1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: What is your problem for I got a lot of 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: problems with your people. We have a problem. 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 2: What's your problem? 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: I got ninety nine problems on ninety three Double TYPC. 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 2: It's a little segment where we have some group of therapy. 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 2: What's your problem, Jim? 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I got the problem today. So you know, I'm 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: a huge Caitlin Clark fan, love everything about Kaitlin Clark, 9 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: and we're getting ready for the WNBA season. Here's the 10 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: problem I've got. Well, okay, so there's more before I 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: get to the problem. Okay, so we love Kaitlyn Clark, 12 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: but we know that Kaitlyn Clark kept getting bullied and 13 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: pushed around for her first year in the WNBA, and 14 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: then the fever got Sophie Cunningham. Sophie Cunningham was the enforcer, 15 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: and of course there was that game against the Connecticut 16 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: Sun last year where you know, they were beating up 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: on Kaitlyn Clark, throwing her to the ground, and Sophie 18 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: Cunningham grabs J. C. Sheldon throws her to the ground. 19 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: Sophie's the enforcer in all of this. Well, here's the problem. Yeah, 20 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: the WNBA has some expansion teams this year and coming 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: up on Friday is the expansion Draft. Now, part of 22 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: that is each existing team gets to protect only five players. Yep, 23 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: and so everybody is predicting that Sophie Cunningham will not 24 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: be one of those five players that the Indiana Fever protects. 25 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, so she's not a guaranteed protective player, which means 26 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: her roster spot is uncertain. 27 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's likely that she'll because she's such a good 28 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: player and such a good enforcer that it's likely one 29 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: of the expansion teams is going to draft her, and 30 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark could lose her enforcer this year for the WNBA. 31 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: That's my problem. I don't want to go back to 32 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: where she's just getting beat up on the court every day. 33 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 2: Okay, So the expansion teams that you mentioned, you've got 34 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 2: Portland Fire and also Toronto Tempo. This doesn't necessarily mean 35 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 2: that Sophie Cunningham would be going to one of those teams. 36 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: She could be going anywhere if the Fever don't retain her. 37 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: Well, that is also a possible. It's a there's two 38 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: possibilities on how she could leave. The most likely possibility 39 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: is that she gets drafted in this expansion draft on Friday. 40 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: If that doesn't happen, Yeah, she's still got to get 41 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: a contract with the Fever, but I think all indications 42 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 1: are the Fever want her back if she doesn't get 43 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: picked up in this expansion draft on Friday. The bad 44 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: news is the teams don't have to let us know 45 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: who they protected, so we're all speculating, Yes, we're all 46 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: speculating right now as to who the teams had to 47 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: have their protected players into the WNBA offices earlier this week. 48 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 1: Those names are not being released publicly as of right now, 49 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: so we're really not going to find out until Friday 50 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: if Sophie Cunningham was one of the five protected and 51 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: whether or not she'll be back for the Indiana Fever 52 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: and continue to be Caitlin Clark's heavy and muscle out 53 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: on the court. 54 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 2: So Lexi Hull could be another one. 55 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: So they are predicting. I think everybody thinks that Lexi 56 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: Hall will be protected. I think the five are. They'll 57 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: obviously protect Caitlin Clark, Lexie Hall, Aliah Boston, Kelsey Mitchell, 58 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: and then the fifth one most people are protecting projecting 59 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: right now that that'll be Mikayla Timpson. 60 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 2: But even if the Fever protected her Sophie Cunningham, she 61 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 2: could still leave in free agency afterwards. 62 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: She could, but it's unlikely because everything that we're seeing 63 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: right now is that the Fever want her back. She 64 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: seemed to play so well with Caitlin Clark and the 65 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: rest of that team last year. It just kind of 66 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: makes sense. The big the bigger risk right now for 67 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: the Indiana Fevers that she gets drafted on Friday, so 68 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: we have a. 69 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 2: Big day for NASA. Of course, they've got the Artemis 70 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 2: two lifting off later this evening, and it was just yesterday, 71 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 2: twenty four hours before they shoot some astronauts into space, 72 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 2: that the administrator declared that, Yeah, I think Salien life exists. 73 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that coming up. 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