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BasketballDennis Rodman wants to save Brittney Griner
Eccentric ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman intends to travel to Russia to work for the release of the WNBA player. But the government does not see this in a good light.
This is not Dennis Rodman’s first geopolitical coup.
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Eccentric ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman intends to travel to Russia to work for the release of WNBA player Brittney Griner, revealed on Sunday NBC News. But, according to a member of the government who is worried, “this trip could hamper the efforts already undertaken”.
According to the network, Rodman said he hoped to fly to Russia this week to help basketball player Griner, who was sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian court for trafficking cannabis. “I got permission to go to Russia to help this girl,” Rodman told NBC. I’m trying to go there this week.”
In a statement to AFP, a senior official in Joe Biden’s government expressed concern that “anything that does not enter into the continuation of the negotiation through the established channel is likely to complicate and hinder the efforts of release”.
“Really Cool” Poutine
At 61, the five-time NBA champion is not on his first geopolitical coup. He has been close to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and has visited the reclusive country several times.
Dennis Rodman falls into the arms of Kim Jong-un: it was February 28, 2013.
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He was also in Singapore in 2018, during the summit between Kim Jong-un and former US President Donald Trump. Rodman met Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014 in Moscow, describing him as “really cool.”
Considered one of the best basketball players in the world, Brittney Griner, 31, was arrested in February in Moscow in possession of a vaporizer containing cannabis-based liquid. Since his arrest, Moscow and Washington have been discussing a possible prisoner exchange, despite tensions linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Brittney Griner when the verdict was announced on August 4.
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