Women’s National Basketball Association Women’s National Basketball Association ‘A day of joy’: Brittney Griner returns to WNBA action after being jailed in Russia Updated May. 20, 2023 12:23 p.m. ET share facebooktwitterredditlink Brittney Griner stood for the national anthem before her first regular-season WNBA game since being jailed in Russia. Griner was outspoken for social justice in 2020 and didn’t take the court during the pregame anthem. But nearly a year behind bars in Russia changed her. “I was literally in a cage and could not stand the way I wanted to,” she said. “Just being able to hear my…