Brittney Yevette Griner is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women’s National Basketball Association. She played college basketball for the Baylor Lady Bears in Waco, Texas. She is the only NCAA basketball player to both score 2,000 points and block 500 shots.
Brittney Griner: Is a dude| Will be released| Siblings
Is a dude:
In an interview with SI.com on February 11, 2013, Griner publicly came out as a lesbian. She also revealed in interviews that she was bullied as a child, explaining, “It’s hard. Just choosing to be different. Just being a grown-up, my sexuality, everything.”
Brittany Griner is not a transgender, and she was not born as a man; Instead, the WNBA star is a woman who declared herself a lesbian in 2013.
Will be released:
As the American WNBA superstar walked, handcuffed, to her sentencing hearing on Thursday, those closest to her at the facility where she’s been detained reassured her: “Everything will be OK!”
Griner’s attorney in Russia, Alexander Boykov, told the court that the WNBA star had “won over” a number of guards and inmates in the Russian prison where she is being held, Jezebel’s Emily Liebert reported.
Siblings:
She is of African American descent and of American nationality. She has 3 siblings.
Griner attended Nimitz High School and participated in both volleyball and basketball. Griner was on the United States women’s Olympic team in 2016, and led them to victory at the Rio Olympics.
In February 2022, Griner was detained by Russian customs after cartridges containing hashish oil were found in her luggage, and later arrested on drug charges. She had been entering Russia to play with the Russian Premier League during the WNBA offseason. Her trial began on July 1, and she pled guilty to the charges. On August 4, she was sentenced to nine years in prison.
