Brittney Griner's return to the WNBA will be official Friday ... Last February, a year after her arrest, she signed a one-year deal to play with the Mercury for the 2023 WNBA season.

Geopolitics around the world have always factored into the backdrop of the modern Olympic Games, and there is perhaps no American athlete who represents this better than Brittney Griner will this ...

Eight-time WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was released from a ... The following timeline details the events leading up to Griner’s arrest, the controversy surrounding her detainment and trial ...

WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from ... We will never give up.” Griner’s February arrest in Russia sparked diplomatic drama between the US and the Kremlin that played out ...

July 27: During the first day Griner testified at her trial, she recounted the day of her arrest and ... to Cherelle Griner, Brittney Griner plays overseas because of the WNBA's pay.

The WNBA and NBA also weighed in. “Today’s verdict and sentencing is unjustified and unfortunate, but not unexpected and Brittney Griner ... News of Griner’s arrest was not made public ...

Investigators eventually determined the “Gay Baby Jail” tape was a reference to a meme among video games enthusiasts. The ...

The Brittney Griner era with the Phoenix Mercury is over after the WNBA star agreed to a 1-year deal with the Atlanta Dream in WNBA free agency on Tuesday, marking the end of the center's 11-year ...

WNBA star Brittney Griner and wife Cherelle Griner have welcomed ... a Russian prison as part of a prisoner swap following her arrest in February of that year on drug charges.

Griner's arrest came one week before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine officially began. REQUIRED READING: In first Olympics since Russian imprisonment, Brittney ... during the WNBA offseason from ...

It's been a long road for Brittney Griner. The WNBA star, now 32 ... Seven days after Griner's arrest, Russia invade Ukraine, putting the country further at odds with the rest of the world.