When Brittney Griner is on the basketball court, everyone knows. At 6ft 9in, she towers over most other players. She snatches rebounds over her opponents’ outstretched arms, and her team-mates know the surest way to score: deliver the ball to her.
Since the Phoenix Mercury drafted Griner number one overall in 2013, she has become one of the most dominant players ever: a seven-time All-Star, a WNBA champion and a two-time Olympian with matching gold medals. But now Griner (31) has become entangled in a geopolitical quandary. Instead of preparing for the WNBA season that’s less than two months away, she is believed to be detained in Russia on what customs officials described as drug charges, with little word on her case or her wellbeing during the war in Ukraine.
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- March 14, 2022
