To help players, the Boston Celtics organization offers mental-health resources, Al Horford told BI.
How the Celtics organization supports players' mental healthThis is a complicated, shared experience among frequent business travelers.
The NBA's increased focus on mental healthKensa Gunter, the NBA's director of mind health since 2020, is helping lead this charge across the NBA's 30 teams.
Those efforts evolved into the Mind Health program, which launched in 2018 and became an even more crucial resource in 2020, when the pandemic hit and social unrest swelled, Gunter added.
"How do you help someone maintain their mental health while they're doing so much traveling and are away from their families?"
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