MERCURY RE-SIGN BRITTNEY GRINER

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PHOENIX-- The three-time WNBA Champion Phoenix Mercury have actually re-signed center Brittney Griner, the team announced today.  Mercury General Manager Jim Pitman: "It's a fantastic day for everyone to announce that Brittney Griner has actually officially authorized to play for the Mercury in 2023.  We missed BG on a daily basis that she was gone and, while basketball was not our main issue, her presence on the floor, in our storage locker room, around our organization, and within our community was considerably missed.  We will certainly remain to utilize the resources of our company to support her, on and off the floor, and we are delighted for her that she reaches go back to basketball, which she enjoys so a lot.  This is a special signing and today is a special day for everyone. "Mercury Head Of State of Business Workflow Vince Kozar: "I do not believe any of us will certainly forget where we were on Dec.  8 when we listened to BG was getting back or on Dec Mercury Basketball Jersey.  15 when she announced she planned not only to play basketball in 2023 but that it would be for the Mercury.  And I know none people will certainly ever before forget what it will certainly seem like to invite her back onto her home floor on May 21.  To know BG is to love and appreciate BG, and we can't wait to reveal her that in person with thousands and countless her most significant supporters precisely 3 months from today at our Welcome Home Opener. "Since being selected with the No.  1 overall pick by Phoenix az in the 2013 WNBA Draft, Griner has been named to the WNBA's Top 25 Players of Perpetuity list, possesses 8 All-Star game options, two WNBA racking up titles, 2 WNBA Defensive Gamer of the Year honors, 6 All-WNBA Group selections, seven All-WNBA Defensive Team nods and 13 profession Player of the Week honors.  She has shown up in the postseason in all 9 of her WNBA seasons, consisting of 6 journeys to the WNBA Semifinals, two journeys to the Finals, and won a champion in 2014.  Griner is likewise a member of the exclusive club of 11 females who have actually won an Olympic, Globe Mug, WNBA and NCAA Griner's most current period in 2021, she led the organization in efficiency ranking, completed second in scoring ordinary, 2nd in field-goal percentage, initially in blocks per game, and balanced a franchise-record and career-high 9 https://www.mercuryteamstore.com/Ariel_Hearn_Jersey. 5 rebounds.  Her dominant project consisted of a single-season franchise-record 16 double-doubles.  After balancing 20+ points in 3 consecutive periods from 2017-19, Griner did so once more for the 4th time in 5 periods in 2021.  Griner was the only gamer in the organization in 2021 to typical 20+ points, 9+ rebounds and 1. 9+ blocks per video game.  Since Griner was prepared in 2013, no WNBA player has actually put up such numbers in a full season.  Throughout the 2021 project, Griner videotaped both her 4,000 th job point and her 700th profession block, becoming just the third player in WNBA history with 4,000 job points and 700 blocks.  In just nine years, Griner has actually taken control of essentially every group and organization document for blocked shots.  The Baylor item owns the WNBA records for blocks in a single-game, blocks in a playoffs game, obstructs in a single-season, single-season block standard, and occupation block standard.  She has actually led the league in blocks per video game in eight of her 9 professional seasons, a WNBA document, and her averages in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 stand for 4 of the very best nine seasons in WNBA history.  She presently places fourth on the WNBA's all-time blocks list with 716 in 254 career has additionally altered the landscape of the WNBA as the only gamer to dunk in a regular period or championship game since turning pro.  The 6-9 center owns 17 occupation regular season dunks throughout her 254-game occupation, one playoff dunk and 5 All-Star Video game dunks.  Entering the 2023 WNBA season, the remainder of the organization has actually incorporated for just four regular season dunks in the WNBA's 26 seasons.  Her 5 dunks throughout the 2021 season was a single-season job ideal.  With Team USA, the two-time Olympic gold champion scored 30 factors in the 2020 Tokyo gold medal video game versus Japan, joining Lisa Leslie as the only U. S. A https://www.mercuryteamstore.com/Desi_rae_Young_Jersey.  Women's National Staff member to rack up 30+ points in an Olympic video game.  Furthermore, Griner is a two-time gold medalist with Team USA at the FIBA Female's Basketball World Championship and was called the MVP of the gold medal video game in 2018.  The three-time WNBA Champ Phoenix Mercury go back to Footprint Center this summer season, tipping off the season with on Sunday, Might 21 against the Chicago Sky in the Fry's Food Stores Invite Home Opener.