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Griner, who has been in free agency for the first time in her career since she was drafted by the Mercury in 2013, said that she will be signing a one-year contract with the Dream.
The out superstar won't be traveling for a two-game road trip.
The U.S. government has classified Griner, who has been in Russian custody since February, as wrongfully detained.
Despite the trauma she’s endured, it took her becoming the fastest woman in the world after winning the women’s 100 meter at the track and field world championships in Budapest in August to renew a skeptical public’s faith in her.
The couple released a message for the one-year anniversary of Brittney Griner's release from Russia.
The out basketball star landed Friday at an Army base in Texas after being released by Russia.
The president said the situation is "unacceptable," and the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus and the Human Rights Campaign agreed.
The out basketball star, sentenced to nearly a decade in a gulag for carrying a vape, continues to be a pawn of Putin's.
The out basketball champion's trial continued this week in Russia.
Trump called the lesbian basketball star a "potentially spoiled person" who entered Russia "loaded up with drugs."
The WNBA legend opened up to Robin Roberts about the hopelessness she felt under the conditions she had to endure.
The basketball star made a surprise appearance at the event with her wife, Cherelle Griner.
Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta and the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, on the herculean effort that resulted in Griner's freedom.
The couple welcomed a baby boy earlier this month.
The WNBA star cancelled her speech at a cannabis convention after finding a piece of duct tape left in the entrance to her hotel room containing the words “Gay Baby Jail."
The celebrated out WNBA champion thanked her supporters in a statement through her legal team. Griner has been detained in Russia since February.
The WNBA star's current whereabouts are unknown as the White House and her legal team work for her release.
Griner spent 10 months in Russian jail and was released in December in a prisoner exchange.
Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle have announced they're expecting, and the couple's "favorite human being" is almost due!
(CNN) The U.S. State Department maintains Griner is wrongfully detained, and her case has raised concerns she is being used as a political pawn.
The judge left Griner's verdict in place and only slightly reduced her nine year prison sentence.
