Brittney Griner

The WNBA star, who last year was detained in Russia for 10 months, has played in 20 games for the Mercury this season.

The Phoenix Mercury’s center was chosen by fans, media and players to play in her ninth WNBA All-Star Game, while A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart will serve as team captains.

The WNBA says Brittney Griner and her Phoenix Mercury teammates were confronted by a “provocateur” at a Dallas airport on Saturday. The league said in a statement it was looking into the team’s run-in with a “social media figure” whose “actions were inappropriate and unfortunate.” Before the season started, the league had discussed with Griner’s representatives and the Mercury security...

Brittney Griner received a loud ovation from the away crowd in Los Angeles as she made her official return to the WNBA. Watch the nice moment here.

A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and Brittney Griner are among the top 15 players to keep an eye on during the 2023 WNBA season.

Brittney Griner will return to a WNBA court on Friday when the Phoenix Mercury take on the Los Angeles Sparks. Here is how you can watch her 2023 debut.

The WNBA star was arrested in February 2022 at a Moscow airport after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. She later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner addressed the media on Thursday.

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The WNBA All-Star says she will share details about the “unfathomable period” in her life, when she was arrested in Russia last year on drug-related charges.

Saying she is ready to share the “unfathomable” experience of being arrested and incarcerated in Russia, basketball star Brittney Griner is working on a memoir that is scheduled for spring 2024.

The State Department says Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his Russian counterpart, in a rare phone, to immediately release a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained last week as well as another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan.

Griner missed this past WNBA season while detained in Russia for more than nine months.

Brittney Griner attended the WM Phoenix Open golf tournament Saturday in her second public appearance since her release from a Russian prison.

Brittney Griner texted her good friend Diana Taurasi on Tuesday morning asking how the USA Basketball training camp was going. Griner was back in Arizona, choosing to skip the camp in Minnesota so she can be with her wife and recover from her time in a Russian jail. She was traded in a dramatic prisoner swap in December. Taurasi said...

Brittney Griner’s return to the WNBA has collided with free agency which has raised questions once again about teams chartering flights.

Aaron Judge’s AL HR record, Brittney Griner returning home and the NBA retiring Bill Russell’s No. 6 are among the top uplifting moments of 2022.

After nearly 300 days in Russian custody, two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner said she intends to play basketball for the Phoenix Mercury this season, according to her Instagram feed.

For the first time since her release from a Russian prison, Brittney Griner took to social media to thank her friends and family, and give an update on her WNBA return.

WNBA star Brittney Griner didn’t want quiet time as soon as she boarded a U.S. government plane that would bring her home.