I t’s Tuesday night on the Las Vegas Strip. Crowds have been flowing into the Michelob Ultra Arena for the past two hours, a sea of red and silver and black. The merch line snakes around the entire front of the arena, folded onto itself like a theme-park queue. People …
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Now that nearly two years have passed since W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner served a nine-month sentence for cannabis possession at a Russian penal colony, she has begun speaking out about the suffering she experienced while behind bars. In a New York Times interview, Griner said she felt dehumanized when a …
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Brittney Griner opened up about the “absent-minded” mistake that left her imprisoned in a Russian work camp and the inhumane conditions she faced there in a preview of the WNBA star’s 20/20 interview. “Prisoner in Russia” is set to air tonight on ABC, and in a clip first shown on …
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WNBA Star Brittney Griner has been back home with her family since December 2022. But the traumatic experience of the ten months that preceded that return to comfort, during which the now-33-year-old was imprisoned in Russia, hasn’t been easy to shake. Griner will discuss that period of her life in …
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Brittney Griner’s imprisonment in Russia and subsequent release will be the focus of both an upcoming documentary and scripted television series. The WNBA star has partnered with Disney’s ESPN and ABC Signature on the projects, with the former producing the documentary and the latter planning the scripted series. Griner — …
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Brittney Griner was targeted in a “calculated confrontation” by a “social media figure and provocateur” Saturday as her WNBA team the Phoenix Mercury traveled through the Dallas Airport. Griner, a Houston native who starred at Baylor University, was back playing in Texas (versus the Dallas Wings) Friday for the first …
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Brittney Griner returned to the WNBA court for the first time since her nearly 10-month detainment in Russia for the Phoenix Mercury’s preseason finale at home Friday night. Griner played 17 minutes and scored 10 points in her first WNBA action since the 2021 WNBA Finals — a span of …
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Britteny Griner is ready to tell her story. On Tuesday, Griner, the basketball star who spent 10 months incarcerated in Russia, announced plans to release a memoir next spring detailing her traumatic experience. “That day was the beginning of an unfathomable period in my life which only now am I …
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Brittney Griner thanked the many people who helped get her home and declared she was going to be ready to play basketball when the WNBA returns next year in in her first official statement since her release from a Russian prison. “It feels so good to be home!” Griner said. …
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