Brittney Griner makes look at MLK Day occasion in Arizona

WNBA famous person Brittney Griner, who was launched from a Russian jail final month in a prisoner swap with convicted arms supplier Viktor Bout, made an look at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day occasion in Phoenix on Monday.

Griner marched within the parade alongside together with her spouse, Cherelle. She additionally posed for pictures with followers alongside the route.

Gold medalists Angel Mccoughtry and Brittney Griner have fun in the course of the medal ceremony on the Rio Olympic Games on Aug. 20, 2016, Brazil.
(Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

“Glad to be residence,” she advised followers in the course of the parade, in line with KPNX-TV.

Griner was arrested in February 2022 as she was returning to her Russian basketball workforce. She was taken into custody at a Moscow airport after bringing vape cartridges containing oils derived from hashish by way of the ability. The arrest occurred proper earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine and phrase of it didn’t attain the Western media till weeks later.

Now again residence, Griner will take a while to get higher acquainted together with her environment. Her return to skilled basketball was not instantly clear.

BRITTNEY GRINER PENS LETTER TO SUPPORTERS: ‘BECAUSE OF YOU I NEVER LOST HOPE’

Brittney Griner sits within the aircraft as she flies to Abu Dhabi to be exchanged for Viktor Bout, in Russia, Dec. 9, 2022.
(Russian Federal Security Service by way of AP)

“If she needs to play, it is going to be for her to share. She has the vacations to relaxation and resolve what’s subsequent with none stress,” Griner’s agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas advised ESPN final month. “She’s doing actually, rather well. She appears to have endured this in fairly unbelievable methods.”

Griner broke her silence on all the ordeal in an Instagram publish.

Brittney Griner hugs her spouse Cherelle after launch from a Russian jail.
(U.S. Army South photograph – Miguel Negron)

“It feels so good to be residence! The final 10 months have been a battle at each flip. I dug deep to maintain my religion and it was the love from so lots of you that helped hold me going. From the underside of my coronary heart, thanks to everybody to your assist,” she wrote within the publish in December.

Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.