MOSCOW -- Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner on Monday filed an appeal of her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drugs possession, Russian news agencies reported.
Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted Aug. 4. She was arrested in February at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage.
Griner played for a women's basketball team in Yekaterinburg during the WNBA offseason.
Lawyer Maria Blagovolina was quoted by Russian news agencies Monday as saying the appeal was filed, but the grounds of the appeal were not immediately clear.