The WNBA will pay for charter flights for the entire playoffs and back-to-back regular season games this year, the league announced Monday.
“As we continue to work on our growth as I’ve said we would chip away on this,” she said.
Griner is back in the WNBA after her nine-month legal fight in Russia, during which she was detained when customs officials said they found vape canisters with cannabis oil in her luggage, then later arrested before being released in a high-level prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia. Chartering flights for games on consecutive nights this season is easier then next year. With no Olympic break or condensed schedule for the World Cup this season there are less teams playing on consecutive nights. Next season that will change because of the 2024 Paris Olympics and Engelbert said that it will be more challenging.The commissioner hopes that charters in the future can be funded in part by the next TV deal.
WNBA teams have flown commercially during the regular season since the league's inception in 1997. The league typically doesn’t allow teams to charter because it could create a competitive advantage for teams who can afford to pay for them.Engelbert has said in the past that it would cost the league about $25 million each season for each of its 12 teams to charter flights to every game.
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