Speaker 1: Well, Kayser, thank you so much for being here. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited.
Speaker 2: You're definitely one of my role models, so it's super
Speaker 2: cool to have you here sitting next to.
Speaker 3: Him, so excited. Thank you for having me of course.
Speaker 2: So to start off, as you may know, I'm seventeen
Speaker 2: and I'm a junior in high school, which I'm assuming
Speaker 2: is a little different than the people who are usually
Speaker 2: interviewing you. So I want to start off and you know,
Speaker 2: travel back to when you were seventeen and hear about
Speaker 2: your seventeen year old self.
Speaker 4: That was so long ago. Seventeen, I was a senior
Speaker 4: in high school. I had just signed my letter of
Speaker 4: intent to University of Michigan. Yes one Miss Basketball for
Speaker 4: the State of Michigan, Gatoray Player of the Year. I
Speaker 4: was just really I think that was kind of the
Speaker 4: kickoff of my success when it came to ball. Very naive,
Speaker 4: very young, very wild. Yea, but yeah, all on the
Speaker 4: right track.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I were to say, I.
Speaker 2: Feel like you sound like the coolest seventeen year old ever,
Speaker 2: like Miss Basketball getting Player.
Speaker 1: Of the Year.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean she was cute, you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: but you definitely look better.
Speaker 2: Actually, my question is going to be What was like,
Speaker 2: how did you handle all that aura up? Because like
Speaker 2: if I was right now like get your Player of
Speaker 2: the Year miss Basketball, I'd literally be like my head
Speaker 2: would be blowing.
Speaker 4: So the funny thing about it was I didn't really
Speaker 4: tap into my femininity until I was about like twenty three,
Speaker 4: twenty four. Really I was a tomboy, you know. I
Speaker 4: didn't really put too much you know, thought into my
Speaker 4: aesthetic about how I looked. It was just ball.
Speaker 3: Like, you know.
Speaker 4: But once when I started growing into my womanhood a
Speaker 4: little bit, body start feeling out. Bit I started exploring,
Speaker 4: found out about mascara changed my life. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 4: I'm glad that I had that you know, naivity growing
Speaker 4: up and it maybe be able to appreciate, you know,
Speaker 4: the balance of you know, where I'm at now, especially
Speaker 4: with all the glitz and the glamour and buying closed
Speaker 4: doors just being myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: So was your goal to make it to the w
Speaker 2: as a teenager or did you have another career path
Speaker 2: that you wanted?
Speaker 3: Absolutely was the goal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, everything that I said I wanted to do and
Speaker 4: accomplish it has come to pass. But that was something
Speaker 4: that was instilled in my heart since I was young,
Speaker 4: especially because that's when the w first started.
Speaker 3: I actually I was.
Speaker 4: Born and raised in Houston before I moved to Michigan,
Speaker 4: and my next door neighbor was Van Chancellor, who was
Speaker 4: the head coach of the Houston Comments at the time.
Speaker 4: So I was always around Sheryl and Tina, you know,
Speaker 4: and all the girls, and so I knew like Ripen
Speaker 4: and there I was like, I want to play in
Speaker 4: the w NBA one day. I used to do the
Speaker 4: junior basketball games at halftime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So.
Speaker 2: You'd always been around, yes, and both of your parents
Speaker 2: played basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I come from a basketball heritage. He's an NBA player.
Speaker 4: My mom is a National champion, played underneath Kim Moulky.
Speaker 4: My my grandfather is a Hall of Famer, you know,
Speaker 4: coach my Yeah, I mean leave it to me. I
Speaker 4: wanted to be a gymnast until they turn around told
Speaker 4: me I was too tall, okay, and I flipped off
Speaker 4: a headboard and I was like, I'm just gonna stick
Speaker 4: to basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That actually goes perfectly into my next question, which was
Speaker 2: going to be like, did you ever feel stressed or
Speaker 2: overwhelmed knowing that you have all this legendary basketball jeans
Speaker 2: in your family, like you have to go through with.
Speaker 3: It, you know, No, for me, out of the three, no,
Speaker 3: there's three, there's three of us. I loved it.
Speaker 4: I fell in love with it. At the moment they
Speaker 4: put the ball in my hands. I knew I wanted
Speaker 4: to to be great. I knew I wanted to accomplish things,
Speaker 4: and I knew I wanted to get to the highest level.
Speaker 3: What it has.
Speaker 4: Done for me hasn't shifted my perspective until I've gotten older.
Speaker 4: But knowing the impact that ball has had all my life,
Speaker 4: it's literally has been used as a mechanism for me
Speaker 4: to branch out into longevity, and I feel like God
Speaker 4: has placed me in position just for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm curious, though, because you are a child of an
Speaker 2: NBA player, what your thoughts are on Brownie and his
Speaker 2: situation is the whole situation around NEFO babies in BASKETA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: I think it's it's it's amazing, especially in terms of
Speaker 4: his situation. I mean, him playing on the same team
Speaker 4: as his father. It's iconic. So however you want to
Speaker 4: say it, it's it's reality. And it's something that hasn't
Speaker 4: been done before. And I'm a firm believer it takes
Speaker 4: a trailblazer for something to happen and for history to
Speaker 4: repeat itself. Now, do I think that anyone will have
Speaker 4: longevity and success like Lebron and do that. No, but
Speaker 4: probably you know that's why he is who he is.
Speaker 4: But as a father, that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, raise your son.
Speaker 1: Maybe next up we're gonna see like Duce in the league.
Speaker 4: Like, who knows if I were him, not bringing my
Speaker 4: other son team, make it a family affair.
Speaker 1: Totally, I know.
Speaker 2: Next up Bryce and then Zuri's I guess gonna be
Speaker 2: the first.
Speaker 1: But you know NBA player, that's a girl just joining
Speaker 1: the league. I love it. That'd be very cool.
Speaker 2: There's I feel like there was a there was a
Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live skit that I used to watch with
Speaker 2: my dad when I was little, which was it would
Speaker 2: show like twenty thirty and it's like Lebron in the finals,
Speaker 2: and then it would be like twenty fifty Lebron in
Speaker 2: the finals, and there'd be like three thousand Lebron at
Speaker 2: the finals.
Speaker 1: And every year'd be like, Okay, now.
Speaker 2: His teammates are Cannon and Riley Curry and like every here,
Speaker 2: and I just I thought that was funny. It really
Speaker 2: shows launity that Braun has. So moving back to you
Speaker 2: again because that's how we were doing. You originally chose
Speaker 2: Michigan and then you transferred to West Virginia. I want
Speaker 2: to hear how you chose Michigan. I know obviously you
Speaker 2: could have Michigan and Michigan State, living in Michigan and
Speaker 2: then taking us through your official visit.
Speaker 4: So my college decision experience was like a roller coaster.
Speaker 3: I had it in my mind. I wanted to go
Speaker 3: to Baylor.
Speaker 4: It was done like I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 4: commit to Baylor, especially in just following the heritage she
Speaker 4: coached my mom, you know, in college and and so
Speaker 4: I was like, that's that's where I want to go.
Speaker 4: But my grandparents had convinced me to stay home, and
Speaker 4: I knew that they were getting older, and so I
Speaker 4: decided to say my sister was actually was at Michigan State.
Speaker 4: She had she was a freshman at Michigan State when
Speaker 4: I was a senior, and everyone wanted to know once
Speaker 4: when she committed, if I was going to follow but
Speaker 4: we were attracting, you know, two different you know, schools
Speaker 4: and recruiting process, and luckily for her, I got a
Speaker 4: chance to experience Michigan State before I actually became a
Speaker 4: college student.
Speaker 3: So when I was up there with her, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I know, I can't go here.
Speaker 4: I was like, So did I think that I would
Speaker 4: be going across you know, to Michigan. No, But I'm
Speaker 4: glad that it worked out the way that it did
Speaker 4: because it did give my family access to come to
Speaker 4: my games. Yeah, my grandmother got a chance to watch
Speaker 4: me play before she passed after the season. But I
Speaker 4: think the ultimate determining factor for me was life outside
Speaker 4: of basketball. And I was always driving and going home
Speaker 4: like always mommy, mommy, you know, and it hit me,
Speaker 4: I'm like, I got to grow up. And so that's
Speaker 4: when I made the decision. I was like, I need
Speaker 4: to go further away from home, So I'm going to
Speaker 4: go to Baylor. And that had made up in my mind.
Speaker 4: I had called them, I was like, I'm coming, this
Speaker 4: is where I'm supposed to be. They had just won
Speaker 4: the national championship that year two And it's funny because
Speaker 4: the assistant coach for West Virginia at the time recruited
Speaker 4: me when he was at U of M when I
Speaker 4: was in eighth grade. So he had given my mam
Speaker 4: a calm was like, we hear kaisers transferring. I know
Speaker 4: she probably has her mind made up, but can she
Speaker 4: just get give us an opportunity to just come? And
Speaker 4: so I said, okay, I'll take a visit out of respect,
Speaker 4: that's courtesy. I end up falling in love and signed
Speaker 4: on spot.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, what was it about the school? It was?
Speaker 3: It was just everything.
Speaker 4: It was the fact that I could live in an apartment,
Speaker 4: I could have my own space, you know, just the
Speaker 4: level of candor you.
Speaker 1: Get to decorate it.
Speaker 3: I did, Oh my god, that's so Yeah.
Speaker 4: But just the candor from the coaching staff, it was
Speaker 4: just really genuine.
Speaker 3: The esthetic of town it was.
Speaker 4: You know, Morgantown is literally the city of West Virginia,
Speaker 4: yeah my opinion, and so us being the only you know,
Speaker 4: athletes in that area. You have you know, Pittsburgh and
Speaker 4: then you have DC. So a lot of people were
Speaker 4: really invested about you know, West Virginia sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so I don't know, when God tells you
Speaker 4: this is where you're supposed to be he places in
Speaker 4: your heart and you know his voice.
Speaker 3: That's just what it is. Yeah, one of the best
Speaker 3: decisions I've ever made. Really, it was.
Speaker 1: That's huge.
Speaker 2: So I'm like just starting the college process, okay, because
Speaker 2: I'm in eleventh grade and so I'm taking the act
Speaker 2: all that stuff. And I'm actually going to Michigan for
Speaker 2: the first time next week and touring Michigan.
Speaker 1: So I want to know if you have any like
Speaker 1: tips or res.
Speaker 4: Or you know.
Speaker 3: I love the university and it is beautiful. It's gorgeous.
Speaker 4: Okay, You're going to be around a lot of smart people, yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: and it is the sports though. One thing about you
Speaker 4: of them though, they take pride in their campus. Yes,
Speaker 4: they take pride in investing, you know, in all of
Speaker 4: their organizations.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna love it. That black M is
Speaker 3: very powerful.
Speaker 4: You'll be surprised how many people you know you'll meet
Speaker 4: in this life that have the black M and turn
Speaker 4: around give you an opportunity just because it's I think they.
Speaker 3: Have like the number one. Yeah, it really it matters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I actually went there during the time when
Speaker 4: Jim Harbaugh first officially became the coach. Wow, And like Jabril.
Speaker 4: All of them were there and they were like third
Speaker 4: in the country. So Michigan Fastball by the way there, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the same.
Speaker 2: But Bryce Underwood, you know, the number one quarterback in
Speaker 2: classificantly five, just signed there. So I feel like that
Speaker 2: could maybe a fingers crossed all goes well on my
Speaker 2: act like that, maybe all get to be there at
Speaker 2: a time like that too. So you're incredible, Like, let's
Speaker 2: you say it. You are, And I'm curious what your
Speaker 2: seventeen year old self would think about all the amazing
Speaker 2: things you've accomplished.
Speaker 3: I just I don't know.
Speaker 4: I look at myself sometimes like trying to take it
Speaker 4: all in.
Speaker 3: My manager, my Shaila.
Speaker 4: Literally she tells me, I'm living in color and I
Speaker 4: feel that.
Speaker 3: I feel I feel it every day when I wake up.
Speaker 4: But to look back at myself and to know where
Speaker 4: I've come from, I think as a seventeen year.
Speaker 3: Old girl, she would she would say that to me. Now,
Speaker 3: thank you for getting out of your own way.
Speaker 4: M Honestly, you know, because I think that when we're younger,
Speaker 4: we've already predetermined how our life is going to look. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you can't convince us that it's not going to
Speaker 4: pan out any other way, and life just hasn't gone
Speaker 4: the way that I planned and anticipated it. It's gone better,
Speaker 4: you know. So I always say, if you want to
Speaker 4: tell guy, you know, if you want to make them laugh,
Speaker 4: you tell them your plans.
Speaker 3: So I wouldn't. I would if I were you, I
Speaker 3: would just dream.
Speaker 4: And be free and do whatever the hell you want
Speaker 4: to do, you know, and never let anybody tell you
Speaker 4: that you can't do it.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's such a good model.
Speaker 2: I feel like, especially for teenage girls, because people always
Speaker 2: try to put us in a box. You know, you
Speaker 2: have to be this person, and that's why I want
Speaker 2: to do this, because I think it's really important to
Speaker 2: share different, unique voices and perspectives.
Speaker 1: Like I love telling.
Speaker 2: People, Yeah, I have this podcast where interview basketball players
Speaker 2: and they're like you and like yes me, Like girls
Speaker 2: can do all things.
Speaker 1: So that's really cool.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now I want to we heard about you when
Speaker 2: you were seventeen. I feel like we be friends you're seventeen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love chearing about her and now I want to
Speaker 2: move into basketball, fashion, entrepreneurship, all.
Speaker 1: That good stuff.
Speaker 2: So what was that feeling like getting drafted to the
Speaker 2: W Finally, fulfilling your dream.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was surreal.
Speaker 4: I think that moment was like virals all over the
Speaker 4: place because my name got called and I just started screaming.
Speaker 4: My mom was sitting on the couch and just to
Speaker 4: see myself up there was so surreal.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, like crazy.
Speaker 4: It was the way that I got introduced to the world,
Speaker 4: you know, the way that I did. But again, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know how to describe the feeling
Speaker 4: when you know your your dreams become a reality. But
Speaker 4: the crazy part about it is as excited as I was.
Speaker 4: I had to start over all over again. You know.
Speaker 4: Once when you reach a new level at everything that
Speaker 4: you do, you have to start over again. And that's
Speaker 4: where the journey is the most exciting part because you
Speaker 4: don't get to stay the same. You get to get better,
Speaker 4: you get to increase. I'm still starting over every day
Speaker 4: when it comes to the W stuff. But you know,
Speaker 4: this is what I've done, you know, so the process,
Speaker 4: the grind, it's it's not unfamiliar territory for me totally.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on all the new expansion teams
Speaker 2: in the W.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. I think it's a.
Speaker 4: It's an exciting time, not just for women's basketball, but
Speaker 4: for women's sports, and you know particular, and to see
Speaker 4: the way that we're being embraced now, it's long overdue.
Speaker 2: Totally.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: And if there's a city that if you could choose
Speaker 2: any city to have an expansion.
Speaker 4: Team, Houston, Yeah, I got to bring that back. I'm
Speaker 4: putting it out there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, what is the best advice you've ever been given.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've been given a lot of good advice,
Speaker 2: but I know I'm sure that there's something specific that's
Speaker 2: really stuck out.
Speaker 4: So my trainer, very dear friend of mine, he told me,
Speaker 4: sometimes your life is the only Bible that some people
Speaker 4: may read.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's like chills wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And I'm always reminding myself that, And it's allowed
Speaker 4: me to become comfortable in my vulnerability and utilize it
Speaker 4: as a strength and not as a weakness, to know
Speaker 4: that every day it's bigger than me. I'm waking up
Speaker 4: because my creator is not done with what he has
Speaker 4: in store for me. So it's just always reminded me
Speaker 4: to live in my purpose and be authentic and care
Speaker 4: free and unapologetically yourself and that attracts the right people always.
Speaker 2: And I feel like, sort of if I'm hearing this right,
Speaker 2: you're saying like, also confidence is key.
Speaker 1: Which I feel is such absolutely and a lot of
Speaker 1: teenage girls really struggle with this.
Speaker 2: So this is a big confidence question, right, if you
Speaker 2: were to make a scouting report on yourself, I would
Speaker 2: really going to come.
Speaker 3: My game, My game or you as a person you
Speaker 3: can do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I'm a shooter, you know, just shoot or shoot,
Speaker 4: but no, I'm a I can shoot the ball really well.
Speaker 4: I think I'm a very crafty player. People tell me
Speaker 4: that all the time, and my IQ is very high.
Speaker 4: I know I lack in other areas in terms of
Speaker 4: you know, my physicality, you know my built but I've
Speaker 4: always been able to make it up just because of
Speaker 4: my IQ for the game, great attitude, very coachable, receives
Speaker 4: information very fast, pays attention to detail immediately and makes
Speaker 4: the changes necessary. I just think a very smart, witty,
Speaker 4: crafty player, very skilled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it, Okay, Now, Scott. For myself, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't give myself one really because it's it's it's
Speaker 4: limitless who I am and who I'm becoming is limitless.
Speaker 1: I see.
Speaker 2: Okay, how different do you think your personality is to
Speaker 2: your personality on the court, Because I think that there's
Speaker 2: people that I've talked to rights explosive on the court,
Speaker 2: so going and then you talk to them, are like hi,
Speaker 2: and you're like, wait, that's all You'll just say.
Speaker 1: Like it seems like.
Speaker 4: Over the years they've been contrasting. Yeah, you know, I was.
Speaker 4: I was a firecracker growing up. I talked a lot
Speaker 4: of smack like all that.
Speaker 1: I know something about fire.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a fires I'm a leo.
Speaker 4: So but I think now I've who I've become off
Speaker 4: the court has also kind of shaped who I am
Speaker 4: as a player. I don't get like defensive, I don't
Speaker 4: get too riled up, fired up.
Speaker 3: I'm very poised. Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big skill you need that all the
Speaker 2: technical is going on.
Speaker 4: I swear to me about it, tell me about it.
Speaker 4: I always say that's one thing I do not do.
Speaker 4: Like ever, I don't argue with refs even if a
Speaker 4: bad call is made.
Speaker 3: I just don'tn't because what are you going to get
Speaker 3: out of it?
Speaker 4: They're not going to change, Like unless the coach challenge
Speaker 4: it nowadays. But other than that, you're just gonna scream
Speaker 4: to your blue in the face and you still got
Speaker 4: to run back.
Speaker 3: And get back, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's a lot of kids need to hear.
Speaker 3: That I've been saying. But to each his own.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is there anyone specific that you draw inspiration from
Speaker 2: when it comes to your game?
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think in particular. I watched Skyler growing
Speaker 4: up a lot, but as of late, who I've been
Speaker 4: watching is uh Klay Thompson and Devin Booker. Yeah. I
Speaker 4: kind of study their game a little bit catching shoot yeah,
Speaker 4: and then with Devin Booker, the fact that his ability
Speaker 4: to get to his spots, yes, without being rushed, seeing
Speaker 4: how much his game has grown.
Speaker 3: Because I love the mid range.
Speaker 4: You know, even though I shoot the ball, it's exceptionally well,
Speaker 4: and you know, now we live in an era where
Speaker 4: people only want to shoot three pointers. I think the
Speaker 4: mid range game is a lost art and it's still
Speaker 4: something that you need to continue to work on, especially
Speaker 4: being a shooter, I'm gonna get run off the line
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 3: So those are the two. Yeah, I would say I
Speaker 3: love that.
Speaker 1: I mean, those are good players.
Speaker 4: And they are like if they are me, I have
Speaker 4: a lot of work to get to where they are,
Speaker 4: But I do watch what.
Speaker 1: Day do you think you're gonna have seventy in a game?
Speaker 1: Like Devin?
Speaker 3: I did already? Well, I know I don't. Like I said,
Speaker 3: I got a lot of works their fingers crossed.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be there sitting like I told her, you
Speaker 2: love that for you, manifesting.
Speaker 1: It always, You're right telling you it always works. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you, Yeah, it works.
Speaker 2: Is there anyone that you draw inspiration from when it
Speaker 2: comes to your fashion or style?
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Initially so when I started studying my revamp, I paid
Speaker 4: a lot of attention to like Princess Diana, Julia Roberts,
Speaker 4: Haley Beeber's style A little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm obsessed Giselle.
Speaker 4: I just I really just kind of went back into time,
Speaker 4: like in that nineties era, because I wanted my aesthetic
Speaker 4: to embody where I'm at in my life as a woman,
Speaker 4: and I found the beauty that less is more. But
Speaker 4: now when it comes to my own style, I don't
Speaker 4: compare myself to anybody. I think I kind of got
Speaker 4: it downpack in terms of how I want to feel,
Speaker 4: how I want to look. And then of course I
Speaker 4: have the greatest style list.
Speaker 3: In the game.
Speaker 4: Colin Carter I always say I'm colonized, so other than
Speaker 4: him and myself, I just try to keep it very cute,
Speaker 4: see very very clean.
Speaker 2: Well, you have some of the best tunnel fits in
Speaker 2: the game, and you know you're always on league fits
Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: How long does it take to curate each tunnel fit?
Speaker 4: Everyone asks that less than five minutes. I'm so serious.
Speaker 4: It just depends on how I feel. Okay, yeah, and
Speaker 4: I and like I said, I'm just so like aligned
Speaker 4: with how I want to dress.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be like I'll throw on a blazer day,
Speaker 3: I'll wear a suit, I'll wear a dress shirt. Just
Speaker 3: keep it very many.
Speaker 1: You just sign me for prom?
Speaker 3: Really, you know what?
Speaker 1: Literally I need you.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna put put that past you or me
Speaker 4: because you might be introducing me to another gift that
Speaker 4: I don't know that I have.
Speaker 3: Please let me find out.
Speaker 1: Yes, high school prom, like, think about it. I just
Speaker 1: if you're interested.
Speaker 4: I love that for you because I am. I went
Speaker 4: to one prom my entire time in high school.
Speaker 1: See, so you can like live through me as a
Speaker 1: junior girl.
Speaker 3: I would love that.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's I'm so excited. But it's really annoying because
Speaker 2: as a junior you have to wear a short dress.
Speaker 3: Oh that's that's perfect.
Speaker 2: You think so, but it just for me, it really
Speaker 2: like tightens down that. Like now I see something that
Speaker 2: I think he's perfect, then I can't wear it. I
Speaker 2: like short, but then if I see something long, it's
Speaker 2: perfect and it's stressful, and that's just too much. Okay, good,
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Is there an NBA player or a w n b
Speaker 2: A player other than yourself that you think their fashion
Speaker 2: their style is spot on?
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. I adore Cameron Bring. Yeah, I think she's
Speaker 3: so classy. On the men's side NBA players, none of them, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 4: I would say outside of sports, I think for real,
Speaker 4: I like his style a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I just love League fits. That's like my favorite.
Speaker 4: So nice they really are, you know, my my relationship
Speaker 4: with them, they they're good people and they're always showing
Speaker 4: mad love. And it's crazy that we live in a
Speaker 4: time now where they pay more attention to the how
Speaker 4: you arrive in the games and the actual I know, well.
Speaker 2: On that topic, I feel like it's so because now
Speaker 2: basketball and fashion and pop culture won't yactically. And I'm
Speaker 2: curious what you think about that, and if you think,
Speaker 2: I don't know, if it's almost a distraction as a
Speaker 2: player to think that there's so much more that goes
Speaker 2: into it than just basketball.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a distraction as a player. I
Speaker 4: think it's a distraction for everyone else, especially And I'll
Speaker 4: use my situation as an example.
Speaker 3: I get a lot of.
Speaker 4: Attention because of the way I look and how I dress,
Speaker 4: and so because of that, people try to category categorize
Speaker 4: a narrative circulating around what's more important. That doesn't bother
Speaker 4: me because no matter how I look coming in, I
Speaker 4: have a job to do, so I wouldn't and I'm
Speaker 4: pretty sure a lot of you know players could feel
Speaker 4: the same way totally. It's the demands and the misinterpretations
Speaker 4: that people place on us.
Speaker 3: I don't think that it bothers how we view ourselves.
Speaker 3: If anything, I think it's great for us because it's
Speaker 3: expanding our brands, that's all.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean athletes. It's amazing how athletes can be
Speaker 1: so much more on the court.
Speaker 2: I love that what is one aspect of your game
Speaker 2: that you are most proud of, and what is one
Speaker 2: aspect of your game that you.
Speaker 1: Want to improve.
Speaker 4: One thing I'm most proud of. I would say this
Speaker 4: past season for me was excuse my language, just get
Speaker 4: my ass in shape. Everyone laughed at me because I
Speaker 4: was so tiny, but I was flying on the court
Speaker 4: like in practice. The coaches would laugh, the girls would
Speaker 4: laugh because I will always like be first and be
Speaker 4: running around one hundred miles an hour. But I think
Speaker 4: the level of discipline that it takes to be prepared
Speaker 4: makes it so much easier. So I was really proud
Speaker 4: of myself for that in terms of getting in shape
Speaker 4: for that level, because you know, I've always been in shape,
Speaker 4: but that level is a lot quicker. I was really
Speaker 4: proud of that because coming in, especially my rookie year,
Speaker 4: I didn't have that. Even though I had the IQ
Speaker 4: and the skill, my body wasn't ready. The thing that
Speaker 4: I do want to work on, I would say, it's
Speaker 4: probably continuing to.
Speaker 3: Elevate that just because I've gotten quicker.
Speaker 4: Now, I got to be mindful that I do need
Speaker 4: to endure and embrace the physicality and the bumping and
Speaker 4: you know, the build of the women in the league
Speaker 4: because their dogs.
Speaker 3: They can play, Yeah, they can play.
Speaker 4: The women in the league can play, you know, And
Speaker 4: so just respecting other people's game, but also respecting myself
Speaker 4: knowing that I belong as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's so important. In the next five years,
Speaker 2: Who's gonna be the face of the w and why?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna say Angel. I think she's the
Speaker 4: face of the league already my opinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, rightfully. So it's cool to see too.
Speaker 1: In addition to Angel, Caitlin whatever, Juju and all these girls.
Speaker 4: Yeah, come up, Yeah, I know Juju and Paige, you
Speaker 4: know those girls are coming.
Speaker 3: But I just think that.
Speaker 4: Angel's presence and her tora is very loud and she
Speaker 4: embraces everything that comes with her, and that's just something
Speaker 4: that's just different amongst everyone else, especially in the upcoming
Speaker 4: generation that's you know, obviously younger. She's kind of mastered
Speaker 4: that at twenty one, twenty two years old.
Speaker 3: So I think, yeah, i'd have to agree with that.
Speaker 1: And I think it's funny because it's a weird thing
Speaker 1: to think about.
Speaker 2: But whenever I look at the Angel Reese Meal, it
Speaker 2: actually makes me realize how incredible she is.
Speaker 1: Because yeah, you can be the face of the.
Speaker 2: W whatever, but having a McDonald's, like they really give
Speaker 2: that to if you were like one of the most
Speaker 2: famous athletes on the planet. And I don't think we've
Speaker 2: necessarily seen someone before that was in the w that
Speaker 2: could have that range sort of and be that noticeable,
Speaker 2: be on the face of a McDonald's meal, Like, that's
Speaker 2: that's a real to be really famous.
Speaker 3: To do that, that's so cool to see.
Speaker 2: Like you said, at twenty one, I mean, she was
Speaker 2: just a rookie and already has this.
Speaker 3: Sky's the limit. Yeah, I truly.
Speaker 4: I mean, as long as she continues to just be
Speaker 4: herself and pave the way, I mean, it gives permission
Speaker 4: for all of us, you know, to be ourselves. But
Speaker 4: I'm glad I got a chance to watch it up
Speaker 4: close and personal. She's doing great.
Speaker 1: She is, She's amazing.
Speaker 2: Who is your dream WNBA player to share the court
Speaker 2: with and why? And I guess you could also say
Speaker 2: just professional basketball players in general. Calle gospet plays because
Speaker 2: I know your mom, I'm a champion, that would obviously
Speaker 2: be cool.
Speaker 4: I would say Diana Nolan. I don't know if you're
Speaker 4: familiar with her, She played for the Detroit Shock back
Speaker 4: in the day when they won a championship, and I
Speaker 4: was obsessed with them. When I moved to Michigan, my
Speaker 4: dad would make me sit down and.
Speaker 3: Watch all the games and watch her play. How old
Speaker 3: were you at this one, hoof?
Speaker 4: It was probably maybe ten eleven twelve, really little.
Speaker 3: She probably I.
Speaker 4: Don't even know, but it was in if I'm correct me,
Speaker 4: if i'm I want to say it was in two
Speaker 4: thousand and eight when they went.
Speaker 3: So however I old, I.
Speaker 1: Was I won? I don't really remember, unfortunately.
Speaker 4: No, but definitely her. It was her game is something
Speaker 4: that my dad stressed and modeling mine after.
Speaker 3: Okay, love it?
Speaker 1: What is your mount rushmore of w n b A players.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm gonna go with Lisa Leslie, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go with Sheryl.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Candace. I'm gonna say Candy by
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Yeah, I'm gonna go with her simply because
Speaker 4: I didn't realize that she was Rookie of the Year
Speaker 4: and m v P her first year and then she
Speaker 4: got pregnant.
Speaker 3: Yeah I didn't know that, then continued, Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that those three. Let me see, I.
Speaker 2: Feel like it's not talked about enough, how hard it
Speaker 2: is to be a female athlete when you get pregnant,
Speaker 2: and like how insane it is to bout.
Speaker 4: I'll talk about it because that's why we need to
Speaker 4: Ain't no baby coming out of me until I retire,
Speaker 4: because kudos to the women that go back.
Speaker 3: It is crine. Yeah, I mean women are just amazing.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think of
Speaker 4: two others. Those are like my top three.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you do a podium, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Who is the best trash talker in.
Speaker 4: The W Well, she just announced her retirement, but I
Speaker 4: would say Diana's harassed by far.
Speaker 1: Do you have any specific stories for trash talking?
Speaker 4: None that I don't want to err, I've I've been apart.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, what is.
Speaker 1: Your favorite clothing brand?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say right now, like the actual brand or
Speaker 4: where I get closed from?
Speaker 1: Both, let's answer at all?
Speaker 3: My favorite?
Speaker 4: Well, I would say my favorite place to get closed
Speaker 4: from would be Revolved.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Same, it's God though, because in school I just sit
Speaker 2: on my computer just scroll for like years.
Speaker 3: That's Okay, I used to do that.
Speaker 6: Tell me that you're seventeen doing that, that's what you're
Speaker 6: supposed to be doing at seventeen, Rather you scroll and
Speaker 6: do that versus scrolling and social media.
Speaker 3: You know, That's that's how I grew up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say Revolve is the best for me
Speaker 4: in order to get clothes. Not my favorite brand. I'm
Speaker 4: just trying to figure out what I wear the most.
Speaker 4: I'm a I'm a I'm a blazer girl. I feel
Speaker 4: like that's what my aura on my aesthetic is known for.
Speaker 4: And I've fallen in love with men's oversized clothing love,
Speaker 4: so I wouldn't necessarily want in particular, but I like
Speaker 4: vintage like shops and pieces.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: And just it's thrifting is fun. But then it's like
Speaker 2: if you actually go, I feel like and you're like
Speaker 2: digging them. It's so tiring, like such an exercise.
Speaker 3: It is. It takes work to shop.
Speaker 1: Instead of exercising. I'm like, no, I'm just gonna be
Speaker 1: a shopping together.
Speaker 3: It's work. It really is exercise.
Speaker 1: What is your post game cheat meal?
Speaker 3: Mm?
Speaker 4: So I'm very disciplined. I don't really eat crazy Okay,
Speaker 4: but uh yams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your cheat meal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: After after the games in Chicago, I would go to uh.
Speaker 3: This place. Uh god, it's on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 4: I don't know why why I can't think of of them,
Speaker 4: but I used to go to their place, jerk Villa. Okay,
Speaker 4: soul food like crazy, like from the yams to the
Speaker 4: mac and cheese, to the cabbage to the wings. With
Speaker 4: the jerk, I get down when that time comes, but
Speaker 4: I'm pretty disciplined. But the yams, for sure, especially. I
Speaker 4: think I'm supposed to be going to a steakhouse tonight,
Speaker 4: can order some or whatever.
Speaker 3: The sweet potatoes yeah.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Okay, So like if you had a choice, like,
Speaker 2: let's pretend like we weren't talking about like calories anything
Speaker 2: like that, and you could eat sweet potato fries.
Speaker 1: Yams. We're just like regular French fries, but the best
Speaker 1: ones possible. Which would you choose?
Speaker 4: I would use jams by fire, and then the sweet
Speaker 4: potato fries and then the fries.
Speaker 2: I know for someone say my life, So then it
Speaker 2: is your favorite.
Speaker 4: Food jams, Yes, it's SAMs, and then Seafoodcha.
Speaker 2: What do you think is the best restaurant in la
Speaker 2: I know you don't live here, but when you come here.
Speaker 4: So I need I need to ask you what's the
Speaker 4: best restaurant in Las Yeah?
Speaker 1: God, I don't know what I would say.
Speaker 2: I love Mister Chow, which is like I've heard that
Speaker 2: it's actually literally on this street.
Speaker 1: It is the best Chinese food ever. Okay, so fire.
Speaker 1: But if you're like really healthy, then like you because
Speaker 1: it's like not healthy whatsoever.
Speaker 3: It's okay, it's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but do you go to Air One ever?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, okay, I mean, like I know that's like so basic,
Speaker 2: but I just I love their smoothies.
Speaker 1: I'm just so good. Like that's usually what I get
Speaker 1: after school.
Speaker 4: Okay, it too Yeah, I gotta get a little bit
Speaker 4: more familiar with that.
Speaker 3: Wait.
Speaker 1: Also, okay, I've ever been to the Big Chill? Do
Speaker 1: you know what that is?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, So the.
Speaker 2: Big Chill is like an LA staple, like fro Yo
Speaker 2: ice cream all of that. It's so fun and like
Speaker 2: when you go, there's always a giant line out the door.
Speaker 2: And that's something my parents like from when I was
Speaker 2: super little, we would always go there. I I don't
Speaker 2: know if people know it who are like tourists, but
Speaker 2: like La locals, like, that's where you have to go.
Speaker 1: It's so good. Make s okay, try and please let
Speaker 1: me know.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: So that's like the like trade off. I'll give you
Speaker 1: restaurant wrecks and then you help me with my progress.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, good good.
Speaker 2: If you could go to dinner with anyone, dead or alive,
Speaker 2: who would it be?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's so aggressive. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm just going from yam anyone general.
Speaker 4: Hmm, girl, you're gonna be all right, a little smart.
Speaker 4: Who would I go to dinner with? M? I would
Speaker 4: say Princess Diana M.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what would you talk about? There's a lot of
Speaker 1: questions you could ask her, Like.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't ask questions.
Speaker 4: I would just go yeah, like I would go with
Speaker 4: the flow when you talk about Aura's yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 4: I love trailblazers, like I'm very attracted to people who
Speaker 4: find joy in breaking down barriers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just off rip. She's just the first person
Speaker 3: that I could think of.
Speaker 2: Would you ever get a haircut like HER's like a
Speaker 2: little tiny, tiny microbox.
Speaker 4: So yes, really, when I'm in my thirties, I've already
Speaker 4: been thinking about it.
Speaker 1: Oh, She's like you know that this is gonna I.
Speaker 4: Used to have long hair and then I went into
Speaker 4: this little bob like the next cut.
Speaker 1: Is like, oh my gosh. Yeah, I don't think like
Speaker 1: I know this is gonna change. Maybe this is just
Speaker 1: because I'm in like my teenage era right now.
Speaker 4: Now, I'm gonna give you some advice. Don't touch your hair. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: do not touch your hair. I'm never gonna just there's
Speaker 4: more than enough nowadays in this generation. You can throw
Speaker 4: something on it if you want to, but don't touch
Speaker 4: your hair.
Speaker 2: When I was little, though I was a huge soccer fan,
Speaker 2: I still am, and I wanted my hair like neymar
Speaker 2: so badly and I would beg my mom, please, please
Speaker 2: can I get a mohawk?
Speaker 1: And I get a buzz cut?
Speaker 2: And she was like girl, no, no, And now I'm
Speaker 2: very thankful that she didn't let me get that.
Speaker 1: So it's good good parenting. Don't your daughter cut their heads.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite non basketball athlete?
Speaker 4: Mmmm, I would say Serena. I love her, Yeah, I am.
Speaker 4: I cried when she lost Yeah, so I've never cried
Speaker 4: over anyone else.
Speaker 3: So yeah, have you got a.
Speaker 1: Chance to meet her?
Speaker 3: That's my girl?
Speaker 1: What was that like the first time.
Speaker 3: It was so real. We actually met.
Speaker 4: We met at Essence this past year for I think
Speaker 4: like the Summerfest, and I've actually worked with her and
Speaker 4: her team with her makeup, and I just saw now
Speaker 4: that she's got the ownership for the new expansion team
Speaker 4: for this w n B A so love to see
Speaker 4: her coming over in our ur lane, hopefully Little Collapse.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite movie?
Speaker 3: Paid him full?
Speaker 1: I've never seen that.
Speaker 4: You should wait, it's it's I'm like, I like drug
Speaker 4: movies like so I'm into like Scarface obviously paid.
Speaker 3: Them full belly. I don't know if you've heard of
Speaker 3: good Yeah.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite TV show?
Speaker 3: I would say Power?
Speaker 1: Mmm. I thought you're gonna say Breaking Back because you
Speaker 1: said you love drug stuff.
Speaker 3: I've actually haven't heard of that one. You haven't heard
Speaker 3: of Breaking Back?
Speaker 2: No, Okay, I don't know if I'm like wrong, but
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's like the most famous.
Speaker 3: TV show I so tapped out of reality.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what you like?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I like that now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna take that advice and be like, no,
Speaker 2: I don't care what other people like.
Speaker 1: I just like what I like. That's about yeah. Do
Speaker 1: you a favorite video game?
Speaker 3: Grand Theft Atom Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Do a favorite podcast?
Speaker 3: This one?
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you? Can we say it? Slow nos is
Speaker 1: my favorite podcast?
Speaker 3: Slow Knows This is my favorite exactly.
Speaker 1: Do a hidden talent.
Speaker 4: I do a lot of them, but I'm gonna keep
Speaker 4: it hidden.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 1: Describe your style in one word, timeless. What is your
Speaker 1: favorite ice cream for flavor?
Speaker 3: Bluebell homemade vanilla.
Speaker 2: So I've actually had yeah, flavored ice cream before, and
Speaker 2: that's a very la thing.
Speaker 1: It's called sweet Rose.
Speaker 2: They have very weird ice I would think you would be.
Speaker 2: So I want to find you some because like I
Speaker 2: feel like you would love it. Like sweet potato ice cream.
Speaker 1: That's like a thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, olive oil ice.
Speaker 1: Cream all that.
Speaker 4: The most kind of creative ice cream I've had is
Speaker 4: the banana pudding one.
Speaker 3: I just found out what Bluebell was last year.
Speaker 1: Okay, But vanilla, You're just vanilla straight up?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Interesting?
Speaker 2: Okay, It's funny because I feel you have so much
Speaker 2: flavor and so many things in life, but then your
Speaker 2: ice cream like doesn't really it's just vanilla.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite candy sour patches, watermelon heads.
Speaker 1: Oh strong.
Speaker 4: I don't even eat candy, but if you put a
Speaker 4: bag in front of me, I will down it and
Speaker 4: probably be like an hour.
Speaker 1: Those are insane.
Speaker 2: Who is the most favorite famous person in your contacts?
Speaker 5: I can't do that. I'm gonna say my manager up,
Speaker 5: she is soaping. No, she's iconic?
Speaker 3: Are you kay?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: One day I'll get it out of you.
Speaker 3: One day I will, okay.
Speaker 1: And then last week, what does your celebrity or who
Speaker 1: is your celebrity look alike?
Speaker 3: Oh? I'm hearing NonStop carry Hilson.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm like a baby.
Speaker 3: Okay, how do you spell her name? Have you ever
Speaker 3: heard the song pretty girl? Ram K E R I E?
Speaker 3: And then Hilson? Oh? I see that?
Speaker 2: Should I show the camera little bit around this one
Speaker 2: is where you look like her?
Speaker 3: I see it? Yeah, I see it.
Speaker 4: I recently did a spread for Essence for the January
Speaker 4: February collection, and I did a pixie cut haircut and
Speaker 4: it was the same haircut she had, I think in
Speaker 4: her twenties, and so everyone was like, oh, missus, carry baby,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, all right, So the last segment of Sloan
Speaker 2: Nose is called Sloan Knows.
Speaker 1: Your Game Trivia.
Speaker 2: Okay, I feel like you're gonna be good at this,
Speaker 2: but a lot of the other players that I interview,
Speaker 2: they have a lot to say, and then they don't
Speaker 2: actually know anything really about themselves, like they forget all
Speaker 2: their stats and they're really bad. And I know more
Speaker 2: than them, which I love. But I'm scared because, like,
Speaker 2: you're really smart and I feel like you may know
Speaker 2: a lot. Anyways, so let's see how this game works.
Speaker 2: My first question is in college you were your career
Speaker 2: I end points and assists in the same game. Do
Speaker 2: you remember who you played, as well as how many
Speaker 2: points and how many assists you have?
Speaker 3: Thirty and ten?
Speaker 1: TCU got one little little detail wrong? What nine assists?
Speaker 3: You round it right?
Speaker 1: You round up her? Okay.
Speaker 2: You were picked to fourth in the twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: w NBA A draft. Do you remember the three people
Speaker 2: picked ahead of you?
Speaker 4: Charlie mm hmm Ari she was picked third?
Speaker 3: God it it was a girl from overseas, wasn't it?
Speaker 3: Drafted to Dallas? Yes, I don't know our name, but
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's try my hardest to pronounce this. Who woke
Speaker 1: coo Eria?
Speaker 3: I think that was her?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that rings a bellant?
Speaker 3: Yeah okay, yeah, so.
Speaker 1: I guess you got like half point on that one?
Speaker 1: Half points?
Speaker 2: Do you know how many points you scored in your
Speaker 2: first college game at Michigan and you know which team
Speaker 2: you played against.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take that, Eli, sweetheart. Okay, what did you doant?
Speaker 1: I guess I feel like you could guess.
Speaker 4: Well. I know in my pre game when we played
Speaker 4: Central Mission again, I had twenty eight and eight, but
Speaker 4: that one doesn't count.
Speaker 2: So this is against Oakland and you had nineteen points,
Speaker 2: which is an insane college debut.
Speaker 1: Yes, your rookie year with the fever. They had three
Speaker 1: other rookies.
Speaker 3: On the roster.
Speaker 1: Do you remember who those three other rookies were?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So Aliyah me yes, and Chelsea.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's a there's another there was yeah. Bernadette Hatartar Hater,
Speaker 1: hater Htar. I don't know.
Speaker 3: She remember exactly what?
Speaker 1: Okay, hitar? She what is your last name?
Speaker 3: Hater?
Speaker 1: It's not it couldn't be.
Speaker 3: I know, I know what you're talking about. I know.
Speaker 2: Faces, Okay, face faces sorry, Bernadette.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then my last question for you.
Speaker 2: Do you know how many followers you have on Instagram
Speaker 2: and how many followers you have on Twitter.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it six hundred and eight.
Speaker 2: One hundred seven thousand on Instagram.
Speaker 3: On Twitter, I want to say one seven one point said.
Speaker 2: I know you're doing not because that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Okay, Kyser, get ready for this.
Speaker 2: I want you to nominate the next Loan Nos guests.
Speaker 2: But there's a catch. Ready, okay, you have to get
Speaker 2: them on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Who is that going to ben?
Speaker 3: You put me on the s I have to oh, athlete.
Speaker 1: Well, I've only interviewed so far, but you know someone
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Earli.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say Camera yeah. Okay, I
Speaker 4: want to say, I'm gonna say Cameron yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then you're gonna help me for sure, promise no,
Speaker 3: it's pink kinky, and then the thumb
Speaker 2: That okay, okay,