{"id":632851,"date":"2026-03-01T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/632851\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:03:27","slug":"trio-of-former-south-carolina-womens-basketball-players-in-israel-during-air-strikes-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/632851\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of former South Carolina women&#8217;s basketball players in Israel during air strikes on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina coach <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dawnstaley\/status\/2027801976423972902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dawn Staley said on social media<\/a> Saturday that the school is working to try and help a few former players return home from Israel where they are playing professionally.<\/p>\n<p>The trio of former Gamecocks \u2014 Tiffany Mitchell, Destiny Littleton and Mikiah Herbert Harrigan \u2014 as well as other former WNBA players are playing basketball in Israel, which along with the United States, <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-explosion-tehran-c2f11247d8a66e36929266f2c557a54c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched an attack<\/a> on Iran on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease pray for our @GamecockWBB @TiffMitch25 @2121Mikiah @dstnylttltn24 who are in a war zone in Israel,\u201d Staley wrote. \u201cWe are working a plan to get home. Let us pray for our loved ones to return home safely asap! Thank you in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell played last season in Seattle, while Harrigan was on the Phoenix Mercury. Other players in the Israeli league with WNBA ties include Victoria Vivians, Christyn Williams, Shyanne Sellers, Arella Guirantes and Evina Westbrook. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 12:48 am and I\u2019m going to attempt to get some sleep,\u201d <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dstnylttltn24\/status\/2027878698263667014?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Littleton tweeted<\/a>. \u201cPrayers for safety for everyone impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said on social media Saturday that the school is working to try and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[82885,7,43440,3377,82884,448,25298,40743,11892,4259,4252,66,27021,82886,458,11239,11862,447],"class_list":["post-632851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-arella-guirantes","tag-basketball","tag-christyn-williams","tag-dawn-staley","tag-evina-westbrook","tag-general-news","tag-iran","tag-sc-state-wire","tag-shyanne-sellers","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-sports","tag-tiffany-mitchell","tag-victoria-vivians","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball","tag-womens-national-basketball-association","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116155475848852773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}