Brittney Griner mostly kept a low profile since a nearly 10-month detainment in Russia on drug-related charges ended with a prisoner swap in December, but now that the WNBA season is just around the corner, the Mercury star has been front and centre on the court and off it.
Brittney Griner caught a flight to Washington, D.C., to attend the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, landed back at Phoenix around 4 a.m. and was up five hours later for the start of training camp.
Griner's return to the Mercury rekindles hope the franchise can make another run to the WNBA Finals. The extra exposure from being detained in Russia for having vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage has given Griner a platform to advocate for other Americans being detained abroad. "That definitely is high on the list of things that I will be fighting for and speaking up against," she said. "Everyone deserves the right to play, everyone deserves the right to come here to sit in these seats and feel safe and not feel like there's a threat or they can't be who they are. I think it's a crime to separate someone for any reason."
"I would say to everyone that is being wrongly detained across the world: Stay strong. Keep fighting. Don't give up. Just keep waking up," she said. "Find a little routine and stick to that routine. Just keep pushing, because we're not going to stop. We're not going to stop fighting. We're not going to stop bringing awareness to everyone that's left behind right now.
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