Brittney Griner, five months following her release from a Russian penal colony thanks to a prisoner swap., spoke to WNBA reporters Thursday.
“Just digging deep, honestly,” she told the news conference, in uniform, after tearing up at the start. “You’re going to be faced with adversities throughout your life. This was a pretty big one. But I just kind of relied on my hard work, getting through it.
Among her takeaways from 10 months in hell, Griner effectively said you’ll never see her playing ever again for a basketball team in Russia— or, in fact, go anywhere outside the U.S. — with one big exception. “I missed all of it. I would have rather been doing two-a-days,” Griner added, cutting herself off to parenthetically interject, “Coach, don’t get any ideas.”
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