Only After Getting Hit by Brittney Griner, Mother Discovered 1 Sure Shot Way of Dealing with ?Impossible to Wake? Daughter

The Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner has been the topic of discussion in the basketball fraternity for months. The eight-time WNBA All-Star is stuck in Russia after being detained at the Moscow Airport under drug possession charges in February. Griner traveled to the country to play for UMMC Ekaterinburg in the Russian women’s basketball league. As she waits for her appeal hearing scheduled for October 25, BG is constantly haunted by the fear of working in labor camps in Russian penal colonies.

However, back in 2014, Griner revealed in her book that it was nearly impossible to wake her up as a kid. But her mother found a sure-shot way to get Griner up after an unintentional incident.

The 2014 WNBA champ released her book In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court the same year. The book is a heartfelt memoir of Brittney Griner‘s painful journey to discovering herself as a kid, accepting her sexuality, and major incidents in her life that changed everything.

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Griner mentioned in the book that waking her up was nearly an impossible task. She was not one of those kids who would wake up after the first call. Instead, Griner would yell that she was up and then go back to sleep again.

How did mother Sandra wake Brittney Griner up?

Griner’s sister Pier would come to wake her up and her method was to shake the WNBA star up which she absolutely hated. As retaliation, BG would flail her arms and occasionally smack Pier Griner when she leaned to poke at her. However, once, Brittney Griner took a shot at her mother while her eyes were closed. The 32-year-old ended up ‘clocking’ her mother in the head. After the incident, Griner’s mother woke her up from a distance and waited until she finally got out of bed.

Eventually, BG’s mother found a sure-shot way to get Griner out of bed without even leaving the kitchen. Griner said, “All she had to do was sizzle some bacon in the skillet, and as soon as I smelled it, I was out of bed and on my way to the breakfast table.”

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Thus, Griner’s mother used her smarts to get her kid to wake up after getting hit by her.

Currently, the WNBA All-Star is fighting for her freedom while her family makes every effort to get her home. Hopefully, she will find a way to get through the most emotional phase of her life and return to the basketball court soon.