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Brittney Griner picked up a hoops connected Sunday day astatine Fort Sam Houston successful San Antonio, marking the archetypal clip the Phoenix Mercury prima had done truthful successful astir 10 months.
Instantly, she threw down a dunk.
Griner has nary plans to permission Fort Sam Houston anytime soon, her cause Lindsay Kagawa Colas told ESPN connected Sunday night. She landed determination aboriginal connected Friday morning, soon aft she was released from a Russian prison, ending a astir 300-day ordeal.
When she does leave, Griner and her woman Cherelle volition reportedly caput to a backstage determination — not their Phoenix home. It’s unclear erstwhile she’ll speak, but Colas said determination whitethorn beryllium a connection successful the coming days.
"There's nary timeline connected her instrumentality astatine this point. She's reintegrating into a satellite that has changed for her now," Colas said, via ESPN. "From a axenic information standpoint she's not going to beryllium capable to determination successful the satellite the mode she did. It's not a destiny that she asked for, but I deliberation she's going to effort to utilize her fame for good."
Griner was released from a Russian penal colony past week aft the United States struck a woody successful exchange for convicted arms trafficker Viktor Bout. The woody was finalized connected Thursday, and Griner reportedly spoke with American officials and the formation unit for astir 12 hours connected their formation from the United Arab Emirates. After listening to Russian astir nonstop, Griner insisted connected talking astir “everything nether the sun.”
Since she’s been successful San Antonio, Griner has received a haircut from the San Antonio Spurs’ barber — she chopped her agelong hairsbreadth a fewer weeks agone aft it kept freezing successful the penal colony — and has been reuniting with household astatine the service base’s “distinguished impermanent quarters.” She’s had plentifulness of barbecue, and Nike sent her a caller wardrobe.
It’s inactive unclear what’s adjacent for Griner, particularly erstwhile it comes to her playing career.
That, though, feels similar it should beryllium the slightest of her worries.
"If she wants to play, it volition beryllium for her to share. She has the holidays to remainder and determine what's adjacent without immoderate pressure," Colas said, via ESPN. "She's doing really, truly well. She seems to person endured this successful beauteous unthinkable ways."
Brittney Griner dunked connected Sunday day successful San Antonio successful what was her archetypal clip touching a hoops aft spending astir 10 months successful a Russian prison. (AP/Rick Scuteri)
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