The United States' Brittney Griner shoots over Japan's Maki Takada during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Women's Basketball Final at Saitama Super Arena on Aug. 8, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. - Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS
By Zach Koons Ben Proudfoot, director of “Queen of Basketball,” ended his acceptance speech by supporting the detained WNBA star. A director had a pointed message for President Joe Biden regarding WNBA star Britney Griner after accepting an Academy Award on Sunday evening. Ben Proudfoot, who received the award for Best Documentary Short for “Queen of Basketball”, a film about basketball Hall of Famer Lusia Harris, ended his acceptance speech by imploring President Biden to “bring Brittney Griner home.” Griner, 31, was detained in mid-February after Russian authorities claimed they discovered v...
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