Summary: <p><span>WNBA head <a href="https://twitter.com/coachjameswade">coach James Wade</a> is coming off an historic coaching stretch, winning a WNBA championship and the WNBA’s 2022 Executive of the Year Award in the past two seasons with the Chicago Sky.</span></p> <p><span>But before his WNBA success, Coach Wade coached the same team in Russia that Brittney Griner- who's serving a cruel,<span> </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131007778/brittney-griner-appeal-decision-russia">nine-year sentence</a> in Russia- played for before her arrest.</span></p> <p><span>We talk to coach Wade about the experience for American basketball players overseas and about Brittney Griner’s incarceration in Russia.</span></p>
