What it Could Take to Bring Brittney Griner Home

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🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia since February. She’s been accused of carrying vape cartridges that contained cannabis oil in her luggage…charges that could carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Last week, news came out that Griner’s pretrial detention in Russia had been extended by another month, and the US State Department announced that it now regards Griner as wrongfully detained. ESPN’s T.J. Quinn explains what these developments mean for Griner’s case, and what the US government may be doing to help win her release. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's just sickening to see that she's still over there.
0:08.2	I can't believe that it's been 85 days since her wrongful detention.
0:14.7	You just really hope she gets home and you can't help but think about the condition she's
0:19.1	going through.
0:22.1	You know, someone who's a global athlete needs to be back home.
0:35.4	That was the Seattle Storms Brianna Stewart last week, taking the mic to talk about Brittany
0:40.4	Griner, her fellow All-Star, this all-time great whose absence is overshadowing the entirety
0:46.6	of the WMBA season and leading every week to even more questions.
0:53.9	So today, 90 days after she was arrested in Russia and with the US government officially
0:59.1	declaring her wrongfully detained, TJ Quinn explains what's really happening with Brittany
1:05.6	Griner.
1:06.6	How the strategies for bringing her home have finally changed and what comes next.
1:12.8	I'm Pablo Torre, it's Wednesday, May 18th.
1:17.0	This is ESPN Daily.
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2:00.4	TJ Quinn, we had you on this show in March and you opened our eyes to a lot of the backroom
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