Ahead of her still: a 90-minute ride home to her apartment in southeastern Connecticut, where she can snuggle her Goldendoodles and sink her head into her pillow. From there, it was another hour ride, a day's work and then back to the airport to board this 9 p.m. and was driven 120 miles to New York to catch a six-hour flight to Los Angeles. She woke up four hours later, climbed into a car at 2 a.m. Jones scored 18 points and grabbed 13 rebounds.
It's been a long 27 hours since she strode off the court at Mohegan Sun Arena after leading the Sun to their 13th consecutive victory, beating the New York Liberty 98-69 on Sept. She needs more space, but mostly she needs more sleep. The 6-foot-6 Connecticut Sun forward stretches her legs as much as she can in her exit-row seat. ALREADY 22 HOURS into her journey, and with the final leg of her 6,000-mile trip still to go, tears prick the corners of Jonquel Jones' eyes.
