Brittney Griner’s story is far from over. But for now, writes Rosenberg_Mike, there is finally relief
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.. The full term would have forced her to miss the rest of her two children’s childhoods, it would have kept her away from her wife, Cherelle, for nearly a decade, and it would have ended her career—and even all that does not fully explain how this would have wrecked her life.
After being sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony, Griner was released with a prisoner exchange. Everybody should be happy for Brittney Griner today … even if you think the U.S. got the bad end of a trade. “This is a day we’ve worked toward for a long time,” Biden said. “We never stopped pushing for her release. It took painstaking and intense negotiations, and I want to thank all the hardworking public servants across my administration who worked tirelessly to secure her release.”today, word is spreading about BG. For most of 2022, Griner was both out of sight and everywhere. Her fellow WNBA players talked about her all the time. NBA players brought up her name unprompted.
This would be a happy ending if it were actually an ending. It isn’t, really. We’ll see how much the time in Russia changed Griner—how traumatic it was, how difficult it will be to overcome. Griner probably doesn’t have those answers right now.
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