“Nobody’s going to go there until she’s home,” Brittney Griner’s teammate Breanna Stewart said.
Alexander Zemlianichenko / Pool/AFP via Getty Images fileBrittney Griner’s highly publicized legal woes in Russia and the country’s invasion of Ukraine has the top WNBA players opting to take their talents elsewhere this offseason.
Now, Stewart and other WNBA All-Stars, including Jonquel Jones and Courtney Vandersloot — who also have made millions of dollars playing in Russia — are going elsewhere this winter. All three played for Ekaterinburg, the same Russian team as Griner. That club won five EuroLeague titles in the past eight seasons and has been dominant for nearly two decades with former greats DeLisha Milton Jones and Diana Taurasi playing there.
“You want to have a better lifestyle, a better off-the-court experience, and just continue to appreciate other countries,” Stewart said. The 33-year-old guard said a lot would have to change before she’d ever consider going back to Russia to play even though she has many fond memories of the Russian people.
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