Brittney Griner Yevette is a professional basketball player from the United States who currently plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and UMMC Ekaterinburg in Russia.
Griner was born in Houston, Texas in 1990 as Brittney Yevette Griner.
She is of African American descent and of American nationality.
Griner attended Nimitz High School and participated in both volleyball and basketball.
The Mayor of Houston, Bill White, announced May 7, 2009, as Brittney Griner Day. She was a basketball player at Baylor University.
Her memoir, which she co-wrote with Sue Hovey, is titled In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court. Griner, a skilled basketball player, has an estimated net worth of $3 million, which she has acquired during her successful NBA career.
This writing will shed a light on her family.
Brittney Griner siblings: Meet Shkera Griner, Decarlo Griner and Pier Griner
The basketball star has three siblings, with two sisters, Shkera Griner and Pier Griner, and a brother, Decarlo Griner.
All her siblings are mostly reserved individuals with some of them appearing at her games week in and week out.
They have supported her rise to fame immensely to the extent that Griner talks about them the least opportunity she gets.
Who are her parents?
The NBA player’s parents are Raymond and Sandra Griner. Griner revealed her sexual orientation as a lesbian in a 2013 interview with SI.com faced a tough time with her parents.
She confessed her sexuality to her mother, Sandra Griner, during her freshman year of high school, but kept it a secret from her father, Raymond.
