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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're screaming

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Speaker 1: Happy Black History Month louder than ever this year. It's Monday,

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Speaker 1: the WNBA's unidentified tamper rules, and having a quarter of

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Speaker 1: all the latest w trades and deals. Aposto Bam Lives,

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Speaker 1: We're Forever twenty two and we celebrate spreadsheet excellence. It's

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Speaker 1: all coming up right after this. Welcome back and Happy Monday.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today.

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Speaker 2: In the WNBA.

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Speaker 1: Well, y'all, free agency is free agencying, and a lot

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Speaker 1: has happened since we last spoke. So let's run through

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Speaker 1: the non exhaustive highlight, shall we. We're going to give

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Speaker 1: you a team by team look at player movement now. First,

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Speaker 1: what started out last week as a two team deal

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Speaker 1: with the big headline of Alyssa Thomas heading to Phoenix

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Speaker 1: already newsmakers for the departure of Brittany Griner.

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Speaker 1: that four team deal affects other teams coming up. Heading

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Speaker 1: Multiple outlets reported on Sunday that Bonner is headed to

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Speaker 1: You put all that together, and all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: where we found out that the Seattle Storm re signed

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Speaker 1: after she texted the news to her sister, fellow baller

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Speaker 1: After signing nine time All Star Britney Grinder last week.

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Speaker 1: The Dream also added Shatory Walker Kimbro, who spent the

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Speaker 1: and we'll link to slice Alana Rebitzer's WNBA free agency charts.

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Speaker 1: Last week we reported that the Indiana Fever will play

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark's alma mater, Iowa. Well, now we know my

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Speaker 1: Long live Apostre bam And speaking of twenty two is

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Speaker 1: being honored on two to two, Kaitlyn Clark's number twenty

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Speaker 1: its Iowa City store as Forever twenty two and dropped

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Speaker 1: women's basketball. In NWSL news, we officially lost another one

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Speaker 1: Paris San Germain, officially moving on from GOTHAMFC after just

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Speaker 1: a player leaving Gotham FC worth noting Gotham hired Subrier

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Speaker 1: UCLA career on Saturday, lifting her number six Bruins to

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Speaker 1: our show notes. Athletes Unlimited Basketball tips off on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Hoo do who It's Unrivaled Basketball co founder and Lunar

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Speaker 1: You couldn't have known that the league's first season would

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Speaker 4: bit extra too. It's is always nice, but just the

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Speaker 4: standard I think it needs to rise in some of

434
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Speaker 4: in some of the teams.

435
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it makes you feel special to have

436
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,320
Speaker 1: things that you know are just not utilitarian, but are

437
00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,080
Speaker 1: also just to make you feel like, oh, we're pro athletes,

438
00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:16,840
Speaker 1: so we get.

439
00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:20,480
Speaker 2: Estheticians and we get so nice. Oh yeah, yeah.

440
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Speaker 1: You mentioned that you have players coming up to you

441
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Speaker 1: with suggestions or questions. What's the wildest thing that someone

442
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,280
Speaker 1: has said, like, ooh can we get this?

443
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Speaker 4: It's not even stuff like that I've actually gotten. We

444
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,439
Speaker 4: try to think of everything, honestly, and before we build this,

445
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,520
Speaker 4: the team you know, came to me and Stewie and

446
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 4: they're like, Okay, let's make a list of everything. If

447
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 4: money wasn't an option, what would it be? And we

448
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,960
Speaker 4: honestly hit all those all those things. And so I

449
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,480
Speaker 4: haven't really heard anybody ask for something that we don't have.

450
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,199
Speaker 4: It's more like, you know, I had like sweatshirts that

451
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,200
Speaker 4: hadn't been released yet, like where can we get those?

452
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,800
Speaker 4: Or I guess just like, oh, like something for a

453
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,080
Speaker 4: maybe like can we get like a bigger training room

454
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 4: area And that's something that just we're in this place

455
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,439
Speaker 4: for two years and we only have like limited space,

456
00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 4: so like stuff like that. But I mean, I haven't

457
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,680
Speaker 4: really heard anything that people are wanting.

458
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, no outlandish demands nighttime warm chocolate cookie deliveries or

459
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Speaker 1: things like that. On One of the things we've noticed

460
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Speaker 1: in watching the first couple of weeks is these miked

461
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,400
Speaker 1: up moments that seem to be everywhere. We can hear

462
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,440
Speaker 1: play clalls, we can hear coaches being like she's not hurt,

463
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,000
Speaker 1: she's alright, you know, we can hear all that stuff.

464
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,720
Speaker 1: What's the response from the player so far do they

465
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Speaker 1: like that?

466
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,119
Speaker 2: Inside? Look where are they like, Man, I'm gonna get caught.

467
00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,879
Speaker 4: I haven't heard anything bad about it. I think people

468
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,239
Speaker 4: realize that, Like, I mean, one of the pillars of

469
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 4: it unrivaled is the content piece. Because brand building is

470
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 4: so important to our game. A lot of people don't

471
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 4: realize we make most of our money off the court,

472
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,400
Speaker 4: and so building your brain is essential to like our

473
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 4: livelihoods in this career, and so I think they really

474
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Speaker 4: embrace that. And I think people realize, like we literally

475
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 4: all have a vested interest. We are all have equity

476
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 4: in this league. We need to do everything we can

477
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 4: to make sure it's successful. And one of those things

478
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 4: is content. You know, It's something that like might feel

479
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 4: pesky sometimes, but I think especially in this setting where

480
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 4: we know it directly affects, like the money in our pockets,

481
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 4: it makes it a lot easier to do all these things.

482
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Speaker 4: And I think it's fun, Like, yeah, I love hearing

483
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,120
Speaker 4: the content for sure, even if before you're like, okay,

484
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 4: I got to get miked up hearing the little tidbits

485
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,880
Speaker 4: we all laugh about in the locker room, Like it's

486
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 4: something that you can talk about and joke about. Later,

487
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 4: so it's kind of fun.

488
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Speaker 1: It is interesting when you have equity in the league,

489
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 1: which all the players do, how much you want to

490
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 1: work toward making it successful in a way that's a

491
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 1: little bit harder to do, Like if you're a w

492
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,199
Speaker 1: social manager and you're like, can you do all this

493
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: content for me?

494
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 2: The players like, yeah, but who's money am I making? Right?

495
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:49,600
Speaker 2: And how am I helping it?

496
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of that balance, which like, I

497
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,879
Speaker 1: love that y'all made everybody be a part of wanting

498
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Speaker 1: this to succeed. You mentioned players requesting merch people want jerseys,

499
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: and I you know, when Alex came on our show,

500
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,160
Speaker 1: he talked about how players need to make money off

501
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: their own name. Where are those jerseys and when are

502
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 1: we gonna start getting y'all some cash based on us

503
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: by buying your gear.

504
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I need to ask him because I'm

505
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 4: wondering the same thing people are asking me about jerseys.

506
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 4: I think it's like this happens so fast, like our

507
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 4: deal with under Armour and them getting like our jerseys

508
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 4: was such a quick turnaround. So I'm sure it's in

509
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 4: the works, Like we want to get that out there

510
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 4: and get you know the people what they want, the

511
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 4: jerseys get the athletes paid, so I'm sure that they're

512
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Speaker 4: working over time to make it happen.

513
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so much conversation about roughly a quarter of

514
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: the WNBA's players in one place during free agency. So

515
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Speaker 1: I need you to take us behind the scenes because

516
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: in my head, I'm picturing like these big wine Feld dinners.

517
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Speaker 2: It's like a table for thirty six.

518
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: Everyone's you know, talking about their playing experiences, talking up

519
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 1: or talking down their organizations, maybe pitching each other to join.

520
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 2: Like what's it really like?

521
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 4: Honestly, there's way more touch points than that. Like we

522
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 4: are all in the same space. So I'm like I

523
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,120
Speaker 4: leave even how I see a player right there, like, hey,

524
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 4: let me come talk to you for a second. Let

525
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 4: me talk to you about Minnesota. You know it's we are.

526
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 4: So I mean I pass them every day. All of

527
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,360
Speaker 4: our areas are communal except for like, you know, your

528
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 4: your locker room, and so I'm seeing you in the

529
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 4: weight room, I'm seeing you in treatment, I'm seeing you

530
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 4: you know, in the sauna or whatever, in the makeup

531
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 4: room wherever. It is, like it's like your regular like

532
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 4: your team. The w NBA where you're around the facility,

533
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 4: you can just talk to your teammates whenever you want.

534
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 4: It's like that here. So you really with the wubble

535
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 4: almost Yeah, but we're not trapped.

536
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're free to leave.

537
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,640
Speaker 4: So it really facilitates those conversations where you can build

538
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 4: those relationships. It's not like an awkward phone call to

539
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 4: someone that you don't have that much of a relationship with.

540
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 4: So I think this has actually been pretty instrumental in

541
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:49,479
Speaker 4: like the freegency stuff.

542
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Speaker 1: How do you make sure you're not tampering because we

543
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: tried to look up the tampering rules and we cannot

544
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 1: find them in black and white in like the CBA

545
00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: or the.

546
00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 2: Rule book, but we know they exist.

547
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Speaker 1: So how do you know when a conversation goes from

548
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: like let me tell you some things I love about

549
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 1: the great state of Minnesota to like a full on

550
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: pitch or something you're not supposed to do.

551
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know the tampering rules either, but

552
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 4: I don't really know how nobody does. Yeah, I don't

553
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 4: know how they can facilitate or put a rule on

554
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 4: you just talking to someone. You know, I'm not like

555
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 4: whining and dining, like I said, I'm just talking to

556
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 4: you in the hallway.

557
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: Like, I mean, you kind of are whining and dining

558
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: everyone because you gave them a whole last league in Miami.

559
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 2: With a budget, cool shit and some money.

560
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: If there was ever a good pitch, you and Brie

561
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: are doing it right now by giving people a whole

562
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: second income. Have you been surprised just walking around either

563
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: with people that you didn't know that well that you're like, oh, man,

564
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 1: like I really get along with this person, or people

565
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: that you see like hanging out and forming clicks that

566
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: you're like, I would not have paired those folks to

567
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Speaker 1: be friends.

568
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 4: Honestly, not really. It's been so like fun just getting

569
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,479
Speaker 4: to know everyone. It's not like we have our separate teams.

570
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 4: You do obviously like your locker room you're practicing with

571
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 4: your team, but again, there's so many like communal areas

572
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 4: where you talk to everyone like you're like they're your teammate.

573
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 4: So just getting to know everyone a lot more has

574
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 4: been really cool and you get to I don't know,

575
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,719
Speaker 4: it's just like this camaraderie. I guess that it's building,

576
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,360
Speaker 4: which has been really fun to see.

577
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, it feels like I'm so competitive, that

578
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 1: it'd be so fun to meet everyone. But then when

579
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: you get back to like the w and you're all

580
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: in your separate little silos again, are you interested to

581
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 1: see how these relationships it'll probably make it more fun

582
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: to go see friends and compete and travel, but also

583
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: to know them well enough when you're you know, staring

584
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: them down trying to get to the hoop.

585
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think the good thing that I've noticed about

586
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 4: the WNBA, we've always, like the DUBBA has always been

587
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,719
Speaker 4: really small, and so you know, obviously it's even smaller

588
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 4: group here at Unrivaled. But I think like we're just

589
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 4: so good at being professionals. Like when we're on the court,

590
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 4: my team is my team. I'm riding and dying with them,

591
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 4: like I'm gonna do whatever I need to do to

592
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 4: make sure that my team wins. But when the game's over,

593
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 4: like you leave it on the court, it doesn't matter

594
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 4: if you got in like little TIFFs on the court,

595
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 4: if you're talking trash. You realize that that's the heat

596
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 4: of the game. And we're competitive, we're professional athletes. Like

597
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 4: there's a monster that comes out in all of us,

598
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 4: you know, But I think you just understand that what

599
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 4: happens there is there and then like we leave it,

600
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 4: we leave it there, and then you can be friends

601
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 4: again when I see you in the moment.

602
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: A lot of people needed to figure that out with

603
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: the W last year, a lot of new viewers that

604
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 1: didn't quite understand that y'all were professional athletes doing your thing.

605
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: We are so looking forward to the one on one tournament,

606
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: and I'm wondering how much trash talk is going on

607
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: leading up to it, because for me, like you know,

608
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: when you're entering something like that, you're like, oh yeah,

609
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: my knee kind of hurts, Like you're putting out those

610
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: excuses just in case you don't play as well as

611
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: you want, but you're also kind of talking some smack

612
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: to try to get people afraid of facing you, Like,

613
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 1: do people seem nervous or excited.

614
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 4: Or there's a big cash bonus. So trash talk has

615
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 4: already commenced, right, two hundred racks. I'm I'm doing what

616
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 4: I need to do to win that.

617
00:27:58,240 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: Right.

618
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 4: We even have enter teams trash talk. Courtny is already

619
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 4: trying to trash talk me.

620
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 2: Amazing. Who's got the biggest mouth?

621
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: Is it?

622
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 2: Courtney?

623
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:06,479
Speaker 5: Oh?

624
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 2: Courney Williams around here somewhere.

625
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Oh my gosh, I can't even imagine, Like

626
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fascinating to see, Like is it a

627
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 1: fast moving big is it a guard with sick handles

628
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: who can avoid getting blocked?

629
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 2: Like how much mobility come into play?

630
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: Like this is like the stuff of dreams for bar arguments,

631
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: to actually get to see all the best players play

632
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: against each other.

633
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, we get to settle the conversation that people are

634
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 4: having hypothetically, you know, every day.

635
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 2: Yeah. Fun, you mentioned Courtney Williams.

636
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: Your lunar Owls roster is crushing it, Skyler digg and Smith,

637
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: Alicia Gray, Shakira Austin, Cameron Brink of course the cheerleader

638
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: for the squad.

639
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 2: What's making you guys?

640
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: Go?

641
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 2: Why are you so good?

642
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 4: I think we just have a lot of competitors and

643
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 4: people who gel well, we have taken this like, I mean,

644
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 4: we just take it really seriously, Like we are in

645
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 4: the weight room together every day, We're doing treatment every day,

646
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 4: taking care of our bodies when we show up to practice,

647
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 4: like we're there to get better. So I just think

648
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 4: we have really competitive people on our team who want

649
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 4: to win and it's been really fun. We jell really

650
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 4: well together. Our chemistry has been great. From the beginning.

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Speaker 4: We played a lot, even from our first day of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool.

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Speaker 1: You and Courtney have the Links connection, You and Skyler

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Speaker 1: have the Olympic connection. How did you get the other

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Speaker 4: I played with Alisha too, just through USA. I think

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Speaker 4: the only person I hadn't was Shakira. But I think

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Speaker 4: we just don't have any egos on our team either,

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Speaker 4: Like everyone is there to learn from each other.

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Speaker 2: You just said that about Courtney Williams. I want you

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Speaker 4: Courtney's really good. She talks her talk, but she's like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: she's pretty good with it, and she knows that she's

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Speaker 4: in the wrong or whatever it is. Yeah, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: we just don't have egos in that way where everyone

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Speaker 4: is equally there to teach each other and to learn

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Speaker 4: from each other, which you don't get all the time.

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Speaker 4: So I think that's what has also allowed us to

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Speaker 4: joe really well. Is there's no person who's trying to

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Speaker 4: be big dog that's you know, saying I need to

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Speaker 4: get the most shots. We're really genuinely there for the

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Speaker 4: team and if I have a good shot, I'm going

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Speaker 4: to pass it up for a great shot for you.

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Speaker 4: And so that mentality has allowed us to play really well.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. Okay, last question for you.

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Speaker 1: Because we had your husband Alex on the show to

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Speaker 1: give us an unrivaled one oh one get us all

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Speaker 1: prep for the league, we were thinking about you guys

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Speaker 1: working together. I mean, obviously you work together on skills

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Speaker 1: and everything else. He's a great trainer, but now you're

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Speaker 1: creating this league. What did you butt heads about? Was

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Speaker 1: there anything that you really disagreed on or that you

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Speaker 4: Not really, I feel like we're pretty in sync with everything.

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Speaker 4: I feel like we see the game the same way,

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Speaker 4: and I definitely concede to him a lot on the

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Speaker 4: He's really great at that part. So if anything, I

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Speaker 4: feel like it would be something on the player side

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Speaker 4: where I feel like I know more. But I don't

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Speaker 4: think we've butted heads on anything yet. That's pretty good

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Speaker 4: in the future, but that's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: What about me, La? Are you allowing her to give

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Speaker 4: If I did that, there would be everywhere, no bedtimes

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Speaker 4: and fruit around every corner.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, expansion next year, Team Blue.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you will sell a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of merch if you can get that trademark. We would

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for taking the time. I know

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Speaker 1: you're so busy. We're such big fans over here, so

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Fee for joining us. We got to

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Speaker 1: take another break when we come back. Want to you

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Speaker 1: Slices went above and beyond. You even made producer Alex

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Speaker 1: a little emotional stick around. Welcome back Slices. Hey, you

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Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper's podcast All There Is About grief, or for

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Speaker 1: a different kind of tears. You could make a spreadsheet,

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Speaker 1: a glorious spreadsheet like Super Slice Aaron Raw did. Aaron

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Speaker 2: Chef's Kiss Aaron standing ovation over here. This is incredible.

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Speaker 2: This is just unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like honestly, literal tears. Literal tears, and folks, you

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Speaker 1: know what she wasn't done. She also made a spreadsheet

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Speaker 1: for each league. She's an organized queen, you know, and

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Speaker 1: wouldn't love it more. And of course we'll put the

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Speaker 1: We'll book mark them and use them. Folks, she did

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Speaker 1: someone get Alex a tissue. We love that you're listening,

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Speaker 2: And who are the losers?

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Speaker 2: Take a lesson.

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: And for your birthday today? Oh wow, well this is

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Speaker 5: You said that if your mortgage was paid off that

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Speaker 5: See you drop in a cake today. Your mortgage has

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Speaker 5: And if you want to still work and keep yourself,

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Speaker 5: if you want to keep yourself busy, you can keep

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Speaker 5: yourself busy. But Jammel has a handle. Shout out to

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Speaker 5: Jamel to making it happen Anda, of course. But your

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Speaker 1: We are so used to seeing videos of dudes buying

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Speaker 1: incredible and incredibly overdue getting to see the world's best

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Speaker 1: women athletes make enough money playing their sport to do

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Speaker 1: the same. Shout out Angel and shout out to her mama.

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Speaker 1: Also Angel aka Big Angel, who's in the University of

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Speaker 1: ball in Luxembourg. Those hoops genes clearly do and work.

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