Unsurprisingly, Brittney Griner didn't appreciate her preventable harassment at an airport earlier this month.
"'I'll say this. I think we should have already had the option to use a different airline, a more private airline, charter flights," Griner said, without specifying exactly what the Mercury are doing now."It's a shame that it had to get to rock bottom, because I feel like waiting for something to happen and then making a change ... you don't know what that 'something's' gonna be. We've all seen what can happen in this world.
"So I'm glad that they finally got it together. And, you know, are gonna allow us to do this. It's just a shame that it took so damn long, honestly." Griner was walking through a public concourse at the Dallas airport on June 10 when a YouTuber walked up to her and started asking her a series of inappropriate questions, such as whether she had sex with Vladimir Putin to get out of prison. He was quickly pushed away by a Mercury security employee.
The entire WNBA world knew the potential for Griner to be harassed or worse if she was forced to fly public commercial airlines during her first season back from her 10-month imprisonment in Russia. Her getting harassed on only her second road trip quickly sparked a blame game involving the league. The WNBA claimed it gave the Mercury permission to fly Griner, and only Griner, privately, while other reports indicated the league landed on a sort of hybrid plan in which Griner was only given initial approval for two charter flights.
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