Two weeks after she was harassed at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport prior to boarding a commercial flight, Mercury center Brittney Griner criticized the WNBA on Monday for allowing the travel situation to reach what she described as “rock bottom.”
During a video call following the team’s introduction of interim head coach Nikki Blue to replace fired coach Vanessa Nygaard, Griner was asked about the incident in Dallas in which she was harassed by a social media personality while walking through the airport, and how she felt the league has handled the team’s travel situation since.
“I’ll say this. I think we should have already had the option to use a different airline, a more private airline, charter flights,” Griner said, per ESPN’s M.A. Voepel. “It’s a shame that it had to get to rock bottom, because I feel like waiting for something to happen and then making a change … you don’t know what that ‘something’s’ going to be. We’ve all seen what can happen in this world.
