Aces’ Liz Cambage Gets Medical Exemption for 2020 WNBA Season

Las Vegas Aces huge title Liz Cambage will miss the 2020 season but restful fetch her fleshy salary after the WNBA gave her a clinical exception amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance to Mechelle Voepel of ESPN. 

Per that document, Cambage wished to play this season but “fell severely sick while taking half in in China over the winter after which used to be dominated a medically high-possibility participant by the Aces’ physique of workers doctor in June. She then had to relief to glimpse if the WNBA would danger that, but [Aces head coach Bill Laimbeer] said it did no longer.”

The WNBA season will starting up up on Saturday, with the league’s gamers running in a bubble ambiance in Bradenton, Florida, the same to what the NBA has at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando.

Players who voluntarily opted out of the season is no longer going to obtain paid, but gamers who fetch clinical exceptions, fancy Cambage, Washington Mystics heart Tina Charles, Phoenix Mercury forward Jessica Breland and Contemporary York Liberty guard Asia Durr, will. The WNBA reserved the steady to overview any case of a physique of workers doctor deciding a participant ought to be medically exempt from participating within the 2020 season. 

“Our physique of workers doctor said, ‘No, she’s no longer going to play on this ambiance,'” Laimbeer said, per Voepel. “The league said, ‘Wait, we’re per chance going to position her in entrance of the panel.’ We’re of the placement that we stand by our clinical physique of workers. Then it grew to alter into beyond our succor an eye fixed on relating to no matter took place. About a week within the past, we received a name from the league pronouncing that they weren’t going to danger the option on Liz.”

Cambage believed she would possibly per chance own caught the coronavirus all over her time in China. 

“I truly used to be sick in clinical institution, and I in point of fact judge I had corona,” Cambage told Australia’s The Herald Solar in March (h/t Voepel). “I used to be so ancient, I could per chance well no longer stroll, I used to be in a wheelchair. I had pneumonia. I judge I had it sooner than it used to be a world factor.”

Cambage, 28, averaged 15.9 functions, 8.2 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per sport within the 2019 season. She helped Las Vegas reach the postseason and used to be an All-Megastar for the third time.