We are now in July and Brittney Griner is still not home from Russia. The 31-year-old was arrested at an airport in Moscow in February for allegedly transporting in her luggage two cannabis vape cartridges, which are illegal in Russia.
WNBA coach Vanessa Nygaard thinks if this was LeBron James, he would be home right now.
“If it was LeBron, he’d be home, right?” Nygaard asked, via USA Today. “It’s a statement about the value of women. It’s a statement about the value of a black person. It’s a statement about the value of a gay person. All of those things. We know it, and so that’s what hurts a little more.”
Last Friday, her criminal trial got under way as prosecutors outlined their case against the basketball player, accusing her of large-scale transportation of drugs, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
On the Fourth of July, Griner penned a letter to Biden from behind bars, telling the president: “I’m terrified I might be here forever.”
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The athlete’s wife of three years revealed that in a recent conversation with Brittney, she raised the topic of her mental health, after seeing an unsettling photo of her looking wild-eyed while arriving in court.
“I honestly wrote her and was like, ‘Hey, honey, you know, I saw a picture of you, and I know there’s such thing as propaganda, but I have to ask … are you okay?” Cherelle recalled inquiring. “‘Are you insane at this point? Understand that if you are, I still love you and when you come back, we will love you back whole, show yourself grace.’”
