Brittney Griner’s WNBA return puts player salaries back in focus
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. KEEP READING Brittney Griner says she will return to playing basketball What is the Russian penal colony where Brittney Griner was sent? Brittney Griner lands in the US after Russia prisoner exchange But for Griner, whose detention and release in a prisoner swap in December drew headlines around the world, the days of playing abroad are behind her. “I can say for me, I’m never going overseas to play again unless I’m representing my country at the Olympics,” the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) star said on April 27 in...