Brittney Griner turned down the opportunity to play basketball in prison

According to Insider, weed-smuggler WNBA player Brittney Griner has not touched a basketball in the eight months she’s spent detained in Russia.

Though she has access to a hoop at the prison where she’s been held, Griner declined her attorneys’ offer to bring her a basketball, suggesting that it’s “too painful” for her to play the sport she loves under such dire circumstances.