Brittney Griner will join Team USA in exhibitions against Tennessee on Nov. 5 and Duke on Nov. 12.
is returning to the USA Basketball Women’s National Team for next month’s training camp and two exhibitions, it was announced Thursday, marking the next step in the 33-year-old’s possible inclusion in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Here’s what you need to know: Griner joins Team USA for the first time since her detainment in Russia for 10 months in 2022. Team USA will play exhibitions against Tennessee on Nov. 5 and Duke on Nov. 12 and hold training camp in Atlanta from Nov. 7-9.
She scored 30 points in the gold-medal game against Japan at the 2020 Olympics in her most recent appearance in the red, white and blue. The two centers who filled in for her at the 2022 World Cup — and — both ended the 2023 WNBA season injured, and Jones’ availability for the Paris Olympics is in question as she recovers from an ACL tear.