New York Liberty’s Breanna Stewart says players would like a few more days off following Olympic Games
United States' A'ja Wilson grabs a loose ball in front of Janelle Salaun, of France, during a women's gold medal basketball game at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics on Aug. 11, 2024, in Paris, France.The WNBA didn’t waste any time returning to the hardwood after the Olympics and the quick turnaround after the Paris Games is something players may look to change in the next collective agreement.
“I think that even in a non-Olympic year, you think about all-star, it’s like, everybody needs some time after all-star break, or it’s not a break. So trying to kind of push that into the CBA, I think would be really important,” she told the Associated Press. “Especially following the Olympics, because we’ve never had an Olympics in a 40-game season, except this season.”The quick turnaround didn’t seem to hurt New York, which had four players and its head coach competing in the Paris Games.
“From the W’s perspective, I’m sure they’re like, well, we don’t want to be not showing games for an entire month or a month plus. But at the same time, understanding the players’ perspective, I think, is really important,” she said. “It’s wild, from Paris to the West Coast, so it’s just like, not an ideal situation.”“It’s like, onto the next, onto the next, onto the next, where we kind of don’t even really celebrate what we did, of winning a gold medal, as much as you would want to.
“I definitely needed some time to decompress. Playing USAB a whole other thought and mind process that you might not necessarily have to exert that much energy when you play with your respective team,” Wilson said. “So definitely needed just a couple of days just to kind of decompress, whether that’s just get back into the flow of things, or just get my feet underneath me, because that was a long time away with a lot of, just, back and forth.
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