The Net Worth And Challenges Of Brittney Griner

Publish date: 2024-05-04

The World National Basketball Association All-Star Brittney Griner was detained in Russia last month. She arrived at Moscow Airport for a game where she was checked.

While checking, her luggage had a vape pen and its cartridges filled with cannabis oil. She was charged with drug smuggling, which was found by the Russian Federal Customs Service after arriving at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.

Nobody has information on her whereabouts or in which condition Brittney is in. Her wife, Cherelle Griner is now venting on social media about her situation.

Cherelle voiced her disappointment in not hearing from Brittney since her detention in February in an Instagram post posted Monday.

Brittney Griner

Born on October 18, 1990, in Houston, Texas, Brittney Yevette Griner is an American professional basketball player. She plays for the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Phoenix Mercury team.

She is the daughter of Raymond Griner, who is a former marine and deputy sheriff, and Sandra Griner. She is the youngest of three siblings. The names of her siblings are, Decarlo, Shkera, and Pier.

In Her College Life

Brittney Griner went to Nimitz High School, which is located in Houston. Due to her interest in basketball, she lettered in basketball for four years of her high school.

Griner also participated in varsity volleyball as a rookie player and began practicing with the guys’ basketball team in her freshman year.

Then she took a training session with a Nimitz head coach to improve her leg strength in preparations for mastering to dunk in her junior year. 

A YouTube video of her dunks was seen over 2.7 million times during her junior season, which led to a meeting with Shaquille O’Neal when the video went viral.

When Brittney was in senior year, Houston’s mayor, Bill White announced that there will be Brittney Griner’s Day on May 7, 2009, because of her achievements.

On November 11, 2008, she had the most ever recorded by a girl in a high school game in the United States, with 25 blocks against Houston Alief Hastings.

She had set some major records, including a single-season record with 318 blocks in the 2008–09 season.

At such a young age, Griner has fascinated everyone with her skills, especially when she set a record of seven dunks in a game.

Griner was voted the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four in 2012. Baylor’s unbeaten season ended with 40 victories, the most in NCAA history.

Griner opted to withdraw her bid for a position on the 2012 U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team after winning the title on April 3, 2012. Griner injured her wrist a month later after falling off her skateboard while riding down a ramp.

When Baylor fell to the University of Louisville Cardinals in the Sweet 16 of the 2013 NCAA women’s basketball championship, her college career almost ended.

The U.S Olympian

On the 2012 U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team finals lineup, Griner was the only player currently playing college basketball, she also was the youngest one.

She has become one of just 11 players who have won an Olympic gold medal, a FIBA World Cup gold medal, a WNBA title, and an NCAA title.

Griner was subsequently chosen for her second Olympics in 2021 when she went undefeated and won gold with Team USA.

Griner is a WNBA player who also plays internationally. Griner spent the 2013–14 off-season in China with the WCBA’s Zhejiang Golden Bulls, as she signed a four-month deal worth $600,000, which would have been 12 times her rookie salary with the Mercury.

Coming Out as a Lesbian

Being something that the majority of people can’t relate to may be difficult. Coming out about one’s sexual identity is still frowned upon across the world.

So is the case with Brittney Griner. However, Griner is not just an athlete, but also an author. In My Skin, a new book she co-wrote, she remembers being harassed and bullies as a child because of her height and athleticism.

She used to get bullied for her overall appearance in her childhood, the way she talked and walked. And even when she was in high school, the bullying did not stop.

When she was playing at Baylor University in Texas, Griner told about her coach and came out as a lesbian. 

Griner was a well-liked star at her school, but because she had no clue that her school had a strict homosexuality policy she kept quiet about it and also her coach pushed her to stay low-key.

Shortly before graduating from college, Griner opened up about her sexual orientation in interviews with SI.com and ESPN. 

She now preaches people to come out as they are and be real. She is now on a mission to confront the issue of closet culture in women’s sports.

Relationships And Marriage

Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson fell in love and decided to get married. Even though Glory revealed that she does not consider herself a lesbian.

Johnson found out she was pregnant during a round of IVF the pair had done only weeks after they married. The couple had their own problems that were getting out of hand at that time. 

Regardless, the pregnancy was disclosed in early June by the couple. Their relationship only lasted for three months.

Griner sought for an annulment the next day. She stated in her documents that she married Johnson under coercion, that she was not interested in the IVF.

She also accused Johnson of texting her ex-boyfriend. Griner then eventually filed a revised document saying that she was indeed involved in the IVF, but only because of her wife’s insistence.

Cherelle Griner is an African American blogger and social activist that Griner fell in love with. In 2018, Brittney proposed to Cherelle Watson.

After purportedly meeting while studying at the same institution, Baylor University in Texas, the two got engaged in August 2018 and married secretly a few years later, with just a small number of close people.

Net Worth

Brittney Griner’s net worth is reported to be at $3 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She also has a regular income through sponsorships and brand collaborations.

Her fortune is reportedly derived from her professional basketball career in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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