![]() It was Diana Taurasi, the league legend who had spent all 18 seasons of her illustrious WNBA career with the Mercury. Bleary-eyed, Kozar briefly glimpsed a screen that showed "five or six missed calls and dozens and dozens and dozens of text messages and a CNN alert and an ESPN alert and a New York Times alert" before yet another incoming call filled the display of his phone. He woke up mere hours later to the sound of a phone that wouldn't stop ringing. "And that was essentially the last thing I read before I went to bed." "The very last line of that article - I'm paraphrasing - basically said, 'It's December 7th, and Brittney Griner still isn't home,'" Kozar recalled. The young executive had been interviewed for the story, so as he crawled into bed shortly before night gave way to morning, he ended the day by giving it a read. Griner is escorted to a hearing in Russian court during her detainment. With the holidays fast approaching and end-of-year preparations in full swing, The Athletic published an article naming Griner the "WNBA Person of the Year." The daylight hours of that Wednesday hadn't been much more pleasant for Kozar the slightly chilly, slightly overcast morning marked 293 days since Griner had first been taken into Russian custody. local time.īy the time the final buzzer sounded two hours later, Phoenix had suffered its biggest loss of the season - a 25-point rout so demoralizing, Suns superstar Devin Booker suggested it "should count as two losses," per the AP. He was in attendance at Footprint Center as the Mercury's NBA counterpart, the Suns, hosted the Boston Celtics for a game that tipped at 8 p.m. Kozar remembers Decembeing a long day and a late night. "Basketball is one of those things." The Phoenix executive 'found out with the rest of the world' that Griner had been freed "She wants to get back the pieces of her life that were taken away from her for a while," Kozar added. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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