It didn’t take lengthy for WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert’s promise of chartered flights to create points. Eight-year veteran Brittney Sykes known as her out straight on Saturday to demand solutions for the inconsistencies in what the gamers have been instructed and actuality.
What’s loopy is that this problem wouldn’t have existed even only a few months in the past with out Caitlin Clark and the eye that this 12 months’s rookie class is bringing to the league!
Previous to this season, each single WNBA crew flew business. They needed to shlep it out and in of airports alongside folks occurring trip or touring to see household. The skilled athletes sat alongside the typical joe on airways like Southwestern, Delta and Jet Blue.
That’s now not the case.
Quite, it received’t be the case in only a few days. Engelbert not too long ago introduced that starting on Might 21, all groups will probably be flying constitution to video games. A brand new period is on the horizon and it could not have occurred this rapidly with no viral video of Clark within the Dallas airport previous to a preseason recreation earlier this month.
Though the brand new constitution system doesn’t go into impact till Tuesday, Engelbert stated that groups with a tough journey schedule could have precedence for chartered flights within the meantime. Besides…
The WNBA may’ve missed one!
Sykes and the Mystic are speculated to fly business for his or her away recreation in opposition to the Los Angeles Sparks on Tuesday. Washington will make the journey on Monday, someday earlier than the brand new constitution system goes into impact for the complete league.
The crew’s high scorer wonders why why they aren’t getting a constitution.
Constitution Flights are given to groups with lengthy/sophisticated journey … earlier than Might twenty first …
We go away Might twentieth for LA….. however we’re not flying constitution …
DC to LA 5+hr flightIndy to Conn 1.5+ hr flight
No shade , simply actually for the reasoning ????
— Brittney Sykes (@BrittBundlez) on X
The 30-year-old guard additionally tagged the WNBA’s official account and Engelbert in her submit.
Skyes might or might not get a response to her inquiry, however the league did reply to comparable feedback from Breanna Stewart earlier this week. Both means, it’s a truthful query to which all of us in all probability know the reply.
Precedence goes to the most important names…
