From the hell of a Russian penal colony, an American basketball superstar pleads for her freedom. 'Griner continues to wait while her teammates’ fears continue to grow,' writes BillPlaschke.
“We in women’s sports don’t get as much coverage, we get 4% of the media, so this gets 4% of the attention it should be getting,” said Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard. “There’s more that can be done.”
Griner was traveling to play for her powerhouse Russian team for a salary roughly five times what she is paid in the WNBA when she was arrested in a Moscow airport for possessing what authorities said were vape cartridges containing 0.7 grams of cannabis oil. Experts have agreed that if such an infraction had truly been committed, she would have normally been sentenced to a month in prison, a fine and deportation.
Back in 2020, she refused to come out of the locker room for the national anthem, how dare she ask for this country’s protection now! Caught in an international nightmare amid divisive national perception, Griner continues to wait while her teammates’ fears continue to grow.“Playing 10 years in Russia, being in different places in Russia, I can only imagine what a Russian prison is like,” said close friend Diana Taurasi. “We have to keep pushing. The heat has got to get up.”
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