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Speaker 1: Full Circle is an iheartwoman's sports production in partnership with

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Full

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Speaker 2: Circle Podcast. I'm Lexi Brown doing a solo kind of today.

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Speaker 3: Mariah could not join us, but I'm here with a

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Speaker 3: very very special guest. She doesn't really do.

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Speaker 2: Interviews like that, so I'm honored that she decided to

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Speaker 2: join us today. Canon, my dog is here too. You

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Speaker 2: already know he wants to be in the mix. My

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Speaker 2: can Okay, so you heard her voice, But if you're

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Speaker 2: just listening on audio, we have a former McDonald's All American,

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Speaker 2: the twenty eighteen Big Twelve Player of the Year, a

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Speaker 2: College All American, a twenty nineteen NCAA champ, a WNBA

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Speaker 2: first round pick, and she just completed completed the WNBA

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Speaker 2: Finals with the Phoenix Mercury. We have Koalanie Brown. Everybody, Yay, clap.

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Speaker 3: Hey, miss girl. Oh my gosh, I'm so happy that

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Speaker 3: you're here. It's so funny.

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Speaker 2: We just had Drea on and she asked me the

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Speaker 2: same question as you like what are we going to

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Speaker 2: talk about? Like, girl, you were talking about you, and

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Speaker 2: I feel like people don't really know much about you,

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Speaker 2: Like you're just the mysterious You're the mysterious battie in

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Speaker 2: know a little bit more about you.

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Speaker 3: So we're gonna start off from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: If you guys didn't know, Klannie comes from an elite pedigree.

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Speaker 2: Both of her parents played basketball. Her mom played in college,

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Speaker 2: her dad in the NBA for the Celtics, like mine

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Speaker 2: won a championship in Boston.

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Speaker 3: So like, what was that.

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Speaker 2: Like growing up with two parents that and did one

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Speaker 2: of them in particular steer you to basketball or like

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Speaker 2: what was that like?

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Speaker 4: Actually, no, not at all. My dad actually let me

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Speaker 4: fall in love with the game on my own. That's

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Speaker 4: like one of the questions that a lot of people

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Speaker 4: like to ask, did your dad push you into it?

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Speaker 5: Or were y'all training?

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Speaker 4: The answer is no, Okay, your girl was in dancing,

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Speaker 4: your girl was in piano lessons.

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Speaker 5: I marched in.

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Speaker 4: Parades, I did taekwondo, I did tumbling. You know, he

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Speaker 4: let me try whatever I wanted to and then when

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Speaker 4: I was serious, I think when I really I think

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Speaker 4: when I got my first questionnaire in college, and I

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Speaker 4: think that was like I mean in high school, and

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Speaker 4: I think that was that was Baylor, of course, and

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Speaker 4: it was like my junior year of high school. I

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Speaker 4: was like, okay, like I could be serious about this.

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Speaker 4: But I've always played just for fun and because daddy

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Speaker 4: did it or and my mom coached me. So basketball

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Speaker 4: was never really on the forefront. It was just something

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Speaker 4: the strength of like I want to be like my dad.

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Speaker 2: But like, yeah, how old were you when you like

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Speaker 3: He was really little, about six, yeah.

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Speaker 4: And I played with him. So my dad, we had

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Speaker 4: I was kind of like his boy standing. Yeah, so

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Speaker 4: he was he was more rough with me. We watched Batman, Pokemon,

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Speaker 5: I was a real tomboy coming.

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Speaker 4: Up because you know, he didn't think he was going

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Speaker 5: I'm a true daddy's girl.

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Speaker 2: Same, I feel like, yeah, like me and Klaney have

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Speaker 2: like our lives, our lives, how we grew up, our

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Speaker 2: it's so funny that have the same last name.

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Speaker 3: Because people think we're really white. People think we're related

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Speaker 2: Or some of our sisters or something like that, like

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Speaker 5: My nephew be doing that girl like I'm six seven.

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Speaker 3: He takes everyth's so because what does that even mean?

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Speaker 5: God, I don't know, but the kids is doing it.

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Speaker 3: I'm here, So when did you start growing? For real?

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Speaker 4: So I've always been taller than your average girl, But

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Speaker 5: You leave everybody. When I left everybody, I feel like it.

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Speaker 4: Was eighth grade to the summer of me going into

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Speaker 5: That I don't wish that knee pain on.

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Speaker 2: I bet I can't imagine. What about Like, what was

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Speaker 2: it like when you came back to school? Like everybody

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Speaker 4: Because they know I played aau in the summertime, so

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Speaker 2: Like that's funny because you really typically see that with boys.

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Speaker 2: You rarely see that with girls, Like they go away

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Speaker 2: that's like my dream. So you mentioned that you went

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Speaker 2: Like what was your recruiting process?

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Speaker 5: Like my recruiting process was kind of crazy.

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Speaker 4: I had literally every almost every school in the country,

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Speaker 4: if not every school in the country, but still I

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Speaker 4: was just kind of flowing through it. Like I wasn't

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Speaker 4: oh yeah, like I got colleges. But it wasn't like

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Speaker 4: an ego thing. It was just like Daddy, I got

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Speaker 4: and he's like, my mom is like freaking out because

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Speaker 5: Right. She worked for the shortest thing. She was very close.

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Speaker 4: She played under Kim as an assistant and Louis end

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Speaker 5: Like hype about the whole thing.

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Speaker 4: Me and my dad we kind of laid back, like

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Speaker 4: all right, cool is happening, Like okay, but it was.

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Speaker 5: It was. It got pretty over overwhelming because they were the.

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Speaker 5: I never had my phone on me.

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Speaker 3: You still don't. You still don't have your phone on you.

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Speaker 4: Now, Like yeah, So that it got a little overwhelming,

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Speaker 5: Well maybe go to Baylor though was.

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Speaker 4: First of all, I Kim Mimake has known me probably

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Speaker 5: I used to go to the camps.

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Speaker 4: BG don't like for me to show the picture, but

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Speaker 4: we do have a camp picture together.

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Speaker 3: I showed Scott.

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Speaker 2: I showed Scott picture when I was in high school

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Speaker 2: and she was like, yeah, delete this, don't because I

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Speaker 2: looked a mess.

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Speaker 3: She's still looked cute.

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Speaker 5: I don't know that you make me feel old.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it's still weird that I'm like, wow,

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Speaker 4: I'm like standing next to you with a little tall,

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Speaker 5: It's still crazy to me, still crazy to me. But yeah,

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Speaker 5: just that, just that.

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Speaker 4: Close connection between Kim my mom, the Louisiana Tech connection.

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Speaker 4: And then Kim likes to tell this story my mom

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Speaker 5: Tech early to marry my dad, and she went off

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: We love that period Basketball love that.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, so she's like, you owe her, she left her,

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Speaker 4: she left her senior year. So Kim was like you

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Speaker 4: always basically like, so she gave me away kind of thing.

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Speaker 4: So we always love that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's a perfect segment to my next question,

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Speaker 3: which is, like Kim like a lot.

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Speaker 2: Only the only people who really know Kim are her players,

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Speaker 2: And I feel like she's one of the most polarizing

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Speaker 2: to the league, and she wins.

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Speaker 3: You can't deny what it is getting to Baylor.

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Speaker 2: You know, you knownor since you've been young, Like, what

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Speaker 2: what was it like playing for Kim? Like what was

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Speaker 2: what was your experience flavor Kim walk Because the experiences

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Speaker 4: Mine was actually pretty positive. My mom, like I said,

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Speaker 4: I was playing basketball for fun. I was kind of

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Speaker 4: relying on my talent for a long time. So taking

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Speaker 4: sure that somebody would push me, and that somebody is

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Speaker 4: Kim right. She already got the okay from my parents

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Speaker 4: to dig digging me, like you know, there was no helicopter.

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Speaker 4: probably wasn't running or you you know, I saw you

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Speaker 4: like I saw it, you know, Like so sometimes I

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Speaker 4: yeah I was, I was. She meant business And I

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Speaker 4: always tell my recruits too, when I had them, I

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Speaker 4: it's not like fun and games.

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Speaker 5: She's gonna push you. She doesn't care. All that McDonald's

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Speaker 5: all American, all that Jordan brand, that don't matter. And

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Speaker 4: She actually did tell me that, Okay, like you ain't

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Speaker 4: entitled to nothing here, You're gonna earn your spot. And

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Speaker 4: I had five post players in front of me. Now,

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Speaker 4: she gave each and every one of us a chance.

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Speaker 5: But and if you you were doing great, you were

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Speaker 5: doing great. She left you.

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Speaker 4: That was the good thing about it. But everybody was

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Speaker 4: gonna get they shot, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, with her, and she just didn't play like I

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Speaker 5: don't know, like she's just great.

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Speaker 2: And she respond she seemed like, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: I would be able to play for her. But I've

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Speaker 2: always like, I've always like been able to appreciate what

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Speaker 2: culture that she creates. And now she's an LSU and

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Speaker 2: what they're doing is amazing.

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Speaker 3: And I know if she.

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Speaker 5: Girls. It was so close up the street LSU was

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Speaker 5: up the street. So I took so many unofficials to ls.

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Speaker 5: I did? Theres you go? I did? No? I took three.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, not all fine? I think I took three. I

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Speaker 2: Which one was the most fun? Don't get over there now,

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Speaker 5: I don't know. You know what dreadam was my host?

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Speaker 4: You said you mentioned Drea, But Drea was my host

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about them official visits.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going just close who was my Like? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: But when they're in high school, you get to you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I freaking bet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So y'all won, you went to Baylor, you're playing

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Speaker 3: And who's on? Who's on?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, squad we had, Yeah, we had a little

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Speaker 4: And that was during the time where Sabrina and the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she does. She likes what she likes and she

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Speaker 2: So twenty nineteen, so that was the last championship y'all have,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, obviously we didn't know COVID was about to happen,

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Speaker 4: It was against the rule to have like your own

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Speaker 3: That crazy, And then twenty twenty happened, and I know

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Speaker 5: I was mad. I was mad. I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: One year off Like, so if you were okay, I

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Speaker 2: What brands would you like to work with when you're

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Speaker 4: To say, for sure, man, And that's been and now,

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Speaker 4: but for sure Mac Cosmetics because in that twenty sixteen

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Speaker 2: I wore dark asthlet stick on my damn lips with

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so I would have been with Mac for sure.

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Speaker 4: So far it wasn't really I wasn't into the like

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Speaker 4: kinds of hair brands like I wore I wore girl

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Speaker 4: you was ahead of her because I had last I

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Speaker 3: It's so cool.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I love seeing my girls.

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Speaker 2: Now we're going to get into WNBA stuff and I

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Speaker 4: Time with the beautiful ballers, you know, beautiful ballers, you

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Speaker 3: That girl, that girl you I was.

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Speaker 5: I used to be trying hard to get on it.

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Speaker 2: But I'm just because it's like in college it was

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Speaker 2: we hate all of that, like stop all of that.

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Speaker 2: Did you feel that way when you got drafted, because

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 2: But when you got into the league, did you feel

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Speaker 5: No, it still wasn't the thing I was.

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Speaker 4: I was drafted to a VET team, right, I had

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Speaker 4: So no, not really, Like Chelsea Gray was on that

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Speaker 5: Me about my little Louis bag that my mom bought because.

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Speaker 4: She was like, you're not gonna wear a Nike bag

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Speaker 5: So they kind of teased me a little bit about

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Speaker 4: So I'm like, I love to think of how they

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Speaker 5: Coming in hot.

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Speaker 2: Louis should now look up all of it. Like Burkins

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Speaker 2: plural have multiple burkins is that they used their day

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Speaker 3: I think it's fire. I think it's so cool.

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Speaker 2: But I feel like I say all the time and

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Speaker 2: sometimes people are like, shut up, Lexie, Like all you

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Speaker 2: do is complain about how you were treated when you came.

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Speaker 3: Into the league.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, it wasn't It's not just me, but

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to speak for other people. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: like Kilanie was like a little cute patuity, like she

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Speaker 3: So you get drafted to LA, Like.

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Speaker 2: What was your rookie season like in LA? Because I

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Speaker 2: can't imagine being a rookie in LA. It was probably

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Speaker 4: I again, I was in a on a vet squad.

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Speaker 4: I didn't have that, so, like it was really hard

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Speaker 5: We had a new coach in Derrick Fisher, so that

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Speaker 4: Watching the bets and Derek kind of like pashed it out,

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Speaker 3: I was trying.

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Speaker 5: I came in with an open.

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Speaker 4: Mind because I already knew, like I'm like, I'm going

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Speaker 5: I know, I ain't gonna play. I knew that, you know.

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Speaker 3: Was seventh overall?

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Speaker 4: Seventh, Yeah, seventh, Like this this Isoka. These are girls

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Speaker 5: She's a long time My mom has known her for

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Speaker 4: So I've been around the w as a kid, my

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Speaker 2: So just like watching what was something like one of

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Speaker 3: So that was, you know a little towards the end,

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Speaker 3: When you were in LA with her, she was still

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Speaker 2: Like yeah, So if there's anything like that stuck out

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Speaker 5: She taught me the importance of recovery.

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Speaker 4: I was not somebody that was a nice bad person

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Speaker 4: out you know, with Kim not blaming Kim saying that

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and now I'm like I'm going.

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Speaker 4: There and do what you need to do because I've

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Speaker 4: of recovery. She made me get into ice up with her,

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Speaker 3: And then.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like just being in a training room and stuff

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Speaker 3: To me about that.

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Speaker 2: I will say, like, yeah, when people look at players

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Speaker 2: at what they do on the court, but so much

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Speaker 3: Like even watching Mekka and.

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Speaker 2: Skyler, I'm like, y'all are robot Alicia Clark, like they're

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Speaker 2: just they're so regimented and like such the best, the

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Speaker 3: Like every year you were with the Sparks in the bubble.

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Speaker 5: No, I was with Atlanta in the bubble.

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Speaker 4: I was traded after a year because see a lot happened, guys.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So when I tell y'all me and Kilani have

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Speaker 2: not an easy thing to navigate. You weren't in the

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00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:46,520
Speaker 2: league for a year. Yeah, So I want to know

444
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,000
Speaker 2: what your what your takeaways from the Bubble war, because

445
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,199
Speaker 2: I said, we're all trauma bonded for life because of

446
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:54,879
Speaker 2: the bubble, But I want to know what you what

447
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 2: your experience and there was Like.

448
00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,960
Speaker 5: So I don't I don't think. I mean, y'all probably

449
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,639
Speaker 5: heard the rumors about and the like, but Atlanta was

450
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 5: a very okay, what's the word, honey, like girl, we

451
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 5: had some.

452
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 2: Personal y'allay, Atlanta team is vastly different from the Atlanta

453
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 2: team right now. Like I don't even think there's not

454
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,919
Speaker 2: a single person on that Atlanta team now that was

455
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 2: on the team in twenty twenty.

456
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:22,640
Speaker 3: Just making that.

457
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 2: Very clear to everybody staff. Everything is different, like they

458
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 2: done clear. Oh yeah, okay, So you that was the

459
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,680
Speaker 2: year guys that we rallied Atlanta or the whole state

460
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,359
Speaker 2: of Georgia to vote to flip the Senate seat.

461
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I didn't forget about that.

462
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 2: But like, there's so many things that happened in twenty

463
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 2: twenty and in the bubble season lot, yeah, like the

464
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 2: dream like spearheaded that entire movement.

465
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 3: What like what was that? Like, like y'all were y'all

466
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:53,720
Speaker 3: front center of all that.

467
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 4: It was such a it was such a blur, Like

468
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 4: I don't even remember that part.

469
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 5: I just remember we were like, yeah, we're one hundred percent.

470
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 5: I remember celebrating it. I just didn't really I didn't

471
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,160
Speaker 5: really pay attention to it back then. I didn't really realize.

472
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,359
Speaker 3: Like the gravity of it, like the gravity.

473
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I'm still young, right, this is only my

474
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,640
Speaker 4: second year. I'm still young. I don't really know. I'm

475
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 4: just like, Okay, we're gonna play or not, like what

476
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 4: we're gonna do.

477
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 5: But that was that year. Definitely was.

478
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,880
Speaker 4: It definitely challenged me mentally, both mentally and physically because

479
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 4: I want to say, like I've never had a lockdown

480
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,159
Speaker 4: or whatever or something like that, Like I've never had that.

481
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 4: So I feel like I showed out of like and

482
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 4: I caught COVID in I was going for like a month.

483
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,639
Speaker 4: I don't know if you like you were in little

484
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 4: hotel blocked off sick me and Glory. Me and Glory Johnson,

485
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 4: we were going to be roommates because I was like, Okay,

486
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 4: she got kids. Like again, we got personalities, right, we

487
00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,399
Speaker 4: got Corney, we got Kennedy, we got Tip pay Oh

488
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 4: Tip didn't play that year, sorry Tip was not there.

489
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,919
Speaker 4: But we got Courtney, we got Kennedy. So Tianna Hawkins different,

490
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 4: different personalities, different strong, some had more strong than not.

491
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 4: So I was like, Okay, Lauryd Johns is the mother.

492
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 4: She got twins. She's she always talks about the health

493
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 4: of her babies. I know I'm not gonna get sick

494
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 4: with her. She's gonna she's gonna take the thing. She's

495
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 4: gonna take it like and be super careful what she

496
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 4: was and she was, but she ended up being asymptomatic.

497
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 4: But her being symptomatic didn't mean I was gonna be asymptomatic,

498
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 4: and I was, in fact not.

499
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 5: I was sick so sick it was crazy.

500
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the brain. Yeah, to get snow swabs

501
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 2: every day day.

502
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 3: Oh I forgot about that.

503
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 4: Now imagine that trying to get too negative. Oh you're

504
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 4: trying to get too negatives with that.

505
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 5: That was so bad.

506
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,679
Speaker 2: I'm traumatized, a trauma bonded because that was such a

507
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 2: crazy thing that we did, but it ended up being

508
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,239
Speaker 2: so amazing. I do think it like saved the W.

509
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: Like if we didn't have that season, like the W

510
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 2: NBA probably wouldn't exist anymore. But I always love asking

511
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 2: people like what their experience in the bubble is because.

512
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 3: It was hard fun when.

513
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 5: I came back.

514
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 4: When I came back, it was like, Okay, I know

515
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 4: I'm not playing the month the season is like a

516
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 4: month in like they've already got things said. I knew

517
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 4: I wasn't like playing, but like we was finding things

518
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 4: to do, Like Atlanta had house.

519
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 5: Atlanta was like Atlanta home. We had house.

520
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 4: Far Yeah, and you know who was with us? Connecticut

521
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:31,160
Speaker 4: was always with.

522
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 2: Us Connecticut Connecticut again Connecticut of the past Belta as

523
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 2: in the league. But them girls knew how to have

524
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 2: a time, They knew to have they knew how to

525
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 2: have some fun. Okay, we're gonna move on from the

526
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 2: bubble because now I'm getting flashed up backs and PTSD

527
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 2: playing in the W Like, what what do you think

528
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 2: has been a set back? Because you've had a few

529
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 2: so have I which setback or setbacks do you think

530
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 2: have like shaped you to be like this person that

531
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 2: you are, this resilient person that you are. If there's

532
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 2: like any particular situation or any particular moment that you

533
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 2: had that kind of like made you be like all right,

534
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 2: like this this is what this shit gonna be, Like

535
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 2: I need to figure it out or I'm not gonna

536
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 2: be able to play in this league anymore.

537
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 4: Not to go back to the bubble, but like coming

538
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 4: out of the coming out of the bubble, like Atlanta period,

539
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 4: just my experience in Atlanta period, Like I thought I

540
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 4: wanted to quit after that.

541
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 5: I was out of shape.

542
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 4: I had not been playing. You know, I didn't show

543
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 4: up in shape. That's my accountability. I didn't show up

544
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 4: and say because I didn't think we were going to

545
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 4: play like so, and.

546
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 5: Then gyms were closed.

547
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 4: It was just hard because I wasn't disciplined at the

548
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 4: time as disciplined as I am now with my body,

549
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 4: my diet, that sort of stuff, like again like recovery,

550
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 4: that thing I just thought I could get up and

551
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 4: go that sort of thing wasn't really disciplined, and it

552
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 4: did come.

553
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 5: Back to bite me in the butt and so.

554
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 4: I think after getting cut from Atlanta the second year

555
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, I was kind of out for a

556
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 4: little bit.

557
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 5: And then I had my.

558
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 4: First miniscus surgery too, so I was getting hit like

559
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 4: a double way. I'm cut for the first time. It's things,

560
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 4: it's it feels like the world is over. Then I

561
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 4: get hurt. So now I'm like out of the loop

562
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 4: a little bit. It looks like they're moving on without me.

563
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 4: I'm seeing my class they you know, they're getting comfortable

564
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 4: in their teams and stuff.

565
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 5: As time goes on. It's easy to look at somebody

566
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 5: else's journey and look to your right and look to

567
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 5: your left and see them buying houses in their city.

568
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 4: And you know, it really did like take a toll

569
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 4: on me, and like I really did get depressed, and

570
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 4: I thought almost I called him.

571
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 5: I was like, do you like, can I come to

572
00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 5: what she said?

573
00:26:59,560 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 3: She said?

574
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 4: She was liked, now you hat big girl. You got more,

575
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 4: you got more basketball to play, you got a little bit.

576
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 4: And I'm like, not for real, because I think it's

577
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 4: over with, Like I'm I think it's done because I'm

578
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 4: not sure.

579
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 5: She was like, well, when you're ready, you come to me.

580
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 5: You call me and I got you. Like basically, she

581
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 5: would make the position basically if she needed to.

582
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 4: But she knew I had more basketball agains. She knew

583
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 4: I had more to give. She just knew I was discouraging.

584
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 4: Kim is not a fanablytic. She never has been. She's like,

585
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 4: I just hate what it does to kids. Some kids

586
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 4: and certain ones like you and me. That's the ones

587
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 4: she are she's referring to. But yeah, I had to

588
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 4: like pull myself out of that hole. I didn't have

589
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 4: nobody to pull me out of that hole. Not my mom,

590
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 4: not my dad, they didn't know how. It was just me,

591
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 4: like and I literally made that decision. And then battle

592
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 4: my way back, rehabing, losing the weight, going to Vegas, well,

593
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 4: going to au first, gaining back my confidence.

594
00:27:59,440 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

595
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 4: On top of this, hey athletes on limited shout out

596
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 4: to ASTHMA. They gave it back to me. They gave

597
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 4: me my spark bank. And I'm like, okay, yeah, like

598
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 4: that first year was everything, and then I got the

599
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 4: training camp to Vegas. Boom, get hit with the second

600
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 4: meniscus because you know, injuries working tandem, so get here

601
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 4: with the second one. It's like, oh, I'm going to stop.

602
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 4: But I'm like, I worked too hard to come back,

603
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 4: Like you know, so I kept working at it, going,

604
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 4: going overseas, staying overseas, grinding, grinding, and then Dallas gave

605
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 4: me that that chance when nobody else would. And I'm

606
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 4: forever grateful to Dallas. Hence why I signed a three

607
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,959
Speaker 4: year deal because I was loyal.

608
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 5: I didn't know how.

609
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 4: Was texting me, but like girl, I was like, you

610
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 4: know what, this team gave me a chance when nobody did.

611
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 5: We made it to the semi finals.

612
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 2: We we lit like there, y'all go go, let's go

613
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 2: back there. Straight from the horse's mouth. Why she signed

614
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 2: a three year deal? Okay, that's why iverybody was wondering

615
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 2: why we signed the long term deals because ship hasn't

616
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: always gone our way in this league, and for us,

617
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 2: a protected contract was more valuability than anything less anxiety.

618
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 3: Anxiety you don't have that.

619
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 5: You don't got that scissor on your back. You just know,

620
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 5: and that doesn't give.

621
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 4: You the don't get me wrong, that doesn't give you

622
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 4: the right to relax.

623
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 5: But it's like WHOA, Okay, I can work. I know

624
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 5: these people.

625
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 4: It was more so of a I'm with these people

626
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 4: that believed in meet when nobody else did. You know,

627
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 4: everybody thought I was doing out of shape, big whatever,

628
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 4: you know, and I come, I play well and they

629
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 4: reward me for that, and I'm like okay, Like I

630
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 4: think I finally found my niche It wasn't Dallas.

631
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 5: I'm familiar with the city. I'm like cool because.

632
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 2: Because we both have the same thought process and look

633
00:29:53,840 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 2: what happened now, were like, damn, it's very frustrating to

634
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 2: feel like you're doing everything the right way.

635
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 3: You're doing right by people.

636
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 2: You. I mean, I'm never gonna feel dumb or stupid

637
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 2: for believing what people tell me. Like when people are like,

638
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 2: you're naive, you're naive, Like, no, I'm not naive. And

639
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 2: if believing what people tell me is naive, then okay,

640
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: then I'll be naive.

641
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 3: If thinking the.

642
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 2: Best of people, giving people the benefit of the doubt

643
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 2: is naive, Yeah, maybe it is a little bit naive,

644
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 2: but that's more of a fault on the people that

645
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: are not telling the truth or being honest. That's more

646
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 2: about them than us. So like, like I said, y'all

647
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 2: like me and Kalani's careers are like so Mirrod so

648
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 2: crazy Okay, so you mentioned like Dalla's taking a chance

649
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 2: on you, and you know you're thinking feeling like teams

650
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 2: didn't think that you could play anymore, couldn't keep up.

651
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: So you you know, you're seeing the style of play

652
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 2: evolving and changing. Two questions, what are you personally working

653
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 2: on in the off season, because I know you you

654
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 2: probably weren't happy with your minutes this season, Like that's

655
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 2: and you shouldn't be.

656
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 3: No one should ever be happy with not playing, so

657
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 3: like that's valid.

658
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 2: But then also like what skills do you currently have

659
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 2: that you're going to continue to improve on that you

660
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 2: think are like invaluable to the w.

661
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, so what I'm working from on now is more

662
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 4: so of a face up game versatility that I am

663
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 4: so uncomfortable in the gym.

664
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 3: Y'all good, I have, That's how you should be.

665
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 4: I'm super super uncomorable, I know, but I know it's

666
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 4: for the better and I know this is what this

667
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 4: is what my team needs, is what I need. So

668
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 4: you know, I was kind of blindsided with the style

669
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 4: of play this year, just off Phoenix normally using a

670
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 4: traditional post. So I'm thinking I'm going to get like

671
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 4: a real big shot. But you know, hey, it is

672
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 4: what it is.

673
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 5: You know.

674
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 4: I was prepared, I was in shape, I was ready,

675
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 4: you know, but like I think just the style of play,

676
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 4: it wasn't like enough time. And you know, training camp

677
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 4: is like a weekend and you off the rest, like

678
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 4: it's not there's no time for really to sit there

679
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 4: and walk me through some new stuff. It's just kind

680
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 4: of learn on the fly. So I was really taking

681
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 4: this year to like learn learn the game in a

682
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 4: different way and a different role.

683
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,959
Speaker 5: Working on stretching the floor. I've always I've always been

684
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 5: able to shoot.

685
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 4: I just feel like I just never do it because

686
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 4: I've never I've never needed to do it. I'm always

687
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 4: around guards who can spread the floor. I just kind

688
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 4: of mess up that interior and then we playing inside

689
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 4: out and then it's just easy.

690
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 5: But the game is.

691
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 4: Changing, like you said, so extending the floor, a face

692
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 4: up game, a girl ball handling.

693
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 3: Okay, period, I'm.

694
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 5: Not saying it next year.

695
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 3: Center, bringing above the floor.

696
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 4: Lord, it's like three dribbles right now?

697
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 3: Man, come here, what was I mean?

698
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 2: You're playing with you know, at who's considered like one

699
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 2: of the most like versatile players in our league.

700
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 3: Like, is there anything that.

701
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 2: She was telling you that you could probably work on

702
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 2: and I mean even she probably could pick your brain about,

703
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 2: you know, banging in the paint and stuff like that.

704
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 2: You know, you have Natasha Mac who's coming to play

705
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:27,959
Speaker 2: in Au very excited about that. You guys have like

706
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 2: like three completely different like bigs.

707
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 3: So you have at who's like the Swiss army knife.

708
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 2: You have Tash, who's like more of a defensive big

709
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 2: and a shot blocker. And then you have you, like

710
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 2: you're very You're very skilled offensively, and then you're obviously

711
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 2: very talented defensively as well. But like I think your

712
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 2: scoring is underrated because you have such good touch and hands. So, like,

713
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 2: how did the three of y'all create like your little

714
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 2: post synergy? You know you have like the guard group.

715
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 2: First of all, how big was y'all's post group. Who's

716
00:33:58,320 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 2: a y'all's post group.

717
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 5: It was me Mac, and it was me Macken.

718
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 2: And then with Sa come hang out with y'all sometimes,

719
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: and then Dip or she was always with the guards.

720
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 4: I don't want to do I was down the shoe that,

721
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 4: you know, I was down there shoes.

722
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 2: She got okay, So y'all had guys so Phoenix had

723
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 2: three bigs, three Cat was.

724
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 5: Cat would find herself down there with herself.

725
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,760
Speaker 3: She was aw in the like yeah she's a Twitter

726
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 3: So yeah, so.

727
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 2: What what little what like conversations y'all have, Like, did

728
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 2: y'all have any like pregame rituals together, Like I know,

729
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 2: like posting guards be having their little you know, we

730
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,479
Speaker 2: the guards over here, y'all, we the bigs over here.

731
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 2: So like what like what kind of like synergy did

732
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: y'all build?

733
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 5: I would say At was more.

734
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 4: At is like black and white, like she know, you know,

735
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 4: it's hard getting her to crack. Sometimes she's very serious

736
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 4: about he crab like post players was serious study like

737
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 4: she would she would laugh sometimes, you know, just about

738
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 4: anything or just she's that she didn't want to come

739
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 4: whisper to you or I'll look at her.

740
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 5: She'd be like, don't look at me, like you know,

741
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 5: something happens. I would like, look at her. We will

742
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,240
Speaker 5: always make We made eye.

743
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 4: Contact a couple of times, you know, just that teammate

744
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 4: and like don't look at you, like don't start start

745
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 4: but like yeah, that was me in Aten's kind of relationship.

746
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 4: But like she would, she's so smart and seeing the

747
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,919
Speaker 4: floor and things. She was telling us where we needed

748
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 4: to be when she's driving, like just because again we

749
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 4: are all learning this new system.

750
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 5: We're all new, we all trying to learn each other.

751
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 4: So we worked a lot with her on passing and

752
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 4: just where to be and where she wanted us to be,

753
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,959
Speaker 4: like you know how if we was in our way

754
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 4: to be out of her that.

755
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 5: Sort of thing. She's super smart on that.

756
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 4: And then the guards was just the guards, you know,

757
00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 4: Kai and Saw We're just they literally just cracking. It's like, honestly,

758
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 4: like I can't even but yeah, that was more so

759
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 4: I think she was like a teacher.

760
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 5: And then dB came. DV is like a mother. I

761
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 5: love DV. Like DV is like that sweet Lonnie. She

762
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 5: she got that soft.

763
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 2: Voice like like Poll her opposite as far as like.

764
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 4: AT is getting in at DV is like well you

765
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 4: know what or if she's doing something wrong, She's like,

766
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 4: what you see, Lonnie? She would always ask me. She

767
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 4: always made me feel includid, like even when I wasn't

768
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 4: playing or something like that. When I'm watching the game,

769
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 4: She'll come down there and be like what you see, Lanna,

770
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 4: I'll be like, well, paint club were running the same place.

771
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 5: We might need another chain, we need to do something different.

772
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 4: Or you know, and I would just tell her what

773
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 4: I was seeing and she would really take my input

774
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 4: and like really like implement it because she actually I

775
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 4: told that's important.

776
00:36:50,520 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 3: But I love that. I feel like y'all's team was

777
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 3: like I don't want.

778
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 2: To say, like y'all were ignored most of the season,

779
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 2: but like y'all were like very much like under the radar.

780
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 2: Did y'all have like conversations about that? Did y'all peep that?

781
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 3: Like what?

782
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 5: We wanted it that way?

783
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 2: Because that was the energy I was playoff y'all was

784
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: like stay on that side, Like that was like y'all's vibe.

785
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like don't yeah, but it was like we just

786
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 4: had a certain focus that we didn't have any pressure,

787
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 4: like we didn't have nothing to lose, and that's how

788
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 4: we played. And everybody played like that, you know, like

789
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 4: we they don't expect us to be here.

790
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 5: They don't.

791
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 4: They still don't expect us even when we got the playoffs,

792
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:40,919
Speaker 4: they still don't expect us to be here. So don't

793
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 4: expect don't play into the media, don't play into the

794
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 4: social media, stay focused.

795
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 3: And I will say he was riding for all summer long.

796
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 2: It was like, y'all sleep on Phoenix, Like, I don't

797
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 2: know why you'll keep sleeping on that damn team.

798
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 5: And they thought because we we hadn't really played with

799
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 5: a full team.

800
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: The whole Yeah, and then y'all throw in dB and

801
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 2: y'all had a little rough patch, but it was the

802
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 2: same rough patch most of the teams went through earlier

803
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 2: in the year, which and I think that was just

804
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 2: personnelity again, sure, yeah, for sure. Okay, So last thing

805
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you w n b A is you're

806
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 2: off court stuff. So got like Lannie is like one

807
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 2: of the most followed players in the league. Like, she

808
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 2: has hell of followers on Instagram, hello, followers on TikTok.

809
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 2: Like I think the w n b A fumbles a

810
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 2: lot of players marketing wise, I think you are a

811
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 2: huge one.

812
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 3: And my girl, don't even get me started, don't even

813
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:47,479
Speaker 3: get me started on that started on that.

814
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 2: How do you feel? Wait, did they even did you

815
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 2: post for them at all? No, that's what I'm saying,

816
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 2: Sports Illustrated skims ah Like body, Yeah, I've always said

817
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 2: the business like this, the marketing mind that I have

818
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 2: in some aspects, like, yes, I always think about myself,

819
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 2: but I always am thinking about so many players in

820
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 2: our league that are just perfect to market the W

821
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 2: And it's like, again a spectrum of players I think,

822
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 2: like even now with Courtney and the T shirt with

823
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 2: the stub buds like that, that was amazing, Like, but

824
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 2: five do you know five years yes, I heard, yep,

825
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 2: I heard.

826
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 3: I heard.

827
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 2: Five years ago that would have not been a thing,

828
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 2: Like I have hated that, Like the whole league, the coaches,

829
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 2: everybody would have been like y'all doing what y'all call yourselves?

830
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 3: What y'all got picked there?

831
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,439
Speaker 2: What like stop all at so now like I feel

832
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 2: like it's slowly like finding its way. I've already said

833
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 2: that WNBA has gate kept us from the world for

834
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 2: many many years. What like what where do you see

835
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,439
Speaker 2: yourself like off court? Like what are your like off

836
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 2: court goals? Like what are brand like let's put it

837
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 2: out in the universe manifest like what are brands you

838
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 2: want to work with? Because like this is very I

839
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 2: mean it's biased because we're friends, like you're one of

840
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 2: the most like beautiful humans inside and out.

841
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 3: And the fact that the W.

842
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 2: Doesn't promote I thought Phoenix did a good job this

843
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 2: summer promoting you.

844
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 3: You didn't see like that's I kind of wish that

845
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 3: Seattle did that like for me a little bit more.

846
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 2: But like it got to a point where like I

847
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 2: wasn't even being shown on the page like at all

848
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: unless I made a half court shot.

849
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 3: So I was just kind of like, whatever, this summer

850
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 3: is what it is.

851
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 2: But every time I would see like your posts, like

852
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 2: your reposts, like Phoenix was like just doing the most

853
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 2: to promote you in the ways that they could at

854
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 2: the time, because you weren't playing a lot, but you were, and.

855
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 4: That was the fan Like let me let me just

856
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 4: the fans, the Phoenix fans. They wanted to see me

857
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,399
Speaker 4: on the court, like even in like going in, every

858
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 4: time I went in, I got like a standing innovation.

859
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 4: Like those are real basketball fans who actually watched the game.

860
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 5: They've been a part of the game for a long time.

861
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 4: They're not just the new ones that just kind of

862
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 4: look at the stand money.

863
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 2: One of my favorite arenas Phoenix. I love their fan base.

864
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, hands down, best fan base I've ever been a

865
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 5: part of. Like they would they knew like they knew.

866
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 4: The real, and they were on the outside looking at it,

867
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 4: and I couldn't really say you know, you know, but

868
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 4: they knew and I'd be like, yeah.

869
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 2: You know, but I'm gonna show up at the game

870
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 2: and step and look good.

871
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 5: But they were real basketball fans for one.

872
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 4: And they were always like even when like I wasn't

873
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 4: posted on if I was left off something, where's money

874
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 4: or where you know, where's the Philla Bedley, I was

875
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 4: like love Island for second, that's kind of thing.

876
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 5: Was like crazy. But yeah, like the fans was just rudel. Yeah,

877
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 5: every time.

878
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 3: You do, you find it.

879
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 2: I mean, you played a lot of Dallas because I

880
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: felt this way about being in Seattle.

881
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 3: Not playing it was not easy, but it was easier.

882
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 2: Because of all the stuff that we have, like at

883
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 2: the facility, the food, the like, the just all the

884
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 2: access we have to stuff made made it like like

885
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 2: you were still doing your job, Like you're still getting

886
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 2: work done. And I feel like even within the middle

887
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: of our CB negotiations, like we're talking about salary, but

888
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 2: like speak to like how important it's been to have

889
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,919
Speaker 2: a facility because you you came from every Oh yeah

890
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 2: this is your first facility.

891
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 4: Right we Yeah, Dallas didn't have a facility. We shared Uta.

892
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so like which wasn't bad because we had.

893
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 5: A good staff, Like, we had a really good staff.

894
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 5: They made it work. But like having your own facility

895
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 5: is like a whole nother tier. Like I'm talking, I

896
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 5: had Phoenix checked your moles, like we had a whole skin,

897
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 5: Like a whole skin. Have you ever had your whole

898
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 5: body checked? Like from head to toe. Phoenix checked us

899
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 5: from head to toe, teeth, eyes, ears, are your moles?

900
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 5: You have moles? Are they cancerous? I'm like, what the hell? Basketball?

901
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 4: But you know what, like they cared, like they really

902
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 4: cared past the basketball aspect of you, like just your

903
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 4: health in general.

904
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 5: Like I've never seen nothing like that. I mean, we tested.

905
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 4: I was so sick of test balance. Yeah different, Like

906
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 4: they had me in so many.

907
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 2: Today and it's like this big machine like it's for

908
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:55,439
Speaker 2: your wingspan, Like what but okay, I'll do it, I'll

909
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 2: do it.

910
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 3: I'll do it.

911
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: But again, like in Vegas are in the final and

912
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 2: it's for a reason, Like you guys have all this

913
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 2: investment into y'all as people and players, and now we're

914
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,760
Speaker 2: at the point where players in college are not coming

915
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 2: in with an expectation of how to be treated, the

916
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,720
Speaker 2: things that need they need to have access to, and

917
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 2: we all had it, so it was.

918
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 4: A step down when I got to LA and I

919
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 4: had to share. I had to give up my x

920
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 4: ro C for that, because.

921
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 3: Now they got money on top of it.

922
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 2: I think that's been like the biggest difference too, because

923
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 2: if whatever they're lacking in college, a lot of them

924
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 2: now can go outsource it.

925
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 3: They can go get it themselves.

926
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 2: Like there was still limitations in some things that wasn't

927
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 2: access to in college because we had no money. But

928
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 2: now these girls are coming in with all this money,

929
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 2: with all this access, and like they're coming to the

930
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 2: w and it can't they can't be like what is

931
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 2: this is the ghetto.

932
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 4: Because it was kind of like that, I'm not gonna

933
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 4: lie to my first call home my mama.

934
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 3: Why do I have a roommate?

935
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 5: Did y'all?

936
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 3: Was y'all still doing roommates?

937
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 5: Marina was.

938
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 3: But still we are grown ass people.

939
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,240
Speaker 4: And it was funny because if you had a boyfriend.

940
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 4: I had a boyfriend at the time, so like whenever.

941
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 5: She would be sitting in.

942
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 4: And sometimes we had one big sleepover, like he was

943
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 4: sleeping in my She wasn't worried about it.

944
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 5: Cool that like, you can never make me hate Marina.

945
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 4: That's my that's my boot for real, Because like she

946
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 4: would sit for hours in the in the either in

947
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 4: the hallway or in the like lounge, and she'd be like,

948
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 4: just do what you want to do, girl, go ahead,

949
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 4: like because I knew in the next city she had

950
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 4: her boot, so it might be me.

951
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 5: But like we really like guys.

952
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: Trying to buy it, like what the like who knowing

953
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 2: that sometimes I would accidentally get my own room my

954
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 2: rookie year, and I just wanted saying thing, I was

955
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 2: just like you would.

956
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 5: I was scared.

957
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 4: They already thought, you know, I already was boosy for

958
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 4: the Louis Bag. So I had.

959
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 3: Gradu range rookie. I remember that, Yeah.

960
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 4: And the Louis Bag, so they thought I was. They

961
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 4: thought that was who these girls are.

962
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 3: Now ya no idea what was about to come about?

963
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 3: To ask? Did you guys have to dress up in

964
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 3: the airports?

965
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 4: I heard about that, but no can y'all y'all had

966
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 4: to do the business casual. We had to do the

967
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 4: business casual to a home game. And I found that

968
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 4: into my green fly. Uh, And I showed it to

969
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,919
Speaker 4: a t because at thought maybe because I was kind

970
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 4: of I think I was like the last year of

971
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 4: us doing it.

972
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 5: And then it kind of changed because like I'm like, girl,

973
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 5: I want a business casule. It just wasn't in the airports,

974
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 5: but we did it.

975
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 4: We had to wear it to the stables center to

976
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 4: the game one time and it looked trash.

977
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 3: Hang on business.

978
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 4: We're not going to disclose that pic for here, Like.

979
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 2: Hey, we had to wear Yeah, we had to wear

980
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: business casual to the airport.

981
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 5: Like even a tunnel.

982
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 2: Talk about used to wear warm warm up guy, Like

983
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 2: what we didn't know our worst, There was no tunnel.

984
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 3: We didn't know our worst. Like yeah, I always say

985
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 3: like we got to.

986
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 2: I always want to give flowers and share love and

987
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 2: show love to the players that came before us, that

988
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 2: literally were just showing up to Hoop and we're here

989
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:38,399
Speaker 2: because of and now we get to see our true

990
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 2: value and express it and show it and be our

991
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 2: authentic seales because of all the ship that they went

992
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 2: through whatever years ago, many many years ago, when they

993
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 2: was just showing up to empty arenas and bussing places

994
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 2: and oh I can't imagine shit going overseas before the

995
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 2: Internet and Facebook and FaceTime and stuff, all of the things. Okay,

996
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 2: before we go, we have a segment that we've kind

997
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 2: of gotten away from lately, and I want to bring

998
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 2: it back and definitely going to.

999
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 3: Do a better job.

1000
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 2: Season two is giving people their flowers. So I'm going

1001
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 2: to give you the space. Does not have to be

1002
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 2: basketball related. It can literally be anybody you want. Doesn't

1003
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 2: have to be someone you know, just giving you opportunity

1004
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 2: to give someone their flowers.

1005
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 3: And yeah and so us why anybody, literally anybody, anybody

1006
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 3: on earth.

1007
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 4: Honestly I would like to give I have two people

1008
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 4: probably I would like to give Asian Wilson her flowers.

1009
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 4: Do what she's doing for our league. I know a

1010
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 4: lot of sometimes she gets overlooked by the cloud and

1011
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 4: all of that, But I just want you to know, Boo,

1012
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 4: you was.

1013
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 5: Doing your thing like there are. I don't even know.

1014
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 5: She's a player in her own tier, and I know

1015
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 5: I just seen her in finals. I didn't I hate

1016
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 5: to see her coming.

1017
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 4: But like everything that she's done her accolades up until

1018
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 4: this point, like you know, that's unheard of, and she's

1019
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 4: really a pioneer for this.

1020
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 5: League as well. You can add her.

1021
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,240
Speaker 4: I feel like you can add her to that, honestly,

1022
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 4: And I know she feels somewhat overlooked, and I think

1023
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 4: she she does get overlooked because she's, oh, she's eight

1024
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 4: and she's just gonna get it.

1025
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 5: But like, no, that's just hard to do, night in,

1026
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 5: night out. What she did this season was hard to do.

1027
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,720
Speaker 5: Nobody was. They kind of didunt them out. They started

1028
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 5: the completely out.

1029
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 3: All Star break.

1030
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, like everybody was like.

1031
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 4: Oh, begas is like and then the you know, as

1032
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 4: not to you know.

1033
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 5: But like to come with a sweet to finish like

1034
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 5: that is unheard of. The girl is.

1035
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 3: The girl is generation.

1036
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 2: I think we use the term generation a little too

1037
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:04,959
Speaker 2: loose across the board and she I don't know if

1038
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 2: they've even used generational to describe Asia before, not in college,

1039
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 2: and if they haven't, now they absolutely should. She is

1040
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 2: definitely a first Battle Hall of Famer Rushmore w n

1041
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 2: b A already, and I feel like she just.

1042
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 3: Got to her prime. Yeers, like maybe last year it's

1043
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:27,240
Speaker 3: like her.

1044
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 5: First She's not even she's not even coming down yet.

1045
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 3: She's still she's not even a Plateau part yet. Like

1046
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 3: she's still saying she's still a said like.

1047
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 5: When Alyssa said, I got a guard agent Wilson give

1048
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 5: me a brain? Hell? Yeah, like did you?

1049
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1050
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 3: I feel like.

1051
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 5: I don't.

1052
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 3: I'm so glad that is a matchup.

1053
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 2: I don't see often flowers to give her as she should.

1054
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 2: She deserves all of the flowers. And you said another person.

1055
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely want to give my flowers to.

1056
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 5: Literally my mom. She's seen every phase of me and

1057
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 5: she's literally molded me into this, this player. Like she's

1058
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 5: seen me at my lowest, when I wanted to quit,

1059
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 5: when I thought I wasn't good enough, and she was

1060
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 5: still breathing at life into me. I've snapped at her.

1061
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 5: I've literally snapped at her.

1062
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 3: You know, hell what you're talking about?

1063
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 5: You know, just just off the straight the frustration. But

1064
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 5: like she's always been there.

1065
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,280
Speaker 4: She's been my rock every every game I was not playing,

1066
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 4: whether I was playing or not, she showed up. She

1067
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 4: flew four hours from five hours from Atlanta two no,

1068
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 4: it was it four no, it was four hours.

1069
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 5: From Atlanta to Phoenix to see me play.

1070
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 4: She was at every finals game, every playoff game, sitting courtside.

1071
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 5: She bought her own seat period. So let's give mama flowers.

1072
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 5: When I was playing or not, it matters to her.

1073
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna give my mom.

1074
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 2: Okay, I love that. Okay, flowers for Asia, Flowers for Mama.

1075
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 2: This is a great episode, Klanie. Thank you so much

1076
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 2: for gracing us with your presence.

1077
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 3: I'm really excited for the world to enjoy and love

1078
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 3: and know you as much as I do.

1079
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 2: So thank y'all for tuning in to another episode of

1080
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 2: Full Circle podcast. Make sure like subscribe, share all of

1081
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,440
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1082
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening to Full Circle.

1083
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,360
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1084
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1085
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:32,520
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1089
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1090
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,040
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