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Brittney Griner was arrested astatine a Russian airdrome successful 2022, erstwhile it was discovered she had cartridges containing cannabis lipid successful her luggage arsenic she returned to nan state to play basketball.
Griner blamed a "mental lapse" for having nan cartridges successful her luggage and flying to a state wherever marijuana and aesculapian cannabis are still against nan law. She was imprisoned from February to December earlier she was a portion of a captive switch for arms trader Viktor Bout.
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This combo of images shows Viktor Bout, left, a suspected Russian arms trader astatine nan criminal tribunal successful Bangkok, connected Aug. 20, 2010 and WNBA prima and two-time Olympic golden medalist Brittney Griner successful a courtroom anterior to a hearing, successful Khimki, extracurricular of Moscow, connected July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, left, and Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
The WNBA prima talked to Robin Roberts astir her detention connected ABC’s "Good Morning America." A snippet of nan question and reply aired Monday, pinch nan afloat conception being released Wednesday. Roberts asked Griner what she had to opportunity to nan skeptics who could not judge she had simply forgotten she had nan cartridges connected her.
"I would say, ‘Have you ever forgot your keys successful your car, near your car running? Have you ever (asked) where’s my glasses, and they’re connected apical of your head? Where’s my phone? Oh, it’s successful my pocket.’ It’s conscionable truthful easy to person a intelligence lapse," nan Phoenix Mercury halfway said.
"Granted, my intelligence lapse was much connected a expansive scale, but it doesn’t return distant from really that could happen."
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Former Baylor Bears subordinate Brittney Griner, right, and Baylor Bears caput coach Nicki Collen respond during a ceremonial to discontinue Griner's jersey earlier nan crippled betwixt nan Baylor Bears and nan Texas Tech Red Raiders astatine Foster Pavilion connected Feb. 18, 2024 successful Waco, Texas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)
Roberts besides asked what was going done Griner’s caput arsenic she was being searched.
"Just everything that I’m not gonna see. I’m reasoning astir my wife," she said. "Thinking astir what my family is gonna think, nationalist sentiment is gonna think. I tin conscionable spot nan headlines now, for illustration I could conscionable visualize everything I worked truthful difficult for conscionable crumbling and going away.
"And to beryllium location wherever there’s nary understanding. In nan U.S., I tin articulate what happened, really this happened. I didn’t scheme to do this. This was a mistake. It was an accident. I understand accidents person repercussions, but there’s nothing. There’s nary of that."
Brittney Griner looks connected successful nan 2nd half during nan NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Final Four semifinal crippled betwixt nan UConn Huskies and nan Iowa Hawkeyes astatine Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse connected April 5, 2024 successful Cleveland. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
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Griner returned to nan Mercury past season. She was an All-Star for nan eighth clip successful her career.
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