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'It's just beneficial for everybody's bodies,' Liberty star Breanna Stewart said.

LAS VEGAS — On the New York Liberty’s flight to Las Vegas for the first leg of the WNBA Finals, coach Sandy Brondello initially used the five-plus hour trip to watch film. She took out her laptop and continued her preparations. Then, at some point, her computer died. “And the outlets wouldn’t work,” Brondello said. “So I’m like, it’s telling me to shut it down and sleep.” Advertisement Brondello could rest comfortably. The only people around her were members of the organization.

“There’s no way any male sport has charter travel without a huge media rights deal,” she said. Later adding: “You’re not gonna jeopardize the financial stability of this league, I’m telling you. If the players got what they wanted right now — look, I want it for them too — but they’re not going to have jobs in three to five years if we did it today.

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