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Speaker 1: When you first made it to the WNBA, who's the

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Speaker 1: first person to bush your.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a list for that, sir.

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Speaker 2: To be real honest, though, I don't feel like it

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Speaker 2: was one individual person. I felt like I really wasn't ready.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even understand what the WBA was going to be.

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Speaker 2: I had signed a midling contract. I was living in

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Speaker 2: New York trying to, you know, do my fashion thing,

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Speaker 2: and they said the WNBA was going to start. They

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Speaker 2: assigned me to LA. Contrary to what people believe that

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Speaker 2: I was drafted at some certain number, I was assigned

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Speaker 2: to LA, and I just told him, yeah, when I

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Speaker 2: come back to LA, I'll play, no problem. But I

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Speaker 2: was thinking it was going to be more like a

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Speaker 2: summer league with reversible jerseys, you know, kind of in

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Speaker 2: a mobile situation. So since it was not in the

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Speaker 2: gym getting ready at all. So to be really honest,

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Speaker 2: I wasn't ready the first season. And it really took

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Speaker 2: me about two seasons to understand what it meant to

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Speaker 2: be a professional player playing in the summer, right, because

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Speaker 2: we are I'm used to playing like everybody else, you know,

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Speaker 2: we played during the winter. The summer is like we off, man,

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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be in the gym. And so

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Speaker 2: it took me a while to really.

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Speaker 3: Reverse I never looked at it like that. I never

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Speaker 3: thought about it like that. That's absolutely the completely reverse

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was our first year, so it was

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Speaker 2: like we're gonna play ball in the summer. But wait,

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Speaker 2: y'all bring cameras, hold on, anybody tell me about to

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Speaker 2: day like on, you know what I mean. So so

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Speaker 2: I really wasn't ready. I mean I was decent. I

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Speaker 2: was you know, I was black and shot, I was

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Speaker 2: to go, prepared to just lead my team to a

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Speaker 2: championship like all of that. It really took me a

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Speaker 2: while to give up some of my freedom to really

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Speaker 3: You came off the groundway you was out there getting

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Speaker 3: your modelon, like oh yeah, like oh you're about to

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Speaker 3: go hoop okay, like you showed up like way.

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Speaker 2: I was skipping meals that was trying to be then

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Speaker 2: I was like pushing me around like one thing, I'm

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Speaker 2: still you know, I'm from Compton now we are pushing

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Speaker 2: me around.

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Speaker 4: Yo yo yo. We live on location.

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Speaker 3: Me and the blackest One is still here chilling at

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Speaker 3: home in Orlando. And this time we got a special

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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame edition, y'all. This one is big, big, big,

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Speaker 3: near and dead to us.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: We came fresh in the leg, right in the shadow,

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Speaker 3: right in the shadow, running up behind there in La

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Speaker 3: seeing the win championships and dud greatness. We got Lisa Leslie.

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Speaker 3: LA's on, y'all. We appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: I'm so exciting to be here, guys. La y'all is

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Speaker 2: just pufps right there and on the Clippers.

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Speaker 4: But I have tickets and she had season tickets.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, brought to you by dying Style.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I loved about you is your

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Speaker 1: demeanor on the court, like how you go from Uh,

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Speaker 1: every time I see you offside the court, you always

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Speaker 1: have a smile on your face.

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Speaker 4: You always happy.

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Speaker 1: But when I see you play, that whole smile and

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Speaker 1: that whole everything changed. Eyebrows get going in and it's

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Speaker 1: it's nice. It's one. Where did you get that from?

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Speaker 1: To change from being such a nice person off the

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Speaker 2: That's that's a great question. I think for me, I've

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Speaker 2: always been competitive. So even whether when I was like

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Speaker 2: seven eight, you know, playing backgame. It was like one

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Speaker 2: of the first games that I was playing with my

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Speaker 2: mom and I was like, Mom, okay this time, don't

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Speaker 2: let me beat you, like, don't.

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Speaker 4: Like real, you know, shout out the bad guy.

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Speaker 2: Who I mean, I still be my kids now, like

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Speaker 2: y'all don't want to see me the way inviting me

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Speaker 4: Because you canna be bad.

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Speaker 2: You know. I'm Domino's. I play poker like spades, everything talk,

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Speaker 2: it don't matter. I'm trying to win. And so that

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Speaker 2: I think I was competitive even before I ever played basketball.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's those two things that come together,

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Speaker 2: that desire and to want to win. It's very cliche

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Speaker 2: because you know, you're like I want to win or

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Speaker 2: But I'm really that way, Like I love winning. It's competitive.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take the fun out of it. You know.

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Speaker 2: Even in Taboo, the game, my family is like all right,

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Speaker 2: here we go. I'm like stack your team, be ready, Like,

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Speaker 2: don't ask me, You're not trying to, you know, win.

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Speaker 2: So that's a part of my personality and I think

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Speaker 2: that off the court and when we're not playing game,

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm la. I'm cool, like I'm not tripping,

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Speaker 2: or we can go high and low, and you know,

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Speaker 2: like I fit in anywhere. I love people naturally. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna treat the janitor and the president the same,

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Speaker 2: and I respect those people and those jobs, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm just thankful. I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I'm a believer.

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Speaker 2: So it's only so far. I'm don't go in terms

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Speaker 2: of what I'm willing to do to sacrifice my relationship

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Speaker 2: with the Lord. So you know I always keep that

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Speaker 2: at the forefront too. But in the game of basketball,

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Speaker 2: you know, all bets is off. I'm just mean, I'm different,

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Speaker 2: she different, she crazy. You know. I used to call

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Speaker 2: it my wonder Woman effect because I felt like I

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Speaker 2: love being dressed up, you know, lipstick, you know, being

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Speaker 2: a little little fly. Whatever I feel my mood is,

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Speaker 2: That's where I'm going. I'm not like everybody else. I'm

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Speaker 2: not trying to fit in with all the other women

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Speaker 2: respect who I am, and I respect who you are.

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Speaker 2: You know, I show up, I want lipstick, I want

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Speaker 2: to be glam. Let me do it. Do me because

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Speaker 2: that's who I am, and I respect however you do you.

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Speaker 2: But when the ball rolled out, you know, it's like

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Speaker 2: I used to tell myself, listen, she got to put

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Speaker 2: and this equal opportunity to that ball. So only one

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Speaker 2: ball and I'm gonna go get it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just used to love it out of you,

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Speaker 1: because you know, they try to make that thing of like,

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Speaker 1: oh all girls got a got a smile, or they

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Speaker 1: can't holler after they get an and one, or they

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Speaker 1: gotta You know, when you're playing ball, you just got

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Speaker 1: to play ball the way you supposed to play ball.

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Speaker 1: So for you to just be out there like no,

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Speaker 1: I'm out here rugging, I'm in the pain, I'm bodying,

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Speaker 1: we boring, and we boxing out every play like I gotta.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: You used to show that and show that off the

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Speaker 1: court too, that I still can smile and have a

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Speaker 1: good time. But when I'm on her at work, it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I give a lot of credit to Magic too.

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Speaker 2: I got a chance to play so much. And I mean,

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Speaker 2: you guys know, being in LA, playing in UCLA, playing

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Speaker 2: with all the NBA guys and you know, just wave

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Speaker 2: my turn and get out there and you know, make

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Speaker 2: a do what to do, and it's just you know, hey,

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Speaker 2: I'm the two guard playing with the men, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean, six'. Five i'm not in the paint With.

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Speaker 2: Shack he was down. There i'm, like, right, Dude i'm

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Speaker 2: at the. Two i'm coming off. Screens magic is like coming,

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Speaker 2: around you know WHAT i. Mean AND i really appreciate

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Speaker 2: all the men who support, women who gave, us gave,

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Speaker 2: me you, know opportunities to be out, there BECAUSE i

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Speaker 2: think it was those experience playing against men that had

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Speaker 2: me just so disrespectful with the. WOMEN i think in

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Speaker 2: a way that you, know for my, game like it's

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Speaker 2: unapologetic because playing against, MEN i always. KNEW i, mean

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Speaker 2: men are, strong Thin't god even really bust me all.

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Speaker 2: Up i've been busted up a few. Times but you,

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Speaker 2: know once the female's, scoring you, know the game is to.

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Speaker 2: ELEVEN i got seven, points you, know people switching dem me,

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Speaker 2: up you, know And i've been knocked, down you, know

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Speaker 2: several times really. Hard BUT i just think that having

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Speaker 2: just even. More it doesn't. Matter we're gonna play however

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Speaker 2: you want to. PLAY i think my rule is always,

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Speaker 2: like we're gonna play how you want to. Play you

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Speaker 2: want we can play clean or we can play. Dirting you, know.

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Speaker 3: How was that the first time that you've got a

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Speaker 3: chance to go up TO. U. C L A and

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Speaker 3: playing those games With magic and, Them, like how was

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Speaker 3: that when You what were you thinking the first day

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Speaker 3: to play with those.

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Speaker 2: Guys to just be a fly on the, wall to

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Speaker 2: be a good. Listener AND i think the biggest thing

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Speaker 2: about being in the gym with all men two. Things

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Speaker 2: ONE i would THINK i didn't want people to walk

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Speaker 2: in and think it was all. Men so you know my,

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Speaker 2: outfit you, KNOW i got my little shoes and you

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Speaker 2: know my shorts were. SHORT i don't care Like i'm

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Speaker 2: gonna make it look. Right so you KNOW i used

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Speaker 2: to have my hair AND i point oil my little.

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Speaker 2: Ribbons BUT i didn't say much at all BECAUSE i

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Speaker 2: feel Like i'm in your. Space y'all should be allowed

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Speaker 2: to talk, trash how should do, whatever talk how you,

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Speaker 2: least my. Bad you, KNOW i don't apologize. Me i'm

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Speaker 2: i just. PLAYED i just. PLAYED i did whatever you,

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Speaker 2: Know magic told me to, do basically because he would

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Speaker 2: always put me on his team, because you, know kind

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Speaker 2: of protecting me in ways of the way that he

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Speaker 2: wanted me to, play or coming off screens or. Whatever you,

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Speaker 2: Know Chris mullin out, there you had. Shooters there were

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Speaker 2: so many great guys out there THAT i didn't want

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Speaker 2: them to treat me like a, girl and.

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Speaker 4: So wet one of the.

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Speaker 2: Guys, YEAH i didn't want. To you, know it's just

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Speaker 2: like about playing pick up with. Y'all i'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: be in there talking BECAUSE i feel like this is

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Speaker 2: your space and you're allowing me in, it and you

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Speaker 2: guys should be able to be men and talk the

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Speaker 2: way you, know you know y'all do.

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Speaker 3: So so the fact that you played On magic team

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Speaker 3: lets me know that you won all the. Time Magic

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Speaker 3: magic was not gonna lose a. Game he was gonna

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Speaker 3: call fouls.

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Speaker 2: Until he that's, right you know by, then so you're

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Speaker 2: gonna get his sech shot, three you call it.

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Speaker 1: Ball, up you, KNOW i know when you get when

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Speaker 1: you got a, bucket was magic talking shit for, you

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Speaker 1: talking about always.

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Speaker 2: Always, YEAH i, MEAN i thank him so. Much JUST

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Speaker 2: i always bring him up when people ask me about

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Speaker 2: just having an opportunity to play with, men because it really,

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Speaker 2: was you, know whether we were IN ucla or back

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Speaker 2: and WHATEVER i, did whether it, shooting, driving, driving kick you, know,

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Speaker 1: That one inside high, School Side, city one inside High, School, Inglewood.

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Speaker 2: going to go. To so my, uncle who played, football

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Speaker 2: coming from another. SCHOOL i was trying to enroll In Inglewood.

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Speaker 2: High shout out To Paul, pierce BUT i did because

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Speaker 2: the people at the district was, like, oh, well you

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Speaker 2: want to go To Morningside high if you play, basketball

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Speaker 2: because they didn't win state, championship but they won LIKE,

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Speaker 2: they had a good girls basketball team and a great

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Speaker 2: he had seen me play BECAUSE i had played LIKE

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Speaker 2: of those different summer leagues a you still exist to this.

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Speaker 2: Day SO i have played like twelve and under fourteen

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Speaker 2: on every. Team and so by the, time you, Know i'm,

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Speaker 2: Fourteen i'm in the ninth. Grade and he was, Like Lisa, Leslie,

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Speaker 2: on our? Team i'm, like, yeah that's What i'm here.

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Speaker 2: For and the rest is pretty much. History we turned

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Speaker 2: the next two days we went back to back the.

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Speaker 4: Domination so the domination after, that do you know what.

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Speaker 2: The crazy thing is that misshot is really the thing

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Speaker 2: know that decision when you, decide like you to get back,

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Speaker 4: Know so you scored one hundred points in high.

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Speaker 2: School, okay you got to get that right. Idea if

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Speaker 4: Say, It i'm. Sorry i'm.

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Speaker 1: Sorry you scored one hundred points and a half one.

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Speaker 4: One in. One's you're scoring.

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Speaker 2: Son in sixteen, minutes actually exactly sixteen minute.

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Speaker 4: Games how is that even?

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Speaker 1: POSSIBLE i went to a lot of women's game And

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Speaker 4: Half in the, half, like how was? That you?

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Speaker 2: Know it's crazy At. Morningside so AGAIN i told YOU

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Speaker 2: i Started morningside the day before school. Started they had

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Speaker 2: some tradition at their school that the, senior her senior regular,

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Speaker 2: season would try to score as many points as. Possible

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Speaker 2: SO i actually witnessed, this like the first senior score

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Speaker 2: instead of me putting it back UP i just passed

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Speaker 2: it back to the, tour. Right SO i don't even

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Speaker 2: know why they had this. TRADITION i told You i'm.

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Speaker 2: HERE i, am you, know day, Two i'm An, Eiggerwoods,

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Speaker 2: like this is what y'all? Do, OKAY i join in

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Speaker 2: passing the. Ball senior has forty nine. Points the next

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Speaker 2: year the senior had sixty. Points fifty nine. Points then

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Speaker 2: my junior, year the senior had sixty. Points so here it.

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Speaker 2: Is i'm the senior, captain, Right and it's like the

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Speaker 2: day before we get ready to go to the, playoffs

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Speaker 2: they are, LIKE i got to make more than sixty.

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Speaker 2: Points So i'm, like sixty, points, man that's you, Know i'm.

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Speaker 2: Nervous and once the game, STARTED i was just locked

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Speaker 2: in like a video. Game. MAN i was just on

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Speaker 4: It.

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Speaker 3: Yeah time, out they like they really, forfeited and you

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Speaker 3: could because you could have probably had another, hundred but they.

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Speaker 2: Forfeited they, forfeited and the score the real score was

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Speaker 2: one hundred and two to twenty. Four that was the halftime. Score.

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Speaker 2: Wow AND i scored one hundred one, point which is

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Speaker 2: what's wrong with the? Club Because i've never seen you

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Speaker 2: know WHAT i, mean like one hundred and one. FOURS

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Speaker 2: i was, like what IS o one to twenty? Four

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Speaker 2: And i'm, like, oh one hundred and, Two, like, yeah

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Speaker 2: you got a hundred. Points LIKE i didn't even. Know

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Speaker 2: that's how crazy it. WAS i was just locked, in, man, like.

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Speaker 4: Were you like shooting? Three not?

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Speaker 4: Three? THREE i did Not Will chamberlain like.

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Speaker 4: Three i'm just. Saying and the point that no threes

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Speaker 3: About it, though the little that's the little scorekeepers on

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Speaker 3: you know this old school they're doing the little. Junk you,

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Speaker 3: know the scorekeepers got.

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Speaker 2: Like the little books making.

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Speaker 4: Market, no that's how was the crowd THAT i was,

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Speaker 4: like it was.

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Speaker 2: Crazy they had.

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Speaker 4: To be every. Bucket it's like like when you get

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Speaker 4: the twenty thirty exhausted after the. Game and it wasn't like.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't cool because it was a regular, season like

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Speaker 2: it was a basic. GAME i don't. KNOW i, Mean

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Speaker 2: i'm not trying to say the, team but you know

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Speaker 2: WHAT i, Mean like it wasn't like one of our packed.

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Speaker 4: Houses night is out there like we'll just laying record. Books,

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Speaker 2: Crazy so what happened WAS i was supposed to be

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Speaker 2: trying to break at some point they told me a

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Speaker 2: halftime to Break Shreyl miller's, record which was one hundred

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Speaker 2: and five right in a full high school, game and they,

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Speaker 2: COME i got BUT i got a new record because

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Speaker 2: it's in like The Guinness Books World record or. Something

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Speaker 2: one hundred and one points and a half of a.

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Speaker 1: Game they could have been anybody, else BUT usc could

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Speaker 1: anybody else almost get?

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Speaker 4: You, like, Man i'm goin to, Go i'm goin to go.

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Speaker 2: Here, Yeah i'm gonna tell YOU i really my my final.

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Speaker 2: Choice Well i'm low key nerd by the, way so

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Speaker 2: let me just let that. OUT i really wanted to

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Speaker 2: go To. Stanfordford that was my first choice and Sc

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Speaker 2: what really came down to IS i fell in love

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Speaker 2: with the coach At See so my, Coach my coach

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Speaker 2: Is mary And Stanley Barbara. Thackson shout out to my.

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Speaker 2: Coach you know how it is the. Relationships relationships are so,

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Speaker 2: important and my relationship with those coaches just were. STRONGER

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Speaker 2: i was IN la and you, know my, mom my

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Speaker 2: family's in. La So i'm, like, well they can come

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Speaker 2: right up the, street comet watch me play. Ball it makes.

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Speaker 2: Sense but in my, heart you, KNOW i low key

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Speaker 2: was Really stanford was just kind of the THING i

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Speaker 2: really wanted to.

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Speaker 1: Do THE usc like the. History Sheeiry miller, Dominant she

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Speaker 1: Was Centia, cooper you know.

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Speaker 6: All the ballers you, Know, yeah and a few more

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Speaker 6: in THERE.

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Speaker 1: Us see you there and, uh your first year you

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Speaker 1: win freshman the, year but that the year you felt

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Speaker 1: like you was good enough to play on that. Level,

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Speaker 1: like you, know the level go higher as, you you,

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Speaker 1: know go to the. School it's not the girls that

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Speaker 1: you play in high school no. More now you know

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Speaker 1: girls that's. BETTER i wasn't for you when you first

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Speaker 1: got to college and you you, know you're seeing the.

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Speaker 1: Level they take you a minute to, adjust but once

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Speaker 1: you got a, rhythmic you got to going or.

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Speaker 4: You be still.

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Speaker 2: Honest, yeah my first GAME i had twenty points and

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Speaker 2: ten rebounds in. College but, yeah.

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Speaker 4: She jumped right off the. Porch she jumped right off

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Speaker 4: the Stupid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah but what really reason why THEY i had so

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Speaker 2: much success early in collegees BECAUSE i played For TEAM.

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Speaker 2: USA i made my FIRST usa team as an eleventh.

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Speaker 2: Grader so that, EXPERIENCE i went To, spain you, know

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Speaker 2: with no. Family it's the first Time i'm, LIKE i

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Speaker 2: want to, say the first Time i'm on a, plane

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Speaker 2: you know WHAT i, mean going To Colorado springs for, Tryouts, like,

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Speaker 2: yeah the moment you get an, opportunity you, Know god

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Speaker 2: just really blessed me to. Basketball has helped me to

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Speaker 2: travel the, world to be amongst amazing, people you, know

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Speaker 2: and once you get that opportunity to get out of your,

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Speaker 2: city out of your, state that's what opened the doors

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Speaker 2: Where i'm, like wait a, minute so what's happened to

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Speaker 2: people playing ball around the. World you, know we didn't

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Speaker 2: have social media to really have that grass when understanding

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Speaker 2: And i'm an inner city, kid so we. Don't i'm

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Speaker 2: not surrounded by highly educated you know other. People you

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Speaker 2: know What i'm. Saying we're really in our little. Bubble

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Speaker 2: my grandma at that, TIME i, think was the only

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Speaker 2: person who was Really she had gone to college and

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Speaker 2: my grandmother was a, nurse right so she worked in the.

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Speaker 2: Er she really was the most educated of my whole f.

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Speaker 2: Family you. Know my aunts included a few of my

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Speaker 2: uncles who were accountants that kind of that helped save

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Speaker 2: me from a money, standpoint but otherwise we were just

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Speaker 2: all hard, workers you, know getting after. It AND i

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Speaker 2: think in, hindsight when you look, back that opportunity to

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Speaker 2: travel and be from the inner city and just see both,

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Speaker 2: worlds it kind of makes that's what makes us, hungry,

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Speaker 2: right you get that, chance you, KNOW. Q i heard

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Speaker 2: you telling this story About jordan on one of your.

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Speaker 2: Shows you, know the first time you Met jordans in

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Speaker 2: your neighborhood like, That, yeah that that moment is like

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Speaker 2: that's that aha moment you know That opra talks about

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Speaker 2: where you're like, dang LIKE i could do it, Too

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Speaker 2: LIKE i could really make, it you. Know Uh SO

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Speaker 2: i had little moments like. That THE usa team actually

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Speaker 2: came To inglewood At Inglewood high THE usa women's team and.

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Speaker 2: Practiced why did they come To? INGLEWOOD i don't know

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Speaker 2: why did they practice at the gym up the. Street but,

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Speaker 2: ME i was in that gym every morning watching them

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00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,159
Speaker 2: like if they need a, SUB i can, go you,

431
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,239
Speaker 2: know LIKE i THOUGHT i could play with. Them and

432
00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 2: that was me as A i think a sophomore in high.

433
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 2: School but it also planned that, seed LIKE i want

434
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,679
Speaker 2: to play on THE usa. Team you, Know, yeah there's another.

435
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,120
Speaker 2: Level so that that was just a blessing that having

436
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,439
Speaker 2: THE usa team, come having the opportunity to make my

437
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 2: FIRST usa team in the eleventh. Grade Now i'm out the,

438
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,159
Speaker 2: COUNTRY i see, women are these chicks Are i'm In?

439
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 2: Spain like what AM i doing In spain at that?

440
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,919
Speaker 2: Moment is, like oh, okay, yeah we're about to.

441
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 4: Eat this is.

442
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,120
Speaker 2: About eating and survival and How i'm going to make

443
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,440
Speaker 2: it IS i got to improve my game BECAUSE i

444
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,640
Speaker 2: got to get to, college you, know and beyond COLLEGE.

445
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: Usa speaking of THE usa, TEAM i always feel like

446
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 1: the women's team be like the dream team every single

447
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,639
Speaker 1: year if they be having everybody that you proposed to

448
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 1: get every single year and just some other teams that

449
00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 1: Man teresa Weatherspoonl Die stally you you, know, yeah yeah,

450
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 1: exactly like, yeah, yeah that goes like when THEM usa

451
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,919
Speaker 1: teams and you played on, them how was that for you,

452
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 1: to you, know to share that with the women that

453
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 1: you see that that's making the name and pushing women's.

454
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,400
Speaker 1: Basketball and every year y'all coming here and y'all doing y'all,

455
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 1: thing winning these gold medals and you get to play

456
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 1: on the highest levels. Possible, yeah it's the best of the, best.

457
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,359
Speaker 2: You know what there. Is it really was, amazing and

458
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 2: it's unfortunate that our country doesn't really, like didn't pay

459
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:37,440
Speaker 2: attention and didn't really honor what all of those. Women

460
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,640
Speaker 2: even before me had been able to do my, error

461
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 2: we got some notoriety thanks to the w N B

462
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,679
Speaker 2: A So i'm steroids now because you have social, media

463
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 2: we have you, know with the social injustice that was

464
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 2: also a big spotlight for THE. Wba so we're making

465
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 2: it And i'm so happy that these young women are

466
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 2: getting this opportunity to use this. Platform but in some

467
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 2: ways it's a little sad that we missed so many

468
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,400
Speaker 2: great women like you name With Teresa edwards And katrina.

469
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:09,479
Speaker 2: McLain those two women were. Phenomenal And Teresa edwards actually

470
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 2: was the Youngest olympian in ninety. Four she was like

471
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 2: a baby and then she finished with us coming in

472
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 2: in ninety. SIX i was the, baby the, youngest you,

473
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 2: know one of the youngest players. There but having them as,

474
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 2: Veterans i've always been a very good learner. LISTENER i

475
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 2: don't have a problem following directions as long as you're

476
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 2: leading in the right. Directions SO i think our personalities

477
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 2: all worked because they were the, leaders and we were

478
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 2: very respectful of, them you, know not like you got

479
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 2: to respect your. EDITTERS i mean we balled, out we black,

480
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 2: shot we, played BUT i respect. It you. Know it's

481
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,640
Speaker 2: like when you go you guys have veterans that take

482
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 2: you under their, wing and it's just you know that

483
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,160
Speaker 2: they really have your best interest at. Heart and so those,

484
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 2: women as black women who didn't get a lot of

485
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,959
Speaker 2: love from everybody, else we showed them a lot of

486
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 2: love and respect and they deserved. IT i, Mean katrina

487
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 2: playing was a. Beast send. Me her ability to rebound

488
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 2: and put back and score WAS i, mean she was

489
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,719
Speaker 2: probably the toughest PLAYER i ever had to play, against

490
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 2: AND i was lucky enough to be young enough to

491
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 2: go up against her pretty much every. Practice SO i,

492
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 2: Mean i'm getting better just Because i'm, like, damn she can,

493
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 2: jump you, know she can really block my shot Because

494
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 2: i'm six five and she's six. Too but she got.

495
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 2: Hops her rebounding is, nasty like she just you think

496
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 2: you see a ball and then her hand just reach

497
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 2: over and just. Snatchy you. KNOW i was, like oh, hell,

498
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 2: no SO i got to box her out first because

499
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 2: she really you know WHAT i, Mean like she was

500
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 2: a player who brought the best out of me because

501
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 2: she was so skilled and in a way that enough

502
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 2: players don't know her, name but she got an award

503
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 2: named after. Her like there's five position awards for the,

504
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 2: women With Anne, Meyers Nancy, Lieberman Schryl, Miller katrina McLain

505
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 2: is the forward, award and then The Lisa lessi is

506
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 2: for the best. Center these are all college awards for the.

507
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 2: Women so on the women's, side the women recognize how

508
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 2: amazing they, were but it is unfortunate that our country

509
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 2: just did not pay as much attention to women's basketball

510
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 2: at a time where you had some really amazing women

511
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 2: who played before.

512
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: Us that's one of the things we wanted to do

513
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 1: with our, Platform like we really wanted to put a

514
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: big spotlight on women's basketball Because i've been watching women's

515
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: basketball SINCE i was in junior high.

516
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 4: SCHOOL i always watched.

517
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: The girls, team and even WHEN i got to the

518
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: pros and that city had a, TEAM.

519
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 4: I always used to go to the games and be around.

520
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: IT i always just was a fan Of it's all

521
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: the same Who you're right about. That the country do

522
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: need to recognize and definitely THE nba players need to

523
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: help out too and show a little bit more love and.

524
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: Appreciate but that's the reason it was important for us

525
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: to Have hall of famers and legends like you on

526
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: our show and to represent and show them how dope.

527
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 4: And how cold y'all all or thank, you thank you so.

528
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 2: Much that's so. SWEETIE i really appreciate that.

529
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 3: Too, Absolutely AND i, mean that's one of the THINGS

530
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 3: i love ABOUT usa basketball BECAUSE i was a kid

531
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 3: that got a chance to do that at seventeen two

532
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 3: under seventeen when we went over to we went To

533
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 3: Port A, Platta Dominican, republic and we. Won Go Jim

534
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 3: beheim was a. Coach Rob evans was assistant. Coach that

535
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 3: was like you, said that was my first time going

536
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 3: out of the country and need to get a pass

537
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 3: parting going To Colorado springs for the, trials and it was,

538
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 3: like it's dope to hear you tell that. Story you

539
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 3: know that you was in the Same Colorado springs facility

540
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 3: is working out and.

541
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 4: Going trying to make the.

542
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 3: Team LIKE i love the way that connectivity works with

543
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 3: the whole with the whole everything WITH usa, basketball because

544
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 3: and they do a great. Job, Man like you, said

545
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 3: for a young kid to, go you, know out of

546
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,719
Speaker 3: the country at that age and get to see the

547
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 3: things you get to, see it's like.

548
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 4: That it. Was it was an unbelievable. Experience AND i, remember.

549
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 3: You, know you'd be gone for like a, month you

550
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 3: got to go to go to, train do all that,

551
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 3: stuff and then you finally go and it was LIKE

552
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 3: i had never been away from home that, long and

553
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 3: like you, said out on your, own handling stuff and

554
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 3: doing stuff and being.

555
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 4: Responsible it was a super cool. EXPERIENCE i went To

556
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 4: russia AND.

557
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 3: I.

558
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 4: Wouldn't my mom was, like, No i'm not sitting at my.

559
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 4: Child No. Russian hell my, child No.

560
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: Russian my grandma was, like you gotta let them experience

561
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: nobody around. Here time out think going To russian for

562
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: your child sot them. Experiencing And i'm glad my grandma

563
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: would let me go to. Preach my grandmama, say, man.

564
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 2: Yeah that's that's, it just that. Opportunity and you, know

565
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: we look back and you you don't know how how

566
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 2: big it. Is and even though you, know you, know

567
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 2: the trip it ain't always. Great we don't always love the.

568
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 2: Food you, know it's a lot of different just that

569
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 2: that little experience of, like, dang the world is bigger

570
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 2: than my hood and Where i'm from and what everybody's talking.

571
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 2: About and you, know we just keep working hard at

572
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 2: this game and it's give us so many opportunities where

573
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,239
Speaker 2: we can open up doors for more people in our.

574
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 2: Community So i'm just. Thankful yeah we, uh you, know

575
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 2: hey picked up that. Ball there's a lot of hard.

576
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 4: Work you said.

577
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 1: THAT i remember WHEN i was over there for like

578
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: two and a half. Weeks we ate McDonald's every single.

579
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: Day WHEN i WHEN i got back, home my mom was,

580
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: like you want to stop at. McDonald's i was, LIKE

581
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: i don't want to see.

582
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 4: A GOLDEN.

583
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 2: I well see a golden arch or a fatt and.

584
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 4: Soda that's the one.

585
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 2: THING i, Said americans we have bad is that we

586
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,479
Speaker 2: go and we just Do american. Stuff it's LIKE i

587
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 2: lived In italy for a little while WHEN i played

588
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 2: ball over there AND i had you know WHAT i.

589
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 2: DID i started to buy the books AND i started

590
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 2: to teach Myself italian and listening to back then you,

591
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 2: know this is what is? It the DVDs and things

592
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,719
Speaker 2: like that kind of teach myself SO i could like

593
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 2: speak to my teammates and you, know learn the, culture

594
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: learn to order food when you go out to. Eat

595
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,719
Speaker 2: and then a lot of Times americans would just watch

596
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 2: then IN vcr Watching martin all. Day you, know you

597
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: just standing watching movies Watching, martin And i'm, like, y'all,

598
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: y'all we gotta you got to try to, learn immerse

599
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 2: yourself into these different cultures so we can learn from.

600
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 2: Them SO i JUST i would definitely give advice to

601
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 2: anybody who has the opportunity to go. Abroad you need

602
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 2: to get the playball to don't just go and just

603
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 2: be so locked into the internet watching movies at. Night

604
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 2: but you know WHAT i, mean try to learn the.

605
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 2: Language you learned about the. Food that was something THAT

606
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 2: i really really. ENJOYED i also played In russia, too

607
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: which was.

608
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 3: Bananas how were those stops for? You playing both of those?

609
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 3: Countries how was that? Planning you, know overseas in? General

610
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 3: how was that? Experience?

611
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 2: Man it was. TOUGH i think WHEN i played In,

612
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: ITALY i was fresh out of. COLLEGE i was that

613
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: was like my my first and that was my first.

614
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: Engagement SO i was. Engaged that ain't work, out but you,

615
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 2: know because you, overseas he still had another year. Playball

616
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 2: it didn't work, out but it was a Good it

617
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 2: was a good. EXPERIENCE i loved Learning italian.

618
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: Basketball yeah, YEAH i love an't work, out but.

619
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 2: It was exactly loving. Basketball so you, know the story

620
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 2: is exactly pretty much. Close you. Know it was cool.

621
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 2: Though i'm glad THAT i. Went i'm GLAD i learned another.

622
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: Language i'm GLAD i had a chance to meet some amazing.

623
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 2: People russia was a little bit different because by, then

624
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 2: WHEN i went To, RUSSIA i only went overseas two

625
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 2: times for myself personally to, play and the second TIME i,

626
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 2: WENT i was married by, then but no, kids and

627
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 2: so we had a good. Time russia was, tough, though,

628
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 2: man you, know ALL i learned was the alphabets and the.

629
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: Line that's ALL i.

630
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 4: GOT i was the food In italy, though. Amazing have

631
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 4: you not?

632
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 2: Been you got to go to take the family To

633
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 2: italy when the world gets back to, Normal italy is.

634
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 2: AMAZING i love the. FOOD i Like italian. FOOD i

635
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 2: do Like italian but THAT'S i go eat The tian

636
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 2: food when you come back. Here, less let's some ody

637
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 2: make it Like spaghettian. Home, yeah But italians is. Amazing

638
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: the people are really. NICE i enjoyed The. SOUTH i

639
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 2: was In rome AND i was In. Sicily i'm. SORRY

640
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 2: i was In sicily and In, rome SO i love The.

641
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 2: South The south is pretty much like very. Hospitable they

642
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 2: take their CS's great. Food russia was a little bit more.

643
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 2: Difficult we eat McDonald's quite a bit and THEN i.

644
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 2: COOK i cook a.

645
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: Lot so let me ask you, this what was the

646
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: plan before after college that you was thinking about before

647
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: before they even said it was going to be a

648
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: w N B. A was it always to be Like

649
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: i'm gonna go over, season continue to, hoop or it

650
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: was Like i'm gonna figure out a job BECAUSE i

651
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: know a lot of, women you know back, Then like

652
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: it wasn't no W, nba it wasn't no after, College,

653
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: like so what was your plan what you was thinking?

654
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 4: About what you was majoring to be a? Doctor? Doctor? Les, no, god, no.

655
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 2: My undergrad is in, communications my masters is in. BUSINESS

656
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 2: i was always planning on going into, broadcasting SO i

657
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 2: got a chance to do that pretty early working FOR.

658
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 2: Espn you, Know i've done so many different things NOW,

659
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 2: ESPN Cbs Sports network FOR. Tnt being in front of

660
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 2: the camera was kind of the thing THAT i felt

661
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 2: most comfortable doing SINCE i was in high. School AFTER

662
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 2: i scored one hundred and one, POINTS i had so

663
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 2: many interviews and just that was kind of, like oh, yeah, okay,

664
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 2: COOL i could do. This you. KNOW i was comfortable

665
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: in front of the.

666
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 4: Camera.

667
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 2: Then the only reason WHY i went overseas was ONCE

668
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 2: i realized there was going to be A usa team

669
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 2: THAT i wanted to make The olympic. TEAM i actually

670
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 2: got cut from my First olympic. Team never really tell that,

671
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 2: story BUT i did get. CUT i actually tried out ninety. Two,

672
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 2: YEAH i was in high. School well, NO i. Wasn't,

673
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 2: wait hold, ON i got MY us MIXCEPT i wasn't

674
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 2: in high. SCHOOL i was in college AND i was

675
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 2: one of the last players. Cut that was really. Sad

676
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,479
Speaker 2: but they won the bronze, Medals so just saying they

677
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 2: left that girl at. Home sometimes you need that young

678
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 2: player to just fearless, though you know WHAT i, Mean

679
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 2: LIKE i. Wasn't REALLY i. WASN'T i hadn't studied the

680
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 2: game enough to really know WHO i should be afraid

681
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: of or not or, like you know WHAT i, mean

682
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 2: who the veterans. Were i'm just trying to block, Everything

683
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: LIKE i was just out. There AND i think that's

684
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 2: HOW i made it that far BECAUSE i had done

685
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 2: some really good things against players that really had like

686
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: were household names in. College But i'm, LIKE i don't,

687
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: KNOW i don't know who they. Are. Whatever she picked

688
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 2: up the, balls she tied. Her she was LIKE i,

689
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 2: did let's, roll.

690
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 4: You know right?

691
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 3: Right thinking back to ninety, six how impactful do you

692
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 3: think that you Guys olympic team was on the start

693
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 3: of THE. Wnba do you think that was a huge

694
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 3: like launch path for THE, wnba all of you guys

695
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 3: being in that big stage with The.

696
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 2: Olympics, yeah that was the reason why the way. Began

697
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 2: so what happened was in nineteen ninety five they put

698
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 2: together our women's team to. Play we traveled the. World

699
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 2: we traveled and played In, russia we played In, poland

700
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 2: we played In, ukraine we played In, cuba we played In.

701
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 2: AUSTRALIA i, mean you name. It we. Went we had

702
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 2: ON i always SAY i got a one pair of

703
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 2: sweats that will stand up in the corner by. Themselves

704
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 2: that's how long we had on THOSE usa basketball sweats

705
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 2: like a whole. Year you, Know i'm not a sweats.

706
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: Girl SO i was just, like this is a move

707
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 2: that ain't signed up to. Be we just traveled the

708
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 2: world and played. Everybody so our team went fifty two

709
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: and oh before The. Olympics The olympics was only eight. Games,

710
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 2: okay so it's fifty two and oh we traveled. Everywhere

711
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 2: but what happened was we started our tour our playing

712
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 2: against all the, colleges and that's where they started their

713
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 2: mind started to think we did a college tour playing

714
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 2: ABOUT i want to, say we played maybe fifteen colleges

715
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 2: and beat all of them by like maybe. Fifty, right

716
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 2: maybe there's only one team we didn't be by. Fifty

717
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 2: we beat them so, bad and all these fans over

718
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,720
Speaker 2: they're cheering and getting our autographs and all this stuff

719
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: where they, saw wait a, minute there is another level beyond.

720
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 2: College and they hadn't really paid attention until you could

721
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 2: see that we were like a well oiled. MACHINE i,

722
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 2: mean we were like Freaking San antonio playing against you

723
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: know WHAT i, Mean like it was just bounce. PACK i,

724
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 2: mean we looked like The globetrotters out there playing against

725
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 2: these college, teams but it was just really where you

726
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 2: could see like, damn there is another level and that,

727
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 2: level that gap is really. Far like it's tough for

728
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 2: many these new recruits that come into the draftees that

729
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 2: come into THE, Wnba like they had a crazy statistic

730
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 2: like only maybe like ten of them can even make

731
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,959
Speaker 2: it because the level jumps so far that it's tough

732
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 2: for these young girls coming from college to really prosper

733
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 2: in THE, wnba especially in their first, Year like it's

734
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 2: unheard of and this is you, know except into the,

735
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 2: room you, know the few players who've been able to do.

736
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 2: It so for, us it was kind of like they

737
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 2: saw that gap happen and they started the will started

738
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 2: turning for the moneymakers, early and that's why THE wnba

739
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: got launched because of the success of the ninety six

740
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 2: on the.

741
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 3: Team how was it to play with With Tina thompson

742
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 3: y'all got to play one year?

743
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 2: Together, yes we played one. Year, well we played a

744
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 2: few years. Together we played one year together in college

745
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 2: at a Usc In college because she went To. Morningside

746
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 2: also we played great. TOGETHER i mean our high low was. Sick,

747
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 2: yeah we was one game away from the final four

748
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 2: her freshman. Year so that was my senior. Year we

749
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 2: lost in the lead. Eight but we're gonna blame that

750
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 2: one On Shryl miller because that was her first year

751
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: of coaching and she to this day and she knows

752
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 2: how she was. Doing, so, yeah that was that went

753
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 2: up in. Plays but we we did really. Well we

754
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,439
Speaker 2: played great. Together Obviously. Tina tina gets shoot the three from.

755
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: Anywhere you, know me, Inside i'm giving it to. You

756
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: we can switch it up if you. Know if they

757
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 2: DOUBLE tv and me Put tina down, THERE i can shoot.

758
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 2: THREE i get it. Inside so our INSIDE i was like. Bananas.

759
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 2: Yeah and then we played together ON i think one

760
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 2: or Two olympic. Teams it all runs together for me.

761
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 2: Now but she got a few go medal one at

762
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 2: least one or two gold. MEDALS i believe she has.

763
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: Also so that was the process of when you found

764
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: out that you was going to be an L A

765
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: spark and you was gonna be part of the women's

766
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 1: team for your. Hometown, yeah and they started all this.

767
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: UP i was In New york when they said they're

768
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 2: going to start the w B a AND i just

769
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 2: remember being assigned TO, la WHICH i was, Like, oh that's. Cool,

770
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: now WHEN i heard the Doctor buss was, INVOLVED i was, like,

771
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 2: OH i ain't. Ready, yeah you mean because THEY i

772
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 2: didn't really get the concept of the w B a.

773
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 2: Fully but when WHEN i got back TO la and

774
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 2: then we went to the, form that's where it really him,

775
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 2: like we're practicing in the. Form like my locker room

776
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 2: is Where kareem's locker. IS i ain't got enough. TIME

777
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 2: i ain't enough. TIME i.

778
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 4: READ i.

779
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 2: Wasn't REALLY i really. WASN'T i, MEAN i tell that

780
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: story all the time BECAUSE i know what preparation is

781
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: and hard work and being in the weight, Room LIKE

782
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,919
Speaker 2: i have to stay in the weight room because even

783
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 2: Though i'm six, Five i'm very, thin you know WHAT i.

784
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: Mean and so to be able to bang and do

785
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 2: WHAT i need to do down, LOW i got to.

786
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 2: HOLD i need an extra ten to fifteen just to

787
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: start the season because we run so. Much you, know

788
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 2: you think you know What i'm, Saying so sometimes you

789
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:37,240
Speaker 2: got to be buked.

790
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 4: Up he used to be you don't know that, list

791
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 4: he don't know that. Thing you know that chocolate skin out,

792
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 4: there you, know just doing our, thing you.

793
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: Know he was a little muscled, man, musclehead you, know

794
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: little Must, yeah he used to be.

795
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 2: All, right keep it. Tight yeah you got a little.

796
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 2: Man wait to.

797
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 5: Him.

798
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 4: Now my son on the phone was even growing on

799
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 4: the you know it's my oldest, son. RIGHT i LIKE

800
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 4: i like my. WAY i like my.

801
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 3: WAY i ain't never really had it.

802
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 4: For a long. TIME i like my way about forty,

803
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 4: now whole.

804
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 3: Career trying to make him get someway on the. Book

805
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 3: look at, him look like close to.

806
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 2: Forty then you're gonna have to start pulling back and

807
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 2: tell y'all.

808
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: Forty i'm forty. One i'm forty forty this. Year AND

809
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: i told, him, yeah.

810
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 2: Now you got to start, now you got to really

811
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 2: focus on you got to get back in the weight

812
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 2: room for set the twenty.

813
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 4: OH G O G O.

814
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: G how was the atmosphere it was to play the

815
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: first w N B a game against The Liberty.

816
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 4: MAN i was.

817
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: That i've bember watching it ON tv and stuff like,

818
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: like how was the atmosphere and everybody and how was

819
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: that for?

820
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 4: You? There and being that? Game it? Was that was.

821
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 2: Amazing i'd like to tell YOU i was wishing the my.

822
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 2: Head why the hell AM i not.

823
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 4: READY i.

824
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 2: Mean, nobody you know What i'm. Saying when you the,

825
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 2: first you kind of didn't get it Into and this

826
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 2: is what. HAPPENED im gonna tell. You like the comments

827
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 2: was able to do so. Great they got a chance

828
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 2: to watch that, game those fans and see it in

829
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 2: a snapshot, like, oh this is for. Real like you

830
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 2: know WHAT i, mean because see like it was for

831
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 2: real and you had to come with your a game every.

832
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 2: Night our team was a young. TEAM i had some

833
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 2: really young players that were had to be, developed you

834
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 2: know WHAT i. Mean we had a young team and

835
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 2: myself And Penny, TOLER i think we're the only you,

836
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 2: know it was just a young. Team but we got it.

837
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 2: Together we figured it. Out to win a championship is

838
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 2: not you, know it's not, easy, Man it's not. Easy

839
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 2: it takes, chemistry it takes. Time you got to have

840
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 2: belief in one, another and you know it's not. Done

841
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 2: no one individual can do it by. Themselves and it

842
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,760
Speaker 2: took us time to build that team and to mold

843
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 2: us into what it means to be a.

844
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: Champion it really did AFTER i think it was like

845
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: four years after, them four years of you seeing you,

846
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: know you're going and comments win them three four in a.

847
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 2: Row, yeah they was knocking us out too every.

848
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: Time, now you you, know you kind of got the

849
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: groove and you feel like in two thousand and, one

850
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: that's that. Year you, know y'all lose four. Games the,

851
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: teams the teams field more. Together it's like y'all played

852
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: for a. While y'all kind of messed together a little bit.

853
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: More y'all, know y'all. Identity explain to us that, season

854
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: that first season you win the championship for The sparks

855
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: and bring a championship home back home to the crib.

856
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 4: Part of The lakers. Legs, well you know what.

857
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 2: The Staple center first, off but that's the first year

858
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 2: that The Staple center was. Open so you, know that's

859
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 2: just like a lot of excitement and when you got,

860
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 2: IT i mean walking into The Staples. Center The forum

861
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,240
Speaker 2: was like, nostalgic right because you know what already happened,

862
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 2: there but we had never really created anything. There but

863
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 2: The Staples center was like this is where the mantra.

864
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 2: Started we do not lose at. Home, yeah it is

865
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 2: like this, floor it's disrespectful to be in this gym

866
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 2: and this opportunity in this new arena and lose on this.

867
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 2: Floor and so that was probably the first piece of

868
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: becoming a champion and understanding that we could just take care.

869
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 2: Home it really puts you in a great position and

870
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 2: that probably would be for any. Team but deciding we're

871
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 2: not gonna lose at home was. Everything and then now

872
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 2: you're on the, road and you're on the, road it's,

873
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 2: like do the same. Thing just take the show on the,

874
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 2: road you know What i'm, Saying like it's actually less

875
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 2: pressure on the. Road we don't don't be trying to

876
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 2: do tickets and none and get all that stuff. Done you,

877
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 2: Know Michael cooper comes, in who has That, laker you,

878
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 2: know championship. Attitude you, know he comes in and he's,

879
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 2: like you, Know cooper is like nice and not nice

880
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: at the same. Time you, know he kind of such

881
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 2: a much kind of, person, right so he don't really fool,

882
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 2: everybody but in a way that it works for, Basketball

883
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 2: like we don't really we ain't friends with, nobody you.

884
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 2: Know it's kind of like That Russell, westbrook if you,

885
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 2: will kind of. Personality and so for, Me i'm like

886
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 2: cool BECAUSE i ain't trying to be friends with nobody,

887
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 2: either not what you, know so it works for us

888
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 2: because we're hard. WORKERS i don't like days. Off so my,

889
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 2: team you, know as a, Captain coop is, like y'all

890
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: want to day. Off i'm, like, NOPE i don't like

891
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 2: days off because when you take days off, coaches then

892
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 2: they s are going nuts and running. Us i'm, like

893
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 2: just we could have just came in and got some

894
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 2: shots up and been done with, it you know WHAT i,

895
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 2: Mean let's get some shots up and shoot some free.

896
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 2: Throws so he called my, nickname you know From coop is,

897
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 2: smooth and so he calls me smooth because you, know

898
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 2: like my game is. Smooth you, know my style is.

899
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 2: Smooth ye know What i'm. SAYING i agree With kenny

900
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 2: from a, baby but you, Know i'm just but the

901
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 2: thing to me was like he'd be, Like, smooth want

902
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 2: to day? Off he just go by me And i'm, like,

903
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 2: no we. Don't we don't need a day.

904
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 4: Out i'm be honest with.

905
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 3: You i'd have been mad at you sometimes WHEN i

906
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 3: Got look WHEN i got, OLD i WAS i was

907
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 3: about there like but a young man would have been, like,

908
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 3: damn she always let's.

909
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 2: Go we ain't got no championships ain't got no. Rings

910
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 2: what we get days off? For like he was beating my.

911
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 4: HEAD i don't you.

912
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 2: Know my thing is listen because it's condensed in the, summer,

913
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 2: right the hardest sacrifices give you, know summer summer THERE'S i, MEAN,

914
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 2: la you got the, beach you got the cool, parties

915
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 2: you got you, know we got bowling and.

916
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 4: Up it's like y'all was giving.

917
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 2: Up you got to give it. Up So i'm, like

918
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 2: in order for these new players to really UNDERSTAND, la

919
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 2: we don't get to ENJOY la like everybody, else and

920
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 2: you got to make sacrifices and if we really want

921
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 2: to raise the trophy every, year we don't win y'all

922
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 2: ways in.

923
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 4: My career.

924
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 2: And you, Know kobe was like, that like it's just

925
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 2: like this is some bullshit and we ain't win.

926
00:44:59,200 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 4: It what are we?

927
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 2: Doing you know What i'm. Saying and we used to

928
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 2: talk about, that like what do we? Do it's it's a,

929
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 2: bus that's. It i'm, like about the time we get

930
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 2: to two, thousand two thousand and, one two thousand and,

931
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 2: two two thousand and, three were, ROLLING.

932
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: I, know LIKE i, thought like coming in when they,

933
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: started like you're finna come right out and be the best.

934
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: Player you know What i'm, saying that the most dominant

935
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: player in the, league you the best. Player but then

936
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,959
Speaker 1: it didn't come into that championship year WHERE i felt

937
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: like you totally dominated the league and you showed that

938
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: you were the best player in the. League you WON,

939
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: mvp you won FINALS. Mvp how was that for? YOU

940
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 1: i was satisfying that for you to feel, Like, Man i'm,

941
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: LIKE i, DOMINATED i won the. CHAMPIONSHIP i feel Like

942
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: i'm the best player in the world to leave my

943
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: team to do, this and you want you know What i'm, saying.

944
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 4: Sportswoman, yeah and now all you did you come back to.

945
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 4: Back you, know that's what real true.

946
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: Champions that's WHAT i initially thought coming, In like you,

947
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: SAID i was slow coming. In you, know a lot

948
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: of girls was, ahead and which you, show you know

949
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: What i'm. Saying that's WHY i understand it out here

950
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: you talk about, like, yeah CAUSE i was, like, Man

951
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: Lisa leslie is so, dominating and then when you finally

952
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: showed your, domination it was, like, man that's.

953
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 2: Crazy, yeah it's, Tough And i'll tell you. Why it's really,

954
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 2: tough because everybody has to have the same level of.

955
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 2: Commitment like we can look at the. Stats it's not

956
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 2: like my numbers are up and down or my rebounds

957
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 2: are up and. Down Like i'm REALLY i was a

958
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 2: really consistent. Player i've always gotten better every, year you,

959
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 2: know BECAUSE i add stuff to my game Because i'm

960
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 2: a student of the. Game you. Know it's, like, hey

961
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 2: If i'm going, Left i'm going. Right IF i got

962
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 2: a hook shot going, LEFT i need a hookshot going

963
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 2: right up and under step through, whatever step, back fade.

964
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 2: Away we can do the Whole keyky. Series we can

965
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 2: do face. Up you know What i'm, Saying like you don't.

966
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 2: Matter you know What i'm. Saying my game is what it.

967
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 2: Is BUT i need. Teammates i'm an unselfish, teammate you

968
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 2: know WHAT i. Mean, Like i'm not really like the

969
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,280
Speaker 2: person who got to go out and just get, thirty

970
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 2: win or, lose LIKE i got. Thirty that's not my.

971
00:46:57,920 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 2: Thing SO i got to figure out how DO i

972
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 2: make these players around me, better you know WHAT i,

973
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 2: mean as, Teammates and if their drive is not necessarily

974
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 2: the same as. Mine some people, are some people are.

975
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 2: Not everybody's not willing to make the same everybody's not

976
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 2: willing to make the same. Sacrifices and that's true on every,

977
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 2: team you know WHAT i mean another quote you Know

978
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 2: kobe was, saying and you, know obviously you KNOW i

979
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 2: Love kobe and you know for him not to be,

980
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 2: it but just the thoughts of, like everybody's not willing

981
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 2: to make the sacrifice to do What i'm willing to.

982
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: Do and that really is the case across the. Board

983
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 2: and how do you get each teammate to try to

984
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 2: buy into? That because you need, everybody you really. Do

985
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 2: and so part of that is not THAT i wasn't

986
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 2: necessarily dominating BECAUSE i Was All star AND i MADE

987
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 2: MVPs and The All Star game and things like. THAT

988
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 2: i was Winning gold, Medals But i'm still in need

989
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 2: of teammates or willing to make the. Sacrifice we already know.

990
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 2: Either And Michael, coop you just say this all the.

991
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 2: Time Either i'm going to get us through the regular

992
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 2: season Or i'm going to get us the. Championship BUT

993
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 2: i can't do.

994
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:58,879
Speaker 4: Both? Why?

995
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 2: Why because at some point you got to send a

996
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 2: double in a triple you got? You, YEAH i mean

997
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,479
Speaker 2: you can't stop me one on. One you can't put

998
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 2: one player on. Me so at some point every team

999
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 2: sending a, double they're gonna make Sure lisa didn't beat.

1000
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 2: Them somebody else got to step. Up you know What i'm.

1001
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: Saying you refuse to lose them back to. Back it

1002
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: was like you were playing with a chip on your

1003
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: show that you. Refuse and you know what remind me

1004
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: of that moment when y'all finally broke the ice in

1005
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: one Was Candas parker when they Beat. Minnesota that reminded

1006
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: me of at the same moment when they beat, them

1007
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: like you can see out there doing that.

1008
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 4: Series like, man she refused to lose any and.

1009
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: Everybody minnesota is running These chevyons ships. Off but they

1010
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: finna lose this year because she was playing refuse and.

1011
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: Losing like you, said it wasn't about the. Stats it

1012
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,280
Speaker 1: was just she was doing everything you have to somethime

1013
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: and that that reminds me of the time with you

1014
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: when you won them back to back and then you

1015
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: wanted at a time we was out there to win The.

1016
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 4: Lakers is whenning they back to, back how was the high.

1017
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 3: Y'all had the whole damn and you know we was

1018
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 3: the love brother and not winning the damn. Thing but

1019
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 3: like the, city it was like for. Real that was

1020
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 3: when like though we came straight into the. League right

1021
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,280
Speaker 3: in the middle of that all day y'all they, dynasty

1022
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 3: y'all dynasty everything the whole city was on.

1023
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 4: Fire how was that from? You for you being an

1024
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 4: l a k and you part of this and you.

1025
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 3: Know that got The lakers doing their thing and you

1026
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 3: know how you got a relationship with those, guys and

1027
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 3: how was that for?

1028
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 4: You and that in that?

1029
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 2: Time it was amazing outstanding one because the late great

1030
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,720
Speaker 2: Doctor buss was at an amazing owner With Jeannie, buzz

1031
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 2: with all The bus family in. General they took care

1032
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 2: of us and they took care of us in a.

1033
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 2: Way you. KNOW i don't know if it was just

1034
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 2: because we, won but we want so now here we,

1035
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 2: Are we got the, sparks were going To hawaii with

1036
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 2: The lakers because The lakers is doing their preseason In,

1037
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 2: hawaiian you know WHAT i. Mean so we're celebrating our,

1038
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 2: championship we all, eating you, know we got we got good.

1039
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 2: Money you, know everything was like so, Amazing AND i

1040
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 2: think it's the treatment THAT i think that's really what

1041
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 2: it boils down. To being a female. Athlete in our,

1042
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 2: country we get treated like second class. Citizens AND i

1043
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 2: know that we all can understand what that looks. Like

1044
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 2: it sounds like now more in twenty one than ever,

1045
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 2: before but it's really the way that we were. Treated

1046
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 2: and so when you get into a situation where people

1047
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 2: treat you and value, you you can appreciate it. More

1048
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 2: and we were. Value Doctor buss really loved. Us he

1049
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 2: loved the, Sparks he loved, me you, know it's one

1050
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 2: of his, favorites you, know and he showed value in.

1051
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 2: That AND i appreciate. That you. Know i've never asked

1052
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,720
Speaker 2: that man for anything or his, family you, know because

1053
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 2: that's not my. Style BUT i appreciate you just recognizing

1054
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:49,840
Speaker 2: THAT i work hard in this purple and, goal AND

1055
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 2: i believe purple and goal just like the rest of.

1056
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 2: Everybody you. KNOW i grew Up showtime, fan you, Know

1057
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 2: Byron scott went To Morningside High. School HOW i got

1058
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 2: my first time in the forum is because Of Byron,

1059
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 2: scott you, know cleaning, back giving, Back, yeah bringing the

1060
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: high school boys and girls team to the. Farm OTHERWISE

1061
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 2: i don't get into that. Building so that's, like that's

1062
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 2: love THAT i remember what it's like and WHY i

1063
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 2: love being a road, mateter WHY i signed so many

1064
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 2: autographs and take pictures with all of the babies and you,

1065
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 2: know do WHAT i do because somebody did that for.

1066
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 2: Me inner city, kid you, know with this opportunity to

1067
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 2: get in that. Building AND i know we all have

1068
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 2: walked in The Staples center and we don't think anything about.

1069
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 2: It we drive through the, tunnel it's just what we.

1070
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 2: Do but there is a kid in a family that

1071
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 2: don't even understand how do we get? Access how do

1072
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 2: you even get in? There AND i love to give

1073
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 2: to those people and those families who just looking at

1074
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 2: that building like, dang like y'all playing. There you know

1075
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 2: WHAT i mean BECAUSE i remember that. Feeling.

1076
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 3: Staples out of all the TEAMS i played for in

1077
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 3: all the arenas you know around you go and, Play

1078
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 3: staples has always been my favorite. Arena don't know, why

1079
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 3: maybe because it was you, know my first four, years

1080
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 3: but like it didn't matter whatever TEAM i was. ON

1081
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 3: i came back To, state BUT i was, like, man,

1082
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 3: boy this this one of the LIKE i loved playing

1083
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 3: in The staples. Arena it was like like it was

1084
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 3: brand new when we got, There like you, say it

1085
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 3: was like this is. Cold it's like cause you, know

1086
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 3: when something, new it's gonna be like one of the

1087
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 3: best in the whole league, Anyway so it was like

1088
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 3: this was BRINGING i was like.

1089
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 2: That you know what's. FUNNY i had for the first

1090
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:29,800
Speaker 2: time season tickets That i've ever bought in my life

1091
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 2: were for The. Clippers tickets y'all, PLAY.

1092
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 4: I tell, listen. LISTEN i tell people all the.

1093
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 3: Time we weren't in no way trying to be in

1094
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 3: no type like we be stupid to be trying to

1095
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 3: compete with The. Lakers they literally was doing the three.

1096
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 3: Peak it wasn't no. Competition we used to anytime we

1097
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 3: got to hang with shock or. Something it was all.

1098
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 4: Love but it was LIKE i tell people all the,

1099
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 4: time when we was.

1100
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 3: There we had a little corn over, here like even

1101
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 3: something like we would Have lakers fans like, MAN i

1102
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 3: like the way y'all boys, Play like you know What i'm,

1103
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 3: Saying like We lakers, fan but like we like the

1104
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,240
Speaker 3: way y'all young boy playing because he was out.

1105
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:06,239
Speaker 4: There just young and just, yeah don't. See we Had

1106
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 4: look we had, YEAH.

1107
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 2: I had two tickets behind the basket on the.

1108
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: Floor we always. Had our guys used to be a.

1109
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: Vibe it wasn't The hollywood vibe The, lakers but we had.

1110
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 4: A nice little. Vibeless she used to, hard she used

1111
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 4: to rock with.

1112
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 3: Us that's my, god, Bless how was it when you

1113
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 3: were the first woman to dunk in a w N

1114
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 3: B a?

1115
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 4: Game, like how was? THAT i remember you said that

1116
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 4: was one of your.

1117
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 3: Goals take me through how you had the feeling of

1118
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 3: that moment and when you got got a chance to achieve.

1119
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 2: That, yeah you know, again it was a goal of.

1120
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 2: Mine and we just happened to get into a situation

1121
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 2: where our team was. Down SO i was really. MAD

1122
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 2: i was mad at my team because we were like leading.

1123
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 2: THIS i, mean you know it Was. Miami they Was

1124
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 2: they weren't that strong of a. Team you, know the record,

1125
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 2: was all, right we're at. Home we don't lose it.

1126
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 2: Home we end up losing that, game by the, way

1127
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 2: because you, KNOW i, remember so, anyways be in a

1128
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 2: situation where my teammate gets a. Steal So i'm running.

1129
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 2: Down she gets a, steal SO i turned back as

1130
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 2: she throws the ball, ahead and you, Know i'm just

1131
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 2: dribbling up AND i just dunk, it BUT i was

1132
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 2: like mad WHEN i went up and THEN i dunked

1133
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 2: it And i'm, like oh, yeah like let's. Go like you,

1134
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 2: KNOW i was like everybody, like let's go the whole.

1135
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 2: Gym i'm jumping around and, then you, Know my thing

1136
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 2: is Just i've always tried to motivate my teammates by my.

1137
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 2: Actions you, Know i'm also a talker, too SO i

1138
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 2: motivate them by my, words but my actions is Like

1139
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 2: i'm not gonna let you, down and, hopefully you, know

1140
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 2: in that, Moment i'm thinking we could turn this thing

1141
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 2: around because we was getting. Drove and, yeah we ain't

1142
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 2: turn it around, though BUT i.

1143
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 1: Did don't how was it to WIN mvp And Defensive

1144
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:53,320
Speaker 1: player The year in the same.

1145
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 2: Year you know, What i'm really an avid goal, setter

1146
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:02,280
Speaker 2: and what happened and for me is THAT i started

1147
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 2: to try to figure out what ELSE i could do

1148
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 2: with you, know challenges for each. Season, AGAIN i told

1149
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 2: YOU i was training in the well with the off,

1150
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 2: season was in the you, know the, fall, Right SO

1151
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 2: i was in the. GYM i used to be in

1152
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 2: our practice facility before The lakers came. In So lakers

1153
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 2: practice about a thirty nine players start trickling. IN i

1154
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 2: used to practice from six thirty seven With coop before

1155
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 2: The lakers come in AND i shoot and play With

1156
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 2: Derek fisher and you, know playing shooting games and things like,

1157
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 2: that and THEN i would. Leave so for, ME i

1158
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,320
Speaker 2: used to go meet with my, Trainer Adam. Friedman shout

1159
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 2: out To, adam who's over there At Ghost gyms In Venice.

1160
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 2: STAMP i used to go meet With adam and so

1161
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 2: we would come up with like, goals like what do

1162
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 2: you want to do this? Year i'm, like for this?

1163
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 2: Year you know, What? ADAM i want to, dunk. Man

1164
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 2: i've been dunking SINCE i was in high, school BUT

1165
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 2: i have not dunked in THE wnba. Game let's put

1166
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 2: that on. THERE i want to. DUNK i want to BE.

1167
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 2: Mvp what else HAVE i? Done, oh there's a scoring champion.

1168
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 2: THING i don't know you get paid for. That SO

1169
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 2: i want to be the scoring. Champ also want to

1170
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 2: us gonna Win Defensive player of the. Years put that

1171
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 2: in My nike. Contract so my thing is check. This i'm,

1172
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 2: like what do you get paid to?

1173
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 4: Do?

1174
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 2: Oh, okay there you. Go so that's how all that came.

1175
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 2: About and each year THAT i had something written, DOWN

1176
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 2: i want it OR i check it?

1177
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: Off you the first and only to win? That what

1178
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 1: to do that in the same? Year AM i defensive

1179
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 1: player could? Be you gotta you don't have to check the.

1180
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: Books you gotta be the first and only BECAUSE i

1181
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: ain't hurt nobody. ELSE mvp and defensive players the first

1182
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: and The yeah it happened the same. Year oh, wow

1183
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 1: it happened to have the same year four, Four, YEAH

1184
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: i have seventeen nine and.

1185
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 2: Two, Yeah i'm just. Kidding you know. WHAT i just Love,

1186
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 2: YEAH i just love playing. Man you know THAT'S i

1187
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 2: don't know. Basketball for, me it was really just my.

1188
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 2: LIFE i was really married to the. Game sorry to

1189
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 2: all those proposals that didn't work, out because it was

1190
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 2: secondary to WHAT i had going.

1191
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 4: On like it was a lot of.

1192
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 2: Them it was. TWO i accepted the third. One SO

1193
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 2: i am married seventeen.

1194
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 4: Years beautiful. Family i'll be seeing you all on the.

1195
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: Ground, YEAH i had an opportunity to draft Of to,

1196
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 1: me she's a transcendent. Player she's a different style, player

1197
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: and her name Is Candis. Parker when we asked her

1198
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: when she first got the, league who BUST i, asked

1199
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: and she, said WHEN i got to practice milding And

1200
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: Lisa leslie used to kill me.

1201
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 4: Every.

1202
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:48,479
Speaker 1: Practice do you remember when a Young Kandas, Parker, yeah

1203
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: came through the door and with all the skills and

1204
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: different moves and y'all had the VETERAN iq and y'all

1205
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: had to get out of. Her how was that when seeing

1206
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: a Young Kandas parker through the.

1207
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 2: Door it was so good and it was tough for.

1208
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 2: Her But, CANDACE i call So Kennis coop Gave cann's

1209
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 2: nickname Is, silk So i'm, Smooth She's, silk and we

1210
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 2: hit it off. Great most people thought we were not

1211
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 2: gonna get along and all this drama and. Stuff, Listen

1212
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 2: i'm cool you on my. Team we got to save you.

1213
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 2: First let's, roll you know WHAT i. Mean and she

1214
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 2: came in and it was so cute Because hannah's amazing Like.

1215
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 2: Canni the biggest thing the difference is that our work ethic.

1216
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 2: Right Like i'm a, WORKER i have to work hard

1217
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 2: to do WHAT i. Do kennis has a more effortless.

1218
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 2: Game she has a lot of, talent but she doesn't

1219
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 2: work as hard and that's what her biggest. CHALLENGE i

1220
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 2: think been for her whole. Career when she turns it,

1221
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 2: on when she Decides candace will come in and her

1222
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 2: freaking reach over me and get a, rebound And i'm,

1223
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 2: like what the? Heck same, team, Right but then she

1224
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 2: let five other rebounds go that were like can it

1225
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 2: like move to the, ball you. Know AND i used

1226
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 2: to get on her privately about her, ability like she

1227
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 2: has amazing, ability but that work ethic is something she's

1228
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 2: really gonna have to tap into and in order for

1229
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 2: her to be a champion. Again at this, level you

1230
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 2: gotta work. Harder people will outwork. You and so it was.

1231
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 2: Cute she was amazing because she used To we stayed

1232
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 2: in the same building AND i used to make her

1233
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 2: breakfast because she would eat. Right i'm, Like, CANNIS i

1234
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 2: got some oatmeal here for. You come eat some oatmel

1235
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 2: and some. Fruit heading out to, practice so you, KNOW

1236
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 2: i took her under my, way, yeah because she was

1237
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 2: she was not having. It then we in the weight,

1238
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 2: room she got the little, bitty little bitty. WAITS i, Said,

1239
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 2: candace you got to pick up some ways with. Her

1240
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:44,919
Speaker 2: you're not gonna make. It these girls are gonna beat.

1241
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 2: You you're not gonna make. It, yes you're more, skilled

1242
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 2: but you gotta be, strong you know WHAT i. Mean so.

1243
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 3: She was out there THAT i ain't trying to get

1244
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 3: to all.

1245
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 4: It was.

1246
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 2: Hell she was, silky, silky but she has so, much

1247
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 2: so much, talent and she KNOWS i love. Her AND

1248
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 2: i just told her, listening WHATEVER i can give, you

1249
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 2: HOWEVER i can help, YOU i will do, that you,

1250
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 2: know until the. End and that's pretty much what we.

1251
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 2: DID i exchanged and gave her WHATEVER i. Could she

1252
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 2: was very. Receptive and the, funny the funny STORY i

1253
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 2: have About candace is when somebody else tell her what to,

1254
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 2: do and it'll be like a, veteran, right somebody been,

1255
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,439
Speaker 2: there you, know they on ten twelve years and they're

1256
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 2: like cannas cans you need to box out of you

1257
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 2: need to do something she did is look she like.

1258
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 2: Smooth what is her? Name i'm, like first, off she's

1259
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 2: been in the league for twelve years And i'm, like

1260
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:47,400
Speaker 2: can's you got to listen to everybody from. Everybody she's,

1261
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 2: like shen't even talking to me FOR i, said, sweetheart

1262
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 2: it don't work like.

1263
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: That to see a Young kandace walk through that door

1264
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: and be on the sports than to see her now

1265
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: at the point of her, career winning a W nba

1266
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: championship for the sports being ON, tnt showing her personality

1267
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: and seeing her, growth her becoming a mother and all

1268
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 1: these good. Things how proud of you of? Her seeing

1269
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 1: her a young can's coming in and seeing her where

1270
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: she at.

1271
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 2: Now i'm very proud of, her and she knows it

1272
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 2: BECAUSE i sent her a little texts and we'll talk

1273
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 2: or we send stuff through ig or you know how

1274
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:27,920
Speaker 2: you do you feel like you've been talking all the,

1275
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 2: time but we. Do we talked enough to keep in

1276
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:33,439
Speaker 2: touch with what's going on with our, children what's going

1277
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 2: with each. Other That i'm proud of. Her you, know

1278
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 2: she left The sparks and she's In, chicago so you

1279
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 2: KNOW i have to be, like oh, wait.

1280
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 4: What happened that?

1281
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 3: Time so you, KNOW i LOVE i got me A

1282
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 3: candids park In chicago On thea's.

1283
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 2: Always going to be loved because the way that we

1284
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 2: came together was just you, know it was amazing for

1285
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 2: us to be able to get. Her actually we Got

1286
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 2: candids through the draft BECAUSE i was. Pregnant so that

1287
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 2: turned out to be Like, laura because you, know you

1288
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 2: when you as a female baller and stopping basketball for

1289
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 2: pregnancy is, like that is just. Terrible it's a terrible

1290
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 2: feeling for the, franchise you, know as the franchise. Player

1291
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 2: and so for us to be really blessed enough to

1292
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 2: Get cannae in that, Moment i'm, like, see see it

1293
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 2: all worked. OUT i was super happy when we got,

1294
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 2: her And i'm, like, okay this is this is gonna

1295
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 2: be it right. Here you, KNOW i hand a torch

1296
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 2: off to, her and, uh you, know the rest is.

1297
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 2: History she's done a phenomenal. Job you, know she follows

1298
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:37,080
Speaker 2: in my. Footsteps you can SEE t AND t took my.

1299
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 2: Job she got that. Job she DOES abc or, no

1300
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 2: she DOES Cbs sports college. Basketball you, Know i'm really

1301
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 2: proud of. Her i'm probably as a. Mom she does

1302
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 2: an amazing job With, Layla and you, KNOW i remember

1303
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 2: she she just always wanted to be a. Mom she

1304
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 2: used to hold my daughter all the time and now

1305
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 2: she has.

1306
01:02:55,920 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 3: One so was that the hardest thing ever for you

1307
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:02,520
Speaker 3: to have a child and then come back and play.

1308
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,479
Speaker 3: Basketball how hard is? THAT i can't even.

1309
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 2: Fathom, dude trust, me you wouldn't have made it.

1310
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 3: Back and then you get the ass, Back, no Because

1311
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 3: i'm just thinking about you, KNOW i watched my wife

1312
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 3: she we got we got, kids AND i, watched, like

1313
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 3: how do you do?

1314
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 4: That being bounce back to be able To it's.

1315
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 2: TERRIBLE i ain't gonna lie to. You it's. Terrible it's very.

1316
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 2: Hard but you know the thing about our bodies is

1317
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 2: that we're such machines in terms of you, know it's

1318
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 2: just like going the. Backyard i'm gonna out shoot anybody

1319
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 2: who walks out. Here you know What i'm, Saying, Like

1320
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 2: i'm always gonna be able to. SHOOT i ain't gonna

1321
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 2: be able to go up and. Down and you KNOW

1322
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 2: i can't dunk. Anymore i'm pretty SURE i still got

1323
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 2: some homes a little bit in there, Though but you

1324
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 2: know WHAT i, mean like you lose, something AND i lost,

1325
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 2: something AND i remember feeling. It even THOUGH i worked

1326
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 2: hard AS i, COULD i did all my ad. WORKOUTS

1327
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 2: i was. Okay after my first, child actually AFTER i Had,

1328
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 2: lauren my, DAUGHTER i came back AND i played two

1329
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 2: seasons AND i PLAYED i won another gold. MEDAL i was.

1330
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 2: Okay the second one is what my son's just wrecked.

1331
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 2: Heavy that was probably the. HARDEST i think the younger you,

1332
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 2: are the easier it is to have a child and snap.

1333
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 2: Back but the older you. Get SO i was what

1334
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:23,680
Speaker 2: thirty four or thirty five somewhere that was it was just.

1335
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 2: Harder it was. TOUGH i knew it was time for

1336
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 2: me to. RETIRE i was actually pregnant in two thousand

1337
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 2: and nine WHEN i was playing THAT i didn't tell,

1338
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 2: Anyone so it was just. Hard it's just difficult to

1339
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 2: have your body and your abs all that all stretched.

1340
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 2: Out you, know everything we moved through really is from our,

1341
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 2: abs like our trainer tells. Us BUT i remember the

1342
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 2: moment WHEN i was, like the ball came off the

1343
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 2: rim AND i saw it AND i was, like get.

1344
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:55,960
Speaker 2: It AND i didn't, move BUT i was, like, like you,

1345
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 2: know you know how you like box out and go

1346
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 2: rebound like it all is one. Motion you don't even

1347
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 2: think about. It it just. Happened AND i remember WHEN

1348
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:05,400
Speaker 2: i got back AND i was, LIKE i had to

1349
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 2: do one or the. OTHER i couldn't do. BOTH i

1350
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 2: couldn't like just instinctively get to the ball and boxed.

1351
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:13,320
Speaker 2: Out and that's WHEN i knew it's time for me to.

1352
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: Retire CAN i asked you that shouldn't it be for

1353
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: college and women's, sports just all over, sports not just

1354
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 1: for one. Sport shouldn't it be something that's in a

1355
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: contract or in sports for women so they don't have

1356
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 1: to feel like THEY i can't tell you That i'm

1357
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 1: pregnant with a, baby like it should be like some

1358
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: type OF i want to say, compensation because compensation is

1359
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 1: not the right.

1360
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 4: Word now there is.

1361
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 2: Compensation actually that you're right because now in THE, wba

1362
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 2: it is in the contract that you can take your

1363
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 2: the word's not escaping my, head but forst you can

1364
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 2: still get half of your, contract you know WHAT i,

1365
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 2: mean and have your. Pregnancy you can still be. Compensated

1366
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 2: WHEN i, played it's just, like, yeah that's WHAT i.

1367
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 3: Ask how was that for you when you got pregnant

1368
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 3: with your first child and you was like in the,

1369
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 3: Middle like how were you in that moment when you

1370
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 3: found out.

1371
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 4: Like you the?

1372
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 3: Franchise, YEAH i was going through your head and like

1373
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 3: how did you build up to like go tell them

1374
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 3: like this is what's going.

1375
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 2: On, yeah it's. TOUGH i was so nervous AND i

1376
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 2: was really. Sick you, KNOW i wasn't sick from my,

1377
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 2: child BUT i was just, sick like Damn LIKE i,

1378
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 2: mean CAUSE i played, ball you know WHAT i, Mean

1379
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 2: LIKE i gave it my all AND i LOVE la

1380
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 2: AND i felt Like i'm not just letting down my,

1381
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 2: Franchise i'm letting down the. City like you, know we

1382
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 2: won two. Championships in, FACT i was THE mvp two

1383
01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 2: thousand and. SIX i THINK i WON. MVP i had my.

1384
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 2: DAUGHTER i was pregnant in two thousand and, seven SO

1385
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:43,479
Speaker 2: i missed a two thousand and seven. Seasons So i'm

1386
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:47,440
Speaker 2: not only just, Out i'm leaving as the top player

1387
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 2: in THE wnba. Too SO i, MEAN i was really

1388
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 2: like at the top of my, GAME i played In

1389
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:55,200
Speaker 2: russia LIKE i. WAS i was, Nice.

1390
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 3: SIDYBY i love. That you gotta look and check with

1391
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 3: shephies's wish to see what it. Is that's that's just a.

1392
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 3: SIDEBARK i realize a lot of most people ain't got them.

1393
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 3: Problems that's All i'm gonna. Say that's All i'm gonna.

1394
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 3: Say right, There, Man so, wait you said you were.

1395
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 3: Pregnant oh, man, yeah you. Play, yeah that's.

1396
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 4: Crazy that's WHY i say all the.

1397
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:25,439
Speaker 3: Time well, women, Y'all LIKE i knew WHEN i first

1398
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 3: saw my wife GET i was, like, man women are

1399
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 3: super Superman, like that's it's.

1400
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 2: Crazy it really. Is you don't really know until you

1401
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:38,920
Speaker 2: in the. Situation but the child bearing thing and sports

1402
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 2: and just you, know it's that mental. Toughness SO i

1403
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,920
Speaker 2: think that's the thing that drives us for the moms that,

1404
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 2: return you, KNOW i think About Alison felix Or Serena,

1405
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 2: williams you know where you're just it's what we've done

1406
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 2: so much of our like more of our whole. Life

1407
01:07:56,120 --> 01:07:59,240
Speaker 2: we've been playing our sport and at the top of your.

1408
01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 2: Sport it's really hard to stop and think like you're

1409
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 2: done because you're. Pregnant it's, like oh, yeah, no other

1410
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 2: women have gone through. This i'm not the first. Mom,

1411
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,240
Speaker 2: like let's figure this. Out we don't have this. Baby

1412
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 2: AND i mean. NURSING i MEAN i was nursing in

1413
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:16,440
Speaker 2: the locker. Room you, know you gotta this is. Crazy

1414
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 2: it really is to think that we go through so

1415
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 2: much and our bodies went through so, much but love

1416
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 2: for the. Game, man you just gotta figure find a

1417
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 2: way get back out.

1418
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 4: There we just we just got.

1419
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: The opportunity to see uh DUNCAN kg And kobe go

1420
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 1: to The hall Of. Fame how was Your hall Of

1421
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:38,559
Speaker 1: fame experience when you got the, call when you went

1422
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 1: up there?

1423
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 4: Experience how was it for?

1424
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 3: You?

1425
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 2: Man, well first, OFF i was, there so it was

1426
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 2: great to See kobe going to The hall Of fame

1427
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 2: as well as Kg, oh that was, outstanding And Tim

1428
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 2: duncan all those men and women who else was in?

1429
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 2: There there was the coach Kim Oke catch was. Amazing so,

1430
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 2: anyway it was so. Great i'm so happy to be

1431
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 2: a part of that whole family Of hall of. Famers

1432
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 2: and to be really, HONEST i never even knew anything

1433
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 2: about The hall Of. Fame it was never anything on

1434
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:13,360
Speaker 2: my radar at. All WHEN i, retired they were, like you,

1435
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 2: know it takes five, years and five years you get

1436
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,600
Speaker 2: to be, inducted And i'm, like, Dude i'm good on

1437
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 2: all the. AWARDS i didn't really get it until you

1438
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 2: really like go there and you see you're, like, dang,

1439
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 2: oh like this is it was major AND i was really.

1440
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 2: Thankful you, know probably the hardest thing is what do you?

1441
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 2: Learn but, yeah my speech was. Cool you, KNOW i

1442
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:38,000
Speaker 2: just said a speech THAT i think it was TITLED

1443
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 2: i didn't get. HERE i didn't get here by myself

1444
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 2: because you, KNOW i didn't get here. Alone it was

1445
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 2: just so many, people my, mom, my, sister, gosh you,

1446
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:50,559
Speaker 2: know my, husband just the whole, process all my. Teammates

1447
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 2: i've had some amazing. Teammates i've had some amazing, coaches

1448
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 2: and so to be inducted into The hall Of, FAME

1449
01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 2: i know it's an individual, award but it really. Is

1450
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 2: you can't get there without all the amazing people who support.

1451
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 2: You SO i really get homage to, everybody coaches and.

1452
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:08,800
Speaker 4: All all The hall Of famers that we.

1453
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: Asked they, said when they get, in they really realize

1454
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 1: it's kind of hit. Them it's like they rewind from

1455
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 1: the first time they grabbed the ball from all the,

1456
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:21,640
Speaker 1: coaches teammates all the way back to this. Point was

1457
01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 1: that like kind of the experience for, You like you

1458
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,639
Speaker 1: just kind of just go back to vand the early

1459
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 1: days all the way to now ups and.

1460
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 2: Down, YES i think the biggest THING i think about

1461
01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 2: is my, Homegirl shay shares her name because we played.

1462
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 2: BALL i went To Walley Junior high In, compton and

1463
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,559
Speaker 2: my first time, going ACTUALLY i wasn't even a, baller so,

1464
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:45,360
Speaker 2: LISTEN i played double dutch every day AND i was

1465
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 2: in drill. Team SO i was like, shaking you, know

1466
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 2: dancing in the streets and jumping Double. Dutch seventh. Grade

1467
01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:54,519
Speaker 2: so seventh, GRADE i go And i'm like six. Foot

1468
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 2: this is ridiculous because my daughter is six' one and she.

1469
01:10:57,120 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 2: THIRTEEN i was six foot at. Twelve SO i go

1470
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:02,840
Speaker 2: into you, know middle. School, YEAH i was up there.

1471
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 2: ALWAYS i go in to middle school and they were Like, Shae.

1472
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 2: Shae you, know everybody Calling. Shane i'm, like, dang Who's,

1473
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 2: Shae like what's? Eight now? Her and they're, like, oh

1474
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:14,160
Speaker 2: that's Shame shae on the basketball. Team i'm, Like, okay

1475
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:16,680
Speaker 2: that moment for. ME i don't know If god was

1476
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,840
Speaker 2: just like paying attention or, what But i'm, like, DAMN

1477
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 2: i want to be Like, shaane like everybody.

1478
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: Knows that's HOW i was seeing the guys that was the.

1479
01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 1: MAN i was, like, MAN i want to BE i

1480
01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: want to be that.

1481
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 2: Right And i'm telling you between that and me SAYING

1482
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 2: i want to be the go to, person LIKE i

1483
01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 2: want people to throw me the ball when they need a.

1484
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 2: BASKET i don't know how that sea gets, plenty but

1485
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 2: it's just it was shade for. Me So SHAE i

1486
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:43,760
Speaker 2: thought ABOUT i was just like dang And shane was

1487
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 2: such a nice. Girl like she. Was she was a

1488
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 2: baller like she. Was she was, built but she was

1489
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:52,480
Speaker 2: kind of playing, like, oh who do you think? About

1490
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:54,880
Speaker 2: she was kind of like a person who you think

1491
01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 2: kind of like a Strong Carmelo, anthony like like in the,

1492
01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 2: way but she got buckets from. Everywhere she could somebody,

1493
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 2: shot she can.

1494
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:05,560
Speaker 4: Rebound you.

1495
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 2: Know she was just like, yeamn that. Girl she is.

1496
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 2: Amazing but just seeing her was, LIKE i want to

1497
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:14,639
Speaker 2: be Like. SHAY i want people to know my. NAME

1498
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 2: i want people to be, like who is that? Girl it's.

1499
01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 2: Life it's funny like.

1500
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 3: That, man tell me. THIS i see one of the

1501
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 3: trophies back there is? It i'm imagining that's The Big

1502
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:27,519
Speaker 3: Three coach of The year. Trophy, like tell me how

1503
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 3: was that, experience because as you, know we played against,

1504
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:34,280
Speaker 3: YOU i played in the league and Coach, Lieberman, nancy

1505
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 3: WHO i loved to, death was my coach and and

1506
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,200
Speaker 3: you know she was the first one to do what you,

1507
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 3: did coaching men and winning and you, know we love Coach,

1508
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 3: lieberman AND i WAS i was extremely proud to be

1509
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 3: a part of that team and she coached and to

1510
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 3: help her be to you, know win a championship and

1511
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,760
Speaker 3: all of. That how was your experience Coaching joe and

1512
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:56,880
Speaker 3: all of those? GUYS i already know kind of what

1513
01:12:56,920 --> 01:13:00,840
Speaker 3: you're gonna. Say but it was. Great was. Great the

1514
01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 3: experience was.

1515
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:01,760
Speaker 4: Good.

1516
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,920
Speaker 2: Yeah but you know, AGAIN i learned a. LOT i

1517
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 2: learned a lot BECAUSE i had never really been a, coach.

1518
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,600
Speaker 2: RIGHT i, mean Like i'm just trying to. THINK i

1519
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 2: hadn't really coached. Before maybe maybe a little bit a

1520
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 2: few times here and, there but nothing like, this, Right

1521
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 2: BUT i realized a few. Things as a. Coach you

1522
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 2: have to be a good, listener you, know you can't

1523
01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 2: come in like you're a. Dictator but you also have

1524
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 2: to be, competent which is very. Important i'm a student

1525
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 2: of the. GAME i love the. GAME i understand the.

1526
01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:34,760
Speaker 2: GAME i see the. GAME i see things before it,

1527
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 2: happens you, know the same way any Other hooper. Does

1528
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 2: so for, me it was like what CAN i do

1529
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:45,639
Speaker 2: to help my team? Win and it's really just about

1530
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 2: bringing that, edge, right the edge of every player that

1531
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 2: we're about to. Face i'm going to watch and scout

1532
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 2: and figure out what they like to. Do and getting

1533
01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 2: my players that. Edge and then the other thing was

1534
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 2: about our plays and our execution of what we're. Doing

1535
01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 2: and so it was a lot lot of. FUN i

1536
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 2: loved every minute of. IT i THINK i, challenged you,

1537
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:08,640
Speaker 2: know my guys to really step up and to be,

1538
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:12,879
Speaker 2: available be, ready and be ready for. Change AND i challenged,

1539
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:14,439
Speaker 2: them AND i THINK i challenged them in a way

1540
01:14:14,479 --> 01:14:16,680
Speaker 2: where they were kind of, like you, know filling me

1541
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 2: out a little bit at. First but leadership was. IMPORTANT

1542
01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 2: i THINK i earned their, Respect joe obviously as the

1543
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 2: leader of the, captain THE gm of the. TEAM i

1544
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 2: had gym, rats which was. Great my guys loved being

1545
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 2: in the. Gym and you, know LIKE i told, them

1546
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 2: if don't don't have do. It if you're not gonna

1547
01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 2: do it, right let's not do it at. All don't

1548
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 2: put my name on. It because IF i could, PLAY

1549
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 2: i would. Play you know What i'm, Saying, like that's

1550
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 2: just how PASSIONATE i am about, it And i'm going

1551
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 2: to approach it the way THAT i would as a.

1552
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 2: Player i'm gonna give you my. All so my all

1553
01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 2: is you know HOW i, coach my, scouting my you,

1554
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 2: know just that little edge that you need to be

1555
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 2: better and you, know calling the, plays and SO i

1556
01:14:57,479 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 2: think the biggest place that we had some friction one was.

1557
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:05,439
Speaker 2: Losing when we lost to your. TEAM i didn't know

1558
01:15:05,479 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 2: BECAUSE i was our first loss and our only. Loss

1559
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 2: but when we, LOST i didn't realize as a, coach

1560
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 2: like losing feels like you, played you know WHAT i.

1561
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:14,839
Speaker 2: Mean LIKE i was pissed a whole. Week my family

1562
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:18,320
Speaker 2: was LIKE i was like some, bulls Like i'm, Hot

1563
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:21,400
Speaker 2: LIKE i lost the, championship you, know AND i didn't know.

1564
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:25,600
Speaker 2: That so AND i didn't like, that but it was.

1565
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 2: COOL i, MEAN i was a low, key a little

1566
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,640
Speaker 2: disrespectful and you, know and the, wind so that was.

1567
01:15:30,760 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 2: ENOUGH i wasn't happy about, that you, know you, Know

1568
01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 2: i'm just keeping one hundred. DONE i was, like, okay

1569
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 2: they you, know they didn't even hit our. Hands they

1570
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 2: was just, like, yeah it was, real, real real. Rude

1571
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:46,240
Speaker 2: So i'm, like, okay we need to see that team,

1572
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 2: again that's for. Sure but at the same, TIME i loved.

1573
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:51,680
Speaker 2: IT i love the, FANS i love the. PROCESS i

1574
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 2: loved all the, COMPETITION i loved the. Games MAN i

1575
01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:57,800
Speaker 2: was IN i was so into. It that's HOW i

1576
01:15:57,800 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 2: became a. Coach, ACTUALLY i sat next To cuban came

1577
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 2: to watch you, guys like the year before y'all came

1578
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 2: To miami AND i was just there AND i was

1579
01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:07,599
Speaker 2: over there like coaching and, like, man pick a, roll

1580
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,040
Speaker 2: cut to the, basket and he was like he was

1581
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 2: looking at. Me it's like because they're not, executing, Right

1582
01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 2: like that's not how you can do, that you. Know

1583
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 2: SO i was just talking to us Because i'm, like

1584
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:18,360
Speaker 2: the fact that we get to have jobs and talk

1585
01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 2: about basketball and get paid is ridiculous because that's What

1586
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:23,640
Speaker 2: i'm gonna be doing. Anyway so it was kind of

1587
01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:26,400
Speaker 2: like it was. Sweet it was a poetic for us

1588
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 2: to win the championship. Again, nancy WHO i, love you,

1589
01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:33,240
Speaker 2: know happy that she was able to do. IT i

1590
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:35,719
Speaker 2: was HAPPY i was able to be the first black,

1591
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,760
Speaker 2: woman you, know to do, that and, yeah let's, go

1592
01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:40,880
Speaker 2: you're coming.

1593
01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:48,759
Speaker 3: BACK i am no, listen just like you just, said

1594
01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 3: you had your moment where you tried to go for.

1595
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 3: ME i SWEAR i had a moment the last season we.

1596
01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:57,720
Speaker 3: PLAYED i forget who might have been in the championship.

1597
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:01,400
Speaker 3: Game no playing a, championship but the one of them last,

1598
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 3: GAMES i was LIKE i tried, to you, know like you,

1599
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:07,960
Speaker 3: Said I'm i've always been a. Rebound i'm always being

1600
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 3: able to hit you then GO i hit, somebody AND

1601
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 3: i JUST i ain't got.

1602
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 2: Nowhere i'm telling. YOU i was like all the times

1603
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 2: waits for no.

1604
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:24,599
Speaker 4: Man, right, hey, listen no. Man how fun was the

1605
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 4: set Of Uncle? Drew it looked like y'all had.

1606
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:31,639
Speaker 1: Fun y'all did a great job You Chris, Webber, Shaq, Nate.

1607
01:17:31,560 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 4: Rob, Kyrie.

1608
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:36,599
Speaker 1: Reggie, yeah but that's just a fun movie to. WATCH

1609
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 1: i love that. Movie, like how was that to be

1610
01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:43,160
Speaker 1: on that set with them guys and, man y'all create

1611
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 1: that that basketball.

1612
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 4: Story for the kids and, everybody all the basketball.

1613
01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 3: Fans, yeah and, now big, sister whether YOU.

1614
01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 2: I actually loved, IT i really. Did the guys, again you,

1615
01:17:57,120 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 2: Know i'm always around, men AND i like the fact

1616
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:04,120
Speaker 2: That i'm able to just hang AND i. Don't, AGAIN

1617
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:08,120
Speaker 2: i appreciate you brothers and just you guys having your

1618
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:10,479
Speaker 2: camaraderie when you get a, chance as me is the

1619
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:12,840
Speaker 2: woman that gets to be. Included you, KNOW i just.

1620
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:15,720
Speaker 2: CHILL i just listen and let them talk and, say you, know,

1621
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 2: dude they do you know we played ball quite a,

1622
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,639
Speaker 2: bit you, know and each one of. Them but tell,

1623
01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 2: You Betty lou was no, joke you know she was

1624
01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:27,920
Speaker 2: she was bowing and everybody threes. Included but it's all.

1625
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:32,679
Speaker 2: GOOD i just you, KNOW i just took a back.

1626
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 2: Seat but it. Was we had such a great. Time

1627
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 2: it was a lot of. Fun everything that you laughed

1628
01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:41,799
Speaker 2: at we laughed, at but ten times more just because

1629
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 2: we had to do it so many times and different camera.

1630
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 2: Angles And i'm so happy that so many people really

1631
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 2: like the. Movie like you, know if it's one thing

1632
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 2: to be a part of something and you see the finished,

1633
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 2: product you, like, okay you know it was really it

1634
01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 2: was really, good very well. Done so shout out to our.

1635
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:01,640
Speaker 2: Producer also because we had so many great people on that.

1636
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 2: Set Tippy hattis came, in dropped in some some funny

1637
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 2: stuff like it. Was it was so. Great we had

1638
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 2: so many good actors there.

1639
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:12,240
Speaker 1: Too what about Like Think like A, man because you,

1640
01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:14,800
Speaker 1: know we don't got too many all black casts and

1641
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:18,320
Speaker 1: all black, movies and you, know that was a nice big.

1642
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:21,160
Speaker 1: Movie it was black people to go and. See SO

1643
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 1: i was working On Think like A.

1644
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 4: Man, yeah you, KNOW.

1645
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:33,400
Speaker 2: I got to keep five checks coming every. Day so, yeah,

1646
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 2: no that was zep, too because you, Know Kevin hart

1647
01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:39,600
Speaker 2: is just he's phenomenal and so fun to work. With

1648
01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:41,559
Speaker 2: and then there was some balls there. TOO i think

1649
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:46,040
Speaker 2: we was At. Meadoworld peace was there and what's My,

1650
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 2: Barnes Matt.

1651
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 4: Barnes so you, know.

1652
01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 2: That whole group is a lot of. Fun and we

1653
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:53,719
Speaker 2: played ball, again And Kevin hart actually can play, ball

1654
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 2: so we're contrary with anybody believes he can hit threes

1655
01:19:57,200 --> 01:19:59,200
Speaker 2: and everything like he's he can play some. Hoops so

1656
01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 2: it was a lot of fun playing against those guys

1657
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:05,840
Speaker 2: and just have an opportunity to uh have some, lines you,

1658
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 2: know Slept kevin on the. BUTT i really Love Kevin

1659
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 2: hard and respect him a. Lot he's such a great

1660
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 2: not only great, actor but a great dad and just

1661
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 2: a family. Man SO i enjoyed recommend him.

1662
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:23,519
Speaker 1: To start bench. Cut you gotta start. One you gotta bench.

1663
01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:28,280
Speaker 1: One you gotta cut. One Elana, Griffith Lauren, Jackson Tina,

1664
01:20:28,360 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 1: Thompson you're gonna.

1665
01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:31,240
Speaker 4: START i gotta start.

1666
01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 2: ONE i got a bench one AND i gotta cut.

1667
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 4: One that was.

1668
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 1: Cold, well you gotta start, one bench one and trade.

1669
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:43,800
Speaker 4: One all.

1670
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 2: Right, Well i'm, Going i'm gonna Start Lauren jackson And

1671
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:50,800
Speaker 2: i'm gonna Keep Tina thompson with, me and Then i'm

1672
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and Trade. Yolanda and only Because Lauren

1673
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:56,760
Speaker 2: jackson is.

1674
01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 4: No, joke no.

1675
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:03,240
Speaker 2: JOKE i know that's one of my. Nemesis but she

1676
01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 2: she was a joint AND i you, KNOW i respect

1677
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 2: her game and you know all that she did other

1678
01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:10,360
Speaker 2: than cussing me, out BUT i, RESPECT i respect what

1679
01:21:10,439 --> 01:21:14,599
Speaker 2: she brought to the game every time we stepped on the. Court, tina,

1680
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:17,720
Speaker 2: obviously that's that's tough for me TO i probably just

1681
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:19,720
Speaker 2: start teaming Bench, lauren but then that would look Like

1682
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 2: i'm hating On. Lauren so that's a.

1683
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 4: Lose little situation, Really.

1684
01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:28,479
Speaker 2: But tina got to stay with, me so. Town, yeah

1685
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:30,560
Speaker 2: see that's What i'm. Saying and yo yo, yo munt no.

1686
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:33,280
Speaker 2: Joke But jolani can't come with the pathform Or lauren

1687
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:35,760
Speaker 2: Or tina want to come and get. Buggets and you,

1688
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 2: know you win the game by how many baskets you,

1689
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:40,599
Speaker 2: Get So i'm trying to win.

1690
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 3: This this is a QUESTION i like to, ask though

1691
01:21:44,479 --> 01:21:46,800
Speaker 3: you know you've been, privileged just like you, say you

1692
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:49,519
Speaker 3: hustled and you made a lot of, bread like you

1693
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:51,880
Speaker 3: got that. Money you, know you coming From compton And

1694
01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 3: inglewood didn't have, much like you got that bag. BAG

1695
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:58,640
Speaker 3: i ain't talking about taking care of mama or something like.

1696
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 3: That what what at Least leslie do for herself to

1697
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:04,280
Speaker 3: treat herself one, time something you might look back, on

1698
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:06,280
Speaker 3: LIKE i was tripping WHEN i was, younger but it,

1699
01:22:06,320 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 3: felt you.

1700
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 4: KNOW i.

1701
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 2: Was i've always been a good manager of. Money so

1702
01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 2: the first two THINGS i, GOT i bought a house

1703
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 2: And Ladaire, heights which that was a big deal for.

1704
01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 2: Me you, know that area was something in the area

1705
01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 2: that you always saw driving. By it's, like, dang what

1706
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:23,760
Speaker 2: do those people do that live up? There you? Know

1707
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:27,040
Speaker 2: so that was a big deal for me to buy

1708
01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:29,320
Speaker 2: my house and, uh the their. Heights and then the

1709
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:31,760
Speaker 2: second THING i. Got, now, Again i'm six. FIVE i

1710
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:34,599
Speaker 2: don't fit in most. Cars so all my Life i've

1711
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 2: been in cars THAT i really don't fit. In SO

1712
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:40,240
Speaker 2: i bought, That uh what was that the five hundred

1713
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 2: S mercedes.

1714
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 3: Big body, body big body, ALWAY.

1715
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 4: I see there it is se now she on.

1716
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 2: My right with smooth on a license. Plate, yees pulling

1717
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 2: into the stables in. Around you know WHAT i was.

1718
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:06,000
Speaker 2: PLAYING i have to be playing something By, tupac just

1719
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:06,439
Speaker 2: letting you.

1720
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:06,599
Speaker 3: Know.

1721
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:10,800
Speaker 4: Living die In, la.

1722
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: You never know how somebody means something to you until

1723
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 1: they kind of. Gone you, know never knew how Much

1724
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:22,599
Speaker 1: kobe meant to me and just his presence until you're.

1725
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:25,040
Speaker 1: GONE i still feel it to this, day just playing

1726
01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:27,760
Speaker 1: of your relationship With kobe and what he meant to.

1727
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:31,599
Speaker 2: You, Yeah cobe was like a little brother in some

1728
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:34,760
Speaker 2: ways because his. Sisters he has two older, sisters and

1729
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:38,960
Speaker 2: so his middle, Sister shay AND i hung out all the.

1730
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 2: Time so and your, right remember rust In, La shaye

1731
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 2: AND i was, Out, yeah my, Girl AND i think

1732
01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:52,320
Speaker 2: just being at the, house you, know when they first

1733
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 2: moved To, la hanging out With, say hanging out With,

1734
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:59,080
Speaker 2: kobe being at the house for, dinner spending the, night

1735
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:03,600
Speaker 2: just basic things that clearly you, KNOW i took for

1736
01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:07,439
Speaker 2: granted back. Then but it was just a beautiful. Family

1737
01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 2: they had a beautiful. FAMILY i loved Jelly, Bean Joe,

1738
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 2: BRIANT i Loved. Ms pam and just being around their.

1739
01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 2: Family they had a beautiful, family a great. Connection and

1740
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 2: so you, know me being very family oriented with my,

1741
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:24,439
Speaker 2: mom my. Sister it was just a perfect. FIT i

1742
01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:26,600
Speaker 2: remember WHEN i first DAY i left their house AND

1743
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 2: i went home AND i was, like, mom their families

1744
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 2: like our, Family like their mom is really nice and

1745
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:35,599
Speaker 2: she's really, pretty and you, know their sisters are. Nice

1746
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 2: so it was, just you, know just a great. Fit

1747
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:42,640
Speaker 2: and so then the basketball side of it was just you,

1748
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:45,679
Speaker 2: Know covid AND i obviously both. Played you, know he'd

1749
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:48,800
Speaker 2: be Like leaves, here you, know he's watching video and

1750
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:52,640
Speaker 2: always always watching, video watching, basketball and me again a

1751
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:55,400
Speaker 2: student at a, Game i'm in the room watching video With.

1752
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 2: Kobe you, know just you, know you don't think anything of.

1753
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:01,880
Speaker 2: It we're Watching jordan. Everything. Uh shay is Like, leaves come,

1754
01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:03,720
Speaker 2: ON i, leave go A shay and we go to the.

1755
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:07,120
Speaker 2: Mall come, Back, Kobe lee's come, here go back in the.

1756
01:25:07,200 --> 01:25:09,920
Speaker 2: Room you, Know it's just like that was kind of the.

1757
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 2: Thing it was, just you, Know kobe was a connection

1758
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:15,160
Speaker 2: with Basketball. Shait it was, like you, know we did girls.

1759
01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:19,080
Speaker 2: Stuff AND i always think of that as just like

1760
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 2: sort of PART. A and then you, know the second

1761
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:24,479
Speaker 2: part was Just jellybean became my. Coach he coached The,

1762
01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 2: Spark so that was another great, relationship Having joe in

1763
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 2: my life and just him teaching me how to. Pass you,

1764
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 2: know he was a great pass or bounce pass or you,

1765
01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:35,600
Speaker 2: know doing all these drills he used to do With

1766
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:37,840
Speaker 2: cobe when he was. LITTLE i got a chance to

1767
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:40,679
Speaker 2: do in the, gym you, know The Muhammad ali's drills

1768
01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 2: and you, know all this footwork. Drill so you, know

1769
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 2: that's another moment THAT i always, cherished just being with

1770
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 2: his dad so much and having that. Time and then you,

1771
01:25:49,280 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 2: know you Have Covid vanessa and that was another just

1772
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 2: a beautiful, relationship you. KNOW i, mean they've just had

1773
01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 2: an amazing relationship with the. Girls and you, know we

1774
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 2: would always then talk about our children and just you,

1775
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:04,040
Speaker 2: know you always want your, kids you. Know i'm sure

1776
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 2: you guys talk about who got the it, factor, like you,

1777
01:26:06,720 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 2: know you know my, son but then my, daughter who she?

1778
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 2: Fierce you, Know so we exchanged stories about our kids

1779
01:26:15,360 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 2: and just who's fierce and you know which one is?

1780
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:21,280
Speaker 2: Mean AND i don't, Know it's just it is one

1781
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:24,439
Speaker 2: of those things where you never know how important those

1782
01:26:24,479 --> 01:26:26,800
Speaker 2: moments are until you know you don't get. Them and

1783
01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 2: just being devastated by the loss of him makes those

1784
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 2: moments even more like on, reels you, know just repeating

1785
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:37,920
Speaker 2: in your head about the times that you had because

1786
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 2: you spend so many times together and then and really

1787
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,599
Speaker 2: you're like it's only so, little you, know because he's

1788
01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:42,960
Speaker 2: gone To.

1789
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:45,600
Speaker 1: EARTH i mean when we got To la and you,

1790
01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:48,160
Speaker 1: know we're seeing all these things from the palm, trees

1791
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:52,360
Speaker 1: the magic signs And Chill Old nil and The hollywood,

1792
01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 1: sign AND i just remember me AND q we was

1793
01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 1: in the gardener EATING i think it, was and we

1794
01:26:58,200 --> 01:26:59,160
Speaker 1: didn't pose.

1795
01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:01,080
Speaker 4: To be in the garden eating if you checking out

1796
01:27:01,120 --> 01:27:01,640
Speaker 4: these that.

1797
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:05,600
Speaker 1: Day BUT i just remember seeing you you come in

1798
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:08,479
Speaker 1: walk in THE vip AND i Remember tabaq, saying, man

1799
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 1: that's least A lesbie right, there and you came in

1800
01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:14,320
Speaker 1: and you just showed us so much. LOVE i just

1801
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:18,160
Speaker 1: definitely just want to thank you. Again yeah with, Us,

1802
01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:20,160
Speaker 1: yeah you, know it's definitely been a pleasure.

1803
01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:23,679
Speaker 2: Always i've always been a person WHO i just love.

1804
01:27:23,720 --> 01:27:26,640
Speaker 2: PEOPLE i love the fact that you, GUYS i know

1805
01:27:26,680 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 2: you're new To, la you know WHAT i. Mean it's

1806
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:30,680
Speaker 2: like those of us who grew up, there we're not

1807
01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 2: in awe of things that happen In la because it's

1808
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:36,479
Speaker 2: all our. Lives we're, around we really are around, celebrities

1809
01:27:36,479 --> 01:27:38,000
Speaker 2: even if you don't know, them you're around. Them you

1810
01:27:38,040 --> 01:27:39,880
Speaker 2: see them at, restaurants you see them in the, movies

1811
01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:42,559
Speaker 2: and SO i just think when you see guys come,

1812
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:45,080
Speaker 2: in you know that's not from. Here you, know it's just, like,

1813
01:27:45,120 --> 01:27:47,680
Speaker 2: hey what's. Up you, know, congrats y'all made. It you

1814
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:49,640
Speaker 2: made it to the. League Like i'm proud of. You you,

1815
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:51,960
Speaker 2: know if there's ANYTHING i can, do you, know what's?

1816
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 2: Up V ip step over the, rope come on, here

1817
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 2: you know WHAT i. MEAN i just feel like it

1818
01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 2: should be that. Way we should always show each other,

1819
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:02,040
Speaker 2: love and they like, that especially you, know for black.

1820
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:05,280
Speaker 2: People sometimes we just don't understand how important it is

1821
01:28:05,320 --> 01:28:08,760
Speaker 2: for us to have that open hand and empowering one.

1822
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 2: Another and some of, us some of us get a

1823
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:13,680
Speaker 2: little bit high on our horse about, it you know

1824
01:28:13,720 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 2: What i'm. Saying but that's never really been my. Style

1825
01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:18,400
Speaker 2: i'm Just i'm not saying That i'm, cool BUT i

1826
01:28:18,439 --> 01:28:20,360
Speaker 2: just Think i'm cool about it so many different. Things

1827
01:28:20,400 --> 01:28:22,000
Speaker 2: i'm just laid, back you know WHAT i. Mean it's,

1828
01:28:22,040 --> 01:28:24,479
Speaker 2: like it ain't that. Serious if this room step, over

1829
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:26,639
Speaker 2: we popping bottles if it's, another if there's some extra

1830
01:28:26,720 --> 01:28:28,680
Speaker 2: you know What i'm, saying like get a, Glass like

1831
01:28:29,280 --> 01:28:31,800
Speaker 2: what does that hurt? Us to be that way with each?

1832
01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:34,639
Speaker 2: Other So i'm glad you guys have those memories BECAUSE

1833
01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 2: i remember you guys being like NO i guys like,

1834
01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:39,920
Speaker 2: yeah do this is? Cool come on in whatever it.

1835
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 3: All. Right that's a, wrap, man this has been too.

1836
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:47,839
Speaker 3: Love we appreciate. You we appreciate. You we had greatness

1837
01:28:47,840 --> 01:28:50,320
Speaker 3: in our presence. Tonight thank, you thank, you thank.

1838
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:52,920
Speaker 2: You thank, YOU, q thank, You. DARIUS i appreciate you

1839
01:28:52,960 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 2: guys much love to. You congratulations on the success of your,

1840
01:28:56,640 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 2: podcast WHICH i do. Love thank, you, yeah keep it.

1841
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:10,080
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1842
01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:11,960
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1843
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1850
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