is prepared to make her WNBA return for the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night - five months after being released from a Russian penal colony. Griner has been free since December when she was part of a high-profile prisoner swap. She hit the court for warmups about 90 minutes before the Mercury's WNBA season opener against the Sparks on Friday night.'Until the day we got the news in the morning that she was on her way home, no one thought that it was going to happen,' Phoenix coach Vanessa Nygaard said. 'We did our jobs probably with less joy than professional athletes do. It was heavy every day.'
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