More details have emerged on the harassment Brittney Griner faced from a conservative YouTube personality last week, an incident that has led to a promise of 'adjustments' from the Phoenix Mercury.
approached Griner as her team was walking through a concourse at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Saturday morning. The team was traveling to Indiana for a Sunday game after facing the Dallas Wings twice in Griner's home state of Texas.
Griner's Mercury teammate Brianna Turner described a similar scene that morning, calling it"excessive harassment." Players have requested the league allow them to travel via charter flights for years, an idea the league has consistently rejected and forbidden because it would be too expensive. Some teams have signaled a willingness to pay for them, and, but the league has deemed it an unfair advantage. The politicization of Griner's situation, however, created an obvious security risk if she had to travel via public airport terminals.
, while Griner's agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas told the WSJ the league didn't approve charter flights for the entire 2023 seasons.
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