Brittney Griner has reportedly taken to the basketball court docket for the primary time in almost 10 months following her return to the US.
The WNBA star was again on US soil Friday morning after she was launched from a Russian jail in a high-profile trade for a infamous arms supplier.
It hasn’t taken her lengthy to get again to her sport as she picked up a basketball for the primary time because the prisoner swap on Sunday, reviews ESPN.
Brittney Griner (left – when she was swapped for Russia’s arms supplier Viktor Bout and proper enjoying for Phoenix Mercury earlier than her arrest in February) has reportedly taken to the basketball court docket for the primary time in almost 10 months following her return to the US
Griner is situated at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio and carried out a light-weight exercise, her agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas instructed the outlet.
It is claimed the 32-year-old wore a Title IX t-shirt, Phoenix Suns shorts and Chuck Taylor sneakers as she scored a slam dunk in one in all her first strikes of the informal apply.
Griner belongs to the Phoenix franchise, representing the Mercury staff earlier than being arrested in Russia in February on drug expenses.
Her future with the staff stays up within the air after 10 months in jail.
‘If she desires to play, will probably be for her to share. She has the vacations to relaxation and determine what’s subsequent with none stress,’ Colas instructed ESPN.
‘She’s doing actually, very well. She appears to have endured this in fairly unimaginable methods.’
The WNBA star was swapped for ‘Service provider of Demise’ Viktor Bout, 55 – who was serving a 25-year sentence in a US jail – ending what President Joe Biden referred to as months of ‘hell’ for her and her spouse.
Griner was seen getting off a aircraft that landed Friday at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas, after flying from the UAE the place the prisoner commerce came about.
‘She was in very, excellent spirits when she received off the aircraft and gave the impression to be, clearly, in good well being,’ White Home spokesman John Kirby instructed MSNBC in an interview citing US officers on the bottom in San Antonio, Texas, the place she arrived simply earlier than daybreak.
