The working conditions of WNBA athletes have come under scrutiny again after Los Angeles Sparks players were forced to sleep at an airport when their flight was cancelled
Sparks assistant coach Latricia Trammell tweeted a photo of airport lounge seats along with the caption: “Our beds tonight!”. Trammell also included the hashtag “charter”, a reference to the fact that WNBA teams are required to take commercial flights . The WNBAafter the team chartered private jets for some games, as it considered it an unfair advantage over other franchises with smaller budgets.
Travel problems are nothing new to WNBA players. The Chicago Sky also had to sleep in an airport earlier this season, while Olympic champion Kelsey Plum said flight delays contributed to her team, the Las Vegas Aces, losing to the Mystics in May. In the same month, the Connecticut Sun
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