WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne was shocked and hurt when her request to be medically excused for the season was denied by an independent medical panel.
Having battled Lyme disease for more than a decade and now taking 64 pills a day, she thought she was definitely going to be considered high-risk to get severe illness if she contracted the coronavirus.
“It hurts a lot. And maybe being hurt just makes me naive,” Delle Donne wrote. “And I know that, as athletes, we're not really supposed to talk about our feelings. But feelings are pretty much all I have left right now. I don't have NBA player money. I don't have the desire to go to war with the league on this. And I can't appeal.”
“She's part of our roster and she is being paid and continuing to rehab from her off-season back surgery,” Thibault said. “If at some point later in the season we're all comfortable and I mean all comfortable enough with both her physical progress and the safety of her joining the team in Florida we'll make those arrangements. If we don't feel that, she'll continue to do her workouts in D.C. and get herself ready for the following season.
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