There are still numerous questions around the WNBA star’s detainment and the deal that brought her home, but for now there is relief.
This is how this was always likely to end: with WNBA star Brittney Griner being released in a prisoner exchange or something like it. The outcome seemed inevitable, and yet it was so hard to trust. Griner was going to be trapped in a Russian penal colony until she wasn’t. For her family and friends, the relief today is overwhelming.
Griner, who is 32, had been sentenced to nine years in prison.