Given the sensational aspects of her story, it was perhaps inevitable that star basketball player and former prisoner of the Russian state Brittney Griner would eventually become the subject of a film in ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series. Griner’s basketball career was perhaps at its peak — both in the U.S. and abroad — when she was arrested at the Moscow airport after customs agents found nearly empty Thc vape cartridges in her luggage, charged with a harsh drug charge, and eventually sentenced to nine years in what is essentially a gulag. Upon her arrest, Griner near-immediately became a political pawn used by the Putin regime, while family back home desperately advocated for her release.
Griner’s frightening ordeal is methodically recounted in Alexandria Stapleton’s The Brittney Griner Story, a straightforward, unflashy film that centers on Griner and her wife Cherelle as they navigate the arduous months that Griner was detained.
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