Brittney Griner gets 9 years in Russian prison after being found guilty

Brittney Griner – Minnesota Lynx vs Phoenix Mercury at Target Center in Minneapolis, MN on July 14 2019
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A Russian court found gay WNBA player Brittney Griner guilty of attempted illegal narcotics smuggling earlier today and was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Griner apologized to the court for “my mistake that I made” and asked the judge for a light sentence after she was found guilty but before she was sentenced.

“I want to apologize to my teammates, my club, my fans and the city of [Yekaterinburg] for my mistake that I made and the embarrassment that I brought on them,” she said. “I want to also apologize to my parents, my siblings, the Phoenix Mercury organization back at home, the amazing women of the WNBA, and my amazing spouse back at home.”

Griner, 31, was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport this past February because she had less than a gram of cannabis oil in two vape cartridges in her luggage, just before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She pled guilty but said in court that she…

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