Posted on 03/08/2022 11:09:44 AM PST by Morgana
Russian state media have released a photograph of WNBA star Brittney Griner in custody, the first since she was detained at the airport in Moscow last month on suspicion of carrying a cannabis-filled vape pen.
Griner, 31, was taken into custody at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport after returning to Russia from New York during a two-week break from play at the end of February. The exact date of her arrest is unclear and it remains unknown where she is now.
The Wall Street Journal reports that she was scheduled to play on February 20, and that a flight arrived at the airport on February 17 which she may have been on.
She had been playing for the Moscow team UMMC Ekaterinburg and was earning $1.5million for the off-season - six times her WNBA salary at Phoenix Mercury.
UMMC Ekaterinburg is backed by Andrei Kozitsyn, a mineral tycoon listed among Putin's richest associates.
Griner earned six times her WNBA salary playing for the Russian team. She is not the only American female athlete who frequently traveled to Russia to bolster her earnings, but she is now the only one left in the country.
Her American teammates at UMMC Ekaterinburg include Allie Quigley, who returned to the US as tensions between the US and the Kremlin worsened last month.
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They can keep her.
If she thinks she was oppressed in America, wait until she experiences REAL oppression in Russia!
So, Russia oligarchs steal from the Russian people, then give the money to WNBA players?
Wow, look at what 1.5 million will buy you in skin art and grill work.
Cannabis is illegal in Russia.
That’s a man, baby!!
So, she found the US oppressive, Now, she can set up a BLM chapter in a Moscow prison. I don’t think she is going to find many supporters there.
Hope her "wife" spends it all while she's in the Gulag.
Yep.
All these people who hate America need to spend a week in a country that hates THEM.
I have been all over the world (except for Asian countries) and seen oppression, human trafficking, slavery, abuse, poverty and a caste system that would put most of these haters on the very bottom of the totem pole.
Many of these loudmouths would eat a fist sandwich within the first few days of their travels and have to gum their food for the rest of their lives. Others would just disappear in thin air forever.
They have no idea how good they have it here in America.
âIn 2022, Griner will earn a base salary of $227,900. The WNBA said players could earn up to $500,000 in a season with bonuses, tournament play and team marketing deals added to the base salary.â But thatâs a lie also.
With the use of team stores and outside merchandise sales, she makes a a lot more than that base salary they are selling. So, so much for the 6 times her salary manure. But the story about her worth doesnât stop there with that lie. She has a Net Worth of $17 million with an annual salary of $2 million. Her assets and Investments total $8 million and she owns 3 collector cars and 2 expensive home properties.
Through greed and thinking she was above being caught transporting illegal substances across the border and prosecuted, she has got herself into a problem and the public is being duped into feeling sorry for her. I have no remorse for her and she should pay the price for her crime. She broke the law and I’m expected to feel sorry for her? She’s no different than other thugs that break the law and think it’s wrong for her to be set within the same standards of everyone else. Do the time you gambled on and lost.
Wy69
i guess in russia, if you’re a lgbtq fag that plays basketball, no problem.
just don’t do drugs.
she can stay there.
Grab two of theirs and make it clear that they will be held until ?Greiner is returned.
So, she was buying her hash in Russia from Russians. I have not sympathy for her now.
Hopefully her “wife” will go to visit her in the slam and they’ll keep her too!
I think I can read the message...
“Caliph Baraq is my homeboy”
Since she hates America, put her in a uniform, issue her a rifle, and send her to Ukraine.
She wont go for sure..but it would be funny as hell seeing her try to fight, she’d get her ass kicked by Russia in 2 seconds tops
She hates it when the National Anthem is played and thinks the US sucks. Now that she’s in a nasty trick bag innocent until proven guilty ain’t such a bad concept after all. Back in the late 60’s-early 70’s there was an anti drug PSA, “it’s true. When you’re busted for drugs over there you’re in for the hassle of your life.” A lesson this woketard is learning the hard way.
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