WNBA star Brittney Griner picked up a basketball Sunday for the first time in almost 10 months and her first act was a dunk, her agent told ESPN.
— Brittney Griner pulled on a pair of black Chuck Taylor sneakers, Phoenix Suns shorts and a T-shirt touting Title IX, and picked up a basketball Sunday for the first time in almost 10 months, her agent told ESPN.
Her first act was a dunk.
Griner is still at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio — where she was taken after her release from a Russian prison last week — with no immediate plans to leave, Lindsay Kagawa Colas said. And despite the light workout, she said, the 32-year-old Griner isn’t ready to say when or if she plans to return to her WNBA career with the Phoenix Mercury.
“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,” Colas said. “She’s doing really, really well. She seems to have endured this in pretty incredible ways.”
Griner has not spoken publicly since her return but should issue a statement “this week,” Colas said.
Griner and her wife, Cherelle, have been staying in a hotel on the base, reuniting with family members and deciding what to do with her freedom. Her father, Ray, and some family members visited her Saturday along with a sizable meal from Smoke Shack barbecue in San Antonio. More barbecue is expected in the coming days.
Griner got a haircut Sunday morning from the San Antonio Spurs’ barber, Colas said, cleaning up the dramatic cut she elected to have two weeks ago; Griner’s attorney told ESPN last week that the player’s famously long hair kept freezing in the cold of the Russian penal colony.
