SEATTLE — Every day for weeks, the tweet from Storm forward Breanna Stewart is the same, with only the reference to the number of days in confinement changed. And ever-growing.
“It has been 104 days since our friend, Brittney Griner, has been wrongfully detained in Russia. It is time for her to come home. @WhiteHouse, we are paying attention and we are counting on you. #WeAreBG”
For Stewart and other WNBA players, Griner’s continued detention in Russia since mid-February is a tense and tragic situation that continues to hang over the league. They can wear her number on their jersey, put her initials on the court and tweet messages of support, but it doesn’t bring home perhaps the greatest women’s player in the world.
