Former NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman has put his hand up to go to Russia to seek the release of Brittney Griner. She’s the WNBA champ sentenced to 9 years in prison earlier this month after she was convicted of possessing and smuggling cannabis oil into Russia at the start of the year when she arrived to play in their national women’s comp in the US off-season. Rodman has a history with strong man leaders, like Michael Jordan. And in the political realm, he has cultivated a relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over the past decade, and in 2018, he showed up at former President Donald Trump’s meeting with Kim in Singapore. He’s also called Russian President Vladimir Putin “cool” after a 2014 trip to Moscow and says he knows him well. There are no restrictions on US citizens travelling to Russia, but yesterday Rodman said “I got permission to go to Russia to help that girl,” and he wants to go this week.