Exactly four months later, Russian police arrested Griner in Moscow after customs officials found cannabis oil in her vaping cartridges. While the United States and Russia negotiated her release, Griner was held at a women’s prison 310 miles southeast of Moscow. When she left the game for good with 5:52 to play, Griner looked exhausted and walked with a slight limp. “No one’s ever had a player come back from a year detention in a prison and play,” Nygaard said. “An amazing, amazing thing has happened: We brought back this Black gay woman from a Russian jail,” Nygaard said.

Source: The Guardian May 20, 2023 19:45 UTC