Brittney Griner is finally coming home.
Thank goodness!!!!!!!!!
The WNBA player has been held in Russian prisons for months after being detained due to Russian customs finding vape cartridges containing hashish oil. That was back in February.
Since then, the sports world and so many others have called for the United States to take action and get her home. Griner herself wrote a letter to President Joe Biden to make sure she wasn’t forgotten.
She was sentenced to nine years in prison, and news of discussions about a prisoner swap began swirling soon after. With reports that she was moved to a penal colony, the news kept getting more and more alarming.
But on Thursday, she’s reportedly coming home. Here’s everything we know (and we’ll update this as more news comes in):