US WNBA basketball famous person Brittney Griner sits inside a defendants’ cage earlier than a listening to on the Khimki Court docket, exterior Moscow on July 27, 2022. – Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and WNBA champion, was detained at Moscow airport in February on expenses of carrying in her baggage vape cartridges with hashish oil, which might carry a 10-year jail sentence. (Picture by Alexander Zemlianichenko / POOL / AFP) (Picture by ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Outstanding sports activities personalities throughout america have been sounding off in help of Brittney Griner.
Griner, the WNBA star, has been sentenced to 9 years in a Russian jail following her alleged drug smuggling into the nation.
WNBA head coach Becky Hammon has made it clear that she stands with Griner.
“It’s one thing that clearly hits tremendous near residence for me and so I simply ask the Russian authorities to do the best factor,” Hammon informed Reuters in an interview Tuesday. “It’s by no means too late to do the best factor. We’re asking for leniency. We’re asking for grace. And we’re asking to convey residence BG.”
Hammon was beforehand a Russian citizen.
A number of outstanding girls’s basketball gamers have performed in Russia, as they should complement their salaries in America.
Griner is at the moment in Russian custody.
