Brittney Griner's agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, pens a story for the L.A. TIMES sports section explaining why the WNBA Phoenix Mercury star was in Russia when she was detained and "what it says about women’s sports in the U.S." She writes while her client's "detention has risen to the top of news for its geopolitical relevance, supercharged by celebrity, at its underbelly lies a story of gender-pay disparity here in the United States."
She added of the effort to get Griner out of Russia: "I spend hours in communication every day with a dedicated group of people who are working to get BG home. It is a community filled with activists -- including WNBA players who’ve led some of our most important cultural conversations in recent years. It’s a community that chooses its words carefully, that’s used to moving together as a unit. For now, that community is doing its best to trust in BG’s legal team and have confidence in the White House’s commitment to doing everything in their power" (L.A. TIMES, 4/26).
