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On December 8, 2022, Russia and the United States conducted a 1-for-1 prisoner exchange, trading Brittney Griner, an American basketball player, for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer. Griner, a WNBA champion star and Team USA Olympic athlete, had been convicted of smuggling and possession of cannabis in Russia in August 2022 and sentenced to ...
Name Status with team when arrested Crime Term Notes Kevin Allen: Free agent Sexual assault: 15 years [1] Released after 33 months. Will Allen: Retired Wire fraud and money laundering: 6 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $16.8 million (along with co-defendant) [2] Richard Alston: Retired
Brittney Griner runs up court during a U.S. women's basketball gold-medal game against Japan at the Tokyo Olympics on Aug. 8, 2021. Grinner has been detained in Russia since February.
After finishing a 2024 Summer Olympics match with Team U.S.A. winning 87–73 over Belgium, Olympiad basketball player and Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner, who had previously been in discussions with Paul Whelan for a joint release together before the Viktor Bout–Brittney Griner prisoner exchange came about, expressed great joy over ...
A former top Pentagon official said Saturday that she’s concerned Russia is detaining American basketball star Brittney Griner as “leverage over the United States.”. Evelyn Farkas told Yahoo ...
Tedious manual work, poor hygiene and lack of access to medical care - such are the conditions awaiting U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian penal colony after she lost her appeal ...
Pages in category "NBA players from Russia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Sergei ...
Ryōta Kise (黄瀬 涼太, Kise Ryōta) Voiced by: Ryōhei Kimura (Japanese); Erik Scott Kimerer [2] (English), Takashi Ōhara (VOMIC) Kise is a freshman at Kaijō High and plays the small forward position. He was the fifth member of the "Generation of Miracles" and only started playing basketball in the second year of middle school.