Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner has received the season-long WNBA Cares Community Assist Award in part for her continued work in championing the safe return of wrongful detainees overseas, the league said on Friday.
Throughout the 2023 WNBA season, Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a high-profile prisoner exchange last year, worked with Bring Our Families Home, a campaign that helps spread awareness about wrongfully detained Americans.
Bring Our Families Home launched in April with a 30-foot-wide mural at the Mercury's arena that featured the face of Griner and more than a dozen detained individuals along with a QR code that directed fans to the campaign's website. Griner, 33, was also honored for the BG Heart & Sole Shoe Drive she founded in 2016 which, in partnership with the Phoenix Rescue Mission, distributed nearly 3,000 pairs of shoes this season to those in need in the Phoenix metro area.
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