By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
Britney Griner is a free woman after 294 days behind bars in Russia, to the relief of just about everyone in the basketball world. That includes LeBron James.
The Los Angeles Lakers star applauded Griner’s return during his “The Shop” alternate stream of “Thursday Night Football,” several hours after it was reported Russia had agreed to release her in exchange for convicted arms trafficker Viktor Bout.
Speaking with longtime friend and business partner Maverick Carter over video conference (the Lakers are currently on an East Coast road trip), James called Griner’s release an important cause for the basketball world.
“I think it’s a great day. For us as Americans, I think having BG back, in the sports world, just having her family’s back, I know her wife misses her and her family misses her, her club misses her here in Phoenix. To have her a part of the basketball brother and sisterhood, it’s a big day for us and what we do. Kudos to the president, kudos to Kamala Harris and everyone that had something to do with it. Like Mav said, there’s a lot of people that’s unlawfully detained right now. We hope we can get them all“.
It’s a great day. BG is back home 🙌🏾 pic.twitter.com/usELM6FoNS
— UNINTERRUPTED (@uninterrupted) December 9, 2022