WEBVTT - Under Her (Dallas) Wing w/ Alysha Clark 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.440 Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Futter Around 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:08.799 and find Out. I'm here with my girl of Shanty. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.719 Hey, Hey, how you doing. I'm so excited for this episode. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.600 Let's get right into it. We have a very special guest. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:17.319 Do you want to do the honors of introduced her? 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.160 The most special guests we've had yet? 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.120 Ooh, we've been waiting on this one. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:27.200 Oh yeah, we have the one and only Alicia Clark 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:34.600 wookay Ac is a three time WNBA champion. She was 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.839 the WNBA six Player of the Year in twenty twenty three. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.120 She was on the WNBA All Defensive Team in twenty 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.440 twenty and twenty nineteen, she's on the All Defensive second Team. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:48.480 Wait, whoa, Okay, Alicia, you're a superstar and we're really 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.839 glad to have you on here. Okay wait Ac. 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.560 Led the NCAA and scoring in two thousand and nine 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:56.319 and twenty ten. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:57.240 I did not know. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.960 That long time ago, long time ago. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.120 You're the only player in the WNBA history with at 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.640 least twenty seven hundred points, fourteen hundred rebounds, six hundred assists, 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.199 and three hundred and fifty three pointers while shooting forty 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.440 seven percent from the field and I didn't know this, 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.199 but you led the NCAA and scoring in two thousand 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.399 and nine and ten at Middle Tennessee State. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.520 Okay, so I just want to jump into it. I 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.039 do want to talk about how your time has been 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:28.080 so far in training camp. Tell us some of the things, 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.000 some highlights, and maybe a little bit of the challenges. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.479 Training camp has been good. It's been fun. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:35.960 You know, it's always weird when you're in a new 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.160 environment and just like trying to find your place and 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.319 where you fit in and just kind of go. But 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.560 it's been super easy here adjusting and just kind of 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.080 falling into the flow of everything. And I think that 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.960 just starts with how Jose showed up and just like 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.000 I love when people are just like directing like, hey, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:54.400 this is what I expect, this is where we are, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.840 because then you know how to operate in that. But 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.600 it's been super easy. It's been fun, fun getting to 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:05.680 know new teammates. Yeah, and then the challenges. Honestly, the 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.800 other day we were going we came in for like 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.560 some film and what you know, we when you say 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:15.600 walk through, you're literally walking maybe a slight little jog through, 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.400 And so in my mind that's what I'm anticipating we're 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.400 gonna do. So they're like, all right, you guys need 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.120 to stretch or anything, and I'm like, no, we're We're good, 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.480 Like we're just about to walk through. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.480 These mofos get out there and. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.160 They start going one hundred miles an hour and I'm 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.200 standing on the side and I was like, oh, so 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.520 we're not walking through like we're going. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.839 It's like, got it, okay? And I was like, maybe 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.000 I should have activated and done a little stretching before. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.480 I'm used to a Yukon walkthrough, which is like full 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.760 speed three man, we like, we're full on practice. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:48.760 So he said get to the base. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.040 I'm like, y'all did. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.359 They started sprinting and I looked over at ours, at 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:54.560 our coach empress. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.000 And I was like, this is a lot through. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.520 I was like, hey, I saw your face. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:00.360 Yeah. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.920 So that's probably the biggest adjustment is yes, young group, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:06.760 I gotta remember. I'm like, they want to come out 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:08.800 and start shooting from the three point line first, they 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.040 want to sprint through everything. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.360 So just that's been the adjustment. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.919 I'm looking forward to what what it ends up turning 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.480 out to be, because i mean, like, yeah, walkthrough. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.640 Definitely asterisk, but it'll pay off. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:22.520 It'll pay off. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.200 We're gonna find it in between pace. 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.239 Yeah, they're keeping me young. They're keeping me young. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:35.080 Anyway, Alicia, So recently you posted on social media about 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.440 a bet you had with Paige. So the fans wanted 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.960 to know what that hundred dollars bet was about. If 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.720 it's podcast safe. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.640 Yeah it is. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.520 It was like in between half court and like it's 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.640 almost like volleyball line, and so I was like, you know, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.120 one hundred bucks, one shot, and she was like, oh bet, 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:56.920 and I was like, okay. So she shot the first 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.680 one and she claims that someone hit her ball and 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.000 it was going to go in and she I was like, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:03.839 go ahead, one more and so she shot the next 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.920 one and missed, and so I won my one hundred dollars. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.480 So I was like, thank you for my free money. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.920 So she should owe you two hundred is what I'm hearing. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:12.720 Thank you. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.560 That's what I thought too. But you know, I was like, 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.200 let me, let me tread carefully. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.520 You have a whole season to get more money out 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:19.839 of her. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.640 I will say, what about you? Why don't you get 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:24.680 in on the bets, girly? 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.279 I wasn't there. I don't want to take her money. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.120 I can't take AC's money. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.279 Listen, they got more money than me. Okay, I've worked 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.320 hard so they can have all the money. Okay, I'm 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:35.800 taking all of their money this year. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.520 Okay, thank you, thank you. 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.680 I know that's right. Okay, We're definitely going to get 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.200 into that because you have put a lot of work 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:48.760 for this next generation and we all appreciate you. But see, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.640 I do want to know a little bit more like 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:55.400 about you. Okay, we know you're Miss Tennessee. You come 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.919 with many nicknames that we're going to get into as well. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.880 But you also have a love for cooking, and I'm 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.800 hearing you piloted like or you came up with something 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:06.800 for like a cooking show. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:11.599 Yeah, it's no longer up and going. We've kind of 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.320 pivoted since then. But yeah, I was doing just like 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.880 cooking on my Instagram, like it was nothing crazy, and 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.919 we were trying to conceptualize what that would look like 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.320 in a TV show format and started. I had recorded 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.679 like three episodes with some of the guests that I 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.560 got to handpick that I wanted to be a part 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:28.240 of it, and. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.279 It was super special. Is dope. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.279 Doing the recordings showed me that, like, Okay, yeah, no, 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.320 this is this is what I want to be doing. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.839 This kind of marries my love of. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.200 People, of food, of like communion, and just of like 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.839 highlighting the goodness because I just think, you know, there's 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.440 so much going on in the world anyway, and so 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.160 I've always wanted to just be a light and like 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.960 share goodness and put more goodness out there. The first 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.400 guest that I had on there, it was just that, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:57.920 and I was like, yeah, no, this is something that 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:58.480 I want to. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.719 Hopefully like redo and recreate in another avenue. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.000 But yeah, that was something that I just I loved 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.720 being able to teach people food, learn something together. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:10.559 You know. For me, that's what I love about cooking. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.640 It's just bringing people together and fellowshipping and just enjoying 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:15.159 good food. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.080 You gotta tell us twice, we're all foodies on this show, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.960 and anytime you want to come and cook something, please 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.480 bring that energy over here, okay, and we definitely would 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.880 love to see you in asy cooking. Just prepare your 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.560 palate because my goodsess love some cottage cheese. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.560 I've already told her I volunteer if she cooks to 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:37.400 be your taste tester if she needs one. 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.640 Yeah, yeah, I love cottage cheese too. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:45.200 Oh my goodness, lot y'all are meant. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:45.240 To be. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:52.840 What's wrong with cottage cheese exactly? Immature taste buds. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:54.560 Hold on, hold on, we're gonna. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:55.960 Work on that palate. We're gonna work on the plate 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.159 in a minute. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.159 I didn't say I disliked it, kind of gave. Okay, 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.160 I've only had it in my eggs. Okay, so let's start. 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.560 I didn't try it like playing or in anything else, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.400 and it just made my eggs a little bit like 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.680 more milky. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.800 Creamy fluffy, creamy fluffy. Yes, that was different. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:21.960 Yeah see but I love a soft scramble, so it's perfect. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.120 Ooh okay, okay a see. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:25.440 Have you always been a good cook? 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:27.080 Not always? 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.600 I've learned, Like I mean, I wasn't bad, but I 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.679 think I've definitely refined my skills over the years. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.760 Just playing overseas so much. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.960 You have so much downtime, and so that's where I 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.360 like started watching YouTube videos and now when they had 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.080 you know, like the master classes with different chefs. My 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.640 TV stays on the Food Network and food channels, so 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.600 like I'm always watching and just learning, so it was 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.640 definitely a learned skill. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.600 You've traveled a bunch of places, and you've lived a 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.720 bunch of places. Where do you like the cuisine the best? 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:06.360 Ooh, I mean Italy and Spain off the top, love love, love. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.080 The food is like I could eat it seven days 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.640 a week, like I was in Heaven. I just yeah, 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.480 I love it. All those are my top two for sure. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.720 Friends had really good food. I was playing in Leon 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.800 and you know that's like the European gastro capital, and 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.760 so there were so many different little mom and pop shops. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.680 A lot of the famous chefs that come, you know, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.439 European chefs started in Leone, and like, so there's all 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.679 these really great restaurants that were there, and you get 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:36.840 all the different cuisines. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:38.160 So yeah, I loved it. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.960 Like living there, I got you got everything from Brazilian, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.440 I got Middle Eastern, and we got Italian that was there. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.760 So I was like eating everything when I was there. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.800 It was amazing food wise. 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.200 That sounds incredible. Definitely needs a visit. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.359 Okay, which WNBA city has your favorite food spots? 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:01.840 Ooh, I think it's a toss up between Chicago and 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:02.400 New York. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:03.720 I love it. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:04.400 Yeah. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.719 Yeah, their food scene is very diverse. You can get 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.440 literally any cuisine, so those are my top for sure. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:11.920 You have great taste. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:12.480 Thank you. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.679 I'm gonna be texting you all season for food recks 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:15.400 everywhere we go. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.280 Listen, you wouldn't be the first teammate to do so, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.600 so I'm prepared. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.680 But like, Okay, so you're in Dallas. Now, have you 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.440 found your favorite Dallas restaurant? 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:25.400 Not yet. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.120 I've only eaten out a couple of times since being here, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:29.080 just because. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:29.959 I cook all the time. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.920 But I did go to a bomb Japanese and Isakaia 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:34.960 restaurant the other night. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.800 That was really good. Yeah, it was good. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.720 And so yeah, I mean I've found some coffee shops, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.000 like two, but outside of that, I haven't really ventured yet. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.600 So I'm waiting for, like I need like a big 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.640 date where I can like gas myself up to driving 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:51.880 to Dallas and go somewhere. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.520 Yeah. The Dallas traffic will definitely scare you away. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.200 Yeah, and because the mats, you know, the mats don't work. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.440 Well, I can't wait for you to start venturing out 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.200 so I can then hear from you which spots I 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:05.560 need to go to try. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.880 I'll drag you along too. I'm like, get up, we're going, 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:08.240 let's go. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:12.880 Let's go, please do, please do. I'll pay for dinner 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.160 there as long as you drive, though I don't want 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:18.600 to try. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.560 Say, let's let's pivot a little bit to the w 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.920 you know you were you were talking about, you know, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.080 they keep you young. So when you were a rookie, 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.200 who was your vet? Who were some people that you 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.760 were able to look up to and guide you in 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:35.520 the dub. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:40.120 I had some amazing vets my rookie year. They're the ogs, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:44.160 like literally legends of this game. My vets my rookie year. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:48.959 Looking back, I'm like I had actually Coach Smith, Coach 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.080 Camille Smith formerly Camille Little. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:53.280 She was my vet. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:59.800 Tanisha Wright, Katie Smith, Tina Thompson, Lauren Jackson was there 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.920 my rookie year, Tamika Johnson. I don't know if I 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:09.000 sent her Sue obviously playing there, like those were those 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.840 were my vets, and I just I was so fortunate 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:17.240 because they just like they laid the foundation of like 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.240 everything from how you show up to practice, what it 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.439 means to be a pro, how you look when you're 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.720 not when you're traveling, because you know, back then we traveled. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.000 You know, commercially, what you're supposed to, you know, how 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.920 you're presentable in public, how you treat your teammates just 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.160 so much and just encouraging, challenging. I had a great 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.800 group of vets. I'm really fortunate for the vets that 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:41.240 I had. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.520 That's so crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's super. Do you literally 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.160 had the legends as your vets? That is so cool. Yeah. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.440 So that's going to be me talking in ten years 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.000 if I hopefully still play and be like, yeah, my 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.480 rookie year, I got to play with AC, I got 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.120 to playing from her, and like that's insane. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.240 It's insane, Like it really is. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.800 And for me just even like looking back and just remembering, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.640 like I mean at that time, like LJ was not even. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.480 One hundred percent and what she was able to do. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.880 Just watching her, I was like whoa And everyone's like 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:19.480 she was like what she's doing now? 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.959 Like this is her? I'm like not even one hundred 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.600 percent yet, And I was like, are you kidding me? 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:25.280 I was like, what is she? 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.480 If she looks like this at eighty I would have 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:29.960 made it to be an opponent when she was at 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:30.360 one hundred. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:31.320 Because this is insane. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:43.880 Wow, yeah, that's dope. Okay, I was doing some research 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.520 on you earlier and I didn't I don't want to 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.280 keep bringing up that your season, but I didn't realize 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.760 that you were drafted to a team that no longer exists, 0:12:55.320 --> 0:13:00.640 Like that's definition of season. You were drafted to the 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:06.080 San Antonio San Antonio Solfer Stars. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:13.240 Aka Las Vegas. Now so the team is it's around. Yeah, 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.120 it's crazy because Becky Hammond was my first VET, like 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:17.440 she was the VET on the team when I got 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:18.040 drafted there. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:24.600 That's insane, no iconic, Like how blessed you are like 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.960 to be able to learn and gleam off these Hall 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.280 of famers. Is there anything that they said to you 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:31.320 that like stayed with you? 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:32.760 I mean so much. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:35.400 I mean I can go down the line of just 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.240 like you know, find find a way to add value 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:40.520 to the team that you're on. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.120 Don't forget what got you here. You belong here. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.240 Like in terms of in this league, put in the work, 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.800 like control what you can put in the work. Be 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.439 if you're not playing in games, be the best practice 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.960 player and best teammate you can be. Be ready for 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.880 your opportunity. You never know when it's gonna come. If 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.080 you're not ready for it, that's on you. And so 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.560 like there were so many yeah, I know, just so 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.040 many nuggets that just like even now to this day, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.520 that have carried me through because you know, this league 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.320 is it's full of ups and downs, especially for players 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.199 like me that you know are the intangible type of players, 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.520 it can be a lot of up and down. You know, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.400 you do a lot of the thankless work, and it's 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.840 like sometimes you know, you can it can feel like 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.400 you're not being appreciated and not being seen for what 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.400 you're doing, and it's like, hey, as long as you 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.360 show up and you're doing what you're supposed to do 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.640 and you're staying ready for opportunities and you're adding value 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.880 to the team, like you're fine and so yeah, and 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.320 that those for me, those nuggets just I mean, year 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.560 after year have been my like foundation. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.600 You are the definition of adding value to a team. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.040 Oh thanks, I've gotten to see that from watching you 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.040 play growing up, but just even in the less than 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.480 two weeks, I've gotten to see firsthand like you add 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.920 value and everything, like you said, all the intangibles, it's 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.040 not stuff that you can replace. 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.000 Yeah, thanks, Ed, I appreciate you. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:01.240 I'm learning from the best. 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.680 Listen, I'm a set. Don't make me cry. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.560 Okay, see, I want to know what was your welcome 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:09.320 to the league moment? 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.440 Honestly, So there's two. One. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.080 I was talking yesterday at Media Day and I was like, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.040 you know what, honestly, it was probably getting cut my 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:21.120 first two years. Like that for me was like like 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.360 a reality like check of like whoa, it doesn't matter what. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.160 You did, what you know, program you come from, Like 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:28.920 this is hard. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.840 And then once I finally got into like onto a team, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:38.800 we were playing LA for a preseason game and Delisia 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:40.960 Milton Jones was on the team at the time, and 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.680 you know, I'm like this tweener. I played a post 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.480 my entire career, so like I've been playing against bigger, 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.840 stronger defenders the whole time, So like I did you 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.600 know my move that I would always do and like 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.680 get around them, And I had like gone around her 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.360 to go like finish on the opposite like side of 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.960 the rim, and like she was behind me. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.440 So I was like, oh okay, like. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.840 You know, getting my feet wet, like feeling confident, and 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.760 she was like blocks me out of bounds, and. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:05.840 She was like, nice, tryrook. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.359 She actually said that, yeah. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.440 And I kind of chuckled about it, you know, and I. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.240 Was just laughing, and I was just like, oh my god, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.200 there's not only are they like bigger, but like there's 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.240 so much faster than like the players I played against 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.760 in college. Because I literally thought I was like, oh yeah, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.840 I went around and you know this is in her 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.920 later years when she was about to be done, but 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.200 she closed that space so quick and blocked me out 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.160 of bounds, and I was like, oh, okay, so I 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:30.160 gotta go a little faster. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.960 That's really funny the comment. That's crazy. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.160 I was like, oh, I did try. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.640 It's okay, nice try real Look where you are now. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.640 You need it every moment, I know. So Ac, over time, 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.040 you've developed a couple of nicknames. And I don't know 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.240 if these nicknames come from the league or if they 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.240 come from family friends. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.280 We have a c which obvious, Alicia Clark. 0:16:55.400 --> 0:17:02.680 We have vamps vamp Where does that come from? I'm scared. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.879 Right honestly. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.920 That literally started last year because Media Day in Seattle, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.600 I had posted my like one of the first pictures 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.359 I had ever taken in Seattle, and I posted it 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.320 with my media day picture from last year, just kind 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.040 of side by side. I was like, these pictures are 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:26.760 I think it was like ten years apart, because one 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:27.560 was in twenty fifteen. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:28.480 When was it last year? 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.840 And so everyone was like, you have an age, you're 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.399 a vampire, like what and I was like, no, like 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.960 you can clearly see I've aged, like there's a difference, 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.359 and so ever since then, it's just like taken off. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.160 I didn't help myself yesterday apparently because someone had put 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.000 together like all my media day pictures from over the years, 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.840 and I was hoping someone could find it because I 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:50.439 was like, oh, I would love to just see, like 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:51.680 you know, they do it for everyone. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.120 I was like, well, I would love to just see that. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.960 And then everyone was like, yeah, you're not helping like 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:58.840 the allegation, like you're not beating these allegations. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.520 You're not helping yourself. And I was like, you can 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.159 see look at the eyebrows. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.359 Like yes, but no, I was just looking at that 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.480 earlier in the tub and you can like see a difference, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.960 but it doesn't look like really aged. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.560 I mean good, but like also I have you know, 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.520 and you know what the eyebrows was like back then? 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:22.920 The eyebrows were then. 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.760 Yeah, they were like pick up front and skinny in 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:26.160 the back. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.679 It's okay, girl, you were staying with the times. You 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:31.639 was staying with the time you were trended. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:32.040 You know, I do. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.160 I can't face card. Never declined though, that's for sure. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.920 Thanks Boky. But yeah, that's where it came from social media. 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:40.399 It's hilarious. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.159 I love it. I engage with it because it's just 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:42.760 it's fun. 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.080 I'm nervous, quite nervous because I'm like. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:47.800