WNBA will honor Phoenix star Brittney Griner with a floor sticker and allowing Mercury to pay her without counting the team’s maximum salary, the league announced Tuesday. Still All Star Center in Russia after his arrest After arriving at Moscow airport on February 17. Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed e-cigarette cartridges … Read more
US teammate Britney Grenier congratulates her teammate during the women’s basketball gold medal game against Japan at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, August 8, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Register now to get free unlimited access to Reuters.com Register June 22 (Reuters) – A coalition of human rights groups on … Read more
Sheryl Greiner said Monday that WNBA star Britney Greiner tried to call her wife nearly a dozen times through the US Embassy in Russia on the couple’s fourth anniversary on Saturday, but they never called because the embassy’s phone line was not staffed. . The couple have not spoken on the phone in the four … Read more
KIMI, Russia (Associated Press) – WNBA star Britney Greiner’s attorney at her drug possession trial in Russia on Friday gave a letter from a US doctor recommending the use of medicinal cannabis to treat pain. Greiner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a high-profile Phoenix Mercury, was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February after … Read more
Russia has been a popular destination for WNBA players like Brittney Griner over the past two decades because of the money they can make playing there in the winter. With top players earning more than $1 million — nearly four times what they could make as a base salary in the WNBA — Griner, Breanna … Read more
KIMKI, Russia (Associated Press) – Britney Grenier’s drug possession trial resumed Thursday with the off-season president of the Russian club she plays with and a female colleague from that squad testified in support of her character and what the WNBA women’s basketball star means to the country. Greiner, who pleaded guilty last week, did not … Read more
Khimki, Russia (AFP) – American basketball star Britney Greiner She testified at a drug possession trial in Russia that an interpreter translated only a fraction of what was said while she was detained at Moscow airport in February and that officials asked her to sign the documents, but “no one explained any of it to … Read more