Brittney Griner will miss at least two WNBA games to focus on her mental health, Phoenix Mercury says

Brittney Griner will certainly miss a future trip with the Phoenix metro Mercury “to focus on her mental health,” the group introduced on Saturday. The WNBA celebrity is mosting likely to miss out on a minimum of 2 video games that her group is arranged to play throughout the journey to Chicago as well as Indiana today, although the Mercury claimed it is still completing “a timeline for her return” to the court.

“Mercury center Brittney Griner will not travel with the team on its upcoming two-game road trip to Chicago and Indiana (July 30-August 1) to focus on her mental health. The Mercury fully support Brittney and we will continue to work together on a timeline for her return,” the group created on social media sites Saturday mid-day.

Griner, an Olympic gold champion as well as skilled WNBA all-star, initially went back to the organization previously this year after being launched from guardianship in Russia. The specialist athlete had actually been apprehended in Russian jails for almost 10 months on medication fees prior to she was released in a prominent detainee swap last December for an arms dealership formerly put behind bars in the USA.

Griner re-signed an agreement with the Phoenix metro Mercury, the group where she had actually bet years before the detention, in the months following her arrival back residence. She made her initial authorities game-time look this period when the Mercury bet the Los Angeles Triggers in Might. Regarding a month later on, Griner played in her initial All-Star video game because her return.

“It meant everything to me,” Griner informed the group after the All-Star video game, CNN reported. “I didn’t think that I would be here today, honestly but everybody sending letters, sending love, posting. I’m still seeing it to this day everything that everybody did. It really meant a lot to me, it gave me hope it made me not want to just give it up for anything, so it was this league that helped me out.”