How are we going to get Brittney Griner back?

[RockRaven]

3. What she was doing in Russia was making five times as much money in the WNBA off-season

as she does during the WNBA season, according to the article in my paper a few days ago.

So when it comes to preventing similar situations in the future, maybe that is something to work on: improving WNBA salaries.

As to what to do to get her back... There isn't an obvious route beyond treating it like any other case when an American gets arrested abroad -- which happens all the time, all over the world, just to people whose names the public doesn't know beforehand.

But it seems pretty likely that Russia isn't going to behave honestly or fairly here and treat it like any other case (and even that is too generous; there is no reason to believe Russia's word on the charges in the first place), so that leads to the obvious question: how many Ukrainian lives or Ukrainian freedoms is she worth to you, if she's just a de facto hostage/pawn in this Ukraine invasion/massacre?

That's a tough question.