Griner
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Arts
Brittney Griner, in Her Own Words
COMING HOME, by Brittney Griner with Michelle Burford If you weren’t following women’s basketball, you probably hadn’t heard of Brittney Griner when she was arrested at a Moscow-area airport in February 2022. But she was a bona fide superstar — an ...
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Magazine
5 Takeaways From the Times Interview of Brittney Griner
Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in Russia, sewing uniforms for the Russian military and subsisting on spoiled food. She lived for glimpses of the sky. She had never been ...
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Magazine
‘I Will Never Forget Any of It’: Brittney Griner Is Ready to Talk
On the March afternoon when I met Brittney Griner in Phoenix, the wildflowers were in peak efflorescence, California poppies and violet cones of lupine exploding everywhere. Griner was in bloom too. She was practicing with some local ballers brought ...
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Sports
Brittney Griner Returns to the W.N.B.A. With a Weekend of Celebration
Griner, the Phoenix Mercury center, played in her first two official games since was freed from prison. She didn’t win either, but the moment meant far more than that.
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Sports
Brittney Griner Will Return to W.N.B.A.
Griner, who was released from a prison camp in Russia in December, signed a one-year contract with the Phoenix Mercury.
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Sports
Griner Leaves Texas Base, Pledges W.N.B.A. Return and Support for Whelan
Griner, in her first public comments since being freed from imprisonment in Russia, said she would return to the Phoenix Mercury next season and work to free wrongful detainees outside the United States.
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Sports
The End of Griner’s Detention Begins a New Wave of W.N.B.A. Activism
With their campaign to free Brittney Griner from prison in Russia over, W.N.B.A. players say they will help free others and focus on women’s health and pay equity.
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Magazine
When a Prisoner Swap Is a Rorschach-Test
The scene on the tarmac with Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout didn’t just show a prisoner trade. It told the story of where two rival countries had landed decades after the Cold War.
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World
A strong support network is critical after being released from detention, an expert says.
With her prison ordeal over, Brittney Griner will now face the challenge of transitioning back into life at home — where a strong support network will be critical, a mental health expert said Friday. “Most people’s trajectory isn’t the one that you ...
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Sports
Griner’s Detention Showed the Strength and the Struggle in Women’s Sports
Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia on drug charges could be described through the lens of war and politics, with Griner, one of the world’s best basketball players, a casualty of an international struggle between superpowers. But in the nearly 10 ...
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