NEW YORK – Elena Delle Donne is hurt that her request was denied to be medically excused for the season.The panel of independent doctors the league and union agreed upon to decide whether players should be medically excused deemed her not to be “high risk, and should be permitted to play in the bubble.”The league's reigning MVP has battled Lyme disease since 2008 and thought she would be medically excused from playing this season by the panel.
However, the disease is not included on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of underlying conditions that could put someone at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.The Washington Mystics star wrote in The Players' Tribune on Wednesday about her disappointment with the.