The 2012 best female athlete ESPY award winner, Brittney Griner was arrested on charges of drugs in Russia in February 2022.

She is an American basketball player. She won a gold medal for Team USA in the 2021 Olympics. Brittney Griner’s career set off at Baylor University where she played college basketball.

Brittney Griner currently plays in the Women’s National Basketball Association for Phoenix Mercury. She got signed in 2013.

Standing at a height of six feet nine inches, Brittney Griner was born on October 18, 1990, in Houston, Texas. She has three other older siblings.

At her senior year in Nimitz high school, she led the Nimitz cougars to the Texas 5A girls basketball championship game. In 32 games, Brittney Griner dunked 52 times.

Brittney Griner on the international scale has played in China for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls and in Russia for UMMC Ekaterinburg.

On February 11, 2013, Brittney Griner made it clear to the world during an interview that, she is a lesbian. She is married to Cherell Watson but pays child support to Johnson her ex-wife.