Brittney Griner has agreed to signal with the Atlanta Dream on a one-year deal. Griner had been with the Phoenix Mercury since she was the No. 1 general pick of Baylor in 2013.
“So free company has been all the pieces I wished it to be,” Griner mentioned within the video. “I used to be capable of finding the place I wished to go. And actually what led me to that call finally was the workforce, the gamers, as people, after which additionally my household.”
Griner missed the 2022 marketing campaign when she was wrongfully detained in Russia for almost 10 months. Griner returned to All-Star type in 2023 and 2024.
Griner joins a workforce additionally headlined by Rhyne Howard, drafted first general by the Dream in 2022, and Allisha Grey, for whom Atlanta traded for in 2023.