Kareem Abdul-Jabbar backs WNBA players saying he knows firsthand the toll that traveling commercially has on an athletes' body.
Seven-year veteran Breanna Stewart, the highest profile free agent this offseason, said she"would love to be part of a deal that helps subsidize charter travel for the entire WNBA" to prioritize player safety and health. Abdul-Jabbar applauded Stewart for being on the forefront:"Congrats Breanna for raising this issue.
"It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row," he said on Geno Auriemma's podcast in 2017."We did that and we flew commercial. These guys, they never even go to the airport. I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours and playing a game that day.”
Barkley added: "It was so crazy because every plane leaves at 6 or 7 in the morning. We'd be in the airport by 4:30, 5 most times. We'd be sleeping, half the guys laying on the floor and then my first year I was in coach the whole year."
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