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Speaker 1: right here. You know what I'm talking about. We got

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Speaker 2: And right now she's a two time champion now, but

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Speaker 2: in this episode, she was a one time champion. She

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Speaker 1: Did she get the second one? Yeah, she definitely the second.

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Speaker 1: shot Shot Town? Yeah? This was from season three man

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying now, she a regular on TNT.

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Speaker 1: Should have changed the game now and she sit opposite check.

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Speaker 1: She be checking Shack all the time. Give them the

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Speaker 1: Now she done left my beloved Chicago's guy and now

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Speaker 1: she is out there in Vegas, the lost Vegas Aces

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Speaker 1: and Asia Wilson and that whole cool point. God, like,

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Speaker 2: Man, love what she's doing, the move she's making. Man,

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Speaker 2: she's women power, She's doing her thing, and she's being

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Speaker 2: But this episode was a couple of years ago, and

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Speaker 1: know I was. She was like, hey, why I ain't

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Speaker 1: but like just you know, we're gonna do this little

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Speaker 1: you back live on location and we're gonna cover all

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Speaker 1: this that we talk about then it happened since we

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Speaker 2: This episode was aired Bar seventeen, twenty twenty. Check it

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Speaker 2: out Man, one of our classics from the Queen. First question,

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Speaker 3: Oh? First person to bust my ass? I mean I

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Speaker 3: got my ass busted every day in practice because I

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Speaker 2: That's that's rough them legends too, Lisa Leslie.

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Speaker 3: I was born in Saint Louis, born in Saint Louis.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, from Chicago. She was born in Saint Louis.

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Speaker 3: Saint Louis is nice. It's uh. We still had family

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Speaker 3: him after I would you know, we had our chores.

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Speaker 3: I police the yard, make sure all the leaves are up.

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Speaker 3: And then after I finished the chores, I'd be like, Dad,

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Speaker 3: I just always wanted to stress that it was a

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Speaker 1: To me, talk about winning the dunk contest at the

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Speaker 3: Oh go to my grave with this. All I did

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Speaker 1: I remember watching that and being like this is crazy,

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Speaker 1: But you know, you got the trophy.

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Speaker 3: I'm a Parker, don't play.

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Speaker 3: So my oldest brother, he played professional basketball for a

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Speaker 3: Like, it was like that was what the guys respected it,

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Speaker 2: What did you get from past summit that you took

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Speaker 3: Man, I've gotten in life. It's not even basketball.

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Speaker 3: like three thirty. I got to the gym at like

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00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 3: four fifteen. I'm like, I'm gonna be on the court

434
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 3: sweating when she gets here. I'm gonna show her that

435
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 3: I really. I pull up to the gym, her lights

436
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 3: on in the office, She's already there. So it's just

437
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 3: like every time you try to like outdo Pat with

438
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,360
Speaker 3: Pat stuff, you never gonna outdo her with things she says.

439
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 3: And so even like when she got sick and even

440
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 3: when things weren't good, she's still because you know, it's

441
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 3: easy for people win championships and say all this stuff

442
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,960
Speaker 3: like you gotta work hard and you gotta whatever. But

443
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 3: she always backed up everything she said. So I'm not

444
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 3: pass on it by any means. It's taken me a

445
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 3: long time to you know, put it to work. But

446
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 3: I think right now she would be really proud with

447
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 3: how I attack life.

448
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 2: Straight up, that's awesome. If you had to pick four

449
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 2: other players to play with from Tennessee to play against

450
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 2: Pat and the rest of the catalog of the Lady

451
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 2: of Oz, who were the four other players with.

452
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,800
Speaker 3: Who would I pick? I mean, I gotta go with

453
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 3: Tamika and Shamika for sure, So that's three.

454
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 2: I mean it's curtains already.

455
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 3: I would say Dajah, Charles rip Dadra. She was amazing.

456
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,360
Speaker 3: She was the train and kind of like the four position,

457
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 3: was able to move mobile all that and then man

458
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 3: our point guard. We won two national championships. And on

459
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 3: any day, I'll take a Lexus hornbuckle over a lot

460
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,880
Speaker 3: of different players. I think Lexus Hornbuckle Squad.

461
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 2: You know, one pick and you're playing with Lisa Leslie

462
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,880
Speaker 2: right away, Like that's crazy. People look back on their

463
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 2: history and be like, man, Candas Parking, Lisa Leslie playing

464
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 2: it together, Like that's crazy. You know, as the history

465
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 2: go on, people be like, dang Magic played with Kareem

466
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Like the feeling like it's

467
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 2: crazy to see legends like get an opportunity to play

468
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 2: together like you had Hryl Swoop, Cynthia Cooper, Tina Thompson,

469
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 2: Legends Hall of Fame is just like playing together.

470
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 3: Man, I looked at it. I'm a huge student of

471
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,719
Speaker 3: the game. So basketball has always been on our television,

472
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 3: something that we've read about. I can look up in

473
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 3: the rafters at almost any gym and tell you every

474
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 3: person that's got their jersey retired, and you know, from

475
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 3: across the country. So when I got to playing with them,

476
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 3: playing with Lisa, like, I knew the history, I knew

477
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 3: what she meant to the game of basketball, and I

478
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 3: knew it was similar to kind of how San Antonio

479
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 3: got Tim Duncan. And you know, David Robinson was hurt

480
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,919
Speaker 3: the year before Tim Duncan. It was similar. Lisa Leslie

481
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 3: was pregnant the year before, and I remember watching the

482
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 3: standings and hoping that La would drop. And it was

483
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 3: interesting because Chicago was an expansion team, so they were

484
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 3: in that draft and this guy got the second pick,

485
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 3: but I was hoping that La got the first pick.

486
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 3: And I remember when they got the first pick, my brother,

487
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 3: my middle brother, Marcus called me and was like, yeah,

488
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 3: we going to Kelly, and that was Yeah.

489
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 2: That's what's up. That's what's up. So you're playing with

490
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,919
Speaker 2: the Sparks and I know you feel like you can

491
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 2: win the championship with this team, Like tell us about

492
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 2: them first couple of years with the Sparks and playing

493
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 2: with playing with Lisa Leslie and that much expectation on

494
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 2: y'all shoulders.

495
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 3: You know, I'll say this, and I know y'all aren't

496
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 3: a viral type of things, but we if we were

497
00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 3: healthy all things, we should have won. So she was

498
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 3: she had her daughter the year before I got drafted.

499
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 3: That NCAA tournament, I was playing and reached and tore

500
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 3: my labor in my shoulder. So I was supposed to

501
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 3: have surgery and I was like, no, like it's an

502
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 3: Olympic year, I'm the number one pick. I want to play,

503
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 3: so like put me in the brace whatever. So I played,

504
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 3: but my shoulder just that year kept constantly popping out,

505
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 3: like just constantly popping out. Whatever. So we got to

506
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,360
Speaker 3: the Western Conference finals and we lost on a last

507
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 3: second shot. Sophia Young threw up some bullshit and so

508
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 3: we went to game three. Then Becky Hammond wanted to

509
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 3: like drop thirty five on us. It was ridiculous. She

510
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 3: was doing all these like it was just ridiculous. So anyway, kudas,

511
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 3: I mean credit to them. They beat us. But that year,

512
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,159
Speaker 3: at the end of the year, you know, I got

513
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 3: rookie the year MVP, and I remember being like I

514
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 3: was going for the three peat because we won the

515
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 3: nca Tournament, Olympic gold medal, and I wanted to win

516
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 3: a WNBA championship all in the same year. So we

517
00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 3: fell short. The next year, little did I know I

518
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 3: was I was expecting, like, you know, I played that

519
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 3: end of the year, didn't have any idea, and then

520
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 3: that off season I was like, oh, so I'm gonna

521
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 3: be a mom And that year I came back, but

522
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,479
Speaker 3: I wasn't myself, you know, I came back, you know,

523
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,479
Speaker 3: seven or eight weeks after I had my daughter, and

524
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 3: it took time to get going. I've torn my acl

525
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 3: and then I had to set out my freshman year

526
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,479
Speaker 3: in Tennessee from a total knee reconstruction from woryal condole

527
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 3: resurface and like kind of similar to microfracture. My freshman

528
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 3: year tore my shoulder, had meniscus. There's nothing harder than

529
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 3: coming back from a baby. Like like your timing. I mean,

530
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 3: I was twenty three when I had her, so I

531
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 3: was pretty young. I was still working out. It's nothing

532
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 3: like I mean, your mind is like jumped and your

533
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 3: body's like three seconds behind. So it took forever, and

534
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 3: I relied a lot on my athleticism, I mean rebound

535
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 3: and pushing the ball, and it was just like your

536
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 3: hips everything, and so it took. I would say I

537
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 3: came back in July. I had her May thirteenth. I

538
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 3: came back July fifth to my first game.

539
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 2: Wow.

540
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 3: And then I would say August September is when I

541
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 3: started feeling like I could play basketball again. I mean,

542
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 3: it was a different challenge. And then Lisa retired after

543
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 3: that year, so it was just like what could have

544
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 3: been if both of us were really healthy and on

545
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 3: the court at the same time. But you know, life happens,

546
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 3: and I'm so blessed to have had my daughter and

547
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 3: her be able to share my career.

548
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 1: I cannot fathom doing what my wife did when we

549
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: had like trying to be an athlete, and that be

550
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: one of my priorities that I have to you know,

551
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: deal with, intend to like when I was like for me,

552
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: I had my children after I was playing. But like

553
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: even when just looking at that whole process, thinking to myself,

554
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: I would have had a problem hoop and I felt

555
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: like and I'm not even the primary guy, like you

556
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like just being there just because

557
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: I was trying to be involved, like staying up whatever

558
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: they you know, trying to get them sleep, trained and

559
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: all that. Like I would have been showing up like like.

560
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, like going to just get

561
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 3: to the next day. But I think the biggest thing

562
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 3: was just as an athlete, you have certain things like

563
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 3: I pregame, nap, I sleep two hours before the game.

564
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 3: I have my pregame meal, I nap, I get up,

565
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 3: I shower, I do it this way, and it's like

566
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,479
Speaker 3: every day is a different, Like you get her all

567
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 3: ready for the game and she throws up on all

568
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 3: everything and then you gotta change that flow bag and

569
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 3: then like yeah, she you know, she gets sick. I

570
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 3: mean I've missed a number of games because my mom

571
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 3: was a stay at home mom with us, And when

572
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 3: I'm sick to this day, I still want my mom

573
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 3: and I want Layla to have that. I didn't ever

574
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 3: want her to be, Like, well, my mom was different

575
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 3: because she worked like I never wanted that, and so

576
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 3: when she's sick, shit shuts down like I have, like

577
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 3: I not made games, trips, I've delayed overseas, like my

578
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 3: baby is number one. So yeah, so it just went

579
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: from basketball being the be all end all to like, man,

580
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 3: there's more to life once I had my daughter.

581
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: Speaking on that with your experience of having your daughter,

582
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: like seeing the changes and everything that's being able to

583
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: Ceba and and you know, reading about what what Skyler

584
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: went through, how do you feel about, you know, all

585
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: of the great advancements that I've been made, And I'm

586
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: you know, obviously still a lot of more work and

587
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: further to go, but it was good seeing the improvements

588
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: that were made.

589
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 3: You know, I think it's it's it's great because I

590
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 3: think all of us want to leave the game better

591
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 3: then we came into it, and we didn't have our

592
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 3: own rooms as rookies. You don't get it till your

593
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 3: fifth year. So you share a room, like share a

594
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 3: room like, yo, are you about to nap? So, I

595
00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 3: mean stay in the bathroom and everything. That's exactly. So

596
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 3: when I had my daughter, I nursed for fifteen months,

597
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 3: so she had to go everywhere I went. And I

598
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 3: was very adamant about not sacrificing my career for my

599
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 3: daughter and not sacrificing, you know, being a mom for

600
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 3: my career, Like I just wanted to have both. And

601
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 3: so she went everywhere with me. So my mom went

602
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 3: with me, her dad went with me sometimes, and I'd

603
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 3: have to buy the other portion of the room, so

604
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 3: I'd have to buy my room on the road, buy

605
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 3: the airline ticket, figure out you know, childcare, yeah, nanny whatever.

606
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 3: It just was really hard and all that why trying

607
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 3: to play.

608
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: And trying you know, which is crazy.

609
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 3: And so now to see you know, they're gonna have

610
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 3: a stipend or I guess I'm included in that. So

611
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 3: we're gonna have a stipen. We're gonna be able to

612
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 3: have attorney leave where you get your full salary. Stuff

613
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 3: that you're like, wow, you didn't already have that. That's

614
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 3: what I like.

615
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: I heard I didn't have like a family room, Like

616
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: how do you not have a family room? So you

617
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, during the game, your kids can

618
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: go and have somewhere that they cool, where it's a

619
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: nanny and all of that stuff. Like every team I've

620
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: been a part of in the NBA, we've had a

621
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,479
Speaker 1: family room where the whole separate place where they got food,

622
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: they can get drinks, they can feel the people know them,

623
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: they get badges, and it by the time the quarter

624
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: of the season, they know each other and they know

625
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: our kids. And they have nannies, two three, four of them.

626
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: They rotate and everything is taken care of and you

627
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: don't have these issues, and it's how it is. That's crazy.

628
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 3: But here's the thing I do want to say. You know,

629
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 3: the NBA hasn't always been what the NBA is right now,

630
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 3: not at all. It's been a growing process. So we

631
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 3: have to remember that it is a growing process. But

632
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 3: you are kind of what you accept and when the

633
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 3: players decided listen, this is the way it's going to be.

634
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 3: You know, you got to invest. I mean, we talk

635
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 3: about the impact David Stern had. A lot of the

636
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 3: things he said and did at the time weren't popular, right,

637
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 3: you know, it was about progress exactly. I mean the

638
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 3: NBA was on tape delay in the eighties. I remember

639
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 3: watching the playoffs on tape delay, right, So we're looking

640
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 3: at a finished product in the NBA and trying to

641
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 3: compare it to the WBA. And so that's where I'm like,

642
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 3: hold on, let's pause this. We're our own league and

643
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 3: we're gonna try to be our own league. But in

644
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: saying that, there are some things that are non negotiable.

645
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, as a professional, just to hear it,

646
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 2: like cause we fight for it. Like you know, I

647
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 2: love the WNBA. I love basketball like all kind of basketball,

648
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 2: no matter where it is. And we knew about it,

649
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: but it's going details to hear y'all speak about it

650
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 2: in details of like look, we don't have this, we

651
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: share rooms, we gotta wait for this flight, or it's just.

652
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 3: Doing all this when our main job is overseas, and

653
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,479
Speaker 3: that's that's crazy. Twenty times what I made in the

654
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 3: WNBA overseas, That's how I fed my daughter. So we're

655
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 3: doing this to just grow the game. And so you're

656
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 3: adding that to the fact that like in Russia, I

657
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 3: had a driver, a chef, we flew, we had extravagant parties.

658
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 3: They took my translator to translator, took care of my dog, like,

659
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 3: we have all these things. And so then we're coming

660
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 3: back here to grow the game. But at some point

661
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 3: you're like, at what cost are you gonna let let

662
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 3: some of these things go.

663
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 2: That's like Diane Tarassi Stan she didn't play the one

664
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 2: yet and she stayed just they paid her. That's crazy,

665
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 2: like like that's just to hear that.

666
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 3: And this is what I'm saying. I'm optimistic, but I'm

667
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 3: cautiously optimistic because you know, we still we've come a

668
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 3: long way, but we still have a long way to go,

669
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 3: and I think that's the way that we got to

670
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 3: look at it. You know, hopefully before too long, you know,

671
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 3: we won't have to go overseas.

672
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 2: You finally get the opportunity to have a championship season

673
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 2: and a tough playoff run Game five that you had

674
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 2: to play, Like, tell us about that game and like

675
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: how that game came down to the end and y'all want.

676
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 3: Well, we had it locked up. We were up to

677
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 3: one at home. Our owners had already planned our championship

678
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 3: run like that night. We had vans waiting for us

679
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 3: and like all this stuff, and we just couldn't finish

680
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 3: it off at stables. I remember going home and just like, man,

681
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,760
Speaker 3: all this we've done all year, it could be done,

682
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 3: Like we could lose and all the work we put

683
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 3: in could just be for nothing. And then our coach

684
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 3: came in, Brian Agler, the next day and was like,

685
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 3: if somebody at the beginning of this season gave you

686
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 3: one game to win a championship, would you take it?

687
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 3: And I was like hell yeah, Like yeah, he was

688
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 3: like all right, this is that opportunity, and we just

689
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 3: kind of changed our outlook from we lost it and

690
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 3: it was hours and they took it and get you know,

691
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 3: so like all right, let's go, and we went out

692
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 3: there and just played in the moment. In game five,

693
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff happened. We were up ten with

694
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 3: a minute ten to go and almost lost it. They

695
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 3: went up and then Mekka came down and had to

696
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 3: hit a crazy put back at the you know, so

697
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 3: it it was just represented our season, just how we

698
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 3: just kept fighting and it wouldn't have gone any other way.

699
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 3: I do believe strongly an energy, and I think you

700
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 3: guys can feel it on a team. When the energy

701
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 3: is there, you win some games you shouldn't win just

702
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 3: because it's positive energy. Like we talk about work environment,

703
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 3: we talk about things. I mean, like even what y'all have,

704
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 3: Like there's got to be some sort of positive energy

705
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 3: in any relationship that you have that will take you

706
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 3: further than you would if you were negative.

707
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: I agree with, but that's not true him. I don't

708
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: like this.

709
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 3: That's from the outside and you can keep that inside.

710
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 2: So to win a championship, to finally win one like

711
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 2: to be called a champion? Used to see when you

712
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 2: grew up. You see, like I say, the shrill swoops

713
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 2: to Lisa, Liz, you see all these people win these championships.

714
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: To be called a champion, What do that mean?

715
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, in LA, if you're a winner,

716
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 3: like you're loved forever, right, And that's how it was.

717
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 3: And I remember Michael Cooper telling me, like Coop was like, listen,

718
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 3: if you win in LA, you will You'll be fine,

719
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 3: like you'll be great, And that's how it was. I

720
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 3: mean to be called a champion. I'm a firm believer

721
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 3: and people can luck up on one thing, so I

722
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 3: kind of believe in you gotta win too to be

723
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 3: considered a real, true champion. And I still believe that.

724
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 3: In college, I said the same thing. In order for

725
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 3: me to be able to be mentioned with the greatest

726
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 3: in college, I gotta win two and it's the same thing.

727
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 3: I feel that way in the WNBA. It feels great,

728
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 3: but I think it's more of like a reflection at

729
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 3: the end of your career, you know, because we won,

730
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 3: you put all that effort and then you go home.

731
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 3: And we talked about this. We talk about this in

732
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 3: the makeup room all the time at Turner. What's your

733
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 3: biggest feeling? Is it losing or is it winning? And

734
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 3: for me, I remember losing more than I remember winning.

735
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 3: Like winning, I feel like you move on faster. Losing

736
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 3: is like you're in your bed, like a for seasons

737
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 3: that you should have won. You're in your bed like

738
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 3: Layla's knocking on the door, like mommy, like you're gonna

739
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 3: come out and open the.

740
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 1: Blinds, like just hit there. You don't want to watch

741
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: basketball on TV, you don't want to watch sports.

742
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,720
Speaker 3: Watch anything. And it's like being a champion is great

743
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 3: in comparison to being to losing that year. You know,

744
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 3: I remember, I've played twelve seasons. Eleven of those I

745
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 3: can recall the end of every season, like I can

746
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 3: go back to that place in my mind and like

747
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 3: tell you exactly what I did after the game, and

748
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 3: you know, like it's just the worst feeling ever. So

749
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 3: I think it's more of like you don't want to

750
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 3: feel that way, so you're happy you're a champion.

751
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 2: Straight up? Who is your not top but your favorite

752
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: five women basketball players that you loved the most.

753
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 3: Cheryl Miller was before her time in the sense that

754
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 3: if Cheryl Miller had the opportunities that we have now,

755
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 3: I think she'd go down as the greatest player in

756
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 3: the history of basketball. And you know, there's a little video,

757
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 3: there's video and tapes and obviously she played in the WNBA,

758
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 3: but it was way past you know, her prime. But

759
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: she's a player that the videos we did have and

760
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 3: my dad showed me and I mean she was six',

761
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 3: two could do it all at that, time could dunk.

762
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 3: COULD i mean That Jerry crow was moving and. Transit

763
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 3: So Cheryl miller is definitely one THAT i looked up. To,

764
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 3: Obviously Cynthia. Cooper you look at that and that whole

765
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 3: run during that, time AND i, think you, know ninety

766
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 3: Six olympics had a lot to do with where women's

767
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 3: basketball is right. Now they won the gold medal and

768
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,919
Speaker 3: just the history started. THERE i, mean you talk About Lisa,

769
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 3: leslie talk About Don. STALEY i MEAN i had the

770
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 3: pleasure of playing With Titia. Pincero remember the first TIME

771
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 3: i saw. Her my brother went To Bradley university and

772
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 3: she was playing on THE odu team and my brother

773
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 3: went to the game because somebody was talking to was

774
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 3: on the girls team And, tisha, dude everybody on a,

775
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 3: team no look past is spinning all that she Was

776
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 3: and so it was just you, know so those are

777
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 3: probably my Top.

778
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 2: Like your game got. Everything you can shoot the, three

779
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 2: you can post, uff you can throw off the, dribble

780
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 2: and you know about the game like, WHO i know

781
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 2: you got stuff from different, people but who was the

782
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 2: few people that you pad in your? Game after? That

783
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: you want to kind of SO.

784
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 3: I grew up the Biggest Allen iverson fan and my

785
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 3: brother got drafted and then traded To. Philly, mike all

786
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 3: of them crazy LIKE. A i was on my. WALL

787
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 3: i had like the finger. Band so my brother one

788
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 3: birthday got me his finger, band AND ai gave me

789
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 3: his finger band AND i played with it every game

790
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 3: in high. School that was like my, magic like the. Magic, yeah,

791
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 3: magic what was?

792
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 2: It?

793
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 3: Mike all, right, wow, Magic. Mike i'ming the stripping movie.

794
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: Like.

795
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 3: Mike Like, Mike, Yeah Like, mike.

796
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: Is that why you wore number?

797
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 3: Three that is exactly WHY i wore number. Three so

798
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 3: WHEN i got to, COLLEGE i wore thirty two for

799
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 3: my dad because that was his. Number and then WHEN

800
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 3: i got to, college it was. Retired Deja charles had,

801
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 3: it so it was. Retired SO i was, like all,

802
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 3: RIGHT i gotta go, back LIKE i gotta go TO

803
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 3: ai and SO. Ai, HONESTLY i remember being out there

804
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 3: doing all the like and when mixtape, stuff you, know

805
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 3: WHEN ai jumped up and hit it off his elbow

806
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 3: in that two Thousand All star, game like all. THAT

807
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 3: i tried all that in the, driveway SO i would say.

808
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 3: Him you, KNOW i was a Big Chris webber fan,

809
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 3: too just because he was mobile and a four and

810
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 3: could dribble and shoot and all that and so, yeah

811
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 3: and then just EVERY i mean doctor J like my

812
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 3: dad had that on, repeat being able to go. Up

813
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 3: so when you watch me go to the, basket SOMETIMES

814
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 3: i get in trouble Because i'd be trying. To, yeah

815
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 3: so it was just yeah for.

816
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: You to be you, know you on a female Now

817
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: rushmore and you from the. Crib so you know What

818
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: i'm saying that we wed. It talk about it in,

819
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: general What chicago basketball, on What chicago basketball means and

820
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: how to past you, know how we we we wear

821
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: that badge with pride and like look you see my

822
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: shirt shout Out, pledge allegiance to the, flag shout out

823
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: my twelve hundred label people In. Chicago but you know

824
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: we wear we run around and like you, Know i'm From,

825
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: Chicago i'm from the. Crib you, know like we we

826
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 1: run with that and we wear that priude talk about

827
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: what that. Means, YEAH i.

828
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 3: Mean chicago has always BEEN i think the measuring stick of,

829
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 3: basketball AND i Don't YEAH i heard say, that you,

830
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 3: know without understanding the huge impact That chicago has had

831
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 3: on my. CAREER i remember Playing marshall and we beat

832
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 3: them At. Marshall AND i remember THE uic tournaments in

833
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 3: the summer where that's where you went hoop expressed we

834
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 3: went hoops the gym when you go and you figure

835
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 3: out if your game got better from the summer. Previous

836
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,919
Speaker 3: AND i remember going in There Michael jordan was working

837
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 3: out With Tim grover and watching through the window before

838
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 3: we could get on the court. PRACTICE i, mean all

839
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 3: that has had an impact on WHO i am as

840
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 3: an individual but also as a basketball. Player and LIKE i,

841
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,439
Speaker 3: said when you get respect From, chicago it doesn't matter

842
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 3: if anybody else respects, You it really. Doesn't it means

843
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 3: so because it is. Different that's the thing, is you,

844
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 3: know you figure out every single day if you're as

845
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 3: good as you have worked or as you think you.

846
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: Are she just, said every single. Day that's the part

847
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: About chicago that people don't, understand, like, oh you you

848
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: want a, championship that that don't. Matter this next game

849
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: somebody gonna try and chin check. You you could hoop or

850
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 1: you can, shoot but all you. Tough IF i knock

851
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: you down and you're gonna get. Up and that's what

852
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: you know What i'm, Saying that's what creates that toughness

853
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: and that greediness that you see from every single. PLAYER

854
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: i don't care you name.

855
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 3: One and it's what's insane IS i love looking at the.

856
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 3: History LIKE i Remember Derrick rose in sixth grade played For,

857
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 3: ferrari going in doing the same stuff he Crazy las

858
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 3: rookie in second. YEAR i, mean going in there in sixth,

859
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 3: grade double pumping. You i've been doing, this like the,

860
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 3: layups the floaters all day in sixth, Grade LIKE i remember.

861
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 3: That and so it's just really cool to see the

862
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 3: people From chicago when they're, young BECAUSE i think you

863
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 3: see a lot of the history history and people are

864
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 3: wowed and, like oh, man he could do. That, no

865
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 3: he's been doing this in sixth. GRADE i, remember and

866
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 3: JUST i mean, Everything remember The hoops was it The

867
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 3: Hoops Prep, show The preps whatever where it's like Eighty

868
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 3: John dockery And Cappy Pond dexter and.

869
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: They were All Jason straight AND i, like.

870
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 3: LIKE i dreamed of. That and then it's just funny

871
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 3: because you see we only had two. Classes there were

872
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 3: none of this twenty seven classes where it was like

873
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 3: twenty seven state. Championships double, yeah we could Have we

874
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 3: should have probably had a playoff between single and DOUBLE.

875
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 3: A that would have been no. Competition but single and

876
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 3: DOUBLE a and DOUBLE a was, like let's, yeah let's

877
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 3: know you had the city league. Champion they came. Down

878
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 3: that's WHAT i.

879
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: Said, now like now we when we came, through they

880
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: had city. Tournament one team come out the entire city

881
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:15,280
Speaker 1: and they repped the. City now people could lose city

882
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: and then, four, three four or five different teams still

883
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: go out of. City, DOWNSTAIRS i was, like how does this?

884
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: Happen that's what it is like when you're living now

885
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: win BECAUSE i, remember Like i'm watching checking in your

886
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: little oak for, Them i'm, like they lost. City i'm,

887
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: like damn. Okay it was, like, no they won. State i'm,

888
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: like how did they lose? City but when in, state

889
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: like what that's.

890
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 3: They changed all the. Rules BUT i remember going to

891
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 3: See Sean. Livingston Sean livingston was he that?

892
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: Deal, No so, listen here's the best story about as.

893
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: Dot so the first TIME i ever Met Sean, livingston

894
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: this is doing my state championship nineteen ninety, eight were

895
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: in state. Tournament he's like this big halftime. Show he's

896
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: out there on the, show running Around joven the, BALL

897
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: a little big head, kid little bitty, kid head bigger

898
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: than his old body. BASKETBALL i think he got it

899
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: on the. Strain That's Sean. Livingston he grow up to

900
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: be As, yeah first time ever. Matter he had to

901
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: be like eight or.

902
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 3: Nine here's the. Thing my brother played with At, Bradley,

903
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 3: right he grew up Near. Peoria Seanda. Right we went

904
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 3: to a camp and played against each other. Together that's

905
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 3: crazy at a camp In. Peoria and it's just the.

906
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 3: CONNECTIONS i mean. Everybody you have certain tournaments that you go,

907
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 3: to and the people that are trash don't go to

908
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 3: those tournaments because they know that they gonna get exposed

909
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:37,240
Speaker 3: at they and you, know so That's chicago.

910
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 2: Town play the country boys. Nothing you, know small school

911
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 2: you want to. BE i was from a small, school

912
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 2: so you want to be accepted from the big. City

913
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: Like that's WHY i used to be so aggressive and

914
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 2: so coming, up.

915
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 3: Everybody THOUGHT i Was everybody THOUGHT i was, soft so

916
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 3: they would all try to test me.

917
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 2: DOWNTOWN i THINK i was BECAUSE i was, skinny BUT

918
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,919
Speaker 2: i as tough as a. Motherfucker, like but BECAUSE i was, skinny.

919
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: Fo hundred and eighty five pounds of.

920
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 2: Him my physique looked like he's skinny in the motherfucker

921
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 2: and it.

922
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: Didn't look like. Itz look it. Buzz it was one

923
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,240
Speaker 1: to eighty five at six, nine but it Was. Freid

924
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: BUT i was, available THOUGH i ain't say. THAT i

925
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: said you physically and you look you were.

926
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,240
Speaker 3: Here here's a QUESTION i have for, y'all because we asked.

927
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 3: This The chicago CLAIM kg IS. Kg, No, no, no,

928
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 3: okay let me ask another. Question Does chicago basketball CLAIM.

929
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: Kg we, yeah we were claiming for for that senior

930
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: year because he did legendary stuff and he came out

931
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: Of chicago straight to the high. School but like you.

932
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: CAN'T i, MEAN i don't think he would Claim.

933
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 3: CHICAGO i don't think he Claimed, chicago BUT i Think

934
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 3: chicago made.

935
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: Him oh, no we definitely Am we impacted.

936
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 3: HIM i made him, impacted impacted.

937
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: A million, percent a million. Percent and we can't wait

938
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: to have him on here BECAUSE i want to talk about.

939
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:00,919
Speaker 1: IT i want. To you, Know i'm from The red

940
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 1: At west where he played, that so you, KNOW.

941
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 3: I remember watching.

942
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: HIM i THINK i think definitely that was that. Pick

943
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 1: i'm trusting. Me when he touched down in the, city

944
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: it was crazy.

945
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 3: Explain to people that it's, Similar like it's like everybody's

946
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 3: hype About brownie And zaire or anybody paying. Together i'm,

947
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 3: LIKE i realized it was two of the best in

948
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 3: high school teaming up together to play at one and

949
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 3: one coming from out of state to Play yo.

950
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: De ro's, Career like how you See i'm so proud

951
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 2: of The rose and see WHERE.

952
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 3: I think people still don't understand the impact that he.

953
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 3: Had AND i didn't want When chicago had the. PICK

954
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 3: i didn't want to go To chicago play at. HOME

955
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 3: i didn't want to do. That and D rose went

956
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 3: To chicago and.

957
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 1: Down put it, down put the way.

958
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 2: Down he brought like that light that you ain't have

959
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 2: In chicago Since mike never. Left it was like it

960
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 2: was a whole new. Energy and even.

961
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: With i'll go a step further because even with What

962
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: mike and them, did he had a he had a

963
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: step further because it's, homegrown, yeah energy and the roads

964
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: to MEN i go talk about the.

965
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 2: Rolls it was like it was, Great like just.

966
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,280
Speaker 3: Think iconic moments like when he was in high school

967
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 3: and was playing at The United, center cock back hit

968
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 3: him with his. Chest the dude.

969
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: Red so hard back and what you do start hearing?

970
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: About it was, like, man send. ME i got a

971
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: young over there this when he was WHEN i first

972
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: ever seen the, play and they, said, yeah this, boy

973
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: they gave HIM bingi, nothing BUT i, said oh that

974
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: right there was like an indicator to make you turn

975
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: here like wait what like, okay like let me see what's.

976
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 3: Up but the crazy thing too IS i went and

977
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 3: watch the. WORKOUT i was coming back from having my

978
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 3: daughter and my trainer was, working you, know trying to

979
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 3: get me back into, it and D rose And westbrook

980
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 3: were working out before my. WORKOUT i have never seen

981
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 3: anybody not flow down when they over you know how

982
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 3: like you, Okay like it's the same. SPEED i have

983
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 3: never seen that in my. Life and their workout it

984
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:08,720
Speaker 3: was them.

985
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: Two right, there like D rose at his prime And

986
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: Russell westbrook, Throughout like those are two most explosive point

987
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 1: guards we've ever. Seen like dam man trying to catch.

988
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 1: Up now he coming along and here here he's something

989
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: specially but them Two John, moran young boy, Fresh i'm telling,

990
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 1: YOU i talk about them all on my shoulder. Bounces,

991
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: yeah but it is.

992
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 3: He waits like a little muscle one time because he

993
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 3: flexes And i'm, like, Stop, no he's.

994
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: Allowed i'll, Know i'll allow. It i'll allowed because When

995
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: i've seen him go down the lane and he took

996
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: off On Aaron, baines and then just Like Aaron baines

997
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: laid people, down he flushed him and went kept he

998
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: kept going back on. BOTH i, Said, oh this young,

999
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: boy he is, impressive he's. Special, yeah he don't Want,

1000
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: yeah you don't want to get.

1001
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 3: Heard because he's guards like. That that's What i'm. SAYING

1002
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 3: i wish WHEN i was, younger somebody would have just

1003
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 3: taught me how to control, it BECAUSE i was fearless

1004
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 3: and wiry and just Like gheit all this and went

1005
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 3: to the hoop and it's, like there's a way to.

1006
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:13,319
Speaker 3: Land there's a.

1007
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: Way to if had the gears he take now, before

1008
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: if he was able to like, now you can see

1009
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 1: he slow it. Down but like, before he used to

1010
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: be a million miles To.

1011
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 3: Westbrook you look at D, rose you look at like A,

1012
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,479
Speaker 3: jah WHICH i hope now medicine is caught up where

1013
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:32,959
Speaker 3: they'll teach him how to do all that stuff a little.

1014
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 1: Bit that's what happened To Steve francis his knee went

1015
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: out to look at.

1016
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 3: All the wiry. Explosive it doesn't.

1017
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 2: Because you're going you only got so many jumps.

1018
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 3: In you tell that To. ZION i always stop him

1019
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 3: from duncan like you not a lot of dunk unless

1020
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 3: you in the.

1021
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: GAME i told him that he was standing in front

1022
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: of the. Room you just come. Off Thank i'm going to.

1023
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: HIM i, said, no.

1024
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 2: Between his legs and think it right.

1025
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 3: Now it's just. Unbelievable he gets that in the. Air

1026
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 3: he's so.

1027
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: Exact, yeah he observed that.

1028
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 3: Much be, like it's really not supposed to, fly but

1029
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 3: it is not. Possible we got this.

1030
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 1: Birthday he sit down on that, bench he'd be, Dead,

1031
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: tad that would be so talk about how you made

1032
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: the transition and got into the media and where you

1033
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: are now With turner and you have your own podcast

1034
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: With Christian. Lelo y'all getting it. In Had kobe on,

1035
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: already didn't y'all Have?

1036
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 3: Charles, yeah we've Had Chuck, Kobe Robin, Roberts we've Had Alison.

1037
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 3: Felix we've had a number of really.

1038
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 2: Cool they working out, people big time they working out. Here.

1039
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 2: BLACK i, mean you know What i'm.

1040
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 3: Saying your people have to call us our, people you

1041
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 3: know What i'm. Saying but, yeah you, know, no it.

1042
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 3: Was it was SOMETHING i really. ENJOYED i, Mean i'm

1043
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 3: sitting on my couch watching, basketball talking, ship so why

1044
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 3: not why not get paid to do, it you know.

1045
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 3: Exactly so it ended up being like the second best

1046
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 3: job in the world to, me other than playing. Basketball

1047
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 3: some playing basketball is number, One like talking about. It

1048
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 3: it was just a no.

1049
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: Brainer the only difference between the two is that you

1050
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: ain't gonna hurt yourself doing.

1051
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 3: This, Exactly LIKE i can go out the night before

1052
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 3: and drink With chuck and talk you, know on. Air

1053
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 3: BUT i think it was. That but the transition WAS

1054
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 3: i did not want to go. OVERSEAS i went To,

1055
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 3: china and my daughter has she went to preschool In.

1056
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 3: Russia she went over with me To. Istanbul she's been

1057
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 3: To china with me. Twice we Spent christmases In, China,

1058
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 3: FRANCE i mean. Everywhere she was Speaking russia with a

1059
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 3: little black girl with, stuffs talking about straight Up. Russian

1060
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 3: so it got to the point where she was like

1061
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 3: eight And layla is my. Homie that's like my best

1062
00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 3: like she's just my. Soul for. Sure and every TIME

1063
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,800
Speaker 3: i tell, her, like all, right we're going in, someplace like, great, okay,

1064
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 3: Mommy like when are we? Leaving like let me get my,

1065
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 3: stuff you know. Whatever her school is great work with.

1066
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 3: Us this last TIME i told her we were going To,

1067
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 3: china she was, like, okay mommy and turned her head

1068
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 3: and she like started. Crying like you could see it

1069
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 3: was starting to like really affect. Her AND i was,

1070
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:21,280
Speaker 3: like you, know there's got to be a happy balance

1071
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 3: of WHERE i can have a living but then also

1072
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 3: allow my daughter to like have, activities have nom you,

1073
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 3: know friends in The, states AND i always have to,

1074
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 3: yeah and to be consistent and So, turner, OBVIOUSLY i

1075
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,760
Speaker 3: Watched team everybody WATCHED tt inside THE. Nba everybody watches

1076
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 3: THAT NBA. Tv if you're a, fan you're WATCHING NBA tv.

1077
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: Rights so that was.

1078
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 3: Me it was always on two sixteen ON NBA tv.

1079
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 3: Always so that's kind of HOW i. STARTED i was

1080
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 3: looking at that and came in for you, know one

1081
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 3: or two things in the studio just to kind of

1082
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 3: fill in for. Somebody and Then area twenty one was

1083
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 3: when it really kicked, off AND i was on WITH

1084
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 3: Kg All star one, time and then went on the

1085
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 3: show a couple of times and it was just great, vibe,

1086
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 3: vibes make up, room just with, him with, everybody all the.

1087
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 3: Talent then the next year they asked me to do players,

1088
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 3: only SO i did players, only and then they one

1089
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 3: of the talent took a took a, job you, know

1090
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 3: in THE, nba and so they were, like, hey you

1091
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 3: want to fill? IN i was like, perfect, Right and

1092
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 3: so that's kind of when it was two years ago

1093
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 3: WHEN i started consistently going To atlanta and NOW i

1094
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 3: just love. IT i, mean the people is really what you,

1095
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 3: know like your teammates can make you want to come to,

1096
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 3: practice like can You that's exactly teams that have been,

1097
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 3: successful and it's just like you don't like the, People

1098
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 3: and it doesn't matter how much success you have if

1099
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 3: you don't mess with the people you work with or your.

1100
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 3: Teammates it's miserable telling, you but.

1101
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: No that's that's one hundred percent what it. Is it

1102
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: turned it Like i'm you, Know i'm there now and

1103
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: been there last year and a, half and like you,

1104
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 1: said it's like you going, There you've got a great

1105
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:54,799
Speaker 1: group of teammates that you can't about to go hang

1106
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: out with you.

1107
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 3: Know you know they have your.

1108
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: Back y'all about to sit, down, talk, crab hang, out

1109
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: kick and have a good. Time literally you going down order,

1110
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: fool you, know do your production meetings and then you

1111
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: get your work. Done but you you, know it's like

1112
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: it's like you're hanging out type. Vibe it's. Not we

1113
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: never feel like we at work really like you.

1114
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 3: Know in the maker room is never music.

1115
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: Playing Like i'm.

1116
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 3: Talking everybody's. Talking it's not just talent with the makeup.

1117
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: Is janie and everybody. Everybody, YEAH i know WHAT i

1118
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 1: want to. Ask so when you when you start getting that,

1119
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: bread like not the politically correct. Thing what you, win

1120
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 1: what you want is splurged. Down did you look back on, like,

1121
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: yeah that was a young right. Stuff but like even a,

1122
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: mistake you know sometimes we. Do so you got to

1123
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: treat yourself a little. Bit you work real. Hard you

1124
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:43,240
Speaker 1: you know you earned.

1125
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 3: It that's a good that's a good. POINT i don't

1126
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 3: know IF i ever bought anything that was, crazy But

1127
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 3: i'm real particular about my, vacation SO i THINK i

1128
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 3: took way more extravagant vacations than my. Means at the

1129
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 3: beginning stage in my career like that was my big

1130
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 3: dream was just to have just go on dope vacation

1131
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 3: and just yeah, nice weee bring the people THAT i

1132
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 3: want to, bring you, know have a good.

1133
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: Time and we know they could Be couseley.

1134
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 3: Yes like damn.

1135
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 2: You drink so?

1136
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 3: Much Orgs, jude.

1137
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 2: Who was a walking. Bucket who's a woman's players that

1138
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,439
Speaker 2: every time you seem like she gets.

1139
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 3: BUCKETS i Mean Simona. AUGUSTUS i played against her in

1140
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 3: college AT, lsu and then when she came To. Minnesota

1141
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,399
Speaker 3: they weren't good her FIRST i don't know how many,

1142
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,879
Speaker 3: years but she would get thirty every and we would

1143
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 3: be doubling like we know where the basket was coming,

1144
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 3: from like nobody else can score on their. Team we

1145
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 3: got to stop, her and she would still get a.

1146
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 3: BUCKET i mean that little like fade shot over her.

1147
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 3: Head you couldn't block. It you knew that the right

1148
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,320
Speaker 3: to left was gonna come, back you knew, it but

1149
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 3: she still got. Crossed she to, me is one of

1150
00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 3: those players, that especially in her.

1151
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: PRIME i remember we had Big baby on here and

1152
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: he was telling us like they if they high, school

1153
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 1: she was the best, player like even though they was

1154
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 1: whatever in front of the, area like she was the best.

1155
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:11,879
Speaker 1: Player Be bas and her went to the same high

1156
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: school and like we were teammates with The magic and

1157
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: he used to be, like, man, listen he was All

1158
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: american all that he. Was like she had more college

1159
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: coaches than people coming to the school for her than

1160
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: anybody the show.

1161
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 3: Moan was. CRAZY i, mean she still gets, buckets but to.

1162
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 2: Be arguably be the best female basketball player, ever how

1163
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 2: did that feel like what you dreamed? Of you came

1164
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 2: up and you've seen male side and female side, basketball

1165
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 2: and you just like your career is going to be

1166
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 2: mashed up with people's. Career how do that feels?

1167
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 3: LIKE i think the biggest thing for me WAS i

1168
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 3: was always about versatility and about crossover. Appeal AND i

1169
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 3: think the thing THAT i really respect is when some

1170
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 3: of the dudes come up to me and, like you,

1171
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 3: know In, chicago you get that nod of, Respect yeah

1172
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 3: you get. It AND i almost hold on to that

1173
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 3: more than you, know even. NATIONALLY i think WHEN i

1174
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 3: got that respect In chicago WHEN i CAME i REMEMBER

1175
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 3: i came down and played at A usc tournament Against

1176
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 3: Cappy pondexter And Cappy pondexter was, like you talk About

1177
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 3: mount rushmore like In chicago, basketball not just female, basketball

1178
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 3: talking about male female all That Cappy. Pond, LIKE i

1179
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 3: was in eighth grade AND i came up To capy

1180
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 3: and was, Like, Hey I'm Cannas. Park she's, LIKE i

1181
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 3: know who you. ARE i was, like oh you do

1182
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 3: know's WHO i? Am you? Know AND i think that

1183
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 3: to me is when men see what they're going to,

1184
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 3: see women see what they're going to. See but when

1185
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 3: you get that crossover appeal of both is WHEN i

1186
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 3: think you really have the.

1187
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 2: Respects, YEAH i used to hear about you like a

1188
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 2: long time, ago and uh When capy, CAME i was

1189
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 2: a Big Cappy pointdexter fan because we used to play

1190
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 2: Against State High school all the Time marshall and then

1191
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 2: after she went, OUT i always pay attention to. Her

1192
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 2: then you came and like for you to be so

1193
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 2: dominant and just so, versatile you was. DIFFERENT i feel

1194
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 2: like you was kind of like. ME i was a

1195
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 2: different type of player that they never really kind of seen.

1196
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 2: Before and you was the same. Way you was, tall

1197
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 2: you can, dribble you can. Shoot you know What i'm.

1198
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 2: Saying you could post up like you did every single.

1199
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 2: Thing so like you was the one to like The Tamika,

1200
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 2: kussing like when she came, out she was a versatile type,

1201
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 2: player but you took it to an extreme like and

1202
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 2: girls coming behind. You now it's just.

1203
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 3: Just laugh because THE, nba now you, know when we're coming,

1204
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 3: up it was like the fours ran the middle, floor

1205
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 3: they reversed the, ball they ran over they screen and

1206
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 3: they popped or they rolled and it was LIKE i

1207
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 3: remember rebounding the ball and pushing it and coaches being

1208
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 3: like hold, on, no like doors can't push the.

1209
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: Ball that's what they used to.

1210
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 3: Doing so it's just fighting through. That and now you

1211
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 3: see where and this is WHAT i laugh about all the,

1212
00:59:55,400 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 3: time like you had fours in yourself and Like odom

1213
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 3: and you know even Like dirks now that's what it,

1214
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 3: was but Just Dirk wise and now you See giannis

1215
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 3: and you're, like that is the reason why it is

1216
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 3: the way it, is, Yes and so it's always like

1217
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 3: a steady. Point and you know WHEN i came into the,

1218
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 3: LEAGUE i can say it now like there weren't fours

1219
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 3: that were pushing the ball and handle the. Ball and you,

1220
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 3: know THE nba likes to claim that they were the

1221
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 3: first to have the four to push the. Ball, no

1222
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 3: BUT i think it's just about changing the game and

1223
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 3: about progress and the evolution of.

1224
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 2: It let me ask you, this because like when it

1225
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 2: was okay for me to get the ball off the

1226
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 2: board and push, IT i had to always dunk. IT i,

1227
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 2: know IF i got this ball off this board and push,

1228
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 2: IT i either got to lay it, up go coast

1229
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 2: to coast and lit it, up or go coach the

1230
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 2: coast and dunk it for my coach not to say

1231
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 2: nothing to. Me was that the same like we asks

1232
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 2: for you BECAUSE i, know like they telling you not

1233
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 2: to do, it and when you finally do, it you

1234
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 2: like all. Right SO i, know WHEN i get this

1235
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 2: board AND i, PUSHED i either got to make a

1236
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 2: play for somebody OR i got a score that what gave.

1237
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 3: You at the, beginning it was like. That at the,

1238
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 3: beginning it was like. That BUT i think as we

1239
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 3: started going back and there were like more advanced, stats

1240
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 3: more things like. THAT i remember there was a stat

1241
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 3: In tennessee of WHEN i rebounded the, ball like our

1242
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 3: percentage of scoring when that, happened and it was like

1243
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 3: significantly higher than. Anywhere and it's not by. Accident SO

1244
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 3: i think when those stats kind of came into, where you,

1245
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 3: know OBVIOUSLY i had to keep my turnovers, down but

1246
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 3: even just a simple give and, go you know how

1247
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 3: hard it is to train your. BODY i don't want

1248
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 3: to guard that somebody who's dribbling down because you, know,

1249
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 3: guards they move their, feet do all. That you, know

1250
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,520
Speaker 3: whatever Post we don't want to do. That Like i'm

1251
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 3: trying to guard an ice on that, Side i'm trying

1252
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:53,919
Speaker 3: to hedge and get back to. MINE i need help

1253
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 3: on the.

1254
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 2: RECOVERY i got a run hard to give.

1255
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 3: Back, YEAH i got to run back and all. That

1256
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:00,440
Speaker 3: LIKE i don't want to.

1257
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 2: GUARD i think felt good to hear something that they

1258
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 2: didn't want you to do To, like now you hear

1259
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 2: a coach to be, like, hey when you get the boy,

1260
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 2: pushed because you, know being as a big man or

1261
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 2: being as labeled as a big, man the first thing

1262
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:15,919
Speaker 2: they'd be, like get it to the. Guard but now

1263
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 2: when they see, it they be wanted to be. Repetitive every.

1264
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 2: Game oh, no you know you get the boy push

1265
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 2: the boy.

1266
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 3: Push, yeah, no it's like, that and it's.

1267
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 2: And you you was like they weren't doing, that like

1268
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 2: you you play center sometimes and you're setting it up

1269
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 2: like that's. Transcending and you know What i'm, saying like

1270
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:38,960
Speaker 2: you showing women's basketball like a whole different, level like

1271
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 2: it's changing because of. You you, know, WELL.

1272
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 3: I think it's it's a lot of a lot of different.

1273
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 3: THINGS i, MEAN i don't. Know you guys have probably

1274
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 3: been told not to do a move a million. Times,

1275
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 3: Yeah Like pat was against me using my left hand

1276
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 3: because you, know my, dad IF i didn't use my

1277
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 3: left hand on the left, side LIKE i had twenty

1278
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 3: push ups on that, Own, yeah why didn't? You because you,

1279
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 3: know when you play, better, like that's getting. Blocked so

1280
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 3: if you come through and, shoot, no that's getting, blocked

1281
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 3: that's blocked. Twenty you, Know that's how it. Was and

1282
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 3: so for, me IF i would go in and miss

1283
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 3: a left handed, shot coach would be, like just use

1284
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 3: your right, hand And i'd be like looking at the, stands,

1285
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 3: like but my, Dad but LIKE i THINK i think.

1286
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: That's like now we talk about looking at the, GAME

1287
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 1: i mean women's and men's just looking at the. Game.

1288
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: Now i've seen different people talk ABOUT i Saw powell

1289
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: wrote an article saying like how some of the things

1290
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: that people randomly do just playing, man we'd have got.

1291
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: Benched we would have got exiled to the, bench screamed

1292
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,280
Speaker 1: and everything. Else been on the film the next, day

1293
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 1: like who do you think you? Are you disrespected the?

1294
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:40,400
Speaker 1: Game all of this different stuff like people like and

1295
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: it's no disrespect To i'm just saying it's a different,

1296
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:46,400
Speaker 1: age like we would have got man, listen and some

1297
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 1: of it's celebrating.

1298
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 3: Too BUT i also think like we probably wouldn't have

1299
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 3: Survived twitter And instagram because Like colin came out like

1300
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 3: two years after And twitter was like just starting WHEN

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01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 3: i was IN i wouldn't have wanted social and all.

1302
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 3: That and so now it's more of like. Entertainment even

1303
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 3: in high school you look at now it's. Entertainment so

1304
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 3: that's like gonna get more. Clicks so coaches can't be, like,

1305
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 3: nah don't show, emotion Because zeke says that all the

1306
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 3: time in the, studio Like jos, celebrated he was, like,

1307
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 3: oh he would have got messed up the next time

1308
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 3: down the. Court you. Know it's just That's zeko never

1309
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 3: gonna not have form And Michael i'll be in there like.

1310
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 1: The best stories ever, Though, man.

1311
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 3: They have the best.

1312
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 1: Stories how do you feel when you see some of

1313
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 1: these young girls now that's like really out, here like,

1314
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 1: Banging LIKE i, say you know you On, instagram were

1315
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 1: all on social media and you see just some of

1316
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 1: the clips and you see the girls at a young.

1317
01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: Age just how the game has, Expanded like not only

1318
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 1: would some of the girls being athletic and, duncan but

1319
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: just how they their games have expanded so. Far what

1320
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 1: do you feel about that where the game is going

1321
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: for females and little girls in.

1322
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 3: GENERAL i love it And i've always been a big

1323
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 3: believer and the fact, that like you have to have

1324
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 3: access and exposure and you got to see it first

1325
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 3: and training eating at an earlier, age understanding that like

1326
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 3: you can be an, athlete and it hasn't always been like.

1327
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 3: That and SO i think now we're seeing the transition

1328
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 3: of growing up and how beneficial it is to grow

1329
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 3: up seeing people like yourself on television and seeing women.

1330
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 3: ATHLETES i, MEAN i think it's just as important for

1331
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:27,959
Speaker 3: my niece to see it as my nephew as, well

1332
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i think it changes the. NARRATIVE i, mean my

1333
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 3: trainer right, NOW i was the first female that he

1334
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 3: had Trained Trevelle. Gaines he trains, everybody like everybody in the,

1335
01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 3: league trains everybody in THE, nfl and he was, like,

1336
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 3: wow like BEFORE i trained, you LIKE i didn't really you,

1337
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 3: KNOW i respect. It Now i'm, like, yeah can we

1338
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 3: can jump to Like so it's just it's about exposure

1339
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 3: And i'm excited about where the game's.

1340
01:05:55,480 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 1: Going so you, know we got three miles of, special like.

1341
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 3: Freaking love it, love thank, you thank you so.

1342
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 1: Much you've got a very very gracious. Part this is

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01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 1: this is very. Special hennessy hes o pe with the.

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01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 1: Special you, know we're out here trying to so.

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01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 3: Much thank.

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