Mercury put up first video of Brittney Griner in uniform after re-signing WNBA star

Brittney Griner is again in a Phoenix Mercury uniform over two months after coming back from incarceration in Russia. 

Griner formally re-signed with the one WNBA workforce she’s ever recognized this week, reportedly on a one-year cope with Phoenix price $165,100. 

American skilled basketball participant Brittney Griner acknowledges followers as she watches on the sixteenth gap through the third spherical of the Phoenix Open golf event, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, in Scottsdale, Ariz.  (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)

On Friday, the franchise posted a video of Griner in a Mercury uniform for the primary time since her signing. 

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Griner, who spent 10 months in Russian custody after authorities allegedly found that she had vape canisters with hashish oil in her baggage, will return for her tenth WNBA season. 

The WNBA champion was arrested in February 2022 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and was later labeled as “wrongfully detained” by the U.S. State Department.

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted from a courtroom after a listening to, in Khimki simply exterior Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022.  (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko.)

After months of strained negotiations, Griner was launched from a Russian penal colony in early December in a prisoner change for convicted Russian arms vendor Viktor Bout.

On Thursday, Griner participated in a exercise on the workforce facility when Phoenix Suns heart Deandre Ayton emerged to observe.

“It’s unreal,” Ayton mentioned, based on the Arizona Republic. “Just watching her and seeing the reactions on her face. Her simply being again and attempting to get again in form and simply loving the sport she likes to do. You can inform her thoughts is free.”

Phoenix Mercury’s Brittney Griner (42) is congratulated on a play towards the Seattle Storm within the first half of the second spherical of the WNBA basketball playoffs Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, in Everett, Wash. Griner, who was a free agent, re-signed with the Mercury on a one-year contract based on an individual aware of the deal. The particular person spoke to The Associated Press on situation of anonymity on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, as a result of no announcement has been made.  (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Griner was drafted by Phoenix with the highest decide of the 2013 draft, serving to the Mercury win the WNBA championship in 2014.  

Phoenix opens the 2023 season on May nineteenth towards the Los Angeles Sparks.

Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.