Brittney Griner was back on the basketball court Sunday. And the first thing she did was dunk.
President Joe Biden announced that WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian imprisonment after a prisoner swap.After spending more than 10 months in custody in Russia, following a prisoner swap last weekAs for when she might play again for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, it's still too soon to tell.
"If she wants to play, it will be for her to share. She has the holidays to rest and decide what's next without any pressure," agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas told ESPN."She's doing really, really well. She seems to have endured this in pretty incredible ways."
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