One of the WNBA’s biggest stars is on the move from Atlanta, less than a week after another superstar landed in the city.

Brittney Griner is signing with the Connecticut Sun in the team’s last season in the Northeast before relocating to Griner’s hometown of Houston. The Sun is making it worth her while, with a one-year deal reportedly worth seven figures, ESPN reported over the weekend. Exact figures haven’t been disclosed.

The contract makes Griner, 35, the second player to agree to compensation of $1 million or more per season following the WNBA’s groundbreaking new collective bargaining agreement with its players' union. That deal, signed last month, raised pay and benefits for WNBA players across the board and dramatically increased the amount that top-level stars could make.

The Sun will be Griner’s third team since returning to the WNBA after being held for nearly a year in a Russian jail in 2022. Like many players, Griner played in Europe during the WNBA offseason, mainly because they could make more money there than in the U.S. under the league’s old compensation rules.

She was detained at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow in February 2022, and charged with “large-scale transportation of drugs” after vape cartridges that contained hashish oil were found in her luggage. Her case made headlines and prompted a diplomatic effort by the Biden Administration to win her release.

After her release, she returned to the Phoenix Mercury, where she’d played her entire career, before signing with the Atlanta Dream on a one-year deal last February. The Dream last week traded for star forward Angel Reese, one of the most recognizable faces in the league, in exchange for Atlanta’s 2027 and 2028 first-round draft picks. 

A six-foot-9 center, Griner has been one of the WNBA’s most dominant bigs in history. Her resume includes ten All-Star nods, the 2013 Rookie of the Year award, six All-WNBA and seven WNBA All-Defensive nods, two scoring and eight block titles, two Defensive Player of the Year awards, and a WNBA championship in 2014 with the Mercury.