Could 68″ Brittney Griner, a high school student play in the NBA once she graduates?”
HOUSTON — The teenage girl fixing to change her sport literally would rather fight than switch — switch tactics, switch athletic pursuits, switch herself just to fit into people’s vision of what she is supposed to look like or do. Once, she raced downcourt during a club basketball tournament in Galveston, Texas, and knocked a girl out, reprisal for being kicked in the head. In a den turned workout room at her home in the north-central part of this major Lone Star metropolis, Brittney Griner has speed and body bags, the latter which she pounded so hard the first time, she suffered cuts on her bare knuckles. Griner now uses wraps or leather gloves and, at 6-foot-8, needs to be mindful of the ceiling fan that keeps the room in a healthy supply of cool breeze. “You don’t think about it, but that’s one of the hazards of being that tall,” says her father, Raymond, a Harris County deputy sheriff, nodding at the fan. He still has to nod upward, being only 6-2. The teenage girl fixing to chan
