Brittney Griner's Wife Reflects connected Their Next Chapter Together

Brittney Griner precocious made her archetypal nationalist quality pursuing her release from Russian custody.

A small much than 1 period aft the WNBA prima returned to the U.S. aft nearly 10 months successful Russian detention, Brittney and her woman Cherelle Griner made a astonishment quality astatine a march successful Phoenix, Arizona, successful grant of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. During the Jan. 16 event, arsenic noted alongside footage shared from the Today show, Brittney said that she was simply "happy to beryllium home."

It's a sentiment the Phoenix Mercury prima echoed aft her Dec. 8 merchandise arsenic portion of a prisoner swap that saw the U.S. instrumentality Russian arms trader Viktor Bout—who was 11 years into a 25-year situation sentence—back to Russia.

Her quality astatine the march came astir 1 year after her February 2022 arrest astatine Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport for allegedly possessing vape cartridges that contained cannabis lipid successful her luggage.

Brittney was found blameworthy connected cause charges by a Russian tribunal in August and was sentenced to nine years successful prison. Four months aft the verdict, she was transferred to a penal colony successful Russia's Mordovia region.