Brittney Griner is back in the United States after an arduous 10-month saga in Russia. Yet nearly half of her WNBA peers opted to compete abroad this winter to supplement their incomes.
None are playing in Russia, for obvious reasons — Griner's ordeal and the country's ongoing war with Ukraine — but 67 of the league's 144 players are in Australia, Turkey, Italy and about a half-dozen other countries.
