The women’s basketball world has been instructed to not make a “big fuss” over Brittney Griner’s detainment in Russia.
That’s according to WNBA legend Lisa Leslie, who spoke about the predicament on the “I am Athlete” podcast this week.
“What we were told, and again, this is all sort of passed along through hearsay, but what we were told was to not make a big fuss about it so that they could not use her as a pawn, so to speak, in this situation in the war,” Leslie said.
“So, to make it like it’s not that important, or don’t make it like ‘Free Brittney’ and we start this campaign, and then it becomes they could use. That’s what we were ‘told’ and I don’t want to say who said that, but it’s what’s been spreading throughout the women’s basketball world.
Russian authorities detained Griner in February after cannabis vape cartridges were allegedly found in her luggage at the airport. Griner has played…