A love of basketball doesn’t keep the lights on; that’s how Brittney Griner explained what pushes so many professional women basketball players from the United States to leave the country to play the game.
The search for salaries befitting world-class athletes is also why Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, travelled last year to Russia – setting off a 10-month ordeal that saw her arrested, convicted on drug charges, and jailed in a penal colony.
