All Things Basketball with GD - 2022-23 Season, Episode 100 on Brittany Griner Coming Home

Show notes:

Intro (00:00 - 00:43)

Celebrating the 100th episode & preview of Brittany Griner's situation and timeline (00:44 - 02:29)

February 17 - Being detained, the charges and her purpose being there along with the similar Audrey Lorber ordeal (02:30 - 07:24)

March 5 - Her detainment makes the news (07:25 - 07:42)

March 7 - Cherelle Griner's message on Instagram (07:43 - 08:42)

March 8 - Pic of Brittney as a detainee goes viral; Congress begins working on Brittney's detainment abroad (08:43 - 09:39)

March 17 - Brittney's detention extended 2 months (09:40 - 10:04)

March 23 - Brittney meets with a representative from the US Consulate (10:05 - 10:51)

May 13 - Brittney's detention extended again; State Department deemed detainment "unlawful (10:52 - 11:37)

June 15 - Brittney's detention extended a third time up until July 2; court date set for July 1; athletes all over speak out; House passed resolution calling her detainment unlawful; WNBA name Brittney honorary captain for the WNBA All Star Game on July 10 (11:38 - 13:40)

July 1 - court trial begins; testimony from the custom agents (13:41 - 14:53)

July 4 - Excerpts from Brittney's note sent to President Biden; Cherelle's reaction to the note; President Biden sends letter back to Brittney (14:54 - 17:13)

July 7 = Brittney pleads guilty to the charges; Cherelle and Brittney's Phoenix Mercury teammates stage a Bring BG Home rally (17:14 - 19:00)

July 10 - At the start of the 2nd half of the WNBA All Star Game, players from both teams wore Brittney jerseys; also wore Brittney t-shirts during warmups in support

(19:01 - 20:14)

July 14 - Brittney's Russian teammates and staff testifies on her behalf (20:15 - 21:06)

July 17 - A note from Brittney's doctor was submitted, citing her use of the cannabis is for medicinal purposes; also presented her anti-doping test results (21:07 - 22:21)

July 20 - A narcology expert brought in to testify of medicinal cannabis and its use for pain management (22:22 - 23:21)

July 27 - Brittney testifies in court of the ineptitude of her translator and reiterates her not knowing how the oil got in her bag; Biden made the 1st offer of Brittney and Paul Whelan for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout (23:22 - 25:48)

Aug 4 - Brittney sentenced to 9 years for smuggling narcotic drugs; her legal team called the verdict "absolutely unreasonable"; President Biden called the ruling "unacceptable" (25L49 - 27:33)

August 15 - Brittney's legal team files for an appeal of the ruling (27:34 - 28:12)

October 25 - Brittney's appeal denied by a 3 judge panel (28:13 - 28:53)

November 17 - Brittney moved to a female penal colony in Yavas, one of the worst in the country (28:54 - 31:34)

December 8 - Brittney freed from the Russian penal colony in a prisoner-for-prisoner swap with convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout (31:35 - 33:40)

Paul Whelan's situation and his history (33:41 - 37:26)

My assessment of the whole ordeal and my thoughts towards the detractors (37:27 - 47:59)

Call to action (48:00 - 49:16)

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