“He’s my why,” Brittney said. “It was starting to get to a point where I was like, what is my why? Honestly, and then he came along, and yeah, he’s my why."

She continued, "Like everything I do is for him. I’ll be proud of him once he’s able to really realize everything. ... I do it for him, want to provide for him and show him the right way to do things.”

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