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

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Speaker 1: battling the plague. Shouts to everybody out there dealing with

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Speaker 1: any one of the several annoying ass illnesses going around

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Speaker 1: right now. It's Wednesday, January twenty ninth, and on today's show,

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Speaker 1: we're skipping the need to know and getting straight into

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Speaker 1: my conversation with Beg and Perry, head of Basketball for

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Speaker 1: Athletes Unlimited. We talked about what to expect from the

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Speaker 1: league's fourth season, tipping off on February fifth, including new players,

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Speaker 1: a new location, and the stars steak stats and stories.

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Speaker 1: You should know that Combo's coming up right after this,

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Speaker 1: joining us now. She's the head of Basketball for Athletes Unlimited,

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Speaker 1: overseeing the strategic planning and execution of all basketball operations

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Speaker 1: and player personnel matters. A former college basketball analyst and

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Speaker 1: former studio analyst for the Miami Heat. Most importantly, she's

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Speaker 1: a former d one hooper for Cordell University. Let's go,

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Speaker 1: It's Megan Perry. I think you might be our first

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Speaker 1: Cornell grad on the show.

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Speaker 2: Really that can't be well. First, thank you, thank you

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Speaker 2: for having me, And if I am the first, I'm

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Speaker 2: glad to blaze the trail for the many Cornelians to

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Speaker 2: come after.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like, what am I doing with my life?

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Speaker 1: If I'm not using my power and influence to elevate

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Speaker 1: the profile of fellow Cornelians. It's almost like I'm not

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Speaker 1: in charge around this bitch. What am I doing? I

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Speaker 1: gotta start just force feeding people Cornell grads? All right,

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Speaker 1: that's fair.

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Speaker 3: It starts today.

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Speaker 1: It starts today, It starts with you. Okay. The fourth

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Speaker 1: season of Athletes Unlimited gets going February fifth. For those

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Speaker 1: who aren't familiar, let's give the league my patented four

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Speaker 1: US's treatment, so star stake, stats and stories give them

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Speaker 1: all the information that they need to dive in to

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Speaker 1: this season of Athletes Unlimited. Let's start with the stars.

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Speaker 1: Who are some of the biggest names that are gonna

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Speaker 1: be playing this season.

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Speaker 2: You can expect some of the names that you already

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Speaker 2: know and some new names. I'll say our roster, which

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Speaker 3: Or new names.

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Speaker 2: And we have this healthy amount of players with WNBA

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Speaker 2: currently on a roster, names that you will know already.

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Speaker 2: Three time WNBA champion Alisha Clark headlines our roster this season.

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Speaker 2: You'll find names like Isabelle Harrison, Sidney Colson, Alissa Hilly,

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Speaker 2: Jalen Sharad, I mean, just keya nurse. The list goes

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Speaker 2: on and on and on. We have a healthy balance

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Speaker 2: say for those that are just women's basketball fans, right

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Speaker 2: you've been following the game from sometimes their their high

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Speaker 2: familiar with and you will know and you'll have a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great opportunity for five on five basketball

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Speaker 1: in the offseason for w players, for those trying to

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Speaker 1: is some of our favorite players that we watched in

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Speaker 1: college can't find a spot. It is such a tight league.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember what the new number is. We've been

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Speaker 1: eventually there will be this team, but somewhere more than

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Speaker 1: So you're right, there are faces that people will remember

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Speaker 1: two of the ogs that have really established themselves in

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Speaker 1: I'm here to show up.

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Speaker 2: Let me say this to you, Sarah, that overall, like

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Speaker 2: say some names you should pay attention to. Obviously returners

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 2: We know what TP can do, what Sid can do,

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Speaker 3: Very excited to welcome Dasha to the family.

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Speaker 2: When you think about NCUBA all time leading scores, it

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Speaker 2: And so that's a name that I know will keep

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Speaker 3: And we have a number of others.

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Speaker 2: When I think about some of our vets, I'll say

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Speaker 2: Names that women's basketball players know for their amazing collegiate

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Speaker 3: Up that leaderboard that you were speaking about.

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Speaker 1: I'm pumped already, I'm excited. I'm excited for this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about stats, because that's really important for us

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Speaker 1: how the scoring works for AU basketball, just how it's

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, so I want to make clear to everyone overall.

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Speaker 2: AU Pro Basketball was founded with the premise that we

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Speaker 2: whether they are here domestically, or they have extensive experience overseas,

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Speaker 3: We created a space for five on five basketball, the

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Speaker 2: But what's cool about AU is we've layered on top

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Speaker 2: I often tell people, think of the Peloton leaderboard. I

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Speaker 3: It's the AU Pro Basketball leader board.

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Speaker 2: And for forty players that we have on our roster,

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Speaker 2: They get points tied to the leaderboard for positive plays.

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Speaker 3: Team wins is what we call them.

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Speaker 2: We incentivize every single moment in AU pro basketball matters

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Speaker 2: because it's not just about winning the game as the team,

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Speaker 3: Winning each quarter.

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Speaker 2: So let's say regular game, it could be seventy five

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Speaker 2: So where you fall on the leaderboard absolutely matter, and

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Speaker 2: so our players are competing like a playoff like environment

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Speaker 2: the entire time. So what you can expect is five

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're never going to get those late blowouts where

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Speaker 1: getting those stats and getting those good plays. What's a

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Speaker 3: And I'll say why is it different for every player?

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Speaker 2: Comes into AU with a different reason. Right, So for

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Speaker 2: I really enjoyed being a part of this community, right,

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Speaker 2: a new family. So a good game it varies, but

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Speaker 2: I would say our games are high scoring, our games

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Speaker 2: I would say, you know, a good AU Pro basketball

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Speaker 2: game just like any other five on five games, twenty points,

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Speaker 2: that's a good game. But it'll vary based on what

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Speaker 1: We got to take a quick break when we come

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Speaker 1: back more with Megan Perry. What are the stakes? How

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Speaker 1: big is one good game or bad game? Both in

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Speaker 1: terms of team play like making it to the playoffs

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Speaker 1: if you have a really bad game or really good

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Speaker 1: game in terms of accumulating points, what are the stakes

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Speaker 2: So the stakes are high, and I'll tell you because

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Speaker 2: of our format, our leaguest player driven right down to

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Speaker 2: how they play the game. Across our forty players, they

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Speaker 2: are split into four teams. Each team has a captain

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Speaker 2: and every single week, the captains draft players onto their

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Speaker 2: teams and your draft, You're right, so where you are drafted,

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Speaker 2: so how you play is determined oftentimes where you fall

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Speaker 2: entire time, not only for that position on the leaderboard,

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Speaker 2: but also you're thinking about where you might be drafted,

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Speaker 2: who you might be playing with, what compliments you, what doesn't.

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Speaker 2: And this season, one change that we did make is

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Speaker 2: that the way that we go about selecting our captains

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Speaker 2: this season, we will create we think a little bit more

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Speaker 3: The captains will be determined for.

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Speaker 2: Week one, We'll have a random pool of returners that

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Speaker 2: or for weeks two and weeks three. Our captains will

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Speaker 3: Follow our social handles.

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Speaker 2: We put all the deats there, and stay tuned because

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Speaker 1: Love it. Last question for you, we know Unrivaled is

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