PHOENIX, Ariz. (KGUN)— Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs joined WNBA star Brittney Griner in Phoenix Thursday for her first public speaking event since coming back home to Arizona from a Russian prison.
Griner unveiled a mural to recognize a new partnership between the Phoenix Mercury and Bring Our Families Home, an organization campaigning to bring wrongfully detained Americans back to their homes.
The mural is located in downtown Phoenix near the Footprint Center, the home of the Phoenix Mercury and Phoenix Suns.
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