when the dust settles, I am sure a trade will be reached of some sort.
By American standards.
But it wasn't smuggling drugs into the US and it was not it's first trip to Russia. It has been making Big$$ playing BBall there for some time. Headline from Yahoo News: "Brittney Griner ‘only playing’ in Russia due to gender pay gap, says US teammates".
It knew Russian law. It just thought it was above the law there like it is here; Privileged", you might say.