Brittney Griner is thriving on the court despite a year without basketball

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Brittney Griner is thriving on the court despite a year without basketball​

A year ago, Brittney Griner pretrial in had just been extended into July and she was still months away from coming home in a prisoner swap. The two-time Olympic gold medalist missed all of the 2022 WNBA season, spending the final month of her lockup in a penal colony. She is now back with the Phoenix Mercury and hasn’t played like someone who spent nearly a year imprisoned overseas. Griner’s smile has been ever present. She has been photo-bombing fan pictures. She has an unbothered air about her that is consistent with her personality, one that could have taken a hit after the previous year of her life. At 6-foot-9, Griner can score with either hand and has an array of hooks, drop steps and other offensive weaponry — not to mention she is a two-time defensive player of the year. Sanders was adamant they can’t let her get comfortable on the block and in her spots if she plays. “She went a whole entire year without touching a ball, pretty much. And for her to be as efficient as she’s been is unbelievable,” McKeown said. “For her to be able to come and play with the level of physicality that they play with in the WNBA, with the speed and the pace and the athleticism that you’re used to seeing, she’s doing something that we’ve never seen before.”

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[The Question]

Stop flooding this board with shit you grabbed off MSN and added absolutely nothing to, you fucking cockwomble.

 

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[The Question]

You've still added nothing of your own. Just links to more threads where you spammed off-site shit onto the board. Linking to shit from shit still adds up to shit.

 

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You've still added nothing of your own. Just links to more threads where you spammed off-site shit onto the board. Linking to shit from shit still adds up to shit.

Remember it's all about the post count for him. Our reaction to his spam should be reflected in his reaction score.

Makes perfect sense to me.

 

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NOTE TO "GUESTS":

BLACKFOOT NAP AND C-40 ARE THE SAME POSTER. THE "LIKES" ON HIS POSTS ARE "LIKES" HE GAVE HIMSELF.

 

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Brittney Griner permitted to fly charter for rest of 2023 season after being harassed at airport, per report​

Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner will now be permitted to fly charter for the remainder of her team's road games after being harassed while waiting to board a commercial flight at Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport, according to a report by ESPN. It is believed that the Mercury may now be allowed to use JSX public charter flights for the entire team, an option that was reportedly not available to them at the start of the year. Permitting Griner -- who has been a major target of scrutiny given her detainment in Russia last year and eventual release in a prisoner swap for an arms dealer -- to fly privately is not without its complications. There is the matter of how the WNBA or Mercury would pay to have Griner fly, and also the matter of a potential competitive advantage for the Mercury should they be allowed to fly charter all season.

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[The Question]

Just for the hell of it and to see what happens, there actually is something notable and worth talking about here -- and the media appears to have completely overlooked it:

Brittney Griner, according to media reports, was arrested for having cannabis eliquid. As I've noted elsewhere, the version of that that's sold on the street is cut with Vitamin E, which -- when it cools in the lungs -- turns into acetate, which causes extreme damage to lung tissue.

It's entirely plausible that, by arresting her, the Russian authorities actually saved Brittney Griner's life.

 

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Inside Brittney Griner's Russia arrest, detainment and release​

Griner had entered Russia on Feb. 17, 2022, with the country on the verge of war, and her failure to remove two vape cartridges from her backpack led to a standoff that left her at the mercy of Russian President Vladimir Putin's government. Since her arrest, ESPN has interviewed White House and State Department officials, people close to Griner and the experts in and out of government who advised them, sources in Russia, her teammates, the retired U.S. federal judge who sentenced Bout, and Bout himself about the complex, delicate, exhaustive and, at times, tense efforts to get Griner out. Sources disclosed key details of events leading up to Griner's arrest, the strategic conversations happening within her close network, and the diplomatic, legal and political maneuverings that reached into the White House and the Kremlin. Despite the months of agonizing delays, legal and diplomatic back-and-forth, with all the wheels turning, in the end, whatever happened to Bout and Griner would happen when Putin decided it would. Each was at the mercy of secret talks between their governments, and in a way, Bout identified with this American woman he had never met.

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USA Basketball sets women's training camp roster with 18 players​

Brittney Griner, Diana Taurasi, Aliyah Boston and four Las Vegas stars headline USA Basketball's 18-person roster for its upcoming training camp ahead of the 2024 FIBA women's Olympic qualifying tournament. The training camp will take place Feb. 2-4 at Barclays Center in New York. A 12-person team will then be determined for the Olympic qualifying tournament, which runs from Feb. 8-11 in Antwerp, Belgium. The United States women's team already qualified for the Paris Olympics by virtue of winning the FIBA World Cup in the fall of 2022. The team has won seven consecutive Olympic gold medals dating to 1996.

Taurasi is hoping to make it to Paris and win a sixth Olympic gold medal, having played at each since 2004.
Griner, a two-time Olympian, could represent the U.S. in a major competition for the first time following her 10-month detainment in Russia in 2022.

The training camp will take place Feb. 2-4 at Barclays Center in New York. A 12-person team will then be determined for the Olympic qualifying tournament, which runs from Feb. 8-11 in Antwerp, Belgium. The United States women's team already qualified for the Paris Olympics by virtue of winning the FIBA World Cup in the fall of 2022. The team has won seven consecutive Olympic gold medals dating to 1996.

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Baylor to honor Brittney Griner by retiring her No. 42 jersey​

Brittney Griner's No. 42 jersey will be retired by Baylor when the Bears host Texas Tech on Feb. 18 at the recently opened Foster Pavilion in Waco, Texas. The Phoenix Meercery star, the No. 1 pick in the 2013 WNBA draft, twice led Baylor to the Final Four during her college career and had a perfect 40-0 national championship season as a junior. She is also a two-time Olympic gold medalist and won the 2014 WNBA title with the Mercury, for whom she has played 10 seasons.

Griner, who was born in Houston, played at Baylor from 2009 to 2013 and remains the NCAA career leader in blocked shots (748). She also had 3,283 points and 1,305 rebounds for Baylor and was recently passed by Iowa's Catlin Clark for the No. 4 spot on the NCAA's women's basketball career scoring list. Griner returned to the WNBA in 2023. When Phoenix and Griner played at Dallas in June, Collen and the entire Baylor women's basketball team came to the game, and Collen reiterated then that the program was working to honor Griner.

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britney griner 'full of emotion' as baylor retires no. 42
Griner was part of Baylor's 40-0 national championship team as a junior during the 2011-12 season, the first of her consecutive AP player of the year awards. Her final home games were when the Bears won in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament at the Ferrell Center on campus in March 2013, including three dunks in her last game there, before losing the following weekend to Louisville in the Sweet 16.

 

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Free agent Brittney Griner returning to Mercury, league says​

Brittney Griner will be back with the Phoenix Mercury for another season. The star center re-signed with the only WNBA team she's played with, the league announced on X on Friday night. A league source told ESPN that the free agent signed a one-year deal that the Mercury officially will announce next week. Griner, the first overall pick in 2013, was released from the Russian jail on Dec. 8, 2022, after spending 294 days there following her arrest on Feb. 17, 2022. When she made her 2023 debut on May 19, she had not played in a game in 474 days. Griner, who has twice been the runner-up for WNBA MVP, ranks third all time in blocks. She signed a one-year deal last offseason worth $165,100. The 33-year-old Griner returned last season after missing 2022 while she was detained in a Russian jail. She played in the second-most games of her career, averaging 17.5 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.6 blocks for a Mercury team that went 9-31.

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Brittney Griner Tears Up Remembering Her Suicidal Thoughts in Prison in Clip from First Interview (Exclusive)​

For the first time, Griner will sit down to describe her experience as a Russian prisoner in an upcoming ABC special with Robin Roberts

Britney Griner will open up in detail about her Russian detainment for the first time in a new interview airing during a special edition of 20/20 on May 1. The WNBA star, 33, has answered questions about her detainment before, but she has yet to agree to a sit-down interview about the 10-month ordeal, which began when she was attested for possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil at a Moscow airport in February 2022, until now. Griner also provides emotional insight into the conditions she faced while inside Russia’s infamous penal colony, conditions she describes as making her feel “less than a human.” The former WNBA Champion and nine-time All Star tells Roberts she dealt with suicidal thoughts, describing one harrowing moment where a knife was readily available to her. Griner tells Roberts her mattress in prison “had a huge blood stain on it” and that “I had no soap, no toilet paper.”

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WATCH: Brittney Griner Moved to Tears Speaking About the Terrible Things That Happened to Her in Russia:​

The WNBA star reveals the heartbreaking emotional toll the incident took on her life.​

As she prepares for her 11th season in the WNBA, basketball star Brittney Griner is revisiting what she says was the most challenging, painful time of her life. The Phoenix Mercury center is set to release her new memoirr, “Coming Home,” which chronicles her 11-month detainment by Russia authorities in 2022. Before it hits bookshelves on May 7, she’ll sit down with journalist Robin Roberts for a “20/20” interview about the whole ordeal. experience. In February 2022, the two-time Olympic gold medalist was stopped at a Moscow airport for having vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. Following a two week trial, she was found guilty of drug smuggling and possession, and sentenced to nine years in prison. In December 2022, as she began her sentence at a Russian labor camp, the U.S. negotiated a prisoner exchange that led to her release.

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