As the U.S. women’s national basketball team holds training camp practices, the absence of two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is impossible to ignore and looms over everything.
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“I'm just praying for her safety and her sanity, really,” Atkins said. “She's just such a good human, man. BG's such a dope person. I'm just [waiting] for her to return home, to see her smile, her charisma, just her being her. So I hope this experience doesn't change who she is as a person.” Atkins spent about four months in Ukraine and was hesitant to speak deeply about the war. She pointed out that her situation and experience differed from those of teammates and others who live in the besieged country.
“The Ukraine that I know and the Ukraine that’s being hurt and hatred toward today, is not what I know,” Atkins said. “It’s not really my story to tell because I got to come home to my family. I have teammates that still don’t have a home. I have teammates that are living with friends. I have teammates that can never go back to their home.”.
“The league has been working toward supplementing that difference, but it doesn’t happen overnight,” Plum said.“But while Osaka Inc. is thriving, Naomi, the woman, is hurting. Tennis doesn’t seem to be helping. And she doesn’t owe it to anyone to keep trying — not her sponsors, not her fans and not the game.” Read“I can’t escape into sports. Nor should I. I don’t even want to try, even during this most absorbing stretch of the sports calendar.
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