WASHINGTON — Brittney Griner said 'digging deep' helped her get through her detainment at a Russian prison last year.
WASHINGTON — Brittney Griner said"digging deep" helped her get through her detainment at a Russian prison last year.
"I know this sounds so small, but dying in practice and just hard workouts, you found a way to just grind it out, just put your head down and just keep going, keep moving forward. You can never stand still," the 32-year-old center said."And that was my thing -- just never be still. Never get too focused on the now and just looking forward to, you know, what's to come."
"It goes a long way, because, I mean, you're in foreign territory. You're in unknown waters," she said."There's been a lot of communication between both teams." Griner was freed in December when the U.S. swapped the WNBA star for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. In advance of the season, which starts next month, the team said Thursday it will unveil a 30-foot-wide mural on the Footprint Center, its home arena in downtown Phoenix, that features the faces of Griner and more than a dozen detained individuals.
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