A single of the WNBA’s thorniest logistical problems appears on the verge of remaining put to mattress.
The league will give charter air vacation to all its teams for the very first time, commissioner Cathy Engelbert reported Tuesday—a 7 days before the starting of the frequent year.
“We intend to fund a total-time charter for this season,” Engelbert explained to reporters.
For each the commissioner, the flights will price tag $25 million more than two seasons and will start “as shortly as we can get planes in spots.”
The inadequate condition of WNBA travel has long been a warm subject matter in basketball circles, with the New York Liberty going through intense willpower for splurging on a workforce journey to Napa in 2021 on the grounds that it exceeded payment allowable less than the league’s CBA.
This period is the most predicted in WNBA historical past, as the league welcomes rookie Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark and Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese to an currently intriguing crop of stars. The New York Liberty and Washington Mystics will tip off the frequent year on Tuesday, Could 14 in Washington D.C.
