Washington Mystics All-Star and two-time WNBA MVP Elene Delle Donne revealed details about her health condition in a letter with the Player's Tribune just two days after league doctors denied her request to opt-out of the 2020 season.
In the letter, Delle Donne said that she takes 64 pills per day to keep her Lyme disease under control. She has dealt with the condition for 12 years and noted that taking those pills helps keep her "healthy enough to do my job and earn the paycheck that supports my family."
According to Delle Donne, her doctor has stated that the Mystics star's "immunocompromised" condition leaves her at high-risk to contract COVID-19 and recommended she sit out of the WNBA's shortened season.