Liz Cambage slams Opals AGAIN after former skipper said she needed therapy following Olympic fiasco

Basketball star Liz Cambage has taken one other swipe at Basketball Australia, claiming that they had by no means supplied her the extent of safety she has obtained within the WNBA.

The 30-year-old cited psychological well being causes and said she felt ‘at breaking level’ when she introduced her shock withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics final summer time, only a month earlier than the basketball match was set to begin.

She was additionally concerned in an altercation throughout a warm-up recreation towards Nigeria in Las Vegas in July, which was subsequently investigated by Basketball Australia. 

Liz Cambage said she feels much more protected within the WNBA than she ever was with the Opals

The Opals’ Olympic marketing campaign ended within the quarter-finals, whereas Cambage escaped a advantageous and a suspension however was formally reprimanded by the physique in November final 12 months.

But the four-time WNBA All-Star is feeling a lot better forward of the upcoming season, which will get underway in simply over two weeks. 

After two years with the Las Vegas Aces, the Australian signed for the Los Angeles Sparks within the offseason and will probably be hoping to ship the franchise’s first title since 2016 and is embracing her new environment.  

After two years with the Las Vegas Aces, Cambage signed for the LA Sparks within the offseason

‘I’m residing my finest life. I’m supported, I’m protected on a stage that the Opals or the Australian group by no means gave to me,’ she advised the ABC. 

‘My coronary heart lies with those that wish to defend me and those that need me to be the very best I will be, and I by no means felt that on the Opals in any respect, so yeah I’m good.’ 

Cambage’s remarks come lower than six months after she insisted she had ‘zero’ curiosity in representing Australia on the Women’s World Cup in Sydney later this 12 months.

She had initially threatened to boycott the Tokyo Olympics over a perceived lack of racial variety within the Australian Olympic Committee’s promotional pictures, earlier than finally agreeing to participate. 

Cambage (centre) pulled of the Opals squad simply earlier than the Tokyo Olympics final 12 months

Following her withdrawal, she slammed the ‘pretend news and lies’ when addressing allegations she was partying in Las Vegas.

‘This choice has been just a few days within the making however I’ve been at breaking level for a month or so now,’ she said in an Instagram video.

‘I’m fairly aggravated in any respect the pretend news and the lies I’m seeing floating round in news articles and being proven and being requested about.’

Former Opals captain Jenna O’Hea revealed she was scarred by the incident involving former teammate Cambage forward of the Tokyo Olympics final 12 months

O’Hea said the fallout from the incident was a motivating issue behind her retirement

Meanwhile, considered one of her former teammates admitted to seeing a psychologist to deal with the fallout of the incident involving Cambage.

‘That was big and all the pieces that surrounded it was actually huge,’ former Opals skipper Jenna O’Hea advised SEN’s This Is Your Journey – due to Tobin Brothers.

‘To be trustworthy, I noticed a sports activities psych for months afterwards attempting to cope with all of it and I do assume that that’s a part of the explanation why I’ve retired.

‘It took an enormous toll on me and was actually tough […] I don’t assume I’ll ever totally course of it to be trustworthy.’