Briahanna Jackson denounces abuse in Mexican basketball. / Photo: Liberators
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Abuse, lack of payment and neglect in a serious injury are the complaints made public by basketball player Briahanna Jackson.
In January 2024, Mineras de Zacatecas, a team from the Mexican Women’s Professional Basketball League (LMBPF), announced Briahanna Jackson as a reinforcement, who did not finish the season due to a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee that will leave her out of action. the staves between six and seven months.
The athlete was injured on Saturday, March 9, but says that she was given crutches until Sunday night, on Tuesday the 12th she received medical attention and a week later she underwent surgery. They did not pay for her rehabilitation, they owe her three weeks of salary, they stopped paying her after the injury and, in addition, they deny her a copy of her contract.
“I gave everything I had to that organization (…) I am disappointed in the situation because of how much I enjoyed playing in that city,” Jackson expressed through her social networks, where she also clarified that the claim has nothing to do with her teammates. nor coaches.
Likewise, he will never play for Mineras again and assured that he has all the receipts “in case they try to lie again.”
It’s not the first time
This is the second team with which the woman born in Middletown, New York, United States has had a bad experience, as she also reported that Plebes de Mazatlán “treated us horribly.”
“We were 11 players living in a small house and some of them slept two people per bed. They gave us processed food with sugar. “They put us up in 2-star hotels, four (players) per room.”
He also says that when they lost a game, the punishment was to walk back from the field to the hotel. There were humiliations and, at least with her, they have a debt of 10,000 pesos.
Briahanna has a long history on Mexican courts with the LMBPF, LNBP Femenil, ABC Méx and the Chihuahua League. She has gone through teams such as Aztks, Teporacas, Libertadoras de Querétaro, Mineras, Plebes, Pioneras.
2024-05-03 05:11:08
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