WNBA All-Star Weekend brought most of the league to Chicago for three days of celebration and competition. Missing was one of the league’s brightest stars, Brittney Griner.
Griner has been detained in Russia for close to five months and pleaded guilty Thursday to drug possession and smuggling. Regardless of her plea, the U.S. State Department views Griner as wrongfully detained. Griner’s Russian legal team issued a statement Friday saying it expects the trial to conclude at the beginning of August.
