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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to another episode of the Full Circle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Me and Lexi are freshly getting back from Tampa for

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Speaker 1: the Final Four, and we had a really exciting live

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Speaker 1: show for you guys, so we just wanted to introduce

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Speaker 1: it and react to the National Championship because we didn't

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Speaker 1: get Tom.

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Speaker 3: I do want to say that I was right in

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Speaker 3: my prediction that Yukon was gonna win. So I'm just

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Speaker 3: gonna start there. Mariah, are you are? I know you're happy,

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Speaker 3: obviously everyone's happy for Page, but I want to hear

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Speaker 3: your thoughts about the game.

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Speaker 4: You were there.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't there.

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Speaker 3: I had to leave Tampa, so I wasn't able to go.

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Speaker 3: So what was like the energy like in there during

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Speaker 3: the Championship?

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Speaker 1: The energy was incredible. It felt like so many more

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Speaker 1: people even though it was the same arena and it

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Speaker 1: was sold out both nights. I think because this game

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Speaker 1: definitely deep in there. SEC travels, but they were deep

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Speaker 1: was like, Dan, you y'all are.

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Speaker 5: Getting there was silent.

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Speaker 2: I bet silent. It was awful.

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Speaker 1: At no point as somebody going into it rooting for Yukon,

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Speaker 1: was I worried about them. They were kicking on the

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Speaker 2: They were not.

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Speaker 1: They seemed poised though before the game even started.

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Speaker 5: Here's about Yukon.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I've never seen a dominant performance from the beginning

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Speaker 3: of the weekend to the end of the weekend from

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Speaker 5: In my life.

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Speaker 3: We have seen some very dominant Connecticut teams come through

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Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament. But the way that Yukon came into

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Speaker 3: expecting because that is a very young team. You know,

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Speaker 3: outside of Page like, they don't have very many seniors.

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Speaker 3: I think actually Chen might be a senior. Yes, Kaitlyn

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Speaker 3: Chen is a senior, which was an amazing pickup for U.

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Speaker 3: Come by the way, she's very solid. You might look

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Speaker 3: off page immensely. But they were so professional throughout, like, yes,

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Speaker 3: they joke, they laughed. They're a funny group on social media.

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Speaker 3: I love following them in their little funny videos, even

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Speaker 3: though a lot of them are ads. But Gino had

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Speaker 1: Also the star of the show for me, outside of

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Speaker 1: Azy Fudd on both sides of the floor incredible.

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Speaker 4: She was not playing any game. She was locked in

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Speaker 1: Me and my sister, she's a D one volleyball player,

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Speaker 3: South Carolina usually is an overly prepared team.

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Speaker 1: And Don was crashing out the entire time. Now I

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Speaker 5: Very exciting time.

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Speaker 3: It looked very heavy on the seniors, and I could

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Speaker 3: I don't know anything. I don't talk to any of

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Speaker 3: I just felt like that group they have like accomplished

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Speaker 3: So I want to give flowers to them, But obviously

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Speaker 3: because twelve national championships is insane.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great perspective, LEXI putting that into contexts

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Speaker 1: But they still deserve their flowers for making it this

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Speaker 1: Because everybody wins, everybody does that happen. But I did

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Speaker 3: It was just a weird thing this season because yes,

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Speaker 5: But then on the same side, you want you want.

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Speaker 3: It so badly for that senior group because of all

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Speaker 3: You have one of the most influential players in college

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Speaker 5: It was amazing.

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Speaker 3: I was in the final foreign Tampa in twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 5: I mean, the energy then was amazing.

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Speaker 3: So just seeing you know, women's basketball still growing and

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Speaker 1: Sad seeing them hug at the end, and him and

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Speaker 1: With Nick Saban in football and with several coaches and

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Speaker 1: doing this for twenty four years in final fours and

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Speaker 1: I've never seen this many women covering it and reminding

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Speaker 2: It's been great for women's basketball.

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Speaker 1: So to have a seventy one year old white man

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Speaker 1: But to see someone like Gino be like, no, I

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Speaker 3: And it took him some time because I remember when

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Speaker 3: of this. This agreed horrible for basketball and college sports.

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Speaker 3: But I think if you manage it correctly and you

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Speaker 3: Huskies did. So congratulations to Connecticut on their twelfth national championship.

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Speaker 3: Now you guys can tune into our live show with

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Speaker 3: Christina Williams live from Tampa.

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Speaker 5: I hope you all enjoy it. Welcome to our second

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Speaker 5: This is me and Mariah's second live show. Christina. Have

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Speaker 2: Doney tons of them? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: About what who y'all think is gonna win today?

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Speaker 5: But what do y'all think of the tournament so far?

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Speaker 3: I mean, we're on the last weekend championships Sunday, Yes,

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Speaker 2: Very exciting basketball, very high level basketball. I've just been

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the tournament has been amazing. Like we've

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Speaker 5: Not gonna die what about y'all?

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Speaker 1: I was disappointed as a fan, But if I were

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Speaker 1: Of course I would be ecstatic, like they went in

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Speaker 2: I think that you could definitely tell which teams had

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Speaker 3: Oh was that game annoyed me? Because you're the number one,

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Speaker 3: But I'm really excited for you SLA next season.

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Speaker 1: Well, can I give you U CLA some some slack

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Speaker 3: But I'm excited for them for next season because I

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Speaker 5: I love the home court advantage.

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Speaker 1: Somebody who played in the Final four in Tampa. By

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Speaker 1: I believe the men get a week break before their championship.

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Speaker 2: It's next week tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: No, I think that would be fire.

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Speaker 2: The men and the woman.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my gosh, wait.

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Speaker 5: Why not tell me?

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Speaker 1: Well, because last night me and my little sister were

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Speaker 2: People convention centers and Arena's ship. They to the right.

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Speaker 3: They'd have to pick the right Vegas, Atlanta, Atlanta, what else?

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to like think of things to like spice

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they're going to listen to this episode,

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Speaker 3: We're at the game on Friday, and because it was

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Speaker 5: We really appreciated hanging out with you at the game.

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Speaker 5: If you remember them what all in.

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Speaker 1: Our conversation, shout out to them, Yeah, they now they

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Speaker 2: It's almost like free agency when I'm watching all of

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Speaker 3: Like it's seeing how much everything has changed. It's so

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Speaker 1: I would be in college for ten years, ten years

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Speaker 2: If I were a current college athlete. You have to

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Speaker 5: Why would she do that?

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Speaker 3: So even the way Notre Dame kind of finished their season,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you offer those who don't know if

448
00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,280
Speaker 3: the rookie contracts right now are four years, which is

449
00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,160
Speaker 3: a very long time, and that's one of the things

450
00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,280
Speaker 3: that we're probably going to try and change in our

451
00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,520
Speaker 3: negotiations is trying to get those contracts to be a

452
00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,359
Speaker 3: year shorter because by the time you get to the

453
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Speaker 3: end of your rookie contract, you're like twenty six, twenty

454
00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,359
Speaker 3: seven years old, and we think that's too old to

455
00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,440
Speaker 3: you know, start playing for your extension in your next

456
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Speaker 3: contract to potentially enter free agency.

457
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Speaker 5: So hopefully we can get that done because.

458
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Speaker 2: I heard that there was that you guys are willing

459
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Speaker 2: to sit out if the negotiations don't go.

460
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Speaker 3: No, I mean it's a it's a possibility, because that's

461
00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:04,879
Speaker 3: like worst case scenario.

462
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Speaker 5: You got to prepare for anything. We don't. We would

463
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:08,640
Speaker 5: not like to sit out.

464
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Speaker 3: I feel like it would be counterintuitive on our part

465
00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,520
Speaker 3: to sit out with all this momentum and stuff that

466
00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,199
Speaker 3: women's basketball has. But again, worst case scenario is we

467
00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,040
Speaker 3: don't get anything that we want from the ownership in

468
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Speaker 3: the league. Best case scenario is we get every single

469
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,320
Speaker 3: thing that we ask for. So we're going to meet

470
00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 3: somewhere in the middle, hopefully. You know, we have a

471
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 3: new team this season, Like I would hate for us

472
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,800
Speaker 3: to lock out when you know we have an expansion team.

473
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Speaker 3: I can't remember when it was the last time that

474
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Speaker 3: w had an expansion team.

475
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Speaker 5: I can't even two thousand and eight, two thousand.

476
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, it's such an exciting time for women's basketball

477
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 3: on the WNBA and women's college season was so amazing,

478
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,119
Speaker 3: so for us to like have to stop it at

479
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:45,520
Speaker 3: any point next season.

480
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Speaker 5: I would really actually hate that.

481
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Speaker 1: Lelie, like your point about making the rookie contracts last

482
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Speaker 1: for last time, because I never really thought about the

483
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Speaker 1: fact that, well, a lot of people complain about having

484
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Speaker 1: to stay in college for all that time, but I

485
00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 1: think that that might be more beneficial changing the rookie

486
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,880
Speaker 1: contracts because it's like, Okay, so you're making me stay

487
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Speaker 1: in college for three years or until I'm twenty two

488
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,640
Speaker 1: or whatever, and then I also have to stay locked

489
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,440
Speaker 1: into this rookie contract until I'm twenty seven. Yeah, and

490
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 1: then I have I'm twenty seven and I'm having to

491
00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:14,720
Speaker 1: play for my extension.

492
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 2: That kind of puts me in a bad situation.

493
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a.

494
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,400
Speaker 3: Lot of things in our last CVA that were amazing,

495
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,840
Speaker 3: but there was like a lot of things that we

496
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000
Speaker 3: still missed out on. But like, that's the thing about

497
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,160
Speaker 3: negotiations and opting out is you get things that you want,

498
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,240
Speaker 3: and then you realize that there's more things that we need.

499
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 3: And I think right now we have a lot of

500
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 3: leverage to demand more from the league and from the ownership,

501
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 3: and we're seeing it. You know, teams are getting practice

502
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 3: facilities now, we get to fly charter flights. You know,

503
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 3: things are just getting better and better and better, and

504
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:43,960
Speaker 3: it's just all been a really nice process.

505
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 2: I did have Terry Jackson on my show from the

506
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Speaker 2: w MVPA and she said that the charter flights are

507
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 2: not necessarily written in contract.

508
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 5: Nope, they're not.

509
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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, just keep paid for it for twenty

510
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 2: twenty five. But they're trying to into the new CV

511
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Speaker 2: and so hopefully ownership.

512
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Speaker 5: I hope. And that was that whole situation was very funny.

513
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Speaker 2: Don't introduce me to something you can't maintain it.

514
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that was like a power play on Kathy's

515
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:12,919
Speaker 3: part because I remember I was in meetings with Nekka,

516
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,880
Speaker 3: who was on the Sparks at the time, and our

517
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 3: person who organizes all of our flights and hotels, and

518
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 3: we were going through the whole schedule or like what

519
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 3: flight do we want to get on? Do we want

520
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 3: to take this flight at this time? Do you want

521
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 3: to practice and then fly or do we want to

522
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 3: fly and then practice.

523
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Speaker 5: We were on the phone for like two.

524
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,399
Speaker 3: Hours going through it, and then like three weeks later,

525
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 3: we get an announcement, Oh, we get charter flights. But

526
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 3: we it literally came out of left field. So as

527
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 3: as grateful as we were for that and how amazing

528
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 3: it was to fly Charter, it kind of was like

529
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,000
Speaker 3: a slap in the face because, like you just said,

530
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,159
Speaker 3: you're introducing us to something that you might may or

531
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Speaker 3: may not be able to maintain, and it's now something

532
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 3: that we're going to have to negotiate in our in

533
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 3: our collective bargaining agreement. So I knew what Kathy was

534
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 3: doing when she did that. I mean, still appreciate it,

535
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 3: but I.

536
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Speaker 2: Can't believe there was a time where you guys had

537
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 2: to share hotel rooms.

538
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the rookies.

539
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,480
Speaker 3: My first two seasons, I shared rooms grown women women.

540
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 2: Like it was top in the world.

541
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to FaceTime my friends, and my mom

542
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 3: had to go downstairs with the lobby or get out

543
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 3: or they It was bad, but we made it work.

544
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 3: But it was good for like Team Bonnie. I was

545
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,439
Speaker 3: on Erica Wheeler's podcast the other day and she was

546
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:23,120
Speaker 3: telling me how part of her Missus traveling commercial because

547
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 3: you get to spend like so much time with your teammates,

548
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 3: So like things like that, we do miss because.

549
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 5: It's good for Team Bonnie. You get to spend time

550
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 5: with your teammates and hang out. But like at the

551
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 5: end of the day, like we want to get in

552
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 5: and out, Like we don't want to be sitting in

553
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 5: the airport all day and we want to get rest.

554
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 5: But there were, I mean there were. It wasn't all.

555
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,639
Speaker 2: Horrible Born at Chicago Sky team that got stuck in

556
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 2: the airport for I've been.

557
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 5: On like a few time I've been on, Like, I've

558
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 5: got like three.

559
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 3: Experiences since I've been in the league of getting stuck

560
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 3: in an airport overnight.

561
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 5: So yeah, so okay, one was.

562
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 4: We were nice.

563
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 3: So we were the most recent time actually with the Sparks.

564
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 3: We were in see I want to say, and we

565
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 3: were flying home and they just kept delaying our flight,

566
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,360
Speaker 3: delaying our flight. It's like midnight. Then they finally cancel it.

567
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 3: So we're all just sitting in the airport and we're like, okay,

568
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 3: what do we do? So half the team went and

569
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 3: got hotels and then the other half just slept on

570
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 3: the airport.

571
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,360
Speaker 2: So w BAE free Agency happened, and you were created

572
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 2: to the Seattle Storm from the Los Angeles Sparks. Yeah, Seattlestorm,

573
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 2: they have practice facilities they have all of it, all

574
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 2: of the things. How excited are you to be a

575
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 2: part of that organization.

576
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,159
Speaker 3: I'm super excited, you know. I think the trade it

577
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 3: definitely caught me off guard. I think it caught a

578
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 3: lot of people off guard. But for me, I'm just

579
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 3: excited to be in a situation to win now be

580
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 3: surrounded by some veterans. I was one of the oldest

581
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 3: players on the Sparks. Now I'm probably one of the

582
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 3: youngest players on the Storm. And they just have really

583
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 3: good culture there and Coach Quinn is amazing. I've heard

584
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 3: from all the coaches they watched me playing AU they

585
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 3: were like very complimenting of my improvement. You know, They've

586
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 3: been checking on my health, mental, physical health. So it's

587
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 3: just been good vibes.

588
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 5: And I haven't even been up there yet, and I'm

589
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 5: just really excited to get up there.

590
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 6: Where were you when you found out that you were

591
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 6: being treated in the parking garage?

592
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 5: Really? Because she had a game. I had a game.

593
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 3: I was on my way to an athlete's a limited game.

594
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 3: I was pulling out of the parking garage and my

595
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 3: GM called me and I just I immediately knew because

596
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 3: she never calls me.

597
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 5: So I was like, this is not good, but I

598
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 5: mean it was good.

599
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 3: Like in hindsight, it ended up this is a really

600
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 3: good situation for me. But yeah, I was just in

601
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 3: the parking garage all my way to the game, minding

602
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 3: my business, and she just calls me and just says, oh, yeah,

603
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 3: we're trading you bye.

604
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 5: Like it was minute long. I'm not even exaggerating. I

605
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 5: went and checked one minute.

606
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,959
Speaker 2: One minute, and the NBA players get traded mid season.

607
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 2: Is it is it light and a load that you

608
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 2: have time to actually move from Los Angeles to Seattle

609
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 2: in the off seas? Oh?

610
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, I mean I think moving.

611
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 3: I just got a place in LA, which is crazy

612
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 3: because like for this exact reason, I never got a

613
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 3: place anywhere that I played.

614
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 5: But I was like, okay, I feel like I'm being

615
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 5: LA for a minute.

616
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 3: Just got the apartment in October and now I'm traded,

617
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 3: so I'm still gonna have home base in LA. But

618
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,719
Speaker 3: I was really excited to like have my place of

619
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 3: my own for the season because you're basically just staying

620
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 3: in a rental apartment during the season, so it doesn't

621
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 3: really feel like home. You can't always get super comfortable.

622
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 3: But yeah, definitely lighton's load, like what we.

623
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Speaker 5: Saw with like Luca and Anthony David, like people just

624
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 5: my dad went through it too. They said that they

625
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 5: slipped a note under his hotel door. What That's why

626
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 5: I found out he got traded when he was playing.

627
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 2: Her dad played for the Celtics.

628
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,880
Speaker 5: Wait, he got traded from yes.

629
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 2: Boston Slam dump champion.

630
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he got traded from where to where?

631
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 5: In fact, I think Boston to Toronto.

632
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: I want to say he told me to move to

633
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: Canada with a no undersaid get out.

634
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 4: But that's farm.

635
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 5: Not too much on Canada, not too much.

636
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 4: Hey, big Drake fans over here?

637
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 3: Your work, Yeah okay, but yeah, like it's cutthroat. Business

638
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 3: is business, but I think there's a way to go

639
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 3: about things and we got to be professional no matter what.

640
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 5: So I'm just excited for the next opportunity.

641
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: I've never asked you about this, Lexi, but in your experience,

642
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: do you feel like getting traded, how do you deal

643
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: with that sense of almost rejection or like, how does

644
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: that feel?

645
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 3: Well, I'm kind of numb to it at this point.

646
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 3: I've been traded three times now. I've been traded and

647
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 3: you kind of just have to bounce around. The w

648
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 3: BA is such an interesting league, and we'll get into

649
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 3: this later because of the transition from college to w

650
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 3: BA is literally a week and a half, so you

651
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 3: don't always end up on the team that you should

652
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 3: end up on in the draft.

653
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 5: Once you get drafted, and for a.

654
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 3: Lot of plays, it takes a few years for you

655
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 3: to settle in and find a place that's home. So

656
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 3: for me, you know, La, I felt like that was

657
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 3: home for me, but then we just internally the Sparks

658
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 3: were just going through so many other changes and I

659
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 3: never was able to get comfortable. So I said, Seattle's

660
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 3: my last thought.

661
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 5: I can't.

662
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 3: I can't, And if I do get traded again, I

663
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 3: might as well just go try and play for all

664
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 3: twelve teams and let me let me play for all twelve.

665
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 5: Yeah.

666
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people don't realize the

667
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: fact that the season for college and today. So it's

668
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 1: Sunday Day, the sixth, yes, and then the draft is

669
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: on the fourteenth, yeah, so eight days.

670
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 2: And the players who are playing in the game today

671
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 2: have forty eight hours to decide if they wanted to

672
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 2: clear for the draft or not. If they're eligible, So

673
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 2: it's life happens past, it happens fast.

674
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 3: I remember my senior year, we lost in the sweet sixteen,

675
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 3: so I had a little bit more time. I didn't

676
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 3: officially get invited to the draft until like after the

677
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 3: Final four ended, so I don't have an out. I

678
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: don't have nothing. I had no clothes I have, I

679
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 3: don't know I was gonna wear. So everything happens like

680
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 3: really fast. I had to take my finals early. I

681
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 3: couldn't go to graduation. So you get thrown into the

682
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 3: fire immediately.

683
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: Like I say, could you speak to the fact that

684
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: when you get dropped, that isn't your guarantee that you're

685
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: in the WNBA.

686
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 2: No.

687
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 3: I just read an article that said less than half

688
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 3: of the draft picks from last year made the teams.

689
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 5: So it's very hard to make a WNBA roster. And

690
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 5: even though your contracts are long, they're not guaranteed. So

691
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 5: you could be the.

692
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: Number one pick, number two pick, and if you're not.

693
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: Charlie ar Yeah, she's a perfect example of that. If

694
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: you're not up to par, you can get cut in

695
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 3: training camp.

696
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: They do. We do not care.

697
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 3: So it's like very cutthroat, but That's why I think

698
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 3: everyone has so much respect for last year's rookie class

699
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 3: because they came in and they did their big one.

700
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 3: They really did, and they had a lot of opportunities,

701
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 3: and they had a lot of pressure, and they had

702
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 3: a lot of eyeballs.

703
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 5: And they really roast the occasion. So I really enjoyed

704
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 5: watching them do that.

705
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 2: What was the hardest thing about transitioning from college to

706
00:29:58,640 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 2: the WNBA.

707
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 3: Hardest thing for me, I have like a lot more

708
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 3: free time than I was used to, So it was

709
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 3: like still trying to stay productive and not get too bored.

710
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 3: And then once the season started, once I found out

711
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 3: like I wasn't really gonna play a lot, it was

712
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 3: like finding ways to stay motivated with all that free time.

713
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 3: Like you can only work out so many times in

714
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 3: a day, you can only watch so much film, you

715
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 3: can only do so much stuff. So for me, from

716
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 3: going from playing forty minutes a game in college, being

717
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 3: in the championship games, winning all these awards, and you

718
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 3: get to the league and you're like bottom of the

719
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 3: totem pall, you're kind of just.

720
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 5: Like okay, like what now, So that was like one

721
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 5: of the hardest things for me.

722
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: That's probably like humbling might be the wrong word, but

723
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: going from being one of the if you're in the

724
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: top ten, you were definitely playing in college.

725
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 4: You were one of the best players in college.

726
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: You were one of the best players in high school,

727
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: and then you get thrown into the professional league and

728
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: everybody's like, listen, rookie.

729
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was the only rookie on my team,

730
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 3: so I didn't even have like a rookie buddy. So

731
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 3: I had all the rookie duties. I had to take

732
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 3: everybody's launch loops. I had to drop off laundry loops

733
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 3: on the road trips, I had to do all that

734
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, and it was just me.

735
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: Was there a VET in your rookie season that kind

736
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 2: of took you under their wing? No?

737
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 5: Wow, No, there wasn't. Unfortunately, Oh yeah, man, eight years ago.

738
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 5: I'm over it now.

739
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 3: And if anybody was on my team that year, they

740
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 3: probably are like, yeah, we probably should have treated her

741
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 3: a little bit nicer.

742
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 5: But again, business is business.

743
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 3: We were teammates, but you're competing for minutes and stuff

744
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 3: like that. End of the day, the first VET that actually.

745
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 5: Took me under her wing was Simon Augustus when I

746
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,239
Speaker 5: got traded to the Minnesota Link, so she was like

747
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 5: my first like real vet that really taught me how

748
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 5: to conduct myself be a professional. I was kind of

749
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 5: a little baby, so she kind of got me out

750
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 5: of that and I'm like really grateful over her.

751
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: Well, now that you are part of the Seattle Storm

752
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: and y'all have one of the top picks in the draft,

753
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: your second pick, second pick, what are you looking forward

754
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: to happening with that second pick?

755
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 3: According to the mock drafts, were picking a French player

756
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 3: name is Dominique. She's six y six and she can dunk.

757
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 3: So I would not be mad at that pick. We

758
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 3: definitely have very good guards already, so I wouldn't I

759
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,239
Speaker 3: wouldn't think that we would pick a guard in the draft. So,

760
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's gonna between Dominique and probably Kiki.

761
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 3: I think they're both excellent players. We've we got to

762
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 3: watch Kiki this this year, you know, breakout a little

763
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 3: bit from after transferring. So I don't know, but I

764
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 3: would love to have a teammate that can dunk. I've

765
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 3: never had one before.

766
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, after watching we were watching some of her highlights.

767
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: After watching those, I'm like somebody needs to put those

768
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: on a reel and put them on ESPN so that everybody.

769
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 2: Shuts up about women's basketball players not dunk and get

770
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: that fucking dump.

771
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 5: It was very light too, like in transition, just one

772
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 5: hand dunk.

773
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're feeding these French basketball prospects

774
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: because six six.

775
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 5: Six', six can, dribble can. Shoot she came out of

776
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 5: The wimby. Factory she came out of The wimby.

777
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 2: FACTORY i love THAT g and scouts are starting to

778
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: look more overseas to build the. Rosters we saw That

779
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 2: Golden state at it like seven international, players but when

780
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 2: you look at The New York, Liberty Laoni Piebach, niarasapoli

781
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 2: those international players helped them win a, championship, Right SO

782
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 2: i love that THE w is extending.

783
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 5: Globally, YEAH i just WANT i do want More european

784
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 5: players to come over, here but with the prioritization, rule

785
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 5: it's just so hard for them because they all are

786
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 5: playing professionally.

787
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 3: Already SO i think that's another thing TO. CB i

788
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 3: think we're gonna try and get that out because The

789
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 3: european players are extremely. TALENTED i played overseas for three.

790
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 3: Years so, Like i've been over, There i've seen the

791
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 3: talent that's over. There they're super, intelligent they really love.

792
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 3: Basketball so a lot of the draft picks that do

793
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 3: happen from, overseas a lot.

794
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 5: Of them are drafts and sash.

795
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 6: And a lot of them don't even ever come Over

796
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 6: pebach because she said The sparks didn't even call her

797
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 6: the three years that she wasn't in the, league and

798
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 6: The New York liberty was the first team to actually

799
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 6: go overseas meet with.

800
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: Her everyone just kept trading her right to right to

801
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 2: him FROM la To, chicago And Jonathan cole got lucky

802
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 2: and was, like we need this player and then break

803
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 2: out in the. Finals she helped them win a.

804
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 3: Championship so, yeah there's some gems. Overseas So i'm excited

805
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 3: and if we can a. NIGHT i, MEAN i think

806
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 3: the last like teenager young player Was Liz and when.

807
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 5: Did she get? Drafted, yeah she was.

808
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 3: Young when she got, DRAFTED i THINK i, think, oh,

809
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,280
Speaker 3: yeah she Was, chicago but she she came and played

810
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 3: for like three, seconds, yeah and then she was he

811
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 3: came back To, yeah it's too crazy over, here BUT

812
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 3: i Think liz is probably like the last like foreign

813
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 3: player that was drafted at a super young age and

814
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 3: actually came over and. Played SO i think it would

815
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 3: be cool for her to like start that back. Up

816
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 3: you see it in THE, Nba LIKE i would love

817
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 3: for that to happen over.

818
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 5: HERE a little bit.

819
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: MORE i was watching the other day on First, take

820
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,919
Speaker 1: AND i kind of hated this, question And i'm about

821
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: to ask it to, you BUT i just really want.

822
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 2: To know what you.

823
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 5: Think who asked? It? Steven?

824
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: Steven oh, Gosh so he asked her how she felt

825
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: about the NATIONAL tv. Schedule, OBVIOUSLY i think every single

826
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: games it.

827
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 2: Hit forty one out of forty four games.

828
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: And NATIONAL tv or The Indiana fever and then there's

829
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: three you know that they delved out to the.

830
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 4: Others so what do you think about? That the national?

831
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 5: Team? Dude so all OF i.

832
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 2: Saw that one out of forty four games on.

833
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 5: That forty one out of their forty four or forty

834
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 5: one out of the forty four that are being the

835
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 5: TOTAL wnba national team? Games are The indiana faver?

836
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 2: Games?

837
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 5: Yes?

838
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 2: Yeah?

839
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 4: Oh, well DID i just DID i break some?

840
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 5: News i'm, sorry, NO i saw, that BUT i just came.

841
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:35,720
Speaker 5: OUT i didn't really read into it BECAUSE i didn't.

842
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 5: Care BUT i mean it makes.

843
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 3: SENSE i didn't, Care Like i'm, like let's not be,

844
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 3: dumb like who does everyone want to? Watch so and

845
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 3: they have a really good team, NOW i mean they

846
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 3: had a good team last, year but they made it

847
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 3: very clear what they're trying to do in free, Agency

848
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 3: so it makes. SENSE i mean it's. Good more, eyes more,

849
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 3: money more. Everything So i'm not mad at, it BUT

850
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 3: i think.

851
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 4: We could have spread the love of the champs just

852
00:35:59,160 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 4: a little.

853
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 5: Bit, yeah but there are.

854
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: Some of those games That i'm, LIKE i want to,

855
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:04,959
Speaker 2: see like which?

856
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 5: Ones what do you mean which?

857
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 2: Ones like that WHEN i see the championship, map like

858
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 2: the championship Of New york and In? Minnesota. Minnesota, YEAH

859
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 2: i think from a coverage, STANDPOINT i think it's disappointing

860
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 2: because if you want to grow the, game you have

861
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 2: to tell a variety of. Stories. Right it's. Lazy it's very.

862
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 5: Late, yeah it's very. Lazy that's why we're. Here that's. Why,

863
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 5: literally that's WHY i started my show BECAUSE i feel

864
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 5: like the coverage of women's sports is very.

865
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 3: Lazy and, yes it makes sense to put forty one

866
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 3: fever games on national. Television but, again that's not how

867
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 3: you grow the. Game it makes sense number, wise like

868
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 3: we know, that but sometimes you got to do a.

869
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 5: Little extra work to grow things and make things. Work

870
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 5: so shout out to The.

871
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 3: FEVER i hope everyone's coming for y'all's. NEXT i know, that, Right,

872
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 3: yeah AND.

873
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: I guess every that's a good point because every team

874
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: that plays, them, yeah, y'all like it's too way thing, right.

875
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 4: We'll get that exposure as.

876
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 2: Well so SO i.

877
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: Mean what was It? Chicago don't they played them like

878
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 3: five or six? Times Crazy?

879
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 5: Clark, Yeah, Rivalry, YEAH.

880
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 3: I, THINK i, mean if it makes, sense but, again

881
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 3: LIKE i would rather see A Minnesota New york rematch

882
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 3: twice rather Than Kayalen clark and The fever every.

883
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: Day but, well it's also the ticket sales and the

884
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: money that they make off of.

885
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 3: That, WELL i think all of the almost Every fever

886
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 3: not seeing that, money.

887
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 5: Right, no not, yet not, yet not, yet but hopefully.

888
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 4: If I'm Kaitlyn, Clark i'll be pissed at.

889
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 2: That what not seeing that? Money what?

890
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 5: Else why she didn't play on Rival, Yeah i'll be

891
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 5: pissed at.

892
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 3: That that's Why asian playing unrivaled like those are those

893
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 3: are our cash cows one and. Two so, yeah they're

894
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 3: protecting their brand and doing what they, do and they've

895
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 3: earned that right to say no to certain opportunities LIKE i.

896
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 3: Don't i'm not mad at them for being, like, no

897
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 3: this is my, NAME i earned.

898
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 5: THIS i don't want to share with everybody.

899
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 2: Said i'm not doing a three point contest OF Nba All.

900
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: Stars just come To indianapolis this.

901
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 3: Sun it's really about. It if y'all about, it if

902
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 3: y'all really, cared y'all.

903
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 1: Ridiculous so how about you have AN nba player come

904
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: shoot Against kaitlyn at W.

905
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 2: A why would she do?

906
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 4: That agree to do?

907
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 5: That because people think that she cares about like all

908
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 5: these opinions and views and dah da dah that girl

909
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 5: really just wants to play. Basketball AND i respect the

910
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 5: hell out of her for that because a lot of

911
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 5: people really think that she cares about all this outside.

912
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 5: Noise and even.

913
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 3: WHEN i was With erica the other, day she was telling,

914
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 3: me she was, like she does not care about none of,

915
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 3: That like she doesn't like, it she hates, It like

916
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 3: you can only stop so much everybody out here as

917
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:37,479
Speaker 3: a grown ass.

918
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: Person but, well and you don't start playing basketball as

919
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 1: a little girl because you're you want to do all that.

920
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: STUFF i, mean that stuff is, fun having a, shoe

921
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: working With, nike being in, Commercials but at the end

922
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: of the, day the goal is the. Goal she probably

923
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 1: dreamed of holding up a championship, trophy NOT i.

924
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 2: Haven't interested In caitlin clark story from last year when

925
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 2: she was getting. Drafted you, know the day starts at

926
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 2: like five. Am, yeah and you're doing all the, things

927
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 2: and we went to The Empire State building and she

928
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 2: was trying to hide in the back because she was,

929
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 2: like give the other players and drafts a chance to

930
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: be out in the.

931
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 5: Front.

932
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 2: Yeah and she's literally said her. Mouse she's, Like i'm

933
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 2: gonna stand back. Here can you get someone else to

934
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 2: light The Empire State? Building and Then kathy came up

935
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 2: and she was like, Okay camilla And caitlin come to

936
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 2: the front and they.

937
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 4: Were, like, Oh she's, like, YEAH i want to do.

938
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 2: It she's LITERALLY i just want to hoop. It.

939
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 5: Yeah and THAT'S i, mean and that's.

940
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 3: Respectable AND i feel like there's a lot of players

941
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 3: that feel that. Way, yeah and it's. Okay AND i

942
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 3: feel like once we get you, know these increased salaries

943
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 3: and more, endorsements.

944
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 5: Whatever people can choose to just play.

945
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 3: Basketball they don't have to put it on all the

946
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 3: time for the camera and be appealing to this.

947
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 5: Group in this, group they can really just show up

948
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 5: as their authentic cells and.

949
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 3: Hoop and that's it because the guys can do. It

950
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 3: there's like what we see what eight eight of THE

951
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 3: nba players and everyone else is just hooping making money and.

952
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 5: Chilling that's, True but.

953
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 1: You also can fly under the radar in THE nba

954
00:39:58,360 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: and make a lot more, money you know.

955
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 2: WHAT i me like that part of doing all that.

956
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: Endorsement extra stuff and putting yourself out there is part

957
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: of your brand and your.

958
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 2: Checks so you kind of have to do all that extra.

959
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 3: Stuff, yeah and it's hard and it's not for. Everybody

960
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 3: So i've always felt not, pressure but like as, women

961
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 3: you just have to do, more like for all the extra,

962
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 3: Stuff like you can't just be a good basketball, Player

963
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 3: like we don't.

964
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 5: Make obviously we don't make enough money for.

965
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 3: That we do make good, Money LIKE i don't want

966
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 3: anybody to get me, wrong like we make great.

967
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 5: Money i'm very. GRATEFUL i love waking up every day

968
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 5: playing professional.

969
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 3: Basketball but SOMETIMES i WISH i could just go to

970
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 3: the gym and work out and go to my game

971
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 3: and go home and. Repeat yeah, sometimes BUT i mean

972
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 3: this is also a passion of my doing stuff off the.

973
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 3: Court BUT i hope that one day and the, future

974
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 3: players won't have to extend themselves so much to like

975
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 3: make a lot of money being a professional.

976
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 2: ATHLETE i do have to, say you were like one

977
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,720
Speaker 2: of the FIRST wnba players to start a YouTube, channel

978
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 2: to have your own, show to start your branding outside

979
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 2: of basket AND i know the league wasn't really supportive

980
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 2: of players doing. That that's it's not at. ALL i

981
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 2: remember when her Name montgomery was playing in twenty eighteen

982
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 2: and she was, LIKE i want to do, ACTING i

983
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 2: want to be on, broadcast and she was, LIKE i

984
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 2: have to stick to basketball BECAUSE i get in trouble

985
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 2: by THE. Wnba and now how that has, Evolved and,

986
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 2: yeah they encourage players to build their.

987
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 5: Brands talk about, that how are you to build so?

988
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 5: Crazy And i'm so happy that at twenty eighth was

989
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 5: not that long. Ago, no it. Wasn't AND i.

990
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,919
Speaker 3: Remember WHEN i got, DRAFTED i was, LIKE i had

991
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 3: my YouTube channel set. UP i would Say duke probably

992
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 3: was one of the first colleges that really invested in

993
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 3: their social.

994
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 5: Media we got like a social media. Person we had

995
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 5: a content. Lady her name Is.

996
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 3: Selena she's still there, now and we were like one

997
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 3: of the first women's basketball. PROGRAMS i was like pushing

998
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 3: off content all the. Time so they helped me set

999
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 3: up my YouTube channel because me and my Teammate Rebecca

1000
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 3: greenwell went to the three point. Contest so we've blogged,

1001
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 3: That i've logged the drafts and Then i've logged like

1002
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 3: my last few days on campus and then they.

1003
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 5: Were, like, ook be. Free we helped. You so then

1004
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 5: they let me keep the YouTube.

1005
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 3: Channel and THEN i just was blogging my rookie season

1006
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 3: and every TIME i brought the camera, out everyone was like.

1007
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 5: What are you, Doing like like why do you have?

1008
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 5: This why do you have YouTube? Channel like why do

1009
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 5: you want to be on camera all the, time blah

1010
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 5: blah blah blah. Blah AND i was, like it was

1011
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 5: just a hobby of.

1012
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 3: Mine AND i saw the bigger picture as far As,

1013
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 3: brandy BECAUSE i was on the team With cheney at

1014
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 3: the time and she was hurt and that's when she

1015
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 3: first started doing HER espn, stuff AND i was always

1016
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 3: asking her about, it if she liked, it if she

1017
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,919
Speaker 3: could see a future doing it instead of just something

1018
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 3: to pass the. Time so she was the first PERSON

1019
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 3: i saw doing all that outside. Stuff but she was,

1020
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 3: injured SO i was kind of, Like, okay maybe you

1021
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 3: can't do it while you're, playing BUT i continue to

1022
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 3: do my YouTube. STUFF i Love.

1023
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 5: Instagram TikTok wasn't around.

1024
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 3: YET i just can't imagine How i've been on TikTok

1025
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 3: and college and our, team like our team was. Fun

1026
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 3: and then WHEN i got To chicago and was on

1027
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 3: the team With Kandas, parker that's WHEN i finally saw

1028
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 3: that you could do. Both and people even when she

1029
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 3: was doing, that people were just kind of like, down

1030
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 3: like they WERE i don't, KNOW i DON'T i don't

1031
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 3: like How cannons was treated the tail end of her,

1032
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 3: career but she was, Like she's the one that like

1033
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 3: really inspired me to be able to chase both dreams

1034
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 3: at the same time BECAUSE i watched her do, it

1035
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 3: AND i watched her do it and win a championship

1036
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 3: while doing.

1037
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 5: It, yeah that's a flex for. Her, yeah that was

1038
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 5: just as long for the, ride for you along for the.

1039
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 5: Ride NOW i want to win my. OWN i want

1040
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 5: to actually. Contribute you sound Like Charles barker is a

1041
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 5: bus driver.

1042
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 4: THING i need to be the bus driver.

1043
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 5: CONTRI i do have a ring and it's it's a.

1044
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 5: Blessing BUT i, like they can't take that away from.

1045
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 3: It they, cannot BUT i want, To, LIKE i THINK

1046
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 3: i did score a basket in the, finals so that was.

1047
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 2: FUN i. Think, yeah practice with.

1048
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 5: The, Team, yeah that whole summer was like just for.

1049
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 5: Vibes but it was a learning.

1050
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 3: Experience But i'm not gonna like pretend LIKE i was

1051
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 3: like a major contributor to the. Team but it was

1052
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 3: like a really good experience AND i learned a Ton

1053
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 3: And i'm mad that we didn't try.

1054
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 5: To run it back like the whole, time.

1055
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 2: Like everyone just we traded all the.

1056
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 5: Pis, yeah tont Before. Cray it was like my ultimate mic,

1057
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 5: Drop like all, right Here's, chicago when here's the, championship

1058
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 5: we're all gonna leave. NOW i feel like.

1059
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: If you go to the, finals unless something really bad

1060
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: happens in every, sport like if you get to the, championship, win,

1061
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: lose or, draw you gotta try to run a back

1062
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: because you could go back to back or you could

1063
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 1: if you, lost you could win the next. Time SO

1064
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: i don't, KNOW i never understood that blowing the team up.

1065
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 2: RIGHT i was who wanted to just?

1066
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 3: Disperse, OKAY i think it was a mix of both

1067
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 3: BECAUSE I candice, Stayed slute, stayed but every cost, Stayed

1068
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 3: so it was like a mix of both that that,

1069
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 3: Season LIKE i, said that season was very.

1070
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 5: INTERESTING i got. CUT i came in.

1071
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 3: LATER i didn't come until like the middle of the,

1072
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,479
Speaker 3: season so they had stuff going on THAT i knew nothing,

1073
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 3: about so you, KNOW i was there to you, know

1074
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 3: kind of set the tone vibe, wise energy. WISE i

1075
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 3: was like the tone setter as far as like everyone

1076
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 3: if someone if we're having a bad price of it's

1077
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 3: like see make some make someone, laugh do, this do.

1078
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 3: That that was like my job on the, team which.

1079
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 5: Is an important.

1080
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 4: Job, well by the time we put this episode, out

1081
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 4: the championship wall already.

1082
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: Happened BUT i do want to hear you guys, predictions

1083
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: and then we'll check in later in the week and

1084
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: you guys can hear our.

1085
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 2: Reactions but do you.

1086
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 3: First happen yukon The yukon's, winning and, OKAY i had.

1087
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 2: Them winning in my, brackets all, right SO i Had

1088
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 2: South carolina at, first but after looking at the Game,

1089
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 2: FRIDAY i think That yukon might run the. Table And

1090
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 2: i'm not wearing blue BECAUSE i Think yukon is going

1091
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 2: to win or, anything BUT i Have yukon winning.

1092
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 5: Today they just looked like a well oiled.

1093
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 3: Machine, yeah AND i think because of the poise that

1094
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 3: they play, with people don't understand how fast that they.

1095
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 3: Play they played extremely. Fast they were they KILLED ucla in,

1096
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 3: transition and they were shooting the. Ball i'm just really

1097
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 3: excited for this matchup because it's really gonna be offense versus,

1098
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 3: defense really the tale of two.

1099
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 5: Teams, Yeah i'm.

1100
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 2: Excited yukon was a team that lived their way to

1101
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 2: The final. Four last year half a team was, injured

1102
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 2: and NOW i feel like the chemistry's there were starting

1103
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 2: to turn the. Page Sarah strong is playing really so,

1104
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:29,359
Speaker 2: Good Azy fud as. Well page is gonna Be. Paige. Yeah,

1105
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 2: SO i mean there's just a well old.

1106
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 5: Machine and they're young.

1107
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 3: Though which is it's like you don't see Young yukon

1108
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 3: teams play like, This like they're all playing like they've

1109
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 3: been in the At yukon, three four or five years And,

1110
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 3: page you, know she's been in college for so. Long

1111
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 3: it's like she's like everyone's little. Sister we're like watching

1112
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 3: her like grow, up and everyone is like so sad

1113
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 3: that this is her last. Season i've really never seen

1114
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 3: fans so like emotionally connected to a player, before and

1115
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 3: it's been like really cool to. SEE i think it's

1116
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 3: a mix of you, know her fandom from high. School you,

1117
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 3: know she was popping in high school and she went

1118
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 3: through the. INJURIES i feel like whether you're cheering For

1119
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 3: yukon or, NOT i feel like everybody is like rooting For,

1120
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:08,760
Speaker 3: page AND i, think like it's such a beautiful.

1121
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: Thing, WELL i think that it's interesting how you said

1122
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: we haven't really gotten to see them In March madness

1123
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: all as a, unit healthy. Together i've read That asy

1124
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: And page hadn't played together In March madness since the

1125
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: last time ye Against South. Carolina so it's like it'll

1126
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 1: be interesting to see them get their get back and

1127
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: together after all they've been through throughout their college.

1128
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 2: Careers BUT i do want to shout Out South carolina

1129
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 2: because this is a team that's been here for the

1130
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 2: past four.

1131
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 4: Years they've been four five years in a row at.

1132
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 2: Right, yeah that's. Crazy one. Championships the players have been

1133
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: to the tournament what three of the four, years and

1134
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 2: they've been in, school so this is an experienced. Team

1135
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 2: Don staley is a great exs And o's, coach So

1136
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 2: i'm excited to see how they battle it out as

1137
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 2: well every, game and the defending, champs so they deserve

1138
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 2: as well.

1139
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 5: Every game in the. Tournament like a Different South carolina

1140
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 5: players stepped up. Today who is going to be that?

1141
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:11,280
Speaker 5: PLAYER i Think.

1142
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 2: Raven is definitely the leader of the. TEAM i like

1143
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 2: WHAT i see From Tessa johnson when she's lights out from.

1144
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 3: Three she was hooping last. Game she was very lights

1145
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 3: it was very light. Work i'm gonna go with my, Girl.

1146
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 3: CHLOE i like.

1147
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: THAT i feel like what makes them so dangerous, though

1148
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: is that they found different ways to win in each,

1149
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 1: step like whatever is needed at that. Time at the,

1150
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 1: beginning they kind of play, around like they play with their,

1151
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: food and then once they decide to time they, eat

1152
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: they're like yeah.

1153
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 2: BYE i interview with Coach yo and. Two it's just

1154
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 2: like when you're scouting For South. Carolina you can't plan

1155
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 2: for one or two. Players you got a plan for, everybody,

1156
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 2: Right you just don't know who's not gonna.

1157
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 3: BE i was talking to one of my friends and

1158
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 3: they were saying that when when teams have like their,

1159
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 3: superstars they're very they're not easy to, scout but, like

1160
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 3: you know what to, expect you know where the ball's,

1161
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 3: going you know what players are gonna be. Run when

1162
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 3: those star players are, out they're much harder to guard because.

1163
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 5: You don't know where the balls.

1164
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 3: Go you don't know what they're, doing but they're Doing

1165
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 3: and not saying That South carolina doesn't have any, stars

1166
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 3: but LIKE i completely agree with, You like it's very

1167
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 3: hard to scout for a team where everybody contributes a

1168
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 3: little bit in different ways and someone can go for,

1169
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 3: thirty this person can go for. Thirty you got your

1170
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 3: two leading scorers coming off the.

1171
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 5: Bench, okay it's the.

1172
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: Opposite they have a bunch of. Stars so it's like

1173
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: you're looking, around, like Oh, god what DO i?

1174
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 5: Do don is an evil mad scientist over?

1175
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 2: There can we just talk About Don?

1176
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 4: VERS i was talking to, YOU i think earlier about.

1177
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: THIS i have never seen anything any fanfare like this

1178
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: for a. Coach when you're, like, oh who are you rooting?

1179
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: For people are, like, Oh i'm rooting For South. CAROLINA

1180
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 1: i love.

1181
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,399
Speaker 2: DON i love don every.

1182
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 3: TIME i have not heard a single player's name this

1183
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 3: entire like she's the star player of the. Team, YEAH

1184
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 3: i mean that's, Amazing like THAT'S i love that For.

1185
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,240
Speaker 3: Donna just watching how she's Built South carolina from the ground,

1186
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 3: up like it's been amazing to. Watch BUT i want

1187
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 3: some fans to talk about some of the players.

1188
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 2: SOMETIME i, mean what do you think that's?

1189
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: Like as a player in the locker, room we're, like,

1190
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: well y'all walking in ready to, play and everyone said a.

1191
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 2: Picture i'll be like.

1192
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 5: Please she's a little, superstar but she's earned. It BUT i.

1193
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 5: DON'T i thought that was hilarious all weekend.

1194
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: Long wait yesterday when my sister were at the pool

1195
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: and you, know we're chilling, whatever and we see The

1196
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: South carolina team up in the window going to get their,

1197
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: lunch and everybody at the pools like done, done and

1198
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:30,479
Speaker 1: she's up.

1199
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 2: There waiting like.

1200
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 5: Princess, guys.

1201
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 2: She's a.

1202
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 3: President she's like the, president amunt of president of women's.

1203
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 3: Basketball And i'm so grateful for.

1204
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 5: Her she's.

1205
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 2: Amazing i'm excited for some really great basketball. TODAY i

1206
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 2: hope you guys are gonna watch maybe go to the

1207
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 2: arena to watch the game as.

1208
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 4: Well tampa's gonna.

1209
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:51,919
Speaker 3: Lit tampa has been. Lit we've had a great time.

1210
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 3: Here we've had a great time before we.

1211
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 2: Go what's been your favorite thing about being here In

1212
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 2: tampa this? Weekend my favorite.

1213
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 3: Thing my favorite thing is seeing how much women's college

1214
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 3: basketball has. Grown Like maria, said my Second Final four

1215
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 3: was In tampa and it was an amazing, experience but

1216
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 3: like the level of, everything how it's been elevated FROM.

1217
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 5: I think that was twenty.

1218
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 3: FIFTEEN i want to, say, yeah twenty, fifteen how so

1219
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 3: much has. Changed it's been like such a humbling and

1220
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 3: amazing experience just to be in it from a different,

1221
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 3: perspective but just be able to Have my mom sent

1222
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 3: me a picture of me on the side of the

1223
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,879
Speaker 3: arena WHEN i was playing, here and she was like

1224
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 3: losing her mind this.

1225
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 5: Weekend she's, LIKE i.

1226
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 3: Can't believe you're going there to work now like you

1227
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 3: played there and it just you're still involved And.

1228
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 5: I'm so proud of. You so things like that moments like,

1229
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 5: That like that was probably my favorite part of the.

1230
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 2: WEEKEND i came To.

1231
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: Tampa the last TIME i was here was for the

1232
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: Volleyball National championship In final, four AND i think that

1233
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,760
Speaker 1: it's amazing scene, here like there's such a good market

1234
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: for women's sports, here but also just watching the arenas

1235
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: fill up for women's sports is so. Incredible everybody's, sharing

1236
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: everybody's paying, attention everybody's going, crazy even like the fanfare

1237
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: For Page it's LIKE i only have seen that kind.

1238
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 2: Of fan fare for Like Steph, curry you know What i'm.

1239
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: Saying so it's really exciting seeing that in person because

1240
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: ON tv.

1241
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 4: It's hard to really feel.

1242
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: That, yeah but when you're in the arena and everybody

1243
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,439
Speaker 1: has their posters and it's going, crazy it's so. Fun

1244
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 1: BUT i mentioned the volleyball thing and The final four

1245
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: this year because there's such a great market for women's words,

1246
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: HERE i don't think it would hurt to have an

1247
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: expansion team.

1248
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 5: Here, YEAH i just Said i'm here For.

1249
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 2: FLORIDA i would have to say for, me my first

1250
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 2: time In tampa was in twenty nineteen for the women's

1251
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 2: Basketball final four and just to see as you guys,

1252
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 2: said like how everything evolved over the, years even the

1253
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 2: media coverage doing things like.

1254
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 5: This it's come full, circle come full circle.

1255
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 2: Exactly definitely enjoyed being here and just seeing how much

1256
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 2: this sport is frown but all the, stakeholders all the

1257
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 2: people who have covered the, game just them elevating as.

1258
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 5: Well, yeah women are.

1259
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: LIT i mean earlier in the shooting, contest we had

1260
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: little boys being, like, oh we're let'sy.

1261
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 2: Please side my. Basketball it's so.

1262
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 5: CUTE i love.

1263
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 3: It it's been a great. Time we've had a great weekend.

1264
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 3: HERE i appreciate you guys coming. Out thank you appreciate.

1265
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 5: It thanks for listening To Full.

1266
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: Circle we'll be back next week with more basketball.

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00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 2: For the, girls by the.

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Speaker 5: Girls we want to hear from.

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00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,880
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00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,640
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00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,960
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