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Griner Relishes New Life As Pro V CONTINUED from 1C USA TODAY 2C SPORTS TUESDAY,JUNE 18, 2013 Griner relishes new life as pro v CONTINUED FROM 1C 10-year WNBA veteran Diana Taura- si says. “She’s not trying to be anyone she’s not. She’s not trying to be an ac- tress. She’s not trying to be a rapper. She’s Brittney Griner, who plays bas- ketball at the highest level. “She’s really re-energized the WNBA and revived the whole city (of Phoenix) with women’s basketball.” CHANGING THE LEAGUE On the court, Griner is a shot-block- ing, dunking, emotional superstar. Off it, she’s an active longboarder, lis- tens to Jimi Hendrix before games and Trace Adkins after, will soon be wearing clothes branded for men as part of a multiyear endorsement deal with Nike and has two pet snakes, Audii and Sage. Griner’s formula of openness gives the league, in many ways still seeking an identity with the American public, astar who’s highly unpredictable yet uniquely marketable. “I think you’re seeing more guys MARK J. REBILAS, USA TODAY SPORTS who are basketball fans purchasing Brittney Griner, showing off tattoos at a Phoenix shop, says there are more to come: “I want to get the full sleeve like DeCarlo (her brother).” tickets and watching WNBA games because of Brittney,” says Mercury Still, dunking is only part of Grin- her femininity, among other things. that,” Griner says of Collins. “By him owner Robert Sarver, who also owns er’s game. “The bullying I dealt with as a coming out, hopefully others will the NBA’s Phoenix Suns. “She gives so much more than child was very tough. It kind of come out as well. … I hope it gets to Val Ackerman, the WNBA’s found- dunks to the game,” Mercury coach shaped who I am now,” Griner the point where the reaction to being ing president and a former president Corey Gaines says. “She runs like a says. “Those people would say their gay is, ‘Oh, that’s cool,’ where it’s just of USA Basketball, says, “She’s cer- deer in transition. Her shot-blocking mean things, ignorant things, and another thing.” tainly a once-in-a-generation type of ability is so huge. But it’s going to go about their business and have a Griner said it was “kind of obvi- player, and she has the opportunity take time for her to adjust and great day while I’d be sitting there ous” when she came out to family to elevate the visibility of the WNBA crying, hating everything, not want- members and started dating in high in a completely new way. Fans of to- “As far as changing the ing to be around. You’ve got to brush school. day are more interested in the story game, how the game is it off. Now, I can relate to a younger In her freshman year at Baylor, behind an athlete. crowd or anyone who’s gone through she described having “the worst “The fact that Brittney embraces played, I don’t see that. bullying. breakup” of her life. who she is can only help the game. ... No one player can “You’ve got to smile in everyone’s Griner’s current girlfriend was We’re seeing a star player making a completely change the face, even if you’re crying on the present during her USA TODAY stand, and we haven’t always seen league. ... Guards inside.” Sports interview. For privacy con- that in the league.” cerns, Griner asked that her name be Griner offers a brand of athleti- dictate it. Even Wilt COMING OUT kept out of the story. cism never before seen in the WNBA. (Chamberlain) only won Part of Griner’s transition into being “She’s different than anyone I’ve In the Mercury’s season-opening (two championships).” herself came with being open about ever dated,” Griner says. “I’m a rebel. game against the Chicago Sky — her sexuality. Ibuck the system a little bit. She’s Griner’s first WNBA game — she Bill Laimbeer, Liberty coach In April, Griner revealed she is gay, like the complete opposite — good threw down two power dunks in dominate. ... In time, she’ll change an announcement Griner says was an girl with no confrontation. It’s every- what was the most-viewed WNBA the game. She already has. There’s a easy decision when she considered thing that we need to help balance game on ESPN2 in nine years. three-second rule on defense this the large number of people her mes- each other out.” “Before games, I’ll have fans wear- season that I don’t think is a coinci- sage could reach. ing the opponents’ attire and they’ll dence.” “I’ve heard people say, ‘Why do CELEBRITY LIFESTYLE be like, ‘I came to watch you dunk.’ Taurasi has taken a mentoring you need to say you’re gay? Keep Driving to a walk-through practice in And I’m like, ‘So you came to see me role, teaching Griner the intricacies your personal life to yourself.’ I say to the truck she bought after being dunk on your team, basically?’ That’s of the pick-and-roll, which she had them, ‘What about the kids who need drafted, Griner is complaining about cool,” says Griner, who considers de- never run before. someone to look up to?’ ... the traffic and apologizes to her pas- fense and shot-blocking her biggest “I think it’s incredible for her to “Just knowing that you can help sengers. “I have road rage,” she says, strengths. come in as the most popular and somebody out, that’s a feeling you tapping her size-18 shoe on the gas “There’s a lot of expectations; I get marketed player, and she walks into can’t express.” once there’s an open road. that. There’s a lot of, ‘She has to the locker room ready to work like In a story in ESPN The Magazine, Walking up to US Airways Center, change the league.’ But I just feel like everybody else,” Taurasi says. Griner said she kept her sexuality a home of the Suns and Mercury, she is if I play ball the way I know how, I After the season, like most WNBA secret at Baylor, claiming coach Kim easily identifiable — not necessarily can help make the league more excit- players, Griner plans to continue Mulkey insinuated it would hinder for her tall and slender frame, but ing.” playing overseas. She signed a multi- recruiting and the program’s image. because a 75-foot banner of Griner The Mercury started the season year deal with Zhejiang Chouzhou of “Look, Brittney wasn’t able to be drapes down the side of Hotel 0-3 despite being picked as the fa- China. Brittney at Baylor,” Taurasi says. Palomar. vorite to win the WNBA title in She also plans to suit up for the “That happens all over America. We “Just going to Walmart, it’s like 2013, showing that Griner’s impact U.S. national team, something she all feel that way, like your program is autograph land,” Griner says. on the game won’t simply happen didn’t do in college. Griner told USA more important when you’re at that “There’s no running to get a gallon of overnight. TODAY Sports it was definitely a goal age. But in reality, without her, who milk anymore.” “As far as changing the game, how to play in the 2016 Olympics after gives a (expletive) about Baylor?” Griner says she’s never turned the game is played, I don’t see that,” passing on the 2012 team for family Mulkey issued a statement to USA down an autograph, knowing how New York Liberty coach and former reasons. TODAY Sports about the ESPN re- much those five seconds mean to NBA big man Bill Laimbeer says. “No As the WNBA pushes its new star port and Taurasi’s comments saying fans. one player can completely change further into the spotlight, Griner has she couldn’t comment on Griner’s “I want my daughter looking up to the league. ... Guards dictate it. EveN slowly been answering the question: PHOTOS BY THE (PHOENIX) ARIZONA REPUBLIC personal matters. her,” says Terri Thomas, a longtime Wilt (Chamberlain) only won (two Who is Brittney Griner? Griner clowns around with Mer- Griner has received positive and Mercury season ticketholder. championships).” “Most athletes act all unhuman cury teammate Diana Taurasi. negative feedback for her choice to Aleast one person thinks she Griner’s two effortless slams set a and you can’t relate to them. I’m the be open with her sexuality, a choice knows the answer to “Who is Britt- record for dunks in a WNBA game exact opposite,” Griner says. more tears than smiles. Growing up, that coincided with Jason Collins be- ney Griner?” and tied a league record for dunks in Over the course of a two-day inter- she was the victim of bullying. The coming the first openly gay NBA “She’s my hero,” 8-year-old Sarah acareer. And that came after she view with USA TODAY Sports, Grin- name calling still resonates, and she player. Thomas said, “because she’s confi- made 18 dunks at Baylor. er recalled a time when there were still endures online jabs questioning “He was very brave to step out like dent with who she is.” IN BRIEF house in April 2012 and became so burg, has faced at least nine lawsuits intoxicated that she blacked out, said since 2011 from business owners her attorney, Susan Burke.After re- claiming they were not being paid for porting it to the Naval Criminal In- work at his coal mines.
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