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Speaker 3: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 4: This next guest needs no introduction, but I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: with the introduction anyway, because this list of accolates, it's crazy,
Speaker 4: and so I'd be remissed if I don't run down them.
Speaker 4: So let me get through them real quick. Two time
Speaker 4: w NBA Champion, w NBA Finals MVP, two time w
Speaker 4: NBA MVP, two time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 4: five time w NBA All Star, three time WNBA First Team,
Speaker 4: two time All WNBA Second Team, two time Defensive First Team,
Speaker 4: one time Defensive Second Team twenty twenty two FEEB World
Speaker 4: Cup MVP, NCAA champion twenty seventeen, three time consensus First
Speaker 4: Team All American, three time SEC Player of the Year,
Speaker 4: an Olympic gold medalist in twenty twenty none other I
Speaker 4: myself call her MVP. You should also refer to her
Speaker 4: as MVP. Asiah Wilson Welcome to the Draymond Green show.
Speaker 4: Thank you for coming on, Yes.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. That was you could have
Speaker 1: stopped that pro you went, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Well, I see.
Speaker 4: So there's a few people that come that have come
Speaker 4: on this show and they don't necessarily have NBA championships,
Speaker 4: but they have college championships. And what they quickly find
Speaker 4: out is I am very upset and jealous and envious
Speaker 4: of them about their college championships because I did not
Speaker 4: win one. So you should feel that hate too, because
Speaker 4: I personally myself still wish I had a college championship
Speaker 4: and I really would give one of my NBA championship
Speaker 4: rings for that. So really I would like one shine
Speaker 4: the moment. I can never hear that again. Like every
Speaker 4: time I hear that song, it takes me back to
Speaker 4: Coach z O's Every year he'd have a speech and
Speaker 4: he's like, goysh you really want the one shineing moment?
Speaker 3: Like it's nothing like hearing that song.
Speaker 4: So now every time I hear it, I can only
Speaker 4: think of not winning a championship. That's traumatic, yeah, very
Speaker 4: much so.
Speaker 3: But needless to say for you growing up.
Speaker 4: You grew up in South Carolina and then ended up
Speaker 4: going to UH University of South Carolina.
Speaker 3: I walk me through that decision.
Speaker 4: South Carolina was not the powerhouse that it is now
Speaker 4: when you decided to go there. What led you and
Speaker 4: kind of leading that, leading the torch and being the
Speaker 4: first one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was uh yeah. South Carolina obviously was not
Speaker 5: what they were today. I think they made it to
Speaker 5: a Sweet sixteen before, so they weren't. It was kind
Speaker 5: of familiar, but it wasn't there yet, like it was
Speaker 5: taking it to another level.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy because I remember listening to Coach Daley's Hall.
Speaker 5: Of Fame speech and she was speaking and she may
Speaker 5: had a point where she was like to my players,
Speaker 5: just stay with me, like we're going to get it done.
Speaker 5: And I was just like and at the time, I
Speaker 5: was getting recruit and I was just like, oh, like
Speaker 5: that actually could happen. And I always say like Coach
Speaker 5: Stelee could be anywhere and I would still go to
Speaker 5: play with her.
Speaker 1: She just so happened to be in South Carolina.
Speaker 5: But I mean I just kind of looked at South
Speaker 5: Carolina as a place and Coach Sdaley as a person.
Speaker 5: I was like, that could tell me the good, the bad,
Speaker 5: the ugly, everything that goes on being a black woman
Speaker 5: in the in the Alegia world. So I was like,
Speaker 5: what better person to coach me than someone that's been
Speaker 5: through it? And that was really my really my decision.
Speaker 5: I wanted to go to other schools for the boys,
Speaker 5: so my head wasn't.
Speaker 4: Really in.
Speaker 1: That it needed to be in. I was thinking like
Speaker 1: a sixteen year old instead of like long jevity.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's when South Carolina was just it and
Speaker 5: then we just kind of took the world by a
Speaker 5: storm and it was it was a crazy, crazy four years,
Speaker 5: but I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: Now, that's incredible. And how did that relationship with coach
Speaker 4: Staley stars? Obviously she's at the University of South Carolina,
Speaker 4: but you said you just said yourself, if she wasn't
Speaker 4: there wherever she was, I would have gone there.
Speaker 3: So just how did that really?
Speaker 4: How did you end up getting so close with Coach
Speaker 4: Staley in the first place? Uh?
Speaker 5: Coach Stiley was like, you know in the AAU circuits,
Speaker 5: we didn't have the big like Eybo teams. We were
Speaker 5: just like kind of the team that was just making
Speaker 5: it like we had fresh fries, like fish fries, car washes.
Speaker 5: We were just trying to get money, and we weren't
Speaker 5: the best team, Like we didn't have all the great talent,
Speaker 5: so it was very scarce when coaches would come around.
Speaker 5: But in the early parts of my recruitment, coach Staley
Speaker 5: was just always in the gym just watching me. It's
Speaker 5: like she knew that I had potential and was just
Speaker 5: waiting for me to figure it out. And like that
Speaker 5: loyalty there was something that I really could like I
Speaker 5: could never shakee cause I'm like, this woman has been.
Speaker 1: With me from rock bottom. Like in jym he's the
Speaker 1: only coach.
Speaker 5: At a D one level there, And so that just
Speaker 5: kind of grew and I had an opportunity to be
Speaker 5: coached by her before anything got to South Carolina for
Speaker 5: the Judea Olympics, and like she was just honest, your
Speaker 5: honesty and her loyalty was really that stuck, like just
Speaker 5: stuck with me. And it didn't shift when we got
Speaker 5: to college. Like you know, they gonna say anything when
Speaker 5: they're recruiting you. They got the best facility, but like
Speaker 5: when we got on campus, I was like, no, she's
Speaker 5: she didn't promise me I was gonna start. She didn't
Speaker 5: promise me that I was going to be this big
Speaker 5: big thing. She was just like, come here, work and
Speaker 5: we can get some stuff done. So that right there,
Speaker 5: I was like, all right, I'm down, dere And so
Speaker 5: until this day, like she still is like the homie
Speaker 5: for sure.
Speaker 3: That's incredible.
Speaker 4: I think in hearing that, I think coach Staley took
Speaker 4: a book out of Coach K's playbook, and which is
Speaker 4: coaching the junior Olympic team, and in turn she ends
Speaker 4: up coaching arguably the greatest woman to ever play college basketball.
Speaker 4: And I watched Coach K do that for years where
Speaker 4: he was coaching the national team, but he had all
Speaker 4: of his guys coaching the younger teams. Cable's coaching the
Speaker 4: younger team, all these guys and just pulling in and
Speaker 4: recruise to Duke.
Speaker 3: So I thought that was an interesting one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, growing up in South Carolina, and I'd be remiss
Speaker 4: about and ask you this because I wonder I'm very
Speaker 4: good friends one of my best Jermaine O'Neill, who's obviously
Speaker 4: from the state of South Carolina, and man, y'all had
Speaker 4: a Confederate flag up like six years ago. Still, and
Speaker 4: how was that for you as a young black girl
Speaker 4: growing up in that state being a prodigy in a
Speaker 4: superstar basketball player, but right up the street and it's
Speaker 4: a Confederate flag wave and how was that?
Speaker 1: It was a very different feeling.
Speaker 5: It was something that I probably didn't really notice until
Speaker 5: I got older, where I was like, this is they
Speaker 5: don't like us like And it also was a where
Speaker 5: I was like, you only kind of pay me attention
Speaker 5: because I'm wearing South Carolina on my chest because I'm
Speaker 5: dribbling basketball.
Speaker 1: But once I take that uniform, all who am I
Speaker 1: to you? And that right there was.
Speaker 5: Really hard figuring out growing up. But of course my
Speaker 5: parents were like be you and do that. But it
Speaker 5: was very different, and especially just growing up. I went
Speaker 5: to private school, so it was like maybe ten percent black,
Speaker 5: I want to say that, and then maybe like three
Speaker 5: percent of like black women.
Speaker 1: So all I knew was white. All my friends was
Speaker 1: white and everything.
Speaker 5: Like my only thing that I got black or culture
Speaker 5: wise was au And even then they were like, oh,
Speaker 5: you just the oreo. You just want to be a
Speaker 5: white girl. You want to do and like it was
Speaker 5: hard for me to like figure out who I was
Speaker 5: because I'm like, I'm surrounded by white people when I
Speaker 5: go to school so of course I'm going to talk
Speaker 5: a certain way or try to be a certain way
Speaker 5: because that's all I see. But then when I move
Speaker 5: around my AAU teammates and I'm like, that's me, I
Speaker 5: see myself, I can be myself, it seems like I'm
Speaker 5: I don't know who I am. So it's very very
Speaker 5: hard just growing up in that and we all kind
Speaker 5: of have a story where it's like it just didn't
Speaker 5: feel right, like my gut didn't feel right. But as
Speaker 5: I got older and as I went to the University
Speaker 5: of South Carolina, I found.
Speaker 1: Me and I was like, listen, you don't have to
Speaker 1: like me, love me. I don't care.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be me through it all. And that's
Speaker 5: kind of what I've just been sticking by. But it's
Speaker 5: definitely been difficult to kind of especially see the flag
Speaker 5: waving over our statehouse.
Speaker 1: It was just very weird.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: So and saying that February sixth, they're black girls, how
Speaker 4: to be true to you? Well, should we expect to
Speaker 4: hear some of that journey about growing up in South
Speaker 4: Carolina and your upcoming book.
Speaker 5: I think it's probably within the first two chapters I
Speaker 5: kind of hit you in the face with it because I'm.
Speaker 1: Like to be like, this needs to be said.
Speaker 5: Like things shouldn't get swept under the rug, especially in
Speaker 5: the society that we're in. Like the black woman already
Speaker 5: gets that, so why not bring it to light and
Speaker 5: why not showcase and let people know that, yes, we
Speaker 5: all go through it, but this is how we can
Speaker 5: get through it.
Speaker 1: And I had tons of fun.
Speaker 5: Writing this book because I felt like it was very
Speaker 5: relatable a lot of people, particularly the black woman. We
Speaker 5: go through a lot of the same things, and I
Speaker 5: think people kind of see me as someone that goes
Speaker 5: through something different because I'm a professional athlete. But it's like,
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, and once I take
Speaker 5: that uniform off, i am still a black woman trying
Speaker 5: to survive in this world.
Speaker 1: And I know it.
Speaker 5: Says dear black girls, but it's really for everyone. It's
Speaker 5: a gym for everybody. And I had tons of fun
Speaker 5: writing it. It's so real to me, so hopefully people
Speaker 5: can understand that when they're reading.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: I'm excited to check it out future future New York
Speaker 4: Times bestseller on the list of all these other accolades
Speaker 4: we just shouted out, so I'm definitely looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: I'm also starting the process of actually writing my own book,
Speaker 4: and so that's that's a challenge in and so so
Speaker 4: much respect to you on having that already done, because
Speaker 4: it is not easy, very time consuming.
Speaker 3: Amongst and already busy schedules.
Speaker 4: So I get it, and congratulations and also good luck
Speaker 4: on the release.
Speaker 3: I think it'll be great.
Speaker 1: You thank you.
Speaker 4: Have you now statue outside of the arena, which all
Speaker 4: of us only hope to get.
Speaker 3: So number one, congratulations on that again.
Speaker 4: But with that and now you know, being a legend
Speaker 4: that you are, do you feel like some of that
Speaker 4: has now changed in the state due to your success,
Speaker 4: Coach Daley success, Lisha Gray's success, all the success that
Speaker 4: y'all have had coming out of South Carolina. Do you
Speaker 4: think that's changed some of that now? And when you
Speaker 4: return home and how you're greeted and the things that
Speaker 4: people say. Obviously you're going to be greeted differently than
Speaker 4: the young black girls death there now, but do you
Speaker 4: think it's changed.
Speaker 5: Some part of me wants to say yes, I do
Speaker 5: want to believe that, But at the same time, you
Speaker 5: never really know people's true intentions, and you know, you
Speaker 5: always feel like that there's this underlying like night not microaggression,
Speaker 5: but it's kind of like micro managing a little bit,
Speaker 5: like okay, like you just liking me a little bit
Speaker 5: because I'm doing this for you or you're getting something
Speaker 5: out of me. But I think the way that Coach
Speaker 5: Staley has changed the culture of basketball women's basketball in
Speaker 5: South Carolina it has been incredible to watch. I mean
Speaker 5: we have gone from literally a place where you could
Speaker 5: talk to your friend in the next section across the arena.
Speaker 5: That's how we know how empty it was to now
Speaker 5: it's like Lower Bowl is all season ticket holders. So
Speaker 5: I think the growth of that and letting them see us,
Speaker 5: in getting a hold of us and seeing that we're
Speaker 5: tangible role models definitely has changed the approach that they have,
Speaker 5: probably two black women particularly, And I think we've got
Speaker 5: to give high praises to coach Ali and that because
Speaker 5: she made it comfortable enough for people to and make
Speaker 5: it a safe space to where they can see us
Speaker 5: and see that we're bigger than just basketball players.
Speaker 4: And Coach Staley has done a great job with the program. Obviously,
Speaker 4: you being a player to really spearhead and take that
Speaker 4: thing off. Is it ultimately a goal to yours to
Speaker 4: one day replace her when she's done there, you're done
Speaker 4: with your career, to go back there possibly be the
Speaker 4: culture universe of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: No, Drey, I cannot coach.
Speaker 5: I would never see myself coaching because I could never
Speaker 5: coach a mee like I.
Speaker 1: Gave coach daily hell, like.
Speaker 3: I think in.
Speaker 5: Asia Wilson for four years, I would have a lot
Speaker 5: more gray hairs than what she has. So yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I'm not even gonna put that stress on me. No,
Speaker 5: absolutely I don't. I barely like to talk in timeouts,
Speaker 5: let alone happen to coach through one.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I'm good. She got it, She got it.
Speaker 4: What can we expect from you when you're done playing?
Speaker 4: I think this is always and obviously you're so young
Speaker 4: in your career, you got long ways to go. But
Speaker 4: I always think this is an interesting topic on hearing
Speaker 4: what people kind of have in store for themselves after
Speaker 4: we're playing. So many people get caught up into like
Speaker 4: the the now, which but the reality is is basketball
Speaker 4: is a very short window in our lives, and you
Speaker 4: got another forty years fifty years after that to live.
Speaker 4: What should we expect when it's all said and done,
Speaker 4: of what we'll see from Asia once basketball is over.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. I really want to get into the
Speaker 1: youth community. I really want to.
Speaker 5: Like when I see all these big AAU circuits and
Speaker 5: different things that these young girls are going to to
Speaker 5: help develop them to go to the next level, I
Speaker 5: want to dive into that area because I feel like
Speaker 5: that is that's the seed, that's the seed that we plant.
Speaker 1: Like it's kind of late when you get into college.
Speaker 5: I mean, you can kind of do it, but if
Speaker 5: you're not in a good system and have a good coach,
Speaker 5: it's kind of hard. But it's like, if we can
Speaker 5: get middle school girls to stay in sports, to grow
Speaker 5: with the game, to love the game and see it
Speaker 5: from a person that's been at that level. Because I
Speaker 5: was trash when I started, Like I was horrible, barely
Speaker 5: even got playing time. And I think if they see
Speaker 5: that for me and hear that from me and see
Speaker 5: works and having accessibility to different things, that's kind of
Speaker 5: my heart and that's my goal is just to help
Speaker 5: the next youth, particularly the young black girls, stand sports
Speaker 5: and know that they can be themselves and have fun
Speaker 5: while doing it.
Speaker 4: Dear Black girls. I am committing to one hundred books.
Speaker 4: I'm going to buy one hundred books when this book
Speaker 4: released on the sixth and Asia and Clutch his team
Speaker 4: is going to figure out what black girls this.
Speaker 3: Book should go to.
Speaker 4: Now I think it should go to all young girls,
Speaker 4: but I am making a commitment to make sure we
Speaker 4: get this book in the hands of some black, young
Speaker 4: black girls. I know how hard it can be to
Speaker 4: get books, especially coming from places like we come from.
Speaker 3: So that is my commitment to the book.
Speaker 4: I'm doing that, and We're going to figure out a
Speaker 4: way to get this book in the hands.
Speaker 3: Of some young black girls.
Speaker 4: And speaking of basketball, though, let's get into that. Obviously,
Speaker 4: I am a huge fan of your career. My MVP,
Speaker 4: I thought she got a little slighted last year, went
Speaker 4: and backed that up with a championship. For those of
Speaker 4: y'all that don't think I'm the MVP, then let's just
Speaker 4: talk about it and getting into that.
Speaker 3: Though you don't win.
Speaker 4: MVP last year, which I thought you probably should have
Speaker 4: won MVP last year, how did that?
Speaker 3: How did that feel? Number? One?
Speaker 4: And then spark you going into the playoffs to make
Speaker 4: the run and have the playoff stretch that you did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that hurt that. That hurt me to the core. Actually,
Speaker 5: I don't think I've ever felt that low in my
Speaker 5: career honestly, because it's just I really felt like, I
Speaker 5: guess my thing was okay if I didn't get it,
Speaker 5: but that fourth place, like being third and fourth, it's really.
Speaker 1: Crazy like that really like that is what did it?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Not getting it?
Speaker 5: I was like, man, I gotta charge it to the game,
Speaker 5: you know, I get a voter, voter's fatigue, whatever you
Speaker 5: want to say. Cool, but being third and fourth was
Speaker 5: like absolutely not Like it struck my core. I was like, no,
Speaker 5: they are playing with me at this point, and I
Speaker 5: mean it just kind of it honestly did see me.
Speaker 5: And I think it feeled like my team as well,
Speaker 5: like we were just like, now, wait a minute, like
Speaker 5: we've been disrespected probably throughout this whole season. They already
Speaker 5: said super team. They caught us a super team, and
Speaker 5: we're like, we're literally playing on one leg, but okay,
Speaker 5: And I think it just kind of felled us in
Speaker 5: a way that was like how are we the number
Speaker 5: one seed and still the underdogs?
Speaker 1: Like y'all really just don't believe in us, ever, and.
Speaker 5: That's okay because now we have to continue to prove
Speaker 5: to y'all while we're the number one team. And like
Speaker 5: I was excited, like I was so ready to get
Speaker 5: back on court because I was like, all right, it's
Speaker 5: time to play.
Speaker 1: That, Like that's out the way y'all voted. Now let's
Speaker 1: play the game.
Speaker 5: Let me prove to y'all why I felt like I
Speaker 5: deserve something better than third and fourth.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that kind of kind of shook me a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 4: And speaking of super teams, obviously, I've been a part
Speaker 4: for which I mean, I still question whether I was
Speaker 4: a part of a super team be that our team
Speaker 4: was so homegrown, Like yes, KD did come on a team,
Speaker 4: but it was a homegrown team. And I feel like
Speaker 4: y'all were the same way, Like, yeah, Kelsey may not
Speaker 4: have been drafted there, or Chelsea may not have been
Speaker 4: drafted there, but y'all were great when y'all got those
Speaker 4: players right, and getting those players, y'all then built that
Speaker 4: to be great. Had had Bill Lambert as a coach,
Speaker 4: then moves on to y'all hire y'all, y'all then gone
Speaker 4: to hire. In my opinion, no questions asked, is the
Speaker 4: best coach in the WNBA by far?
Speaker 3: Back in him?
Speaker 4: But this was all This wasn't like, oh we plucked
Speaker 4: this player and now we go to championships. Is that
Speaker 4: your feeling, because I know that's how I feel about ours?
Speaker 4: Is that your feeling on y'all?
Speaker 5: Yes, Like Kelsey obviously number one draft pick, she played
Speaker 5: in San Antonio, but then the next year Vegas.
Speaker 1: Then it was me, then it was Jackie and.
Speaker 5: Like we were grind like I remember my rookie year
Speaker 5: we didn't make it to playoffs, Like we were trying
Speaker 5: to grind out wins and form a fan base to
Speaker 5: be like come watch us, and like we we It's
Speaker 5: funny because we were just talking about we were like
Speaker 5: there were times that we would have a meeting and
Speaker 5: be like what are we doing? Like where do we
Speaker 5: want to go with this? How do we win? Like
Speaker 5: we were questioning how to win, and it just took
Speaker 5: us all being like, all right, we're gonna get in
Speaker 5: the gym and we're gonna work our hardest, like no
Speaker 5: one's going to outwork us. And so that's why I
Speaker 5: kind of felt some type of way when they kept
Speaker 5: calling us a super team because I'm like, we didn't
Speaker 5: just go pick everybody and was like make it work,
Speaker 5: like this was something that we were building and obviously
Speaker 5: we just got great additions that wanted to come. And
Speaker 5: it's funny how it all at the end, it really
Speaker 5: came down to meet Kelsey and Jackie like it's like
Speaker 5: it and that was supposed to prove to everybody like
Speaker 5: this was it.
Speaker 1: The whole time. This was it And that's the part
Speaker 1: that I was so happy for.
Speaker 5: And that was like probably why the second championship was
Speaker 5: just that much greater than the first one, because I'm
Speaker 5: like a lot of y'all one wanted us to lose,
Speaker 5: but two couldnt believe that we really did it with
Speaker 5: our core that we've been having since day one, and
Speaker 5: like that right there, I.
Speaker 1: Definitely feel the same way because I'm like, we literally
Speaker 1: have been doing the same thing.
Speaker 5: We've been doing every year, like same thing, and we
Speaker 5: just so happened to be really good because we just
Speaker 5: put the work in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if that's the super team, then okay.
Speaker 5: But no, they're acting like we just were like going
Speaker 5: to different gyms to be like yeah we want her,
Speaker 5: we want her.
Speaker 1: We're okay, no.
Speaker 4: No, I definitely. I definitely thought it was a lot
Speaker 4: sweeter as you. As you may or may not know,
Speaker 4: I'm a huge Canvass Parker fan has been since watching
Speaker 4: her in the Dunk Contest in high school and then
Speaker 4: to Tennessee on through WNBA with the Sparks, then the
Speaker 4: Sky and now her being.
Speaker 3: With the Asist.
Speaker 4: But I thought it was a lot to say for
Speaker 4: number one, uh cep getting hurt early in the year
Speaker 4: and missing missing a lot of the year, but then
Speaker 4: at the very end see Gregan hurt and like you said,
Speaker 4: a boiling down to just y'all having to close it
Speaker 4: out with well kind of what you started with.
Speaker 3: Yep, and it shut all and they sayers up. You
Speaker 3: know how I viewed that.
Speaker 4: I viewed that and now you know CP is my teammate,
Speaker 4: Chris Paul. But years ago, I think it was two
Speaker 4: thousand and eighteen, if I'm not mistaken, KD got hurt.
Speaker 4: I mean we were playing the Houston Rockets and CP
Speaker 4: gets hurt. And when CP got hurt, they're like, ah,
Speaker 4: CP didn't get hurt. Y'all was done, and then KD
Speaker 4: got hurt and we're like, all right, now we're faced
Speaker 4: with the same thing, we're out of deficit. Kd's out
Speaker 4: and now it's just us three and we came back
Speaker 4: and won.
Speaker 3: And so to me, that was one of the sweetest series.
Speaker 4: To win because everything y'all said about us. You cried
Speaker 4: to KD in the car, y'all you couldn't do this,
Speaker 4: y'all couldn't do that. Y'all had to and it boiled
Speaker 4: back down to us having to get it done, and
Speaker 4: it made it.
Speaker 3: All the more sweeter for me. Yes, so I definitely
Speaker 3: get that.
Speaker 4: But for you having a player like Candae spark around
Speaker 4: who's done it at the level that she's done it
Speaker 4: that for so many years, what benefit was that to you?
Speaker 4: And just being able to then team up with her
Speaker 4: and kind of pluck at some of that knowledge that
Speaker 4: she has.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was incredible.
Speaker 5: Like I've never was so excited just to have a
Speaker 5: person like Candice in our locker room just to pick
Speaker 5: her brain. I mean, it's just amazing just to compete
Speaker 5: against her in practice when we could, and then just
Speaker 5: to have her constantly just being in my ear. And
Speaker 5: I remember, like before we went into the New York series,
Speaker 5: we sat down and I was just like, how do
Speaker 5: we do this, like, how do I do this as.
Speaker 1: A person that the light is beaming on? How do
Speaker 1: I do this?
Speaker 5: And she was like, be you like and it's so simple,
Speaker 5: and it's like I knew exactly what she meant. I
Speaker 5: was like, I can't do anything different, can't force anything.
Speaker 5: I just have to go out there and be me
Speaker 5: and my team will fall. But just having her encouraging
Speaker 5: words on the sidelines, just still just practicing with her.
Speaker 1: And I hate like when she got hurt. We were
Speaker 1: just right in the groove too. We were like, dang.
Speaker 5: But it was just tons of fun just to like
Speaker 5: just to play along somebody that's She's my got Hall
Speaker 5: of Famer hands down, So just to share locker room
Speaker 5: with her and just her mind.
Speaker 1: Man, it was.
Speaker 5: It was a lot of fun just to have her around.
Speaker 5: And I'm super excited just to see kind of what
Speaker 5: her future. Hod Kandas is a hooper. She's a hooper
Speaker 5: and a trooper through and through, and I'm so glad
Speaker 5: that I could be able to just be a part
Speaker 5: of her journey because we.
Speaker 1: Had a lot of fun. We brought out the youth
Speaker 1: a little bit out of her. It was. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: That's super dope. We had Canvas on the show and
Speaker 4: she actually spoke about coming to the Asis and that
Speaker 4: being the first time that she'd have her own locker,
Speaker 4: which our practice facility said she never had a practice facility,
Speaker 4: and then she got her own locker. What has your
Speaker 4: experience been like as far as that obviously being on
Speaker 4: the team that had a practice facility and all of
Speaker 4: those things, but what has your experience been like in
Speaker 4: WNBA as far as locker rooms and practice courts and
Speaker 4: traveling all of these different things.
Speaker 3: What has your experience been?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: I was kind of blessed because when I entered in
Speaker 5: the league, we were shifting everything. So Vegas was new,
Speaker 5: so we had new management, new French. It was like
Speaker 5: new everything. So we were able to kind of write
Speaker 5: our own story. So I really didn't go through the
Speaker 5: slums of the w Minus to travel, I think that
Speaker 5: was my biggest hit, because I mean, in college, I
Speaker 5: traveled privately. We got on a plane, left for the
Speaker 5: class next day. It was regular, but I think like
Speaker 5: flying commercial was to really hit, like, oh no, we
Speaker 5: in the slums, low key, like I'm sitting next to
Speaker 5: a man I don't know whay he care and he
Speaker 5: could be having anything and I haven't today, and he's
Speaker 5: like just coming from five kids, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: like you got so that was I was like, oh god,
Speaker 5: that was my kind of like this is the w okay.
Speaker 1: But no, when it came to locker rooms, I was
Speaker 1: kind of blessed enough to have a locker room.
Speaker 5: We've always provided a and everything we actually helped transform,
Speaker 5: like unlb's whole training room so it could be to
Speaker 5: us with cool tubs and everything like that. So I
Speaker 5: wasn't really into slums and I hate to see that
Speaker 5: others like that we're in the slums. But I'm also
Speaker 5: grateful to be on the side where we have an
Speaker 5: awesome practice facility that we are literally being treated the
Speaker 5: way we should. But yeah, I travel was just kind
Speaker 5: of like my little hit. But other than that, that
Speaker 5: was pretty good. I was blessed.
Speaker 3: That's great to hear.
Speaker 4: And then speaking of you know, to travel and your experiences,
Speaker 4: you all just had the highest rated finals, the most
Speaker 4: watched finals in.
Speaker 3: Twenty years in a WNBA. What would you attribute the growth.
Speaker 4: Of a w to, you know, and getting those type
Speaker 4: of ratings and own practice facilities and all these things.
Speaker 3: Moving forward, What would you attribute that growth to.
Speaker 5: I mean, I honestly think it kind of just kind
Speaker 5: of picked up in the collegiate side of it.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people started paying eyes on
Speaker 1: that and when.
Speaker 5: Everything went down between Angel and Caitlin, and I think
Speaker 5: it kind of then allowed people to kind of open
Speaker 5: up this mindset of oh, let's kind of watch it
Speaker 5: at this level. And I think they're also starting to
Speaker 5: see us more. And I always say, if you can
Speaker 5: see her, you can be here. But I think obviously
Speaker 5: representation matters, but being seen is it like they see
Speaker 5: us a lot more, whether that's in commercials, whether that
Speaker 5: is just on social like they can see us and
Speaker 5: relate to us, which means like they want to tune
Speaker 5: in and watch us. And I always say, like, once
Speaker 5: you tune in and watch us and give it a chance,
Speaker 5: you might actually like it.
Speaker 1: Because we played decent basketball, were well the ass were
Speaker 1: gonna play some good basketball.
Speaker 5: I feel I can buy us there and say now
Speaker 5: we're gonna put on a show for you for sure.
Speaker 5: And I think people are now starting to give it
Speaker 5: a chance and know that it's not just a charity case,
Speaker 5: but we're really good at what we do and whether
Speaker 5: that is and I think part of it also is
Speaker 5: we formed a rivalry. I think when you look in sports,
Speaker 5: everyone loves a rivalry. Everyone loves like the fact that
Speaker 5: I don't like them, they don't like us, so let's compete.
Speaker 5: Check the ball up play, And I think we kind
Speaker 5: of that was the positive side of the super Teams
Speaker 5: is because it's like people were like, okay, bet let's
Speaker 5: tune in to see who's the real team.
Speaker 1: So I think that really really helped us. Was like
Speaker 1: no aces in Liberty.
Speaker 5: As soon as we made the teams, people were like,
Speaker 5: that's the finals matchup. So when it came on to that,
Speaker 5: they were like, no, I have to watch it. So
Speaker 5: I think it just kind of were starting to open
Speaker 5: up into spaces of like the rivalry and like pitting.
Speaker 1: Put people against each other because people love that, Like
Speaker 1: that's what sells is like I hate them, they hate us,
Speaker 1: let's go.
Speaker 5: So I think that really kind of helped us getting
Speaker 5: those views and people buying our jerseys and pouring into
Speaker 5: our teams. Is because it's like we want to be
Speaker 5: the best, and also us being dependent champions, of course
Speaker 5: you want to see what's going on with US, So
Speaker 5: I think that was kind of the big cause of it.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, no, I think I think that's incredible. And by
Speaker 4: the way, you just said something that I said years ago,
Speaker 4: and all y'all got mad at me. And I'm happy
Speaker 4: to hear you say that, because maybe I wasn't as
Speaker 4: far off my rocker as everyone tried to make like
Speaker 4: O US, which is people knowing your stories and like
Speaker 4: knowing who you are, Like people actually getting to know
Speaker 4: the story of Asia Wilson, get in to know the
Speaker 4: story of Chelsea Grey, get in to know the story
Speaker 4: of Kelsey Plump. I think that's what grows the game.
Speaker 4: I remember years ago, I was in Miami when I
Speaker 4: did the interview. I'll never forget it. It was about
Speaker 4: Women's Empowerment Month and I'm just like, no, like these
Speaker 4: girls are like these women, they're not supported the way
Speaker 4: everybody act like they support them, and I don't think
Speaker 4: they're asking the right thing to then move this thing forward,
Speaker 4: and I cast so much flak for it.
Speaker 3: Nonetheless, I am happy to hear you say that.
Speaker 4: The viewership and people getting to know our stories and
Speaker 4: know this person and know that person is what's changing things.
Speaker 3: Because it was just a little suggestion. So it's great
Speaker 3: to hear that. Great to hear that. But in speaking of.
Speaker 4: Well, before we move on to that, a lot of
Speaker 4: players in the W have to go overseas during the
Speaker 4: w's offseason because you all make way more money overseas
Speaker 4: than you making the W. All is not like myself included,
Speaker 4: all of us are not fortunate enough to have a
Speaker 4: big endorsement deals like Asian Wilson. But you know, y'all
Speaker 4: are just it's just a totally different ball game when
Speaker 4: y'all go overseas and the money that you make. When
Speaker 4: do you think the W will reach a point to
Speaker 4: where players no longer and I think we're starting to
Speaker 4: see more of it now, we're starting to see not
Speaker 4: as many women in the W going overseas and finding
Speaker 4: different avenues to make make a living. But when do
Speaker 4: you think the W will reach a point to where
Speaker 4: the W is enough? And that's the job, And it's
Speaker 4: a two part question. Also, do you think I think
Speaker 4: the W season will ultimately need to be longer in
Speaker 4: order to actually reach that point?
Speaker 5: Oh? Okay, So to answer your first question, I have
Speaker 5: no idea what the W can do to help players
Speaker 5: not go overseas because it would just have to be
Speaker 5: a lot within the league that would have to change
Speaker 5: salary wise, and with our salary cap, that's really really
Speaker 5: hard to do.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 5: Exactly how like economically why like how that could work,
Speaker 5: but hopefully soon. But we are seeing a change, like
Speaker 5: we're seeing a lot more WS players staying because of anything,
Speaker 5: like we have new league with AU like it's a
Speaker 5: lot of different things that women can still stay here
Speaker 5: and play.
Speaker 1: But I am also very lucky and blessed to be
Speaker 1: you know, clutch client, and they keep me working and
Speaker 1: that's why I love the most of the girl got
Speaker 1: to get paid.
Speaker 5: But no, I think those are also it's like who's
Speaker 5: in your circle, who's working for you? Like what are
Speaker 5: they doing to put yourself out there? And they do
Speaker 5: a great job of doing that. And I think on
Speaker 5: the other side of it, yes, I would love a
Speaker 5: longer season because I love the game, but also I
Speaker 5: feel like it puts us in a way where it's
Speaker 5: starting to flow, like you're starting to mess together because
Speaker 5: then it's kind of like, Okay, as soon as our
Speaker 5: season ending, we're starting to go into and you guys,
Speaker 5: a season start, so like lights are shining on different
Speaker 5: sides of the league.
Speaker 1: But like that's kind of like what it's all about, right,
Speaker 1: like all eyes on a lot of different things.
Speaker 5: And I think with that, yes, but also obviously you
Speaker 5: got to fight TV time and viewership and different things
Speaker 5: like that. But for a longer season, I'm all for it.
Speaker 5: I know we're starting to try to add teams, which
Speaker 5: is going to be super hard, but they're trying, so
Speaker 5: that's a kind of step. But yeah, I think we
Speaker 5: would definitely need a longer season to really have people
Speaker 5: give a chance of like watching us, because then it's
Speaker 5: kind of like not riding on the NBA's coketail.
Speaker 1: But in a sense, it's kind of like.
Speaker 5: No basketball is still going on, Like basketball doesn't end
Speaker 5: when you guys are season, and it's like, yes, you
Speaker 5: have the whole summer to watch us. So just kind
Speaker 5: of implementing that and letting people kind of have eyes
Speaker 5: on us is big.
Speaker 4: There's been a question that many people has asked or
Speaker 4: brought up, and it's always been met with resistance from
Speaker 4: you all. And I personally myself can understand the resistance.
Speaker 4: But you know, people will always say, well, why don't
Speaker 4: they lower the rims to nine and a half feet.
Speaker 4: That would make the game more exciting, and quite honestly,
Speaker 4: I think that's a totally different way of playing.
Speaker 3: Like half a foot is a huge difference, huge.
Speaker 4: Difference, Like it changes your whole shot, like you practice
Speaker 4: shooting the ball a certain way, your whole life, like
Speaker 4: it changes everything. But yet the first thing people will
Speaker 4: throw out there, Yeah, but there'll be more dunks and
Speaker 4: that's more exciting, and so like, how do you kind
Speaker 4: of come back that thing?
Speaker 3: Like I do understand where y'all are coming from.
Speaker 4: Yet I'm a big fan of the w I watched
Speaker 4: the games, and I also think I watched the games
Speaker 4: more so like the fundamentals that y'all like you can't
Speaker 4: find that shit an NBA, Like God's in the NBA
Speaker 4: just don't have fundamentals, And like you watch y'all playing
Speaker 4: the fundamentals.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: But for those that can only watch the game for excitement,
Speaker 4: because most people don't understand the game, like how do
Speaker 4: you kind of combat that?
Speaker 5: I think my biggest thing is and I always try
Speaker 5: to tell people it's like you just honestly have to
Speaker 5: give it a chance and give it an open mind.
Speaker 5: I think that's kind of the only thing because like
Speaker 5: when you said lowering the rams, I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 5: changing twenty years of me learning basketball just so I
Speaker 5: can dunk maybe twice in a game. If we're being
Speaker 5: really like, I can't give that, Like I'm not We're
Speaker 5: not the Harlem Globetrotters.
Speaker 1: We're not the guys that jumps on the trampolines.
Speaker 5: Like I've worked too hard and put a lot of
Speaker 5: time into my game for me to change it just
Speaker 5: because I want to sell a ticket if we're already
Speaker 5: selling out tickets right now.
Speaker 1: So I feel like the biggest thing.
Speaker 5: And when I ask people, like when people ask me,
Speaker 5: I'm like, you really have to just go go to
Speaker 5: a game.
Speaker 1: I get washing it on TV and that's great, but
Speaker 1: going to a game.
Speaker 5: Particularly in an acest game, gives you a whole different
Speaker 5: outlook on just the game itself, because then it turns
Speaker 5: into entertainment because then you're like you get to feel
Speaker 5: the feeling of the game, and then you get to
Speaker 5: enjoy it because they're like, Okay, no, they're actually doing
Speaker 5: stuff really really well, like they're looking pretty decent. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't I can't I don't. I can't do the
Speaker 5: loring of the rims. It gives me a headache when
Speaker 5: people ask me that because I'm like, no, like why
Speaker 5: it changed my whole depth perception, Like, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 5: But I think just the just the game itself. Obviously
Speaker 5: I'm talking we're hoopers here, so I'm like, the game
Speaker 5: is excited. I promise, like, just give it a chance.
Speaker 5: But I think, honestly, that's what you have to do,
Speaker 5: is just give it a chance. And I would also
Speaker 5: say fall in love with a player, like we tell
Speaker 5: our stories, you know that were deeper than basketball players,
Speaker 5: Like find a player, ask somebody who's really dopening WNBA
Speaker 5: and kind of dig into them, see what they got,
Speaker 5: see what they like, and then form that relationship with them.
Speaker 1: So then it kind of translates over to.
Speaker 4: The court for a for a period of time, I
Speaker 4: think the NBA and this specific NBA player support was
Speaker 4: like on blasts on Front Street for the w I
Speaker 4: personally don't think I see as much of that anymore,
Speaker 4: Like as far as being out in front of it,
Speaker 4: you may feel differently, do you, But my question is
Speaker 4: do you all still feel the same support from the
Speaker 4: NBA players and League as much as you once did.
Speaker 5: And every time I every time I think about this,
Speaker 5: I think about the orange hity, I'm like, oh, thank
Speaker 5: you guys so much for wearing the orange hoity. But
Speaker 5: it's kind of like, okay, like you get it's like cool, thanks,
Speaker 5: like I'm glad you wore it, But what are we doing?
Speaker 5: Like I and my biggest thing, and I can actually
Speaker 5: appreciate it is kind of like and it is. I
Speaker 5: kind of feel like it's not dwindling. But it's new
Speaker 5: people in the league. They probably haven't got a chance
Speaker 5: to watch like a lot of you guys watch us,
Speaker 5: because y'all watched US at different levels.
Speaker 1: Like college levels. People's kind of following along.
Speaker 5: And I think this way the generation may not have
Speaker 5: that because it's just whether it's nil or it's just
Speaker 5: like social media and you see them in a different light.
Speaker 5: They haven't learned that yet.
Speaker 1: But I also applauded because I'm like, keep that fake
Speaker 1: shit over there.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, like kind of like I
Speaker 5: don't need you to fake like you watch US, I
Speaker 5: don't need you to fake that you like us. I'd
Speaker 5: rather you keep it real and keep it pushing over
Speaker 5: there and just let us do our thing. So I
Speaker 5: can appreciate just the honesty because a lot of people,
Speaker 5: I mean, we see it on social you guys, they're
Speaker 5: gonna be like, Oh, they paid you guys to say it,
Speaker 5: and oh, y'all don't know anything, And it's like, I
Speaker 5: would much rather be genuinely speaking about us and pushing
Speaker 5: us the way that you want to, versus it feeling
Speaker 5: scripted and not genuine. So it may be I don't
Speaker 5: necessarily know. It's like I don't know how to say it, Like,
Speaker 5: I don't think it's a decrease in the support, but
Speaker 5: I think it's just an honest, honest viewer of the support.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like, yeah, they're good, and.
Speaker 1: I've probably been to a couple of games, but I'm
Speaker 1: like cool. But I feel like, at the same time,
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 5: Have a lot of players that are invested in us,
Speaker 5: that are helping to push the needle and having the
Speaker 5: seat at the table, and you guys are speaking out
Speaker 5: about it, and then those are the ones that obviously
Speaker 5: we appreciate and kind of gravitate to.
Speaker 1: The most because it's real.
Speaker 5: But I kind of dig the whole, like, hey, I
Speaker 5: ain't really watch them, So I ain't really going to
Speaker 5: wear an orange fitty and I can appreciate that.
Speaker 4: No, I think it's definitely a number one personal relationships,
Speaker 4: which you see a lot, especially like guys who's been
Speaker 4: on the national team USA men's national team and women's
Speaker 4: national team, Like, you see a lot of that connection.
Speaker 3: We spend a bunch of time.
Speaker 4: Together, we travel together, we're at y'all games when y'all
Speaker 4: are playing.
Speaker 3: Y'all are at our games when we're.
Speaker 4: Playing, and so I think you see some of that
Speaker 4: natural connection as well.
Speaker 3: And the reality is most people that are at that level.
Speaker 4: When I say people, I mean players, women and men,
Speaker 4: you understand the game.
Speaker 3: A lot of these young people don't understand the game of.
Speaker 4: Basketball, so and and and and so, and speaking about
Speaker 4: like Laura and the Rima dunks, a lot of these
Speaker 4: young guys, uh in particular, are actually all into those
Speaker 4: things because they don't know the game. And so I
Speaker 4: can kind of see a correlation there as well, you know,
Speaker 4: which I think, which I think is interesting. A few
Speaker 4: more questions before we get out of here, I know
Speaker 4: you have to go and and just really speaking of
Speaker 4: the women's game, uh, the goats, the rivalries. Uh, you
Speaker 4: yourself and getting into number one. You yourself kind of
Speaker 4: have this rivalry with Breonna Stewart of you know, Championship,
Speaker 4: m VPS, the whole nine. She's won in college, You've
Speaker 4: won in college. Like the list goes on and on,
Speaker 4: and that's kind of a little rivaltry. How do you
Speaker 4: view that rivalry?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5: Stu and I have been playing against each other for
Speaker 5: a long long time and it's crazy to think that
Speaker 5: we kind of grew up with this little rivalry.
Speaker 1: But at the same time we're still cool.
Speaker 5: I feel like that's what makes it that much better
Speaker 5: because we know it's like it's not beef. Like media
Speaker 5: can make it beef, anybody can make it beef, but
Speaker 5: it's not beef. And it's like when you see us,
Speaker 5: we're making each other better every possession, every single possession.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure if you has Stewie, what's asia scout,
Speaker 5: she could read it like that. And if you ask,
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, I got you. And I think that's
Speaker 5: kind of what our game in our league needs. It
Speaker 5: kind of puts people aside. It's kind of like pick
Speaker 5: a side and go for it and like enjoy it
Speaker 5: and watch these two grow and to see and it's
Speaker 5: crazy just to see how the league is kind of
Speaker 5: in our hands at this point because I'm like little
Speaker 5: Stewie and Asia and Yukon and South Carolina never would
Speaker 5: have imagined we'll be.
Speaker 1: In this space now.
Speaker 5: But it's been tons of fun just growing alongside Stewie
Speaker 5: and just getting better.
Speaker 1: I feel like she makes me better every single time
Speaker 1: we play against each other.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, we've been cool since we've
Speaker 5: played together for USA and everywhere in between.
Speaker 1: But it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: We sometimes I feel like every game we just kind
Speaker 5: of look at each other and just smile aloud because
Speaker 5: we're like, look at us.
Speaker 1: What we did like day, But Stuie, she could.
Speaker 5: I know they talk a lot about like college girls
Speaker 5: now and like nil, but one place I'm gonna always
Speaker 5: give Stuwie's her respected is in college. That girl has
Speaker 5: four national championships and you can those away from her.
Speaker 5: And I get they talking about Angel, I get they
Speaker 5: talking about Kaitlyn, I get they talking about South Carolina's team,
Speaker 5: but the things she did in college does not need
Speaker 5: to go unrecognized. So yes, stue'rops there because I see
Speaker 5: they be playing around with this whole who's the best
Speaker 5: colieg No, Stuie got that one hundred percent. But it's
Speaker 5: kind of cool just to watch us just grow together
Speaker 5: from those moments.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love the rivalry.
Speaker 5: I feel like we circle that game every time because
Speaker 5: we have no choice because we can see each other again.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that's fire. You just mentioned.
Speaker 4: You just mentioned Caitlyn and you just mentioned Angel Rees
Speaker 4: both to too incredibly good players at the collegiate level.
Speaker 4: Obviously this year soon will be making that jump to
Speaker 4: the NBA more w NBA, excuse me, more than likely.
Speaker 4: But when I when I watch some of these younger
Speaker 4: guys that when I'm watching college or you're watching some
Speaker 4: of the overseas guys come over. When I'm watching them,
Speaker 4: I'm watching them like ah, like that's cool, like that
Speaker 4: kid's good. I'm also watching them like all right, let
Speaker 4: me figure out his tendencies now, so when he comes
Speaker 4: in this league, the first time I play him, I
Speaker 4: can destroy him because I'm only going to get older,
Speaker 4: and I need to instill some type of doubt and
Speaker 4: fear in you while you're young, so that when you
Speaker 4: see me as I age, you know, I M there's
Speaker 4: just I have to be a little unsure of myself
Speaker 4: when you're when y'all are watching like Caitlin Clark and
Speaker 4: specific at your position to Angel Reeves, who. What I
Speaker 4: like most about Angel is she gonna talk to you
Speaker 4: about what she's gonna do to you, and then she's actually.
Speaker 3: Going to do it, and she's going to make sure
Speaker 3: you hear all of it.
Speaker 4: Are you watching her? Sometimes? Like I like, I see you,
Speaker 4: sure are you? But just know you gotta come here soon?
Speaker 4: Or are you just watching it like I'm just enjoying
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes I really just watch it to enjoy it.
Speaker 5: But then sometimes obviously the player sided me is kind
Speaker 5: of like I watch because I'm watching as if I'm watching.
Speaker 1: Film because clearly they're going to be at the next level.
Speaker 1: So I do kind of sometimes catch myself.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, okay, bit, I got you, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: oh no, let me enjoy the game. Go women's sports,
Speaker 5: like the competitor Indy just can't live without a film session.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't want you to enjoy it.
Speaker 5: But sometimes I find myself like, all right, bitch, she
Speaker 5: liked that move. Bit I got it because like you said,
Speaker 5: I get older.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, I got to.
Speaker 5: Start playing smarter a little bit and let me try
Speaker 5: to figure it out before they kind of get ahead
Speaker 5: of the game. And I'm pretty sure they like did
Speaker 5: it to me when I was a rookie, so I
Speaker 5: don't feel too bad.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, no, you did the same.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's that's a fact I was. I was crazy.
Speaker 4: I was thinking about that yesterday because I'm like, man,
Speaker 4: I wonder if if guys thought this way about me,
Speaker 4: And I'm like they one percent thought this way about us,
Speaker 4: Like this ain't nothing new, Like they've been doing this, okay,
Speaker 4: all right, long as I'm not the only one sick
Speaker 4: in he I'm good. Give me your give me your
Speaker 4: your Mount Rushmore of w n b A or women's
Speaker 4: basketball in general. It doesn't necessary necessarily have to be
Speaker 4: the w n b A because obviously the w NBA
Speaker 4: spans back now.
Speaker 3: Twenty six years.
Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken, But give me your Mount Rushmore
Speaker 4: of women's basketball.
Speaker 1: M cool.
Speaker 3: Cynthia Cooper gotta have it.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I really want to put myself because I can't.
Speaker 3: You can't not put yourself. That is a that is
Speaker 3: a okay, Green Show.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put myself because and mount workmore got four people?
Speaker 3: It does four people.
Speaker 5: I gotta say, Candice, I have to say, canness, But
Speaker 5: now I feel so bad. I'm sorry. Somebody can take
Speaker 5: I could take. My head can be on the side.
Speaker 5: They can like carve it on another side. And I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna because a partment wants to say DT, but
Speaker 5: then apartment obviously want to be like coach Staley because
Speaker 5: that's my girl.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: We just have to carve in a couple of extra
Speaker 5: heads on the mountain before.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and put like two together there.
Speaker 4: It is, okay, Well, since you're removing yourself to the side,
Speaker 4: what what do you have to do in your career
Speaker 4: moving forward? Like you've already done everything. What do you
Speaker 4: have to do in your career to put yourself.
Speaker 3: All the way on there? Like, ain't no moving me
Speaker 3: to the side. I'm here. What more do you feel
Speaker 3: you need to do in order for that to happen?
Speaker 1: I gotta get too much, chips, I gotta get too more.
Speaker 1: I gotta get too more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like that's just it just solidifies me
Speaker 5: at that point because I feel.
Speaker 1: Like and especially if I can do them in a row.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, blessings, that's knocking it out the park.
Speaker 5: But I feel like I'm already up there because being
Speaker 5: back to back is hard in itself.
Speaker 1: Like that's like, that's.
Speaker 5: Why when people be like, oh, like you won your
Speaker 5: second one, I'm like, please say back to back, because
Speaker 5: back to back is what really sets it off. So
Speaker 5: that's why I feel like if I can get a
Speaker 5: couple more like, then it's kind of like, all right,
Speaker 5: she did it back and back.
Speaker 1: But then she also did it again and again.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm just gonna get myself for it because
Speaker 5: and also I'm an even number girl.
Speaker 1: I'm weird, So yeah, I need four and a couple
Speaker 1: will give me another gold medal. Yeah, I think then
Speaker 1: I'll be at peace.
Speaker 3: Okay, I can respect that. All right, Well, I'll be
Speaker 3: sitting here on the championships.
Speaker 4: I know you will get more, so I'll be sitting
Speaker 4: here count them so I can make my own rush,
Speaker 4: my own rushmore, and I don't have to slide you
Speaker 4: to the side that was your worst, not mine, before
Speaker 4: we get out of here, your best or favorite best,
Speaker 4: however you want to classify aces championship, parade stories or celebration,
Speaker 4: Like what out of all of that.
Speaker 3: Do you look back on and you like that was
Speaker 3: the moment.
Speaker 1: For me, like this year championship or last year or
Speaker 1: anything either.
Speaker 4: You know, that's a that's a great problem to have, MVP.
Speaker 4: You ain't got a flex on me. It's all right,
Speaker 4: great problem to have.
Speaker 5: I probably just I have to because my teammates are
Speaker 5: just so they're just my teammates.
Speaker 1: It has to be. And it wasn't even the parade.
Speaker 5: It's like immediately after when we're in the media and
Speaker 5: we're doing media and.
Speaker 1: It's me and it's Chelsea.
Speaker 5: We're doing it, and all of a sudden, we just
Speaker 5: hear this boombox and it's KP hammered with the boom.
Speaker 6: Box, interrupting them, interrupting the whole press conference, and we're like,
Speaker 6: what is going on at this point? And KP apparently
Speaker 6: was left in the locker room by ourself. Once she
Speaker 6: came out, everybody was going there different ways.
Speaker 5: We still know where people are to this day, and
Speaker 5: she just gravitated to the press room and decided.
Speaker 1: To crash it.
Speaker 5: That was the top moment of my life because I
Speaker 5: was like what is going on? Then the second one
Speaker 5: was another what's going on moment when we were in
Speaker 5: the press room again after winning in New York and
Speaker 5: the whole team just busted through and ruined me and
Speaker 5: Alicia Parker media and they're just like asking their own
Speaker 5: questions like, oh, the poor place, Oh what's going Like
Speaker 5: We're at this point where like, yeah, the media people
Speaker 5: are like and this is why we didn't vote for y'all, so.
Speaker 1: It gave them their reason.
Speaker 5: And I think that right there were like my top
Speaker 5: moments where I'm like, Ah, this team is awesome, Like
Speaker 5: I love them for this, so yest know.
Speaker 4: It honestly looks like y'all have so much fun together,
Speaker 4: like even like on a daily basis, And I don't
Speaker 4: think people really understand the monotony of these seasons, right
Speaker 4: Like you're just in this grind and it's on and
Speaker 4: on and on and it's just like this revolving door,
Speaker 4: and I admire how fun it looks like y'all keep
Speaker 4: it for each other.
Speaker 3: I think that's great.
Speaker 4: I think I think in order to continue winning, you
Speaker 4: have to be able to do that because you run
Speaker 4: into the dog days, you run into the days you
Speaker 4: wake up, you don't want to play, and so I
Speaker 4: really admire that about y'all, like.
Speaker 3: Do a good job of.
Speaker 4: Keeping it fun and quite frankly, they cannot vote again
Speaker 4: if that's going to equal another championship, and.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, you just keep on fueling the fire.
Speaker 4: Asia, I can't thank you enough for coming on the
Speaker 4: Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 3: Your resume.
Speaker 4: So I always talk about, like you can't just be
Speaker 4: in the NBA or the w NBA and come on here,
Speaker 4: you gotta have a resume, like because we got to
Speaker 4: have something to talk about. And I don't really want
Speaker 4: to talk about what draft pick you were like that.
Speaker 3: They don't really get it done.
Speaker 4: But honestly, I'm so thankful to have you on Champion MVP.
Speaker 4: You know I'm a big fan. They're black girls. How
Speaker 4: to Be True to You by Asia Wilson. Y'all make
Speaker 4: sure February sixth, y'all get that book. Go check it out.
Speaker 4: I've told you all my commitment. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 4: reading it and checking out the book. Good luck this year.
Speaker 4: Make sure you're running back, make sure you go get
Speaker 4: the MVP. Don't leave no doubt this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this got absolutely.
Speaker 4: Wishing you well, thank you for coming on the show.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Cliver Living