Elena Della Donne, reigning WNBA MVP, is upset that she was denied a medical exemption for chronic Lyme disease which she has had for 10 years. The exemption would have excused her from the shortened upcoming WNBA season yet given her full pay.
Here's what she had to say: “I’m now left with two choices: I can either risk my life … or forfeit my paycheck.” She must be kidding, right?
I'm almost twice her age and I go to work every day with far more exposure and higher personal risk than she does. In the hockey world, Kaapo Kakko has diabetes and he's planning on playing as far as I know.
Hockey is arguably the last major sport that has almost none of this sense of entitlement.