Perspective: “Brittney Griner needed her league to protect her and her mental state, not the priorities of stingy multimillionaires who don't want to pay for charter flights,” Candace Buckner writes.
According to a person familiar with the team’s plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the arrangement, the Aces worked with JSX to make public accessible routes that just so happened to coincide precisely with their road schedule. The Dallas-based airline did so, creating limited availablefor anyone to book, but the creative plan allowed the Aces to have semiprivate travel without waiting in long security lines and wandering around airports.
The Aces had booked a JSX route from Vegas to Atlanta to Indianapolis to Hartford, Conn. for a recent three-game road trip, but the league told the Aces to cancel the June 4 flight from Indy to Bradley International Airport at the last minute, forcing the team to scramble to find middle seats on another airline, according to the person familiar with the ordeal. An Aces spokesperson did not return messages, and a media representative with JetSuiteX declined to comment.
And one more thing: Terri Jackson, the executive director of the WNBA Players Association, had an ambitious idea for the entire league to fly charter, but it never took off.Jackson’s son Jaren plays for the Memphis Grizzlies, and a few years ago, when noticing the fines the NBA levies against its players go to, Terri Jackson proposed that some of that money be earmarked for the W.
We no longer need to come up with hypothetical situations about what could happen when the WNBA’s most controversial player is exposed in an unwelcome space. Outside of the fans in the arena who love her, everywhere Griner goes, she is a target. She needed her league to protect her and her mental state, not the priorities of stingy multimillionaires.
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