Inside Brittney Griner’s Russia Arrest, detainment and release

"Pack up," one told him. "You know where you're going."

"I hope so," he said

.The guards told him they would be back in 20 minutes. It wouldn't take that long to box up the few family photos, four or five books, and the drawings he had made.

While he packed, some 5,200 miles away, American basketball player Brittney Griner already had been moved out of a Russian women's prison.

Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner played for UMMC Ekaterinburg in Russia during the WNBA offseason. BSR Agency/Getty Images