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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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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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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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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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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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As Griner enters a penal colony, Russia signals it is open to a prisoner swap.
One day after lawyers confirmed that the American basketball star Brittney Griner had been transferred to a penal colony outside Moscow, Russia ...
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