Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Alrighty week, We're going. Yep, that's how I start things.
Speaker 1: All right, you are we going? It's better than um um?
Speaker 1: How are we doing? Well? I just had to tell
Speaker 1: you to stop talking. Save it. Well, I just every gem,
Speaker 1: everything I say is a gem. So Megan's like saying
Speaker 1: for the podcast, you know, not all classic at it? Actually,
Speaker 1: I mean we were we were watching. We were in
Speaker 1: a group viewing setting last night, and you had some
Speaker 1: you had some bangers, then you had some duds too.
Speaker 1: You can't have the bangers are bangers because you got
Speaker 1: to say the duds and you learn from every day,
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like they were I feel like
Speaker 1: I was back in a thousand last night. Well, welcome
Speaker 1: to the Greatest. Thank you guys for tuning in. We
Speaker 1: have another great episode for you. Here. I'm there and
Speaker 1: we are joined by one of our best friends, friends,
Speaker 1: oldest friends, comedian writer Mo Welch. Thanks for having me, guys,
Speaker 1: Actually genuinely very excited to be on this podcast. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we do every week. Yes, there was, Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: a childcare situation, busy being a mother and she could
Speaker 1: I mean She's done two podcasts so far, and she could,
Speaker 1: but I have to stand up and it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's She's on Sabrina's and Atlanta Johnson's. Okay, does seem
Speaker 1: like so she she only does Canadian, Yeah, exclusively Canadian,
Speaker 1: even though she watches so much basketball. Yeah, like I've
Speaker 1: had it on the entire Well, first of all, I
Speaker 1: played when I was pregnant. Yeah, but when you were pregnant, yeah,
Speaker 1: up to the second trimester. Oh my god, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. Yeah. I took an offensive foul on the
Speaker 1: last day with my first trimester and Sam was like,
Speaker 1: you're out. And when you're playing in the women's league
Speaker 1: or the yeah, yeah, she plays in every I coach.
Speaker 1: You're one team for a couple of games, and then coach,
Speaker 1: and then you're on and then you're on my team
Speaker 1: the next seven? Yeah, seven? And are you qualified to
Speaker 1: be a we meant to basketball? I mean, I was
Speaker 1: feeling in for Brianna Baker, who is another friend of ours,
Speaker 1: but I mean it was like, she just plays. I
Speaker 1: don't know if she coaches, and she's like, you can
Speaker 1: do it, and I went and I was like saying
Speaker 1: things on the sideline, but I don't think anyone's listening,
Speaker 1: and well it's all about like the you know yes,
Speaker 1: and like a bunch of girls don't want to hear
Speaker 1: like a guy coming and be like okay, so you
Speaker 1: see it's like yeah, we're here. Yeah, was like for
Speaker 1: some reason, it's really weird. The hottest girl, the best player.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna play her the whole time, and then
Speaker 1: I'm also going to need to get her phone numbers
Speaker 1: and then we can talk after the game about plays
Speaker 1: and prises. I mean, that's a good that's a good
Speaker 1: transition into you met your wife from that from that
Speaker 1: basketball league. Yeah, well we didn't meet from um, we
Speaker 1: we met bowling straight sorry another straight and the yeah exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: but she was like, oh hey, Like her first line
Speaker 1: to me was like I think I know you from
Speaker 1: the basketball league because there's a women's basketball league. But
Speaker 1: she did follow me on Twitter too, and then after
Speaker 1: that night she unfollowed me to follow me back like
Speaker 1: a week later. Yeah, that was the whole tactic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but did know that, Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: But then her our second date, we went to this
Speaker 1: restaurant in West Hollywood, and I was like I have
Speaker 1: to leave because she's like, do you want to hang
Speaker 1: out for this? I was like, I actually have a
Speaker 1: basketball game after and she's like oh. She was like
Speaker 1: kind of bummed. And we were also drinking, but it
Speaker 1: was she was kind of bummed. And then I was like,
Speaker 1: do you want to go? And she's like yes, And
Speaker 1: that was the team that I was on with you,
Speaker 1: and then she just went watched. She went and watched.
Speaker 1: She met c J. Yes, this is this girl is
Speaker 1: really cool. I was like, she was only supporter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really Yeah. She was like, you those are
Speaker 1: cool movies you did out there. I'm like, whoa, someone
Speaker 1: is giving me confidence about basketball. Yeah, she said that
Speaker 1: c J like when he plays basketball, it's like he's
Speaker 1: dancing because he does moves into the lane. Okay, I
Speaker 1: she's caught me. In my later years, I've actually been
Speaker 1: banned from going to watch I've seen you at one
Speaker 1: of the games. That was the last one. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys beat us in the championship? Is that why? And
Speaker 1: I went to a game before that. That was the
Speaker 1: second one I went to. The first one I went
Speaker 1: to A man had to go to the emergency room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they lost and so c J was just like,
Speaker 1: I don't think I did not say that she offered
Speaker 1: would you ever would you ever have that with with
Speaker 1: Sam if you felt like the coincidence that she was
Speaker 1: there every time you guys lost. She's been to so
Speaker 1: many games, and I will say that that Jim is
Speaker 1: so stinky. Yeah that like if there's been one game,
Speaker 1: like Sam will go in and she's like, I can't
Speaker 1: stay the whole time. She's like, oh yeah, she's not
Speaker 1: shy about it either. She's just like everyone here smells Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a new gym. Now, oh it is you p K.
Speaker 1: My teammate is now a commissioner. That is so funny.
Speaker 1: I did not know the new gym that has the
Speaker 1: same not the same exact, but it looks like the
Speaker 1: Lakers looks like Staples. It's incredible. Are you not you're
Speaker 1: not playing? I'm going to now, Yeah, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: a team together. I've thought about getting a co ed
Speaker 1: team together for that league because I know some some
Speaker 1: women who can take. But I mean, you've been hanging
Speaker 1: in even playing basketball recreationally. I mean you're maybe like
Speaker 1: my first friend who was like, yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: do comedy because there's so many basketball games. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: it's yeah, I don't know how that happened, because like
Speaker 1: in Chicago, there was a pickup game that I feel
Speaker 1: like Jason Sudeikis started started and it was like an
Speaker 1: improviser's game. There was a waiting list that if someone
Speaker 1: like wanted off the list, then you got bumped in.
Speaker 1: Where was it at Park? Yeah? And what part of
Speaker 1: that is that Southport Corridor? You played in it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Me and Mo played in it, and our friend Namdi
Speaker 1: and West Needham. It was It's just like all a
Speaker 1: lot of the improvisers obviously had to get some stand
Speaker 1: ups in there because they because problems. Like everyone was,
Speaker 1: let's get some more out of balances. They were trying
Speaker 1: to sweep the core. But that was maybe the first
Speaker 1: sort of semi organized game as a comedian that I
Speaker 1: played in at least Yeah, same and it just is
Speaker 1: like we're like, oh, yeah, how come I think we
Speaker 1: moved to l A maybe around the same time, and
Speaker 1: we're just like, yeah, we should have a game again.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and then c J started a game in
Speaker 1: Silver Lake. Were you guys together then? Okay? Not to
Speaker 1: It was just like I was in a different phase
Speaker 1: in my life, I was with somebody. You can't remember
Speaker 1: who was my husband, you can't remember who. I had
Speaker 1: a bit of thought, honey, Um, I've never played in
Speaker 1: a comedian basketball game. You played growing up? I played
Speaker 1: one season growing up, and I did not score ever,
Speaker 1: didn't make a layup. Do you remember what position they
Speaker 1: put forward? I think, um, yeah, because I couldn't be
Speaker 1: point guard, I definitely was going to be center. Actually,
Speaker 1: like I do remembers, I remember fouling out multiple times
Speaker 1: having not scored any points. And then my greatest crowning
Speaker 1: achievement was once my parents were out of town. So
Speaker 1: I was staying at another girl on my basketball team
Speaker 1: who was like my good friend, who actually is very
Speaker 1: good at basketball. Her brother was on a Michigan State
Speaker 1: final four team. So maybe I thought like, oh, i'll
Speaker 1: sleep there, I'll get a little rubbed off on me.
Speaker 1: Escially just in the home. I've gotten my braces tightened
Speaker 1: the day before. And so I took three Thailand all
Speaker 1: and didn't eat, And in the middle of the game
Speaker 1: I puked through my hands onto the court, and as
Speaker 1: I was running out of the gym, I heard someone
Speaker 1: say her mom's out of town. So so. I Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the cost in the stands to town. When
Speaker 1: I had the UM. Basketball was definitely my worst sport
Speaker 1: because I played softball, you know, which was like the
Speaker 1: eval into my brother's playing baseball. And I was really good.
Speaker 1: I was an all star. My dad will say I
Speaker 1: was the best tennis player. I was athletically inclined, but
Speaker 1: basketball was like a disaster for me. I feel like
Speaker 1: basketball and soccer don't really go well together either, Like
Speaker 1: if you can if you're really good at soccer, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're really bad at soccer to actually
Speaker 1: horrible physically demanding. I feel like in basketball you can
Speaker 1: kind of like if you're tired, you can like hide
Speaker 1: in the corner, but soccer is just like you have
Speaker 1: to run it all. You're running all the time. And
Speaker 1: I always like when I subbed into WRED games in
Speaker 1: college and soccer, I was like I would always put
Speaker 1: my hand up. It's like a handball all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm just like kind of let me do a crossover.
Speaker 1: You know, my dad still plays basketball. He's sixty four
Speaker 1: years old. My dad is like a very intense loves basketball.
Speaker 1: I just forgot Yeah, when we were there over over.
Speaker 1: I can't remember when we go there. Oh, during your shower,
Speaker 1: your wedding shower. Me and your dad went to the
Speaker 1: gym and I had that terrible ankle injury a few
Speaker 1: months ago, and I was like midway through the recovery
Speaker 1: and he was like, we're gonna go play basketball. And
Speaker 1: we played and he was like, you're fine. He's like,
Speaker 1: we're just shooting jumpers, old Jeff Gay. And also he
Speaker 1: is good. He he I was beating him at horse
Speaker 1: but he was like, all right, I gotta go lift weights. Um.
Speaker 1: And then also as we were walking, as we were
Speaker 1: walking into the complex, we he stopped at the front
Speaker 1: door and he looks at me goes, let's get large.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, and it's a my I texted my friend.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, my future dad and Lodges told
Speaker 1: me let's get large right as we walk into the gym. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he loves basketball. There's like a group in Indy that
Speaker 1: still plays and it's a lot of guys that my
Speaker 1: brother's group with. So it's like people our age. My
Speaker 1: dad is playing with them, and it gets so annoying
Speaker 1: to my brother because they'll see my brother if he's
Speaker 1: back in town. And be like, what's up, little Gaily,
Speaker 1: And it's like, no, I'm not little. My dad is
Speaker 1: not big Gaily. We are the same age. That's not
Speaker 1: your friend, that's a father who used to coach you
Speaker 1: in basketball. But now he's like the cool guy because
Speaker 1: he's still plays. I love that he still plays. That
Speaker 1: gives me hope, I think. So, I mean, the biggest
Speaker 1: fear of playing late to his Achilles Achilles a c
Speaker 1: L knee replacements. Hips. Yeah, I mean I did physical
Speaker 1: therapy with all those guys, just getting bunked on the head.
Speaker 1: I go like, and I have two years year. I
Speaker 1: just like, I don't go into the lane. Really, I
Speaker 1: don't rebound, but I'll pass it. So so team, the
Speaker 1: team still you'll shoot those those deep three, Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: shooting three. I'm just kind of like, I know, I
Speaker 1: don't want I don't want to have it polutely not.
Speaker 1: How young were you when you started playing? I mean
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I was like ten. Uh. And then when
Speaker 1: we moved to Chicago, there was like these guys played
Speaker 1: in the alley at our house. Alley yeah, and the
Speaker 1: alley yeah crazy, there's a hoop out there out there,
Speaker 1: And so I thought it was worn baskets. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know there's like a hoop and there's like ten
Speaker 1: hoops in every alley and Chicano. So I played in
Speaker 1: that game, and then for a long time it was
Speaker 1: like since I was twelve, I didn't go a week
Speaker 1: without playing basketball. That's like that was for a long
Speaker 1: time until you got pregnant. It was No, it's basically
Speaker 1: when I started comedy. I think I took a little
Speaker 1: break because we started a comedy. I have an ex
Speaker 1: who says that he saw us on the same day
Speaker 1: and was like, what has happened that we like appeared
Speaker 1: at the same time. We did appear at the same
Speaker 1: time Lisa. I remember seeing Lisa do her first set
Speaker 1: at Shoebus. I remember seeing her, or at least I
Speaker 1: remember being at edge with you, and it was like
Speaker 1: a funny time in my life because I would like
Speaker 1: wear a going out top and like heels go to
Speaker 1: an open. I relate to that, not the heels, but
Speaker 1: I relate to like stopping at the mall and picking
Speaker 1: up a new shirt before the open. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: part of I mean. The thing is, I don't think
Speaker 1: we were that off base because knowing what I know
Speaker 1: now we still look good, like we still have a
Speaker 1: look when we're doing stand up. We just you know,
Speaker 1: back then we were going to like wet seal right. No, truly,
Speaker 1: I think still exists that I wanted the buckle, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't my mom, like you wouldn't go in there
Speaker 1: for some wease him and that was like sort of
Speaker 1: like the Western, the Western look, yes exactly, and it
Speaker 1: was really like low rise and like really big buckles. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Actually one last question before we get into the topic
Speaker 1: for the episode, but so was there a time in
Speaker 1: your childhood where you were like, I want to make
Speaker 1: the n B A w n B A and I
Speaker 1: think I could do it? Definitely. I mean everything that
Speaker 1: I've sought out to do, I I truly am like
Speaker 1: I can do this. So I have blind confidence, like
Speaker 1: I'm not insecure in that way, like truly, like when
Speaker 1: I started comedy, I'm like I'm on SML next year,
Speaker 1: and like I don't even do scut comedy. But like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a time where I was, you know, in
Speaker 1: high school that I really got into basketball and I
Speaker 1: was like I think I can do this, but did not.
Speaker 1: I mean I was not talented enough to make it.
Speaker 1: Did you start in high school? I had a weird
Speaker 1: like I was. I don't know, like I started like freshman, sophomore,
Speaker 1: and then junior year got kicked off the basketball team
Speaker 1: because I like lied about a grade. I was like,
Speaker 1: really bad in school. Yeah, I lied about a grade
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget it. But my my basketball coach
Speaker 1: and the the athletic director in my dean all brought
Speaker 1: me into a room and they were like, you lied,
Speaker 1: and we don't want that on the team. And then
Speaker 1: the ad said you'll never play a sport here ever again.
Speaker 1: And she was a lesbian and I was just like
Speaker 1: I I could not. I mean like, I just feel
Speaker 1: like she should have known a little bit that I was,
Speaker 1: but she didn't think like looking back and I was
Speaker 1: a goodie goodie. But I've been in instances in my
Speaker 1: adult life where like it's three on one and that's
Speaker 1: not okay to do to what at least bring your parent.
Speaker 1: You probably didn't want your mom to come, but it's like,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know it was coming three grown adults.
Speaker 1: My football coach after it was no but like after
Speaker 1: we even I even played for him, It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he's not even my coach. He was also a counselor
Speaker 1: at the school. He brought me in like two months
Speaker 1: before where we graduated, and he said that being funny
Speaker 1: isn't going to get you a job, isn't going to
Speaker 1: get your wife and kids. Being funny is going to
Speaker 1: get you nowhere. I'm like, why did you bring me
Speaker 1: into your office to tell me this? And now he
Speaker 1: follows me on Twitter and I was about to say,
Speaker 1: you need to have him on the police. More importantly,
Speaker 1: he's not active. He uses it to like retweet clips
Speaker 1: of his players who go D three. Okay, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the power of player is there with
Speaker 1: like coaches. I just drilled up myself. Someone was like
Speaker 1: someone did a Twitter thing about like question about this
Speaker 1: last week. That was like tweet your like a time
Speaker 1: in your childhood when someone like told you you couldn't
Speaker 1: do it. I feel like I was raised with a
Speaker 1: lot of ambition and hope, like I believed and no
Speaker 1: one was telling me no. Strangely, but yeah, my dad
Speaker 1: said he had a guidance counselor who was like, you'll
Speaker 1: never get into Cornell, like you are a jackass. And
Speaker 1: then he got and he lived this person lived across
Speaker 1: the street and then he did get in and they're
Speaker 1: on a scholarship. Guy went to Cornell. We were talking,
Speaker 1: we were making fun of my dad yesterday. Now he's
Speaker 1: like Michael Scotty goes. You know, I went to Cornell.
Speaker 1: I didn't even watch the show. And I know, I
Speaker 1: love your dad so much. He's like a character. He's
Speaker 1: like Ed Helms in the office in the league. Right,
Speaker 1: it's once a day that you went there. It's considered
Speaker 1: the worst IVY league. So I love that. And it
Speaker 1: was at one point voted by g Q as the
Speaker 1: biggest douche bag school in the country. Wow. But I
Speaker 1: have one of my dearest friends, Allison Leby, went there,
Speaker 1: you know, and she's really I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, like, I don't say I went
Speaker 1: to Columbia College. Should Yeah, I went. I did a
Speaker 1: semester in college. No basketball team. Weird. There are people
Speaker 1: that are like, I went to Columbia, and it's like
Speaker 1: college go one step forward. We're going to need a
Speaker 1: city or back end to that title. Okay, So and
Speaker 1: then when was it? When did you really lies you
Speaker 1: weren't going to be in the w n b A.
Speaker 1: I mean I tried to play basketball. Yeah, it's going
Speaker 1: to make a comeback. Brought you here to you guys.
Speaker 1: You guys sent a highlight clip. Hold on what hat
Speaker 1: do I have already talked to said that you can
Speaker 1: do both. I love it. Okay, Oh yeah we should.
Speaker 1: We should say that to you guys. Work together, you
Speaker 1: guys right together on good talk with Anthony Gentlemans. I
Speaker 1: bet when this comes out, we'll be back right. Your
Speaker 1: boss is a bully, not a bully. He j on
Speaker 1: Twitter today and it was really funny. But then everyone's like,
Speaker 1: we got you. I was like, no, he's famous. It
Speaker 1: looks cool. Yeah, being bullied by a famous person. You're like,
Speaker 1: this is IMDb lifting, okay and going up? All right,
Speaker 1: So let's just get right into the episode then. So
Speaker 1: today's topic is the greatest w NBA players of all time,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be great because I feel like I
Speaker 1: know the legends pretty well, but the newer ones I
Speaker 1: feel like I need some education on a little bit. Um. So, Megan,
Speaker 1: do you want to go first? Maybe? Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: feel like there might be some overlap, but let's not
Speaker 1: you know, we can just keep adding to the resume.
Speaker 1: I think this has started to be a trend for me.
Speaker 1: I like to do a Homer pick as my number
Speaker 1: three spot. This this gal is a freaking legend. A
Speaker 1: w n B, a m v P Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: four time Defensive Player of the Year, won the title
Speaker 1: in two thousand twelve finals m v P and was
Speaker 1: part of the two thousand four two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: gold medal team played under Pat Summit at Tennessee. Played
Speaker 1: her entire fifteen year career with the Indiana Fever. Give
Speaker 1: it up for Tamika catch nice. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: love Tamika And what's great is everybody an Indie like
Speaker 1: worships her truly, truly the Fever. When they won, it
Speaker 1: was like really really big deal. My this is like
Speaker 1: a classic. My parents, my parents were like, we went
Speaker 1: to a benefit tonight. We sat with tim because she
Speaker 1: is such a nice lady, such a nice kid. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, she's beloved. She's so awesome. And as I
Speaker 1: was like doing the research for who I wanted to pick,
Speaker 1: what I thought was really cool about w NBA players,
Speaker 1: which I know is not true of NBA players. A
Speaker 1: lot of them win. Players like m v p win finals.
Speaker 1: And then they're also incredible defensive players, like they play
Speaker 1: both sides, And that seems to be kind of the
Speaker 1: stamp and the calling card that the w n b
Speaker 1: A has over the NBA for sure, because every single
Speaker 1: person I picked was also a multiple defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year, which interesting. I feel like that has to
Speaker 1: do with the fundamentals when you learn, because girls learned
Speaker 1: differently than boys. Yeah, when they're playing there, there's like
Speaker 1: not as much hero ball. Yeah, And I feel like
Speaker 1: some of these guys who were there's a lot of
Speaker 1: NBA players don't last very long becau because they're like
Speaker 1: talented or like they're built. You're like, oh, you're gonna
Speaker 1: play basketball, and they're just like, yeah, it's just gonna
Speaker 1: carry me through. And they don't learn those fundamentals because
Speaker 1: they can dunk right, and I don't need that. I'll
Speaker 1: just to be the guy who shoots threes from the corner,
Speaker 1: and they don't learn those other things, which I feel
Speaker 1: like women basketball players do. It's also wild to just like,
Speaker 1: even as I'm reading that and and my other two
Speaker 1: choices obviously have equally if not more impressive resumes, It's
Speaker 1: like that's an incredible Like, if any male athlete had
Speaker 1: that resume, they would be not only a mega mega
Speaker 1: mega mega millionaire, they would have endorsements and they would
Speaker 1: be so famous. And Tamika Catchings played in my hometown
Speaker 1: for fifteen years, and I like barely kind of know
Speaker 1: what she looks like, right, Yeah, that's bad. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: what I mean, probably more legendary than most Indiana players
Speaker 1: since who Reggie Miller maybe, I mean, and spending your
Speaker 1: whole career there, I mean, Reggie did the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's another person I have on this list who also
Speaker 1: spent an entire career at a team. And that seems
Speaker 1: to kind of be a w n B A staple too,
Speaker 1: And I wonder if that's because just from a market standpoint,
Speaker 1: they're like, we gotta get people invested in players, and
Speaker 1: you can't really move them. It's not a bad idea,
Speaker 1: right to just be like, Okay, this is like not
Speaker 1: only an incredible player, and and obviously to like play
Speaker 1: under Pat Summit at Tennessee and was an incredible college
Speaker 1: player and probably the height of her fame was in college. Strangely, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the crowds at Tennessee games for sure, had more than
Speaker 1: do they play at the pacers. They they play in
Speaker 1: Banker's Life. But they you know, it's the same way
Speaker 1: that they do for the sparks. They put like Britons down,
Speaker 1: they shut down. Yes, exactly, They're the people doing one
Speaker 1: night ers in between Yoda gigs. It's basically the w
Speaker 1: n B A. That's a very specific Midwestern comedy reference.
Speaker 1: And I don't want it to count against me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really interesting too, because Indiana thinks of itself as
Speaker 1: like the birth of basketball in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: and definitely high school basketball is so important there and
Speaker 1: I I don't know if the Fever have captured it.
Speaker 1: I know that them winning the championship was a big deal,
Speaker 1: but it just you know it the w n b
Speaker 1: A talking about it. It's a little bitter sweet. And
Speaker 1: it's especially bittersweet now that Kobe's gone because it was
Speaker 1: like clearly such a passion of his and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people think that he would have gone
Speaker 1: on to potentially be commissioner and really revolutionize the way
Speaker 1: women's basketball was perceived and rooted for. And so you
Speaker 1: kind of like, I'm happy we're talking about it, but
Speaker 1: it's like Oh my god, we're all gonna have to
Speaker 1: do a lot of work now, r I pick up
Speaker 1: this slab. I feel like in the last few years
Speaker 1: there's been a good job of awareness, but it's just
Speaker 1: like so much more to go, you know, because it's
Speaker 1: just like social media is all Lebron you know, um
Speaker 1: Steph and all these guys. But we have i mean
Speaker 1: just from speaking about like work experience. Now we have
Speaker 1: teams that are dedicated to like w NBA coverage, and
Speaker 1: that's really all it takes us. Like the product the
Speaker 1: game itself has done being molded, like, oh, it's really good.
Speaker 1: Everything else, like watching a basketball whether it's like if
Speaker 1: if the w NBA isn't playing and the NBA is not,
Speaker 1: like I'm watching a high school game, it's like basketball basketball, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's yeah. The channels are like the ones sticking it
Speaker 1: on ESPN three. It's like just put it in prime
Speaker 1: time like and give it position to succeeds. So it's
Speaker 1: like everyone is a megastar. These are famous, famous super
Speaker 1: it is a megastar. If someone I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like the first thing I thought when Kobe, like one
Speaker 1: of the first things I thought when he died was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: he was like such a champion of women's basketball. And
Speaker 1: I feel like if like Lebron and stuff and like
Speaker 1: all these guys really like take the time to try
Speaker 1: to do the same thing, then the league can come up.
Speaker 1: Because a lot of it's just sexism. It's like guys
Speaker 1: on ESPN Instagram anytime there's like a female athlete posted,
Speaker 1: like all the comments are just like girls can't play
Speaker 1: as Oh yeah, well, like you know, if you put
Speaker 1: one guy in there, I could beat them, you know,
Speaker 1: and I could do this, And like it's just it's
Speaker 1: so sexist instead of just being like do you want
Speaker 1: to just like celebrate yeah, the game, Like celebrate these
Speaker 1: girls who have worked so hard. Yeah, And you see
Speaker 1: the US women's soccer team capture better ratings are are
Speaker 1: definitely have I think the public support to be paid better.
Speaker 1: And for some reason that just has not translated the
Speaker 1: same for US women's basketball, even though they win Golden
Speaker 1: I mean they're as decorated, not more so, just because
Speaker 1: it's been longer so Olympian why eyes, they're almost better
Speaker 1: than the men, you know, Like the men's national team
Speaker 1: was very embarrassing, had a very embarrassing showing this summer
Speaker 1: and the women never do that. Maybe it's because they
Speaker 1: feel like, I'm just trying to think of what the
Speaker 1: actual issue is. And like maybe the public feels like
Speaker 1: they can follow the soccer team because it's not a
Speaker 1: lot of people. It's not a lot of women that
Speaker 1: you're following, but like with the w n b A,
Speaker 1: you're following like whatever sixteen teams are, you know. And
Speaker 1: then like with tennis, I feel like women's tennis is
Speaker 1: very well because you're one person just lazy. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a break and then we'll come back with
Speaker 1: Mona's first pick and we're back. Okay, mo, uh, you
Speaker 1: pick first, because I don't want to steal any of yours. Okay. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean she's already been mentioned, and I was like
Speaker 1: hoping that you guys would just save her for me,
Speaker 1: because uh, I mean Diana Tracy, Yes, yea, the Italian stallion.
Speaker 1: Um she is. I mean she's I think she's from Chino. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: so they make good basketball. Imagine if she has I
Speaker 1: don't even know if she's on Instagram. I actually don't
Speaker 1: think she has a social media Okay, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: We need to talk to her. Um. Oh look, look
Speaker 1: as you as you write recap, the ball brothers need
Speaker 1: to tag her. Um. Okay, So she went to Yukon
Speaker 1: for all four years two four she was the number
Speaker 1: one pick. Oh but it was. But she's been on
Speaker 1: the Phoenix market your whole entire career, Yeah, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: There's a really really crazy ESPN thirty for thirty podcast
Speaker 1: about her, and I think it's super being on a
Speaker 1: Russian oligarch team and it's really what I mean. And
Speaker 1: so the back end is about the relationship with this oligarch,
Speaker 1: but the front end is about how they had to
Speaker 1: go play overseas because they were making so much money
Speaker 1: and this man was like so over he would like
Speaker 1: give them their credit card and they could go to
Speaker 1: Louis Vuitton and then back to the state and be like, alright,
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean there's some of these women, you
Speaker 1: know where they weren't. I mean, Sylvia falls like is
Speaker 1: going to school to be a mortician, uh wild, and
Speaker 1: she's like the m v P. It obviously is a passion,
Speaker 1: but she's already planning her you know, her plan. B
Speaker 1: Diana Truscy, you got paid, like you know, she's like
Speaker 1: paid a hundred and ten thousand dollars whatever something like that.
Speaker 1: Um and she's the all time league scoring the w
Speaker 1: n B A Lebron gets almost half a million dollars
Speaker 1: a game, right, something like that. But she was like
Speaker 1: in Russia. In Russia, she gets paid over a million
Speaker 1: dollars and and that's for like you know, September through
Speaker 1: March or whatever that is. And so that's like I
Speaker 1: see why they go and she took a season off
Speaker 1: so that she get ready for their Russian league, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you're getting paid ten times as much.
Speaker 1: That makes that's that even is just kind of highlights
Speaker 1: how insane it is. So it's like there is a
Speaker 1: market and European has there's European men's basketball too, right,
Speaker 1: so like if they like it and are the market
Speaker 1: demands that amount, we we have to catch up with Russia.
Speaker 1: Like that's insane. Well they have to stop looking at
Speaker 1: the numbers of like, well the w NBA doesn't bring
Speaker 1: enough in. It's like I don't know how the system works,
Speaker 1: like if the w NBA is like a subsidiary of
Speaker 1: the NBA. But I'm like, just just do it, just
Speaker 1: pay for it and make an example yeah, yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean again, it's like a lot of the marketing positioning
Speaker 1: of they're not bringing enough money to even just like
Speaker 1: correctly dispersed it amongst the players, so it's like it's
Speaker 1: not on the players, right. And then too is like
Speaker 1: she's going into her sixteenth season this year and there
Speaker 1: is no talking retirement and she has had to move
Speaker 1: the NBA players had to move to other countries just
Speaker 1: to continue to play basketball, to play like eleven months
Speaker 1: of the year in Russia. I mean like it's cold,
Speaker 1: it's h I doubt there's anything to do. But she's uh.
Speaker 1: She also just had like her wife had a baby
Speaker 1: last year or something like that. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if she's going to continue to go to Russia. Does
Speaker 1: her wife play? She Penny Taylor was she did play.
Speaker 1: I think she's an assistant on the Mercury now. Jenny
Speaker 1: Taylor is amazing. It's so good. It's so good. And
Speaker 1: I speculated that they dated way before the public knew.
Speaker 1: I just knew. I went to the games and I
Speaker 1: was just like, I just had a feeling that they
Speaker 1: are hooking up. Yea, they had a connection. And I
Speaker 1: kept asking my friend who knew w NBA players and
Speaker 1: she's like, I don't know. And then finally I feel
Speaker 1: like it took Diana forever to actually come out of
Speaker 1: the closet, which makes sense if you're going to Russia
Speaker 1: every year. But it's like, we see that type pony.
Speaker 1: I I mean, I knew, I knew, I knew Diana.
Speaker 1: I yes, I do think that okay, tight pony A
Speaker 1: lot of times with yeah, with lesbian athletes, they will
Speaker 1: go from a tight pony and then immediately it's short
Speaker 1: and you go, oh my god, they look so good
Speaker 1: with short hair. So I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: I would be shell shocked if her type bun was
Speaker 1: even if she wore the pony down, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I've seen it down in it like sweats before,
Speaker 1: like her at a press conference, you know when oh
Speaker 1: I love even when you see like just the gymnast
Speaker 1: girls have their hair like so straight, you know, like
Speaker 1: they've taken up female athletes in their hair when they're
Speaker 1: not competing. Could be a coffee table book. You're right,
Speaker 1: You're right, would flip that baby, because yeah, they and
Speaker 1: some people are hot on the court. You're like, you
Speaker 1: like have a thing for them and then they'll like
Speaker 1: take their hair down and they have like real clothes on.
Speaker 1: You're like, this is yeah, he looked like a mom mom.
Speaker 1: But you know how like NBA players have like wild
Speaker 1: hair like Ross and and some of these guys. Who
Speaker 1: is there anyone in the w n B A who
Speaker 1: kind of has like ambitious haircut or like fun braids
Speaker 1: and some girl on the sparks like two years ago
Speaker 1: it was also a rapper that had cool classes in
Speaker 1: her hair. Always look cool. Yeah, it needs to be
Speaker 1: a show made about that, like if they have other
Speaker 1: side hustles to keep playing professionally, like that is a
Speaker 1: great show, right, you should write that show. Well, actually
Speaker 1: Lankston and I did. But if you're listening and you are, yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: I've got two shows available. Um one the other one
Speaker 1: does have a pacers player in it. Um yeah, please,
Speaker 1: we're shows together. As a packaging agents can't do it,
Speaker 1: but boy will package shows nobody wants. Uh. So I
Speaker 1: had Diana on my list as well as my number one,
Speaker 1: and so I would just add to what you said,
Speaker 1: she I said. Rookie of the Year two Finals, MVPs
Speaker 1: four gold medals, five scoring titles, nine All Star teams
Speaker 1: ten all w NBA teams. Her nickname is white mom
Speaker 1: buspeaking of Kobe and then also gave her that name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean to get that from Code because everyone was
Speaker 1: is always doing like, you know whatever, Mamba. To get
Speaker 1: it from Kobe is like legit. But then also I
Speaker 1: believe she's going to be in Space Sham two, So
Speaker 1: it's like, I feel like there's some Sparks players in
Speaker 1: it too, Candice maybe Okay, I was I forget her
Speaker 1: last name, So are you gonna You're gonna tell us? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'll just I'll tell my first pick that was
Speaker 1: like that. My third pick, I guess or my number
Speaker 1: three on my list is Sheryl Swoops. So I felt
Speaker 1: like there was me some overlap there. But she was
Speaker 1: the technically the first ever w NBA player because she
Speaker 1: was drafted first, and she had three gold Olympic gold
Speaker 1: medals before that, or she I think she had one
Speaker 1: or two during that time, won an n c A championship,
Speaker 1: and then most importantly for me, has two signature shoes
Speaker 1: with Nike, which is just like this Swoops. Actually, my
Speaker 1: sister had them and I wore them, and she's two
Speaker 1: sizes smaller than me, and I wore them two games
Speaker 1: because I was so She had them from like her
Speaker 1: high school team, and they were cool. They were I
Speaker 1: want them to bring them back. I want them to
Speaker 1: do like they did. They did the second ones. I thought, you, Oh,
Speaker 1: I like the first ones that lace up. Yeah, yeah, those,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean you just think about it.
Speaker 1: What female athlete has had a signature shoe, right, Cheryl
Speaker 1: Swoops is my was my second one, so we can
Speaker 1: do this together. I think Cheryl Swoops is just such
Speaker 1: an iconic name too. I mean it sounds like a
Speaker 1: basketball Yeah, I guess it's like a Lonzo ball and
Speaker 1: them it's just like, yes, you were just made to
Speaker 1: do this. She started playing basketball at the age of
Speaker 1: seven with her three older brothers, which I do feel
Speaker 1: like kind of do. Yeah, that seems to be like
Speaker 1: a storyline a lot of time. That's Cheryl Miller obviously
Speaker 1: was the older one, but would play with Reggie all
Speaker 1: the time. And she started playing in a league when
Speaker 1: she was seven called the Little Dribblers. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's so sweet and cute, but yeah, her jersey has
Speaker 1: been retired at Texas Tech. She she's definitely an icon,
Speaker 1: especially as far as marketing. Sick of her as the
Speaker 1: greatest basketball player from Texas Tech. Well, say, she was
Speaker 1: one of the first highest profile athletes to come out
Speaker 1: too and then she went back in. Oh really, that's
Speaker 1: in the next article. I'm sure she went back in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so she did in a couple of years.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, I don't. I don't know. She came out
Speaker 1: and then she went back in. I mean obviously she's
Speaker 1: by yeah. I don't know when they when people go
Speaker 1: back in, that means they're by yeah. I guess she
Speaker 1: just was like, all right, I'm done with this. She
Speaker 1: is now she's an assistant coach at Texas Tech, where
Speaker 1: she played too. So I think that's a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of the former players are like Tina Thompson,
Speaker 1: Becky Hammond's amazing, Yeah, to get like a coaching job.
Speaker 1: It's like Tina Thompson was like, she's like a second
Speaker 1: all time score and she and I actually had her
Speaker 1: shoes in high school. I feel like it was one
Speaker 1: of those things where like players will have shoes with
Speaker 1: Jordan Brands, so you're not necessarily yeah, you're not out
Speaker 1: on your own, right, But she she coaches that Virginia
Speaker 1: or something like that. I mean I had to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I go on deep dives on these on
Speaker 1: the Instagram and I'm like, it was so sad that
Speaker 1: I have more followers like I at And then do
Speaker 1: you see their houses? Do their houses look nice? I
Speaker 1: watched like a little documentary with even Candice Parker, and
Speaker 1: she's like a condo. I'm sure she's good with money,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, why doesn't she have like I want
Speaker 1: her to have a palace. Yeah, it's yeah, it's crazy
Speaker 1: because I make that TV money. She was endorsed it,
Speaker 1: and I know that doesn't matter, but she's just so cool.
Speaker 1: And she played while she was pregnant, played after she
Speaker 1: gave birth. When I was trying to research this, I
Speaker 1: kept finding that there was this one website and and
Speaker 1: they would be they would be talking about mothers. It
Speaker 1: was when we were thinking about doing like a Mother's
Speaker 1: Base one and all every athlete they kept calling steamy
Speaker 1: another steamy, which makes me think it was written by
Speaker 1: like a foreign bot. But it was so bizarre, like
Speaker 1: even for for players, I wouldn't necessarily consider steamy, right,
Speaker 1: they'd be like Diana Trassi steamy player. It was so
Speaker 1: I actually think I read that article and that's what
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I don't know what
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say, actually wrote that arm I
Speaker 1: did like steamy just wait until she cuts off that bun. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Cheryl Swoops is my second so we can go
Speaker 1: to your second player. I didn't know I was supposed
Speaker 1: to have more than but I can talk about anyone,
Speaker 1: ser right, love super She follows me on Twitter? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how are you? Big moment for me? I don't know
Speaker 1: because Twitter is not my medium. Uh And and she
Speaker 1: follows me, and uh, I love that about her. That's
Speaker 1: the best thing. Did you ever think that her bird
Speaker 1: and Larry Bird were related? I think yeah. I think
Speaker 1: there was probably a moment where yeah, where I did.
Speaker 1: It just seems like a like how do you have incidents? Yeah?
Speaker 1: She's also like can you believe her name is Sue? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So cool? Her name is Sue. That's wild, I mean
Speaker 1: because her wife is Megan. They're not married? Are they
Speaker 1: just got married? Some from the US women's national team
Speaker 1: just got married? Because I was looking at the photos,
Speaker 1: I think it was in Miami, probably just as partner
Speaker 1: um partner. Oh, maybe their lawyers together a law firm
Speaker 1: in Seattle, but they're they're also maybe the to the
Speaker 1: best dressed athletes, and she always gets it. She has
Speaker 1: like major shoe games. Yeah, like she I think she's
Speaker 1: a collector. She has like a Kyrie connection that she
Speaker 1: always has. I think that Nike actually did release special
Speaker 1: editions super kind. I know you're a big Kyrie shoe fan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am Lebron. We need to get those. We have
Speaker 1: similar shoe collections. Well, you guys also got My Baby
Speaker 1: and they're out and they're so awesome that the SpongeBob
Speaker 1: Kyrie's and she looks awesome in them. That was obviously
Speaker 1: a c J. So she was like, you need to
Speaker 1: look at Sam and Moe's registry. And I looked at
Speaker 1: I was like, just just some of these don't feel
Speaker 1: like us giving you a p Yeah. Yeah, no, and
Speaker 1: it should. I like that when people went off the registry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean I put my own book on my registry.
Speaker 1: I said, we wanted one hundred of them. Did anyone
Speaker 1: get you any one? Wow? Yeah that I'll go and
Speaker 1: buy one. We should put your specials, yeah, CJ. Three
Speaker 1: of my albums and they came in the midst of
Speaker 1: wedding presents coming, and it would I would have been
Speaker 1: really upset if someone gave me that. I'd be like,
Speaker 1: keep it. I want you to listen to it. That
Speaker 1: is my gift to you. Actually, so you've revealed how
Speaker 1: many of yours who said Sheryl swoops and then Diana,
Speaker 1: I have you just mentioned? I mean, we should just
Speaker 1: talk about her. Becky Hammond, he was just still continuing
Speaker 1: to have an incredible career in basketball. Three time All
Speaker 1: American for the Colorado Rams, played in w n b
Speaker 1: A for the San Antonio Stars and the New York Liberty.
Speaker 1: Was one of the first female coaches on the Spur Stuff,
Speaker 1: which is maybe the best coaching staff in all of
Speaker 1: basketball behind Greg Popovich, and then became the first woman
Speaker 1: Summer League coach a couple of years ago this past year.
Speaker 1: And the thing is which is great now is that
Speaker 1: she is being in discussion for head coaching jobs. I
Speaker 1: love that. Was she in discussion for the Bucks for
Speaker 1: a second? Maybe the Bucks are I know the Nicks,
Speaker 1: but I want to be surprised with the Bucks. I
Speaker 1: would I mean that that would be amazing. I was
Speaker 1: actually just watching I was like, because I have to
Speaker 1: watch them back. If you have the NBA past, you
Speaker 1: can't watch the Lakers games like right away. So it
Speaker 1: was watching the Lakers and the Spurs, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: take my eyes off of watching her coach. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to watch watch what she was saying, how she
Speaker 1: talked to the player. And there was that clip that
Speaker 1: came out recently where she like told Popovitch to had
Speaker 1: them reviews something like no, no, no, and then he
Speaker 1: changes his mind and then they won. And it's like,
Speaker 1: of course that happens all the time, I'm sure, but
Speaker 1: to like see this woman who has been the first
Speaker 1: woman to break up the intense glass ceiling in the
Speaker 1: NBA and to like watch it and to have obviously
Speaker 1: he has her respect, but like he is considered the
Speaker 1: greatest NBA coach of all time, maybe him and Phil Jackson,
Speaker 1: and so he's now ahead of him because he hasn't
Speaker 1: gone insane, and to just like watch that interactions like, yeah,
Speaker 1: she should she should be. That clip should be like
Speaker 1: in a campaign for believing women, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: that should be Here's why, and any dumb guy like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, because it wins. It wins NBA games, right,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think someone's a team the Knicks should
Speaker 1: have done it. You should have hired her on my
Speaker 1: worst enemy. But it's a challenge that she would want,
Speaker 1: and I think she would do a great job. Who's
Speaker 1: the worst team in the NBA. It would be amazing
Speaker 1: to say it's the worst team and make them good. Okay,
Speaker 1: go to Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, I think it's I feel
Speaker 1: like the Hawks are meant to be bad, like they're trying,
Speaker 1: they're taking a little bit, but the Nicks are just
Speaker 1: just doing everything incorrectly, and yeah, they need some sort
Speaker 1: of sign of hope. But the good thing is the
Speaker 1: tickets are still really expensive, yeah for the franchise. Okay,
Speaker 1: should we take a break and then we'll come back
Speaker 1: with our greatest and we're back, all right, here is
Speaker 1: our greatest pick. Okay, so um this obviously this was
Speaker 1: greatest w NBA players. Um, But it goes without saying.
Speaker 1: I believe that Cheryl Miller is the greatest female basketball
Speaker 1: player of all time and clearly changed the game and
Speaker 1: is the first female broadcaster I ever remember seeing for
Speaker 1: male games, And yeah, I just want to give her props,
Speaker 1: to give her love She will obviously be mentioned when
Speaker 1: we do greatest female Athletes of All Time, but I'm
Speaker 1: sad that we didn't get to see her in the
Speaker 1: w n B A because I do think she would
Speaker 1: have helped make it a bigger deal. Yeah I do. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: so my number one greatest of all time born in
Speaker 1: l A, played at USC played her entire w NBA
Speaker 1: career for the Sparks. Two time w NBA champion, two
Speaker 1: time w NBA Finals m v P, three time League
Speaker 1: m v P, four time gold medalist, Lisa Leslie. She
Speaker 1: is iconic. Like I think you see her and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that I know who that is. She like transcends. Um.
Speaker 1: We were at the Lakers Clippers home opener and a
Speaker 1: bunch of w NBA players came in and sat courtside
Speaker 1: and I cry. I mean, I was just like so
Speaker 1: happy to see them because it's like, yeah, you you
Speaker 1: should say you are part of the Staples Center history,
Speaker 1: like as much as any of these other men are.
Speaker 1: And now she is actually the coach of Ice Cubes
Speaker 1: Big Three expansion team, the Triplets, So she's coaching in
Speaker 1: the Big Three. I think does a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: with fashion, has um is that commentator. A commentator. She's
Speaker 1: so beautiful, which doesn't really matter, but it's just like
Speaker 1: a legend. I met her like in two thousand and fourteen,
Speaker 1: because I don't get star Stark. I mean, living in
Speaker 1: l A. It's like I see an I see an actor,
Speaker 1: I see comedium, like I don't care, but like if
Speaker 1: I see an athlete, I can't help myself because they're
Speaker 1: different than us. They're better than they're better than us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: learning lines, anybody can do it any but dunk you read,
Speaker 1: you gotta remember, but to dunk, to dunk, to be
Speaker 1: the first female to dunk in a w n B
Speaker 1: A in a dunk too. Yeah, she's uh yeah. I
Speaker 1: met her and I was just like, she's so amazing
Speaker 1: and some I was like, yeah, she's trying to get
Speaker 1: into acting, and I was like, she's great. What does
Speaker 1: she want to do? What does she want to do?
Speaker 1: She wanna I'll start a podcast? Like, Well, tell me
Speaker 1: about that show that you had. Who did you You
Speaker 1: had to have somebody in mind when you're writing it?
Speaker 1: Did you have any like actual players? Well? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was animated, but it was it's definitely about like female.
Speaker 1: It was basically. I mean, Linkston will tell you this,
Speaker 1: but Linkston was a practice player at Michigan and so
Speaker 1: it was about he was yeah, yeah, which I've actually seen,
Speaker 1: like they have Yukon. They did an episode when they
Speaker 1: followed them for a season, the season that they lost,
Speaker 1: and they showed the practice players. It's like that sounds
Speaker 1: like so fun and intense. Yeah. I know Tias Jones,
Speaker 1: who I think still plays for the Wolves, but his
Speaker 1: mom was a w NBA players, so he in high
Speaker 1: school and college would would be a practice player. And
Speaker 1: he was like this, dude doesn't the NBA and he
Speaker 1: learned from women, right, you know, So it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: to discount it is insane. I think that the way
Speaker 1: that they use entertainment with the m b A, they
Speaker 1: do need to do that with the w n b A.
Speaker 1: But I remember bringing it up to some people and
Speaker 1: they asked the Sparks if they would be interested in
Speaker 1: doing like some sketches, and like, I don't think they
Speaker 1: wanted to make fun, like they weren't ready to, like
Speaker 1: they don't want to laugh at themselves or like, at
Speaker 1: least at that time. Well, I think that's totally understandable.
Speaker 1: I I you're as like comedy writers in sports were
Speaker 1: posed with this a lot of like don't make fun
Speaker 1: of the thing, but there's other things to make fun of.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Or it's like you're not like you basically
Speaker 1: have to convice, like you're not part of the joke,
Speaker 1: you're not the butt of the right. Yeah. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: because Lisa Leslie is I mean, she's been on The
Speaker 1: Sister Sister, she played herself on The Simpsons, she traded
Speaker 1: places with Downtown Julie Brown on Celebrity Wife Swap Listen,
Speaker 1: she was an Uncle Drew she got. Yeah, she's like
Speaker 1: deep in entertainment. Yeah. Yeah, I consider she's probably would
Speaker 1: be on the Mount Rushmore for l A basketball. Ye born,
Speaker 1: play at USC and then play your entire career with
Speaker 1: the l A w NBA team, is right. She spent
Speaker 1: her whole life playing l A basketball. I think that's
Speaker 1: so amazing, And she just seems I mean, we're keeping
Speaker 1: like the w n B A and needs more. But
Speaker 1: like what the w n B A is rich with
Speaker 1: is legendary icons who are incredible ambassadors for the game.
Speaker 1: Really like these are these are not women that you're like, well,
Speaker 1: but you know, she had that one thing like in
Speaker 1: the NFL's top one hundred. I guess oj is great,
Speaker 1: but like that's a tough Like the w n b
Speaker 1: A had like one domestic violence thing and it was
Speaker 1: between two women, and that's not great, But that's it.
Speaker 1: Like that is an honorable mention, right, Like maybe I
Speaker 1: shouldn't do mention Britney Griner, But Britnie Griner is great,
Speaker 1: and she is every single w NBA player that like
Speaker 1: you think of as incredible, the only one that has
Speaker 1: even a remote like tiny staying on it. I'm not
Speaker 1: telling domestic violence tiny, but she's the only one with
Speaker 1: any sort of quote unquote record. Everyone else I would
Speaker 1: trust with Cleo l most children, I decide, I'm actually
Speaker 1: the surrogate of who get to watch mos baby and
Speaker 1: say Lisa Leslie would be a great They have to
Speaker 1: be a former player, especially, I mean, if you're a rookie,
Speaker 1: you're not making a lot, so please double up and
Speaker 1: br nanny. But Britney Grener is very, very talented and
Speaker 1: probably like one of the biggest news stars. Right. She
Speaker 1: had the thing with DeMarcus Cousins to where DeMarcus Cousins
Speaker 1: was talking shit on on women's basketball, And I know
Speaker 1: it's just like sitting on the bench, you have not played,
Speaker 1: you chased to ring and didn't get one, as you'll
Speaker 1: just never be I don't know, Boogie, I like him.
Speaker 1: Why you got to do this? Yeah? Yeah, but they
Speaker 1: challenge one on one and I want to see that,
Speaker 1: and honestly I would. I would I put money on
Speaker 1: on Brittany. I would too. Yeah. I think it's like
Speaker 1: the Billy Jean King thing. It's like you're challenging the
Speaker 1: greatest current female player perhaps, I mean Diana is but
Speaker 1: likes like in her prime and Boogie has not played
Speaker 1: and over a year, Yeah, and looks mad on the bench.
Speaker 1: Every time we watch games. She's always like, why is
Speaker 1: Boogie so mad? I'm like, is he okay? So much
Speaker 1: money to sign but he seems mad? But I guess
Speaker 1: you know, when you have a lot of money, what
Speaker 1: is you know, sitting next to him, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: I don't want that. Yeah. And that's another thing too.
Speaker 1: And I hate to keep bringing up how much you
Speaker 1: know under how underpaid some of these players are. But
Speaker 1: you hear stories about how andre Iguodala just got paid
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars to not play for a team just
Speaker 1: refused to play for a team, or like some of
Speaker 1: these guys who were hurt and get paid millions of dollars,
Speaker 1: Like maybe some of the players need to stop up
Speaker 1: and start funneling money into the w n B A right,
Speaker 1: because it's like and I hate that, Like, oh, what
Speaker 1: about if you had a daughter. It's like these guys
Speaker 1: might have daughters who play in the league and would
Speaker 1: want them to play full time, and like I have
Speaker 1: that be their job, and I love that you need
Speaker 1: a daughter. It's like, you don't need a daughter to
Speaker 1: like just like believe in equal rights. Like it's well,
Speaker 1: there was that this was going around during the Kavanaugh stuff,
Speaker 1: and it was like I think a calling card of
Speaker 1: people being like you should be nice to women. It's
Speaker 1: like this is someone's like mother, and so it had
Speaker 1: like mother, daughter, sister, wife all crossed out and it's
Speaker 1: just a person, right, Like that is a person. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be anyone's child to be a value, right,
Speaker 1: that's a person everyone. You don't need to think about
Speaker 1: your mother to like remember that you should treat women
Speaker 1: right exactly exactly, so like whether whether or not they
Speaker 1: have be male daughters. That play female daughters, daughters that
Speaker 1: play basketball or not, they should still care about the game.
Speaker 1: And caring about the game is caring about female basketball players.
Speaker 1: I just think the money is there. I'm like, so
Speaker 1: why not, like, why not just just take some of that?
Speaker 1: It sucks to be on your like, you know, to
Speaker 1: put as much time into basketball as your counterparts. You're
Speaker 1: like the men and be at the top of your
Speaker 1: game and then get you know, well, And I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of female athletes and and I guess
Speaker 1: athletes of both genders that look at basketball and are like,
Speaker 1: at least you have something post college, like you know,
Speaker 1: you were watching cheer and and that is a sport
Speaker 1: that's a very dangerous sport, and like there's nothing they
Speaker 1: they're done. Then it could be like NBA or NFL dancer,
Speaker 1: but these these are gymnasts or not even dancers. So
Speaker 1: if you are you know, a rower, like it's literally
Speaker 1: you go to the Olympics or your prier is done.
Speaker 1: So cheer Lucky Cheer? Is that a junior college? That
Speaker 1: the junior college? So I propose that they are the
Speaker 1: halftime entertainment for the w NBA team near them. Why
Speaker 1: hasn't anyone thought of that. I always think it's like
Speaker 1: in l A. It's like it's the entertainment capital of
Speaker 1: the United States. It's like, why not have the greatest
Speaker 1: halftime shows of all time? Not just people that you know,
Speaker 1: I mean even like cheerleading squads, Like I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: was never a cheerleader, so I so I feel bad
Speaker 1: saying this, but I'm like, why not try something else?
Speaker 1: Why not try like America's best dance group, like those people.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had the Jesse White Tumblers in Chicago
Speaker 1: and that was Secretary of State. I believe he was
Speaker 1: like the attorney My god, yeah, and he had and
Speaker 1: they would do Bowls halftime shows and it was awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Jesse White Tumblers are like incredible. That
Speaker 1: would be an amazing documentary to see why do you
Speaker 1: have a tumbling? I just love Tom Lincoln politics, but
Speaker 1: I want to open for the l A sparks on
Speaker 1: the road. I just want to put that out there.
Speaker 1: I want to be why not would you ever consider
Speaker 1: doing that? The people on the court that are like
Speaker 1: interviewing and like throwing out T shirts, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know where they get the energy and I don't
Speaker 1: know who they go home to at night, but like,
Speaker 1: but no, you'd want to do like the funny version.
Speaker 1: I'd want to do stand up And you should just
Speaker 1: be like one of the I mean, you know you're
Speaker 1: working on all these other shows, but like you should
Speaker 1: do what I did for the Pistons, but for one
Speaker 1: of these w NBA teams like that, and they didn't
Speaker 1: for some reason, they didn't want to do that because
Speaker 1: all these people, it's it's every professional team's marketing team.
Speaker 1: Everyone started as an intern just want to keep their jobs,
Speaker 1: so they never want to bring in creative people. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just like disgusted with my own. I wanted them
Speaker 1: to do a gay kiss cam. I don't know why
Speaker 1: they don't they do kissy cam's at the w NBA
Speaker 1: because they know they'll all be gay. So I know,
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but that's what I got. It's homophobic.
Speaker 1: I want there to be a gay kiss camp and
Speaker 1: even if it's your mommy got to kiss her, I
Speaker 1: would love that even if they're wrong. All right, so
Speaker 1: I do we I have one more pick and it's
Speaker 1: Maya Moore. Do you guys know manya more? I mean
Speaker 1: so not she's like someone who is He sounds hesitant,
Speaker 1: like it's Maya Moore. Well, no, I think she is
Speaker 1: like bigger than basketball. And the reason that she is
Speaker 1: skipping her second season it's so interesting, right, it's it's
Speaker 1: interesting and I want to get more into it. But
Speaker 1: she's skipping her second season. Well, not only in the
Speaker 1: last decade, she has won four w NBA championships, a
Speaker 1: Dynasty one championship her first championship as a rookie, and
Speaker 1: then has one four and now she's skipping her second
Speaker 1: season to help out a who she believes is a
Speaker 1: wrongfully convicted sixteen year old who got I think he was,
Speaker 1: or maybe he's twenty nine now maybe he's twenty nine nine, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and who got fifty years in jail for burgalizing at home.
Speaker 1: And she's skipping another season in the Olympics to fight
Speaker 1: for the justice of this guy. And I want to
Speaker 1: say that that is the right thing to do, but
Speaker 1: I'm also like, what are you doing? Yeah? So yeah,
Speaker 1: what is the what is the feeling there? Because she's
Speaker 1: kind of like I would say she's the next Candice
Speaker 1: Parker in the way that she was getting endorsements and
Speaker 1: she was under the Jordan brand, and how great she
Speaker 1: is for women's basketball. I do like that. She's probably like,
Speaker 1: I play basketball in my whole life, so you know,
Speaker 1: if I want to take a couple of years off,
Speaker 1: like I don't need to play my entire life. I
Speaker 1: like that, I guess. But it's so odd. It's odd.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the most unselfish Christian. She loves the
Speaker 1: Lord a lot. I think when she first took off,
Speaker 1: like the first season, she said she just wanted to
Speaker 1: be with friends, family, and the Lord. I feel that
Speaker 1: way sometimes. Three years of I'm just I was like,
Speaker 1: was it I did a sabbatical to be with the Lord?
Speaker 1: Everyone will be like, I think, you mean get sucked up.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get sucked up every day? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was you going Lord to just be moving in with
Speaker 1: your parents and then going out every night. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean sometimes when things like this come up, and and
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian sort of like a perfect example, everyone was like,
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian went to the White House to try and
Speaker 1: get and it's like, unfortunately it worked, I mean not
Speaker 1: unfortunately fortunately it worked. That's what kind of what disarray
Speaker 1: our judicial system is in that female professional basketball stars
Speaker 1: are having to take time out of there like peak
Speaker 1: playing careers to try and work for the Innocence Project.
Speaker 1: Like it's one of those things of like I was
Speaker 1: yelling about this last week and hopefully when this comes out,
Speaker 1: the primary will be done. But it's like, why are
Speaker 1: comedians having to do all of this work? We are
Speaker 1: not campaign leader? Like this is insane. Can't just the
Speaker 1: campaign people do it? And I can go back to
Speaker 1: tweeting about bre like I don't think it's crazy. This
Speaker 1: is insane, and it's like that it's a level of
Speaker 1: insanity that, like, our most talented female basketball player has
Speaker 1: to get a wrongfully convicted man out of jail. But
Speaker 1: imagine if you were like, I'm quitting all things comedy
Speaker 1: for two years to like help with the primary or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like, that's no, no, don't do it. When we
Speaker 1: have friends say things like that, I'm like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: off the deep end. But I think she's not off
Speaker 1: the deep end. I think she's just like, I want
Speaker 1: to help um this person, and she says she's not
Speaker 1: like called back to basketball at the moment, and I mean,
Speaker 1: if anything, it is really interesting. I'm like I've never
Speaker 1: heard that. I mean, Michael Jordan took a break. I
Speaker 1: guess to play baseball, to be with the Lord is
Speaker 1: to be what he said right, to be jeans competitive,
Speaker 1: I think is just so weird. But yeah, it's I
Speaker 1: also she might she just did everything in her first Like,
Speaker 1: can you imagine just like winning a championship most of
Speaker 1: the time you played in in in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's like, listen, I've won championships. I want a real
Speaker 1: challenge getting a black man out of jail. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a crazier championship to win. You're right if
Speaker 1: she can do that? All right, Well did you do
Speaker 1: you guys have any honorable mentions at all? No, just
Speaker 1: my Cheryl Miller shout out. Um. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: we've we had a lot of great ladies on here,
Speaker 1: great role models. I think we did a good job.
Speaker 1: And this is my favorite basketball like YouTube w n
Speaker 1: B a YouTube video if you guys want to look
Speaker 1: at us. Uh, Diana Tarassi kisses Simona Augustus like during
Speaker 1: a foul they called they called the foul like on
Speaker 1: the kiss and the Australian who can dunk? No, she's
Speaker 1: I don't know what to. I think she was on
Speaker 1: the links. She's she's really good. Um, but there was
Speaker 1: like a foul called and they were like kind of
Speaker 1: it looked like they were about to kind of fight,
Speaker 1: and it's just like kissing her on the cheek and
Speaker 1: it's like and there was a foul and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's the most amazing. I can pull it up if
Speaker 1: you want to look at it. I mean, while oh yeah,
Speaker 1: she talks about it. Could they go back to it? Okay,
Speaker 1: and we can play it well and people can pull
Speaker 1: it up. Here we go, me and Diana and Tango. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're there top. So it looks like they're about to fight,
Speaker 1: right there, two ampians, two great players going nose to nose.
Speaker 1: A little pick always says she just wants some of
Speaker 1: my piousness. I will say, as I'm seeing this clip,
Speaker 1: I do think it's okay to call for more female
Speaker 1: coaches in the w n b A and more female refs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would be helpful coaches, are you know? Still I
Speaker 1: think that's more of like it almost seems like a
Speaker 1: marketing move, like, oh yeah, let's have a Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: it wasn't. Derek Fisher is you might still be the
Speaker 1: Sparks coach right now. Yeah, and I agree with that
Speaker 1: as a basketball fan. Not gonna get me. I'll go
Speaker 1: to the game because it's a good game, not because
Speaker 1: Derek Fisher is a coach. Yeah, like I came for
Speaker 1: Derek fishery, I got my swingman suit. Yeah, huge fan,
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Speaker 1: are all the w NBA teams Eli Sparks in New York, Liberty, Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: Stars Connecticut, Son, Seattle Store, Atlanta Dream in Chicago. S guy,
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Speaker 1: Candice Cambridge right, Oh my gosh, that was really good. Yeah. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we had a request for that. Lisa was like, is
Speaker 1: she gonna sing the song? So now I'm happy. We
Speaker 1: should can tell Lisa our second favorite listener you have.
Speaker 1: You should you should update that or get an animator
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