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Emotional Mercury center Brittney Griner calls U.S.-Russia prisoner swap a ‘huge win’

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PARIS – Twenty months after her own release, Brittany Griner called the past week’s historic prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia “a huge win.”

The swap included former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan and journalist Evan Gershkovich in a multicountry deal that freed 24 people.

“Great day,” Phoenix Mercury center Griner said in the wake of the U.S. prisoners being released from incarceration in Russia, and landing on U.S. soil late on the evening of Aug. 1. “I’m sure it will…

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