There has been much speculation about Brittney Griner’s detainment in Russia but her former coach doesn’t buy the current charges levied against her. Griner has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17 after the Russian Federal Customs Service say it found vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow.
“With all the problems with Russia and them attacking Ukraine, has Brittney become a political bargaining chip?” Debbie Jackson, Griner’s high school basketball coach, told The New York Times. “Is this part of politics? So much of it doesn’t make any sense to me that I find it hard to believe that this is really the true thing that happened.