After being honored at the Essence Black Women In Sports Brunch in New Orleans, WNBA Champion and 2022 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee, Swin Cash, spoke candidly about several factors impacting the prolonged detainment of WNBA star, Brittney Griner, in Russia. Griner has been sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on charges of smuggling drugs into the country. Brittney Griner, 31, pled guilty to bringing less than 1 gram of cannabis oil into Russia, which she claims she did "inadvertently."