We still have no idea when she might be released. There also really needs to be a conversation about whom people are getting into business with. The nba had an owner of a team that was a russian oligarch. In the english premier league there are football teams that are owned by oligarchs. Or, you know, oil money from the middle east. These are not plucky business people who started a lemonade stand and built it into something. No, they're part of a criminal enterprise, and that's who you're getting intoBusiness with.
A week before Russia invaded Ukraine, it detained WNBA superstar Brittney Griner. Now the United States is turning up the pressure to get her released. ESPN’s T.J. Quinn explains.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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