Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Slum. I'm fifteen years old and I love basketball.
Speaker 1: Today on the show, we have Chanay Aguo mackay Toanay
Speaker 1: is a two time WNBA All Star, ESPN analyst and
Speaker 1: social justice advocate.
Speaker 2: She was also the.
Speaker 1: Number one overall pick in the twenty fourteen WNBA draft
Speaker 1: and since has become one of the most recognizable faces
Speaker 1: in women's basketball. We'll find out what she was like
Speaker 1: when she was fifteen and see if she has any
Speaker 1: tips for me as a new and up and coming broadcaster.
Speaker 1: Okay Toay, So here's where I want to start off.
Speaker 1: Like when I do anything with my brother, and I
Speaker 1: mean anything, play Monopoly, play like FIFA, play like football
Speaker 1: in our backyard, Like we can't go a second without
Speaker 1: getting in a fight a second. I don't understand how
Speaker 1: you are on a professional sports team with your sister.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys went to college together, you played
Speaker 1: high school together, and both of you still are able
Speaker 1: to shine.
Speaker 3: How is that possible?
Speaker 4: So it's funny because I think the bigger testament is
Speaker 4: that we've never even gotten into fights from being competitive,
Speaker 4: meaning like we learned to play basketball together. It wasn't
Speaker 4: like those I feel like we're the only siblings that
Speaker 4: had the non backyard battle, meaning like, oh, let me
Speaker 4: teach you how to dribble, let me teach you how
Speaker 4: to shoot, so that when we go and play together
Speaker 4: we can kill these fos. This was like a teacher
Speaker 4: student because my sister, Okay, this is a crazy story hunting.
Speaker 4: So the first time I ever played basketball, they put
Speaker 4: us in there because my mom heard from a friend that, oh,
Speaker 4: why do you have your fworker. She was like, you
Speaker 4: guys are too tall for basketball. I mean, you guys
Speaker 4: are too tall for gymnastics. Put them into basketball. So
Speaker 4: we went to the basketball That first practice was trauma
Speaker 4: because I only like, and this is probably very similar
Speaker 4: to you, I only like doing things that I know
Speaker 4: I'm good at, So like, that's why I don't all
Speaker 4: That's why exactly, that's why I don't play video games
Speaker 4: that much because I don't have the time to perfect it.
Speaker 4: So going out there and playing basketball is like I
Speaker 4: don't want to go out there and shoot air balls
Speaker 4: and and like not be great. Yeah, and my sister,
Speaker 4: she's a curious one. She's the oldest child and we
Speaker 4: always say she's a guinea pig. So she went out
Speaker 4: there and did it, and so she really taught us
Speaker 4: everything she knew because she started finding a love for
Speaker 4: the game and was like, we do everything together. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So it's always been like about sisterhood, about love. It's
Speaker 4: never been like, oh, I'm trying to cross you up
Speaker 4: and score and say I'm the better player. It's just
Speaker 4: naturally happened where that mindset has taken us to new heights,
Speaker 4: like literally riding her coat tails has made all of
Speaker 4: us great.
Speaker 1: And I guess also because you guys have been on
Speaker 1: the same team so many times, that's different. But like
Speaker 1: I love watching Steph and Seth go at it, but
Speaker 1: they've never been on the same team, so I guess
Speaker 1: it's maybe a little different. Whereas for you, well, we
Speaker 1: were on different teams for a little yea, yes, but
Speaker 1: more a little lot of experience. We've had a lot
Speaker 1: of Yeah, like my whole life high school, AAU college,
Speaker 1: which was awesome. The first time we were on different teams,
Speaker 1: it was still cool, like it was literally a circus.
Speaker 2: The first time we played against each other.
Speaker 4: I will never forget twenty fourteen, So this is when
Speaker 4: I graduated from Stanford, I got drafted, and our first matchup.
Speaker 4: The league was blowing it out because they're like, to
Speaker 4: our siblings, you made history the only other siblings to
Speaker 4: go number one in major sports, Peyton and Eli.
Speaker 1: So they built up this game and it was cool
Speaker 1: because Peyton and who's Eli?
Speaker 4: Oh, who's Peyton. I'm totally Eli. But the problem is
Speaker 4: she has a championship, so like she's got like the
Speaker 4: states ship. But I, you know, and like I'm the personality,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, So you'll get a ring.
Speaker 3: I'm long please Lord.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so when we, uh, when we faced off
Speaker 4: for the first time, it was madness, like family members, media,
Speaker 4: all this stuff. The game was actually our piece. We're like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's just us two together, like, let's just go out there.
Speaker 4: That's when things calmed down. We didn't have to think
Speaker 4: about all this circus around it. I'll never forget jump
Speaker 4: all happened. And of course, like I don't even think
Speaker 4: I was supposed to be guarding Mecca that first possession.
Speaker 4: But like the least script, the script.
Speaker 3: You're doing the jump balls, like, Okay, let's see what.
Speaker 2: Y'all are doing.
Speaker 4: I knew she was gonna get the jump because has
Speaker 4: higher bounce to me, I have longer reached. She has
Speaker 4: higher bound both six to no, so I'm taller than Thatka.
Speaker 4: A lot of people don't realize that I'm the all
Speaker 4: this of us for siblings, I'm like six three.
Speaker 2: Was like, yeah, I'm barefoot six two.
Speaker 3: Actually, you don't know.
Speaker 4: Some crazy I listed myself at six four in college
Speaker 4: just because I wanted to see more into me.
Speaker 1: I'm a big platform shoe girl, like I don't wearthot,
Speaker 1: so I feel like also is a little bit of
Speaker 1: a different situation than like going from.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 4: So that first matchup, we did the jump ball and
Speaker 4: Neka got it, so I knew I was anticipating it,
Speaker 4: and we were running back and I looked at her
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe
Speaker 4: we're like playing against each other for the first time.
Speaker 4: She did not see me, she did not hear me.
Speaker 4: She proceeded to get that first possession, which they knew
Speaker 4: what they were doing. The Sparks had Necka get the
Speaker 4: ball in the mid post. She hit me with the
Speaker 4: jab mid range Swiss. And at that moment, when I
Speaker 4: saw that shot go up and I was guarding her.
Speaker 3: I was like, I gotta go, Okay, So I got
Speaker 3: I had this sibling fight, but it.
Speaker 4: Has been contained to gain and I took a lot
Speaker 4: of ls until actually, like you know, we got a
Speaker 4: couple wins versus the sparks, and then I joined.
Speaker 1: And now you just can't beat him, join him, right, exactly, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I won't.
Speaker 3: Be doing that with my brother.
Speaker 1: I don't foresee that for you, especially well for multiple reasons.
Speaker 1: But so as you know, I'm fifteen and I'm ninth grade.
Speaker 1: Sometimes fifteen year olds are in tenth grade. I'm just
Speaker 1: setting the senior for you. But I like to start
Speaker 1: off asking about you when you were fifteen, So I
Speaker 1: just want to know, first off.
Speaker 3: Who were you, what were your interests everything?
Speaker 4: When I was fifteen years old, I was a nerd.
Speaker 4: I did not have all of this like down, I
Speaker 4: did not have this together. Thank you Lord for the
Speaker 4: glow ups.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: I was probably the so freshman or sophomore class president.
Speaker 4: I was founding the civil rights member my school. Yeah okay, cool, yeah,
Speaker 4: civil Rights Club, student council, honor society. Heavy nerd okay,
Speaker 4: but then also heavy hooper. So it's like hard to
Speaker 4: those two like don't really class exactly, but I was
Speaker 4: like the tallest girl in my class. And this is
Speaker 4: when I just transitioned. So I went from private school
Speaker 4: to public school. Okay, so private school, I was the
Speaker 4: only black girl in my class. Like it was a
Speaker 4: different experience. I wasn't like getting picked to dance and
Speaker 4: the dance. And then I go to public school. I'm like,
Speaker 4: it's a whole new world, Like, let's go.
Speaker 3: This is where the glow up happens.
Speaker 2: This is where well, no, the glow up didn't happen
Speaker 2: till like a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: So okay. I mean I feel like.
Speaker 2: You kids are built different. You're built different.
Speaker 4: You have access to the internet, you have all those
Speaker 4: things we just had our parents saying you look amazing, sweetie,
Speaker 4: no trauma.
Speaker 3: Yeah well no, I was saying.
Speaker 1: There's this thing on TikTok where you can if you
Speaker 1: press the share button, apparently you'll get a glow up.
Speaker 1: It's like this thing where people like basically gaslight you
Speaker 1: into liking their videos. But like I, of course, every
Speaker 1: day I'm like, no you, okay, thank you.
Speaker 3: I love you.
Speaker 4: You look natural, cute, like appropriate age, like you've got
Speaker 4: it all together.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Some people look way too far at their age. Yes,
Speaker 4: but you are You've got it all. You've got it all.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the left. So what's your dream college?
Speaker 1: Stanford before your sister had gone, because I know you'd
Speaker 1: turned down you know, Yukon and noted Dame but from Texas,
Speaker 1: Like that's sort of a long way to go to
Speaker 1: be like I'm going to go to Stanford, you know.
Speaker 4: So I turned down Yukon because I and it was
Speaker 4: a crazy official recruiting visit. So all these girls went
Speaker 4: on this one big Yukon visit. They all came with
Speaker 4: their parents and at that time, Yukon was the destination
Speaker 4: for all top players, Like it doesn't matter how many
Speaker 4: they had. Everyone said yes to coach Gino. I will
Speaker 4: never forget I was a last recruit going into his office.
Speaker 4: All the other women that went in there like came
Speaker 4: out crying and happy, like I'm coming to Yukon. You
Speaker 4: know what that means. I'm going to be a national champion,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get drafted. And I was the only one
Speaker 4: without my parents on that trip. And so I went
Speaker 4: in there and I saw coach Gino and he had
Speaker 4: by myself and all those trophies behind him, and all
Speaker 4: he said when I came in was are you coming dang?
Speaker 3: Like scene set like bam.
Speaker 4: And I never can make a decision without my parents
Speaker 4: without telling them, like, hey, this is how I'm just
Speaker 4: that type of person. I just wanted my family involved,
Speaker 4: and so I had to, you know, maneuver my way
Speaker 4: out of there and just say like I really like
Speaker 4: I saw him eye to eye. I loved this competitive fire.
Speaker 4: He understood the aspect of me. But I was like,
Speaker 4: I don't think you know this is going to work out.
Speaker 4: I didn't tell him then, but I was like, I
Speaker 4: need to go talk to my family. So no, yukon.
Speaker 4: I knew I wasn't going to Notre Dame. Right when
Speaker 4: I landed. I landed in South Bend, a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of snow Texas girl, yes African girl.
Speaker 3: I was like, hold up, what is this where am I?
Speaker 4: I love the school, I love the university, but I
Speaker 4: just was like, this is different. And then Stanford was
Speaker 4: just a dream, you know, he was a dream come true.
Speaker 4: So I never thought like I didn't really have this
Speaker 4: idea of dream schools. I just thought that Stanford was
Speaker 4: a fit for everything I wanted academically, and athletically, and
Speaker 4: the only other school that I really wanted to go
Speaker 4: to was Harvard. For Harvard, they have a different you know,
Speaker 4: scholarship setup. Yes, and so it's like okay, financially exactly
Speaker 4: and it's a little bit more complicated. I was like,
Speaker 4: you know, what if I can make it easier on
Speaker 4: my parents who could pay, But I'm like, I don't
Speaker 4: want to put my position, you know, my parents in
Speaker 4: that position.
Speaker 3: I was like, Stanford just it's a bazy and basketball.
Speaker 4: Course had the name, but like the name, but like
Speaker 4: you know, coming from like African family that like academics
Speaker 4: is king to say you went to Harvard is like.
Speaker 3: At this point, it's ultimate flex. It's just like Stanford now.
Speaker 2: Is like top two for sure.
Speaker 3: That works.
Speaker 1: So who were your idols at fifteen? Basketball and non basketball?
Speaker 4: Dang, Flash is like this is blast from the past.
Speaker 4: My idols at fifteen?
Speaker 2: WHOA?
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of like what I was watching
Speaker 4: on television. I was like, probably watching I mean we
Speaker 4: had a very lockdown house. I was like, probably still
Speaker 4: watching Disney Channel and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know what y'all Disney Channel, Okay, I love
Speaker 1: Disney I'm employed by Disney, so I guess it all
Speaker 1: worked out.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think who are my idols?
Speaker 4: And I mean I always had a distant idol who
Speaker 4: has become my real life mentor at least a lessons wow,
Speaker 4: Because when I started playing basketball, I was like, Hey,
Speaker 4: this woman embodies everything that I want to be.
Speaker 3: Fierce, feminine, entrepreneur.
Speaker 4: Broadcaster, mom, wife, sister, like literally everything she has done. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And so I was like she set the template for
Speaker 4: what and also being like a dark skinned black woman
Speaker 4: achieving and she was a model, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: like all those things I never even thought were possible
Speaker 4: once you put on a jersey, and she put on
Speaker 4: a jersey and she did them all. So I think
Speaker 4: seeing her, I didn't even process it back then what
Speaker 4: that meant to me until I met her later, and
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: What was that?
Speaker 4: Like, what what went through your head? Okay, So meeting her,
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, this is unreal. So I met
Speaker 4: her when I was playing at Stanford. She called she
Speaker 4: were playing usc and she is, you know, based in
Speaker 4: LA at the time, and she called my sister and
Speaker 4: I over and was like, you girls are special.
Speaker 2: Keep going, which was amazing.
Speaker 4: And then ever since then, I stayed in touch and
Speaker 4: my agent is actually her agent, and so we've really
Speaker 4: built a family relationship.
Speaker 3: But you know what I love about Lisa Leslie. Forget
Speaker 3: the hoops.
Speaker 4: She needs her own talk show on relationships and love.
Speaker 4: She has literally helped you know when your parents tell
Speaker 4: you something like oh no no, not not cupid, but
Speaker 4: more like eanla, like fix my life, like relationship advice.
Speaker 4: It's like that type of stuff, personal growth stuff like
Speaker 4: go to Lisa Leslie, tell you tell her your personal
Speaker 4: life situation and she will give you good ways to
Speaker 4: go through it.
Speaker 2: So ever since I've been a rookie in the w BA,
Speaker 2: I go to her.
Speaker 4: I hang out with her, and I never ever talk
Speaker 4: who and it's like, literally been one of the most
Speaker 4: meaningful relations.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure that's also amazing because so much of
Speaker 1: your life is talking basketball, so having that moment is
Speaker 1: just you know, I got to I'm saying this as
Speaker 1: we're talking about you, know, right, So now we've heard
Speaker 1: about you when you were fifteen, I feel.
Speaker 3: Like we would vibe. I don't know, maybe maybe I
Speaker 3: was just like a little cooler than you.
Speaker 4: Maybe you were you probably were, but we would have
Speaker 4: maybe just a lite. No, look, we would have we
Speaker 4: would have been friends because I was like very much
Speaker 4: most popular athlete. I just was not like I'll put
Speaker 4: together you know what I'm saying. I would have like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you would have helped You would have helped me with that.
Speaker 3: Okay, we could like go back in time.
Speaker 2: We could shop together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I could.
Speaker 1: Announce for you like wal you yes, you know so
Speaker 1: now I think we should go onto you now because
Speaker 1: like fifteen, good age, but you grow up.
Speaker 3: No, So, what was the most memorable play of your career?
Speaker 4: WHOA the most memorable play of my career. That's a
Speaker 4: great question. I let me think. I'm trying to think,
Speaker 4: so I think probably the most memorable play. I've had
Speaker 4: some really big moments, Like winning a state championship when
Speaker 4: I was in high school was a big moment because
Speaker 4: I proved to myself that I can do it on
Speaker 4: my own too, because I did it with my sister
Speaker 4: and then she left and they're like, how good is
Speaker 4: her little sister?
Speaker 2: And I was like, we want a state championship.
Speaker 4: The second half of my final game at home when
Speaker 4: I was at Stamford was huge. We played UNC that
Speaker 4: got us to the final four. I had a horrible
Speaker 4: first half and then my big sister Meca came and
Speaker 4: found me at Stanford as I was about.
Speaker 2: To warm up for the second half and was like.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 4: Just played basketball, don't overthink it. Had a great second half.
Speaker 4: That was my final game at Maples Pavilion at Stamford
Speaker 4: and we got to go to the final four my
Speaker 4: senior year, which was huge. And then I think of
Speaker 4: I hit a game winner verse my sister and the
Speaker 4: Sparks when I was on the Connecticut Sun. I think
Speaker 4: it was an O board or something like that, and
Speaker 4: like I put it off like bank shot. Maybe they
Speaker 4: had won, like a couple seconds left to try to
Speaker 4: heave something, but it didn't work out. And that was
Speaker 4: fire because that was at Staples at the time, LA
Speaker 4: those games are rocking. It was against my sister Candas
Speaker 4: Parker playing against them, and to have that game winner
Speaker 4: earlier in my career, like I was like, okay, and this.
Speaker 1: Parker was actually the perfect segue into the next question.
Speaker 1: Because so my next question is what is the most
Speaker 1: memorable game you've called? But when I said that, I
Speaker 1: asked this question to candas, I said, what was the
Speaker 1: most memorable called your career, and she goes, oh, I
Speaker 1: called Barack Obama and I was like, no, no, not
Speaker 1: if you can answer both ways.
Speaker 3: But I mean, like when you were on air and
Speaker 3: you actually but you know what I'd like to hear about.
Speaker 4: I got the Obama tweet after work the election in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty, which to me was like probably one of
Speaker 4: the coolest things, like, hey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was up there.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 4: I would say the most the game that ooh, I'm
Speaker 4: trying to think I've had, so I don't I called games.
Speaker 3: But I say the game I was working.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of which game I was working.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't even know specifically because technically I and
Speaker 4: now you know, I provide analysis for a lot of games. Yeah,
Speaker 4: my favorite game ever, I don't know if you're too
Speaker 4: young for this. Twenty sixteen obviously, well no, you know this,
Speaker 4: But I was gonna say, Christmas twenty sixteen, Kyrie hit
Speaker 4: a game winner, which was great.
Speaker 1: Of course, I mean I'm an NBA podcast host, of course, Yes,
Speaker 1: that Christmas Day game or those Christmas Day jerseys fire.
Speaker 2: I miss those days and those commercials too, and the.
Speaker 3: Long sleeve jerseys. I also loved them, even though wait,
Speaker 3: wasn't it Bron that like ripped off?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's definitely it's definitely hard to plan, but like
Speaker 1: the look it looks.
Speaker 3: It looks good.
Speaker 4: It's very aesthetic for the vibes, bringing back for the vibes.
Speaker 4: Let them tear it up.
Speaker 2: It's all good. We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 4: I would say my favorite game ever is the twenty
Speaker 4: sixteen NBA Finals Games seven Lebron James Warriors. You know,
Speaker 4: you have the stop, the block, the shot, all those things,
Speaker 4: so that sequence was huge and then getting to break
Speaker 4: that down after it was huge.
Speaker 1: But like as a Warriors fan there that wasn't huge
Speaker 1: for me. But I get I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 4: I'll be that, like most of the moments last ten
Speaker 4: or so years, well they deserve it fine.
Speaker 3: I mean or rings in the last ten years, I've
Speaker 3: already got.
Speaker 2: To you can't.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what from being a player do you think
Speaker 1: has helped you most with your announcing? Because I feel
Speaker 1: like for me, I play soccer not basketball, and like
Speaker 1: I think I know basketball pretty well, but then there's
Speaker 1: always that thing where It's like I stopped playing basketball
Speaker 1: when I was in fourth grade, you know, and a
Speaker 1: little bit of me is like, I don't feel like
Speaker 1: I can necessarily connect as well on that, but obviously
Speaker 1: you can't.
Speaker 3: So what has happened.
Speaker 4: So the thing that has helped me as an athlete
Speaker 4: to transition to broadcasting is the game mentality. So like
Speaker 4: when the lights go on and you have to go
Speaker 4: out there and perform sort of have a routine and
Speaker 4: you have a mindset and how to approach yourself being
Speaker 4: as successful as possible. It's like I wake up, I,
Speaker 4: you know, have my breakfast. I go, I do my treatment,
Speaker 4: I go, have a great shoot around, I get my nap.
Speaker 4: I mean nothing, I don't eat. I don't know why
Speaker 4: I said breakfast, because I'm like, I'm a hot Like
Speaker 4: this is a very controversial take. I think breakfast is overrated.
Speaker 3: Oh it's disgusting.
Speaker 4: I don't like break not I skip it almost every day.
Speaker 4: But I do smoothies because like my trainers like, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: strawberry strawberry, gray's orange and it's a really sweet orange one.
Speaker 2: What is sunrise? It's not sunrise?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm a coconut cloud girl. I'm interesting.
Speaker 1: I know it's like coconut, it doesn't really taste like coconut,
Speaker 1: it's more okay, so maybe I'll be open minded because
Speaker 1: I always think coconut if you put it in anything,
Speaker 1: it takes over.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, okay, no, this is not the way. Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like an orange sunrise one from Arawon and
Speaker 4: also like their hot foods by her Oh my.
Speaker 3: God, Buffalo Colie flower from Arawonfo. They have these chickens
Speaker 3: teqitos too, now like bier.
Speaker 1: By the way, for those of you listening who don't
Speaker 1: know what aeronin is, areon they know what it is.
Speaker 3: Actually, let's get l knows what aon is, but just
Speaker 3: in case, let's be inclusive.
Speaker 1: Here arewon is a grocery store just in LA because
Speaker 1: that's where it's at and they it's very trendy and.
Speaker 3: They girl, it's viral viral bab.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the one that's all over the internet because
Speaker 4: someone's like the most expensive grocery store in America. Come
Speaker 4: inside with me. It's like got a hatley, you know,
Speaker 4: but it's worth.
Speaker 1: You know who Alex Earl is, No, okay, so shout
Speaker 1: out Alex Earl if you want to be on. I
Speaker 1: know it's not basketball, but like love to have you.
Speaker 1: And anyway, she's an influencer, okay. And I saw her
Speaker 1: outside of Arawond having a meal with her ex boyfriend
Speaker 1: and it was very problematic, and I did you report
Speaker 1: on this?
Speaker 3: I didn't report on it, but I feel like I
Speaker 3: just did you? Just sorry, Alex.
Speaker 1: But we took a little selfie and it went viral,
Speaker 1: so it was like, hey, anyway, so I keep.
Speaker 4: Going where we were talking about how payer has helped
Speaker 4: you out being exactly so yeah, I think that honestly,
Speaker 4: just having that mindset of preparation, even though I don't
Speaker 4: eat breakfast, but I get to the gym, I have
Speaker 4: my smoothie, and then I go and rest, and then
Speaker 4: I follow up on Scout and I feel I watch
Speaker 4: a lot of video and then I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: as prepared as I can't go and yep, the same thing,
Speaker 4: you know. I watch the games, I text with our producers.
Speaker 4: I get there earlier than any other analyst gets there.
Speaker 4: I am like a video of Richard on up Late.
Speaker 2: Richard is not.
Speaker 4: Richard is freaking trauma, but I love him like he's
Speaker 4: so lovable.
Speaker 2: But he's just like Richard, why do you like?
Speaker 4: Literally he's the rock in everyone's show everywhere, but it's
Speaker 4: like a rock that you love, right, Okay, so it's
Speaker 4: all good.
Speaker 3: And his bald head, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: And you know what's so weird about Richard's bald head,
Speaker 4: which some of us know about. It's like when it
Speaker 4: starts getting hair, it's like it gets little stubble, it
Speaker 4: gets like stubble, and I'm like, what is that gray
Speaker 4: thing on your head? Yeah, it's like disturbing. It's very disturbing.
Speaker 4: Like sometimes so like not you know, he'll have stubble around.
Speaker 4: I'm like, Richard, no, don't do that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I know I get there early.
Speaker 2: I talk a lot to the producers, and I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm.
Speaker 4: The breakdowns, Like I watch the game, I look at
Speaker 4: the numbers and I really want to break down something
Speaker 4: so that anyone that comes and watches our show feels
Speaker 4: like they learned something new, but something fun and something
Speaker 4: that they can go and say hey and tell their friends, like, oh,
Speaker 4: did you know that guy is the best defender in
Speaker 4: the NBA under like these other top two? Oh do
Speaker 4: you know that guy shooting the most percentage. Do you
Speaker 4: know eighty is successful because he's shooting the most twos
Speaker 4: this year, midias since twenty fifteen. Like, I have all
Speaker 4: these numbers catalogs, and so when people watch the game,
Speaker 4: they have something to watch for.
Speaker 2: And that's what I love.
Speaker 3: I love that. So now we're moving on to my
Speaker 3: favorite segment.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we all know the NBA is a league
Speaker 1: a very talented men, also very very beautiful men.
Speaker 4: I saw your bio on your podcast and I was like,
Speaker 4: takes hotter than Kelly.
Speaker 3: Uver was like, oh, I was like, we're gonna have
Speaker 3: to do this. Takes hotter than Kelly.
Speaker 1: You reginor so like I said, I mean, they're they're
Speaker 1: really really hot. Takes green eyes, had twos, sometimes bleached blonde,
Speaker 1: Harriet depends, he goes back and forth.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. The best fits on league
Speaker 3: fits like this is is.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm telling you, so, let's start off with this.
Speaker 3: But you gotta you gotta get hot.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I'll get because not a lot of things
Speaker 1: are hard than this is a safe space.
Speaker 2: Okay, even though it's going out, it's the world.
Speaker 1: It's a safe space, safe space for all of us
Speaker 1: other than you and your sister. Who is the best
Speaker 1: athlete with Nigerian descent?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Snap?
Speaker 4: So I mean the answer is wow, I don't want
Speaker 4: to do any disservice because like Nigerians are like now
Speaker 4: taking over as superhuman athletes like period. I mean, you
Speaker 4: can't watch a college football game without seeing multiple Nigerians. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you can't watch a basketball game these days without seeing
Speaker 4: Nigerians everywhere. And so I don't want to do a disservice.
Speaker 4: I feel like the obvious answer is Jannis on to
Speaker 4: Kombo just because of his trans transformation.
Speaker 3: If you see that rookie picture of Yannis, oh my god.
Speaker 4: And you see him now, it's so only Goosey and
Speaker 4: NIGERIANUU will do that for you.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, that's you gotta eat it. I'll take you there.
Speaker 2: I do get cuisine here?
Speaker 3: Do you do an episodisode? You've seen that?
Speaker 4: I feel like you've seen that Lori Harvey TikTok of
Speaker 4: her going to the Nigerian restaurant and eating the goosie
Speaker 4: with their hands in the Yeah, you gotta try that.
Speaker 3: Riy Harvey's X also pretty hot.
Speaker 1: So you know, we gotta wait, hold on hold on,
Speaker 1: Michael we Geordan, I mean, okay, them.
Speaker 4: Like Michael Oh wait, fun fact she's now dating in
Speaker 4: Nigerian speaking of Nigerian.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, damn.
Speaker 3: Running the world I know. Right.
Speaker 1: So, Actually, because we're just on this, I have a
Speaker 1: privial question for you. Okay, So do you know out
Speaker 1: of all NBA players who were born in Nigeria not
Speaker 1: of Nigerian descent, who has the highest two K rating currently?
Speaker 2: I mean two K. It's obvious because Giannis is the
Speaker 2: best player in the league, right.
Speaker 3: Well, the only it's born in Nigeria. Oh, born in Nigerian?
Speaker 3: Was he born in Nigeria?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: No, he was born in I think I think he
Speaker 4: was born in Nigerian and then they went to Greece.
Speaker 2: But that was.
Speaker 3: With his brother.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well well TK Rodnie will discuss at a later time,
Speaker 1: but just for now, let's take the brothers.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, okay. I don't think Bam was born there.
Speaker 4: I don't think Victor was born there. Nigerians in the league.
Speaker 1: I'd give you a hint. Sure his name is an adjective. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is precious, Yes, precious that you are? Yeah, look
Speaker 1: at that. That was tough, but I feel like but
Speaker 1: also like another fun fact because no one else's name.
Speaker 2: That was a very good hint.
Speaker 4: By the way, like half of Nigerian's names are adjectives
Speaker 4: really yeah okay, or titles interesting okay.
Speaker 1: Learn something new every day other than you and your sister?
Speaker 1: Who are the best sibling duos in basketball? Also it's
Speaker 1: national like sibling Day or something. And I was looking
Speaker 1: at ESPN and I was like scrolling, you and your
Speaker 1: sister were on there, So I'll tell you about you
Speaker 1: guys and the other people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so best siblings in basketball? Yeah, I mean obviously
Speaker 4: us the antiotic Gupos are great, great of the lope.
Speaker 4: And I say us because we're four. I know a
Speaker 4: lot of people talk. I was going to go into
Speaker 4: the multiples. I love the Lopez brothers. They're so different,
Speaker 4: but they are phenomenal. We actually had them on the
Speaker 4: show today and they were they were they were on brand.
Speaker 3: Also they went to Stanford.
Speaker 4: Yes, Chris, I love the holidays classic, The holidays are nice.
Speaker 2: Am I missing some siblings?
Speaker 3: I mean the curries Oh well duh, did you?
Speaker 1: I don't think you said the Autobos curries, Marcus and
Speaker 1: Marquis Oh my gosh, how do you share a bank account?
Speaker 3: That's my quint. They share a bank account.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently they share a bank account.
Speaker 4: I mean maybe they've transitioned to they're way older now,
Speaker 4: but at one point, yeah, you know they have the
Speaker 4: same tats.
Speaker 3: No, no, it's no.
Speaker 1: Well you obviously know the conspiracy that they switch at halftime,
Speaker 1: right what? Okay, Apparently there was this thing where like
Speaker 1: I forget what teams they both were on at this point,
Speaker 1: but apparently they were like, Okay, this may not be
Speaker 1: real because like now that I think about this, this
Speaker 1: is like a little like apparently they because like you know,
Speaker 1: when you're like, oh, I have a twin.
Speaker 4: Sister and we like switched in like to like ma
Speaker 4: store have a store like that, so people can't tell
Speaker 4: me and my older sister, Neka apart. And so when
Speaker 4: we're at Stanford, there was a point where I was like, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm not feeling great. Can you go and you know,
Speaker 4: go to this orientation for me.
Speaker 2: She went in.
Speaker 4: No one noticed. And so we've done that before. I
Speaker 4: mean not saying that I did her whole degree or
Speaker 4: she did my whole degree, but for one class where
Speaker 4: we need to be a tenant stand.
Speaker 3: No one be like never they owe me a check
Speaker 3: for what I've done.
Speaker 4: They owe me a check, quean, But yeah, we did
Speaker 4: a whole like O cay, you like help me and
Speaker 4: go attend this class, and no one ever blinked, Like
Speaker 4: no one knows.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess maybe in a game, you guys like
Speaker 3: put on each other.
Speaker 4: So this is what my sister hates. In the games,
Speaker 4: I tend to get a lot of her stats. I
Speaker 4: don't know why lucky. So like sometimes like I'll get
Speaker 4: an extra rebound like it was, you know, or I
Speaker 4: get a steal like that.
Speaker 3: One rebound away from a triple double, and you just
Speaker 3: like get that.
Speaker 4: If she had were to get a triple double, I
Speaker 4: would be the one like the volleyball, you know, passing
Speaker 4: tapping her.
Speaker 3: Thanks to dream work.
Speaker 1: Ye. So I was just gonna get into this about
Speaker 1: you having four sisters and then Joannis has four brothers,
Speaker 1: four on four.
Speaker 4: What I would like to take our odds just because
Speaker 4: we've got shooters.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's not necessarily what the other Yeah, but they're
Speaker 1: very talented.
Speaker 3: But I'll be like, okay, let's all just like fire it, yeah,
Speaker 3: just fire.
Speaker 1: But like you know, if we play, I'd love to
Speaker 1: see the like tunnel walk ins in that game.
Speaker 3: Like all of you guys have some fire fits, so
Speaker 3: that exciting.
Speaker 1: Next up, Okay, I actually feel like you're doing a
Speaker 1: good job of doing really hot takes like they're right now.
Speaker 3: I feel like they're at like a Jailing Green level. Okay,
Speaker 3: so that's pretty hot.
Speaker 2: But like we need to just now I'm understanding.
Speaker 3: Now you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: How did you feel about his haircut? By the way,
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 1: Okay, so right now you're at a Jailen Green three haircut?
Speaker 3: Oh I'm done. So it's fine. You're in a good
Speaker 3: a good space.
Speaker 2: That's so funny. You like you like the old haircut?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like respect, I would take him anyway,
Speaker 1: but of course, you know, we just.
Speaker 2: Need that interesting.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I love like Houston Rockets, so like that.
Speaker 1: That's why, because like, also I could say, well, maybe
Speaker 1: it's like Daling Green level Jordan Poole level.
Speaker 3: Like wait, where's your high? So is Jordan above deal?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm a.
Speaker 1: Warriors girl, so like for me is actually, well, it's
Speaker 1: sort of funny because I love Jordan, but god does
Speaker 1: he pissed me off sometimes why because of.
Speaker 3: The games or like what are you doing? Like there
Speaker 3: is he's been better lately.
Speaker 1: He has been better lately, and I talked to him
Speaker 1: like I'm his mom, which is probably really bad and
Speaker 1: it's not gonna help my case either.
Speaker 3: So Jordan, close your ears on this one. But I'm
Speaker 3: like you doing.
Speaker 4: So, I think to his defense, it's not easy. It's
Speaker 4: always in and out.
Speaker 3: It's not which is auditioning Clay all that stuff, but
Speaker 3: it's just hard.
Speaker 1: Because I'm like, you're just turning it over in a
Speaker 1: moment where there's fourteen seconds left on the shocolking.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know what you're.
Speaker 4: He's it feels like he's got all that out of
Speaker 4: a system in the regular season.
Speaker 3: Baby Eve been doing great lately. I'm so faud of.
Speaker 2: You're doing amazing.
Speaker 3: Sweedene. I'm the mom with the recorder.
Speaker 1: She could be whoever you was girlfriend in like ten
Speaker 1: years exactly. Okay, So now let's get to the Kelly
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Okay, now let's get to Now let's get
Speaker 1: to the Kelly Ray junior level of hot. So other
Speaker 1: than seven Clay, who would you say is the best
Speaker 1: backcourt in the NBA.
Speaker 4: Oh right now, Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, like for what
Speaker 4: they've been doing. Jason Tatum just made history the first
Speaker 4: Celtic player ever to average thirty points. I think it
Speaker 4: was like thirty point one. He got it by like
Speaker 4: a nail. Those two have been just in a tier
Speaker 4: of their own. I love them.
Speaker 3: And then let's see who else duo.
Speaker 4: I mean, people had a lot of high, you know,
Speaker 4: ambitions for Luca and Kyrie, and I've all thought that
Speaker 4: I was going to be that that that well, it's
Speaker 4: not their fault. I think they they're too offensive players.
Speaker 1: They can't work together. Both of them want the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just doesn't they can't work together. They're
Speaker 1: just gonna have to retool everything else.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't as long as I mean one of the
Speaker 1: one of them needs to make a decision and be
Speaker 1: like I am going to play a different game, and
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 3: I just don't think Lucra and Kyrie are the types
Speaker 3: of people to do that. But they can prove me wrong.
Speaker 4: I think that the problem is is that I think
Speaker 4: they're both locked in, so they have to They're going
Speaker 4: to be forced to make it to work, and it's
Speaker 4: going to be more important for the front office to
Speaker 4: figure out how to make them work better, to.
Speaker 3: Get sure which w NBA player is the best dressed.
Speaker 4: Oh so I love Besides, my sister was steps her
Speaker 4: style game up as well as you know. She has
Speaker 4: a stylist, Christina Negwa, who's a WMB player, and like,
Speaker 4: I feel like she's always giving people looks I have
Speaker 4: to go with. I love Izzy Harrison Isabelle Harrison like
Speaker 4: tall but owns it. Whereas whether it's like jerseys that
Speaker 4: are customed bringing back jersey dresses to like the sneakers
Speaker 4: and the pants like she has a good eclectic mix
Speaker 4: of looks.
Speaker 3: So I like to give yourself on a scale of one.
Speaker 3: So I didn't.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I've never really tried with my fits having the air
Speaker 4: I try because we had so many bigger fish to
Speaker 4: fry than what do I look like coming into arena
Speaker 4: the last few years, Like I just give up. And
Speaker 4: I remember there's this one girl that commented, like, Tana,
Speaker 4: are you gonna keep giving us basic Adida's looks? I
Speaker 4: was like, honey, yes, because all I care about is
Speaker 4: whooping And like when I go out there and play.
Speaker 4: That's all I care about it. You gotta get you
Speaker 4: got to get that. But I did get it.
Speaker 2: One of my mottos is I don't take things personal.
Speaker 2: I take notes.
Speaker 4: So I took notes and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 4: I can actually invest a little bit more because Christina Negway,
Speaker 4: she was like, you look good. You bring that confidence
Speaker 4: into the locker room, and that's what you translate to
Speaker 4: the quarters, Like all right, instead of being in survival
Speaker 4: mode like I don't care what I look like, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna actually like come in with some heat this year.
Speaker 3: Okay, shout me out, like little well, you're gonna be there.
Speaker 2: You better be walking together.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll do o action.
Speaker 1: So I usually ask which NBA player has the best
Speaker 1: shoe game, but I feel like everyone just says PJ.
Speaker 3: Tucker like it's sort of an awe, Like it's pretty
Speaker 3: obvious this.
Speaker 1: So my new question is which NBA player has the
Speaker 1: best shoe custom shoe?
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, I'm a three striped life girl, So
Speaker 4: I go with Dida. So I'm gonna have to pick
Speaker 4: someone I've always loved.
Speaker 2: Dame.
Speaker 4: His shoes are just comfortable and the functional and they
Speaker 4: also like are flexes. Oh I score seventy one points,
Speaker 4: Bam new shoe. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm the all time leading scorer with the Trailblazers.
Speaker 3: Bam new shoe.
Speaker 2: Oh I just beat you in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But damnit, Trailblazers are sort of a low bar.
Speaker 4: But I mean, look, this is true, but that man,
Speaker 4: my guy Dame. At this point, I love my guy
Speaker 4: Dame like I love him.
Speaker 1: You know what last night really showed how much an
Speaker 1: impact he has, the fact that the Warriors had one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven points, not that he's a defensive
Speaker 1: player at all, but.
Speaker 3: Just he yeah him.
Speaker 4: As a Warriors fan, you should know what Dame does
Speaker 4: whenever he plays against the Warriors.
Speaker 3: He goes crazy. Oh, he goes off. You know who
Speaker 3: goes even more off?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 3: My boy Stuffy?
Speaker 4: Well that is fair, but then Steph has a whole
Speaker 4: system around him, David by himself. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 4: your shoes. I'm not talking about stuff. Carry Do you
Speaker 4: want to talk about your boy's shoes?
Speaker 2: STEP's?
Speaker 3: Oh I thought you were saying, Kelly. I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: I know my husband doesn't have it.
Speaker 2: I know they were talking about ok.
Speaker 3: Yes, he does. I'm so sorry, Kelly, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: He has shoes with converse.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they still take them, but he
Speaker 1: did have few correct correct Yes, stepses are fire.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think I liked it, but like, look, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm always worry that I like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So next segment, So think of Muggsy Muggsy Bogues
Speaker 1: and manouple really tall, really.
Speaker 3: Short hemates at one point. So it's sort of like
Speaker 3: this or that type situation. We have to go fast,
Speaker 3: like we just gotta like fire.
Speaker 1: Like to be honest, I'm just gonna guess where both
Speaker 1: of us are gonna give an explanation, but let's just
Speaker 1: pretend like we're gonna be productive and go, I got
Speaker 1: you last shot MJ or Kobe?
Speaker 2: Why are you doing this?
Speaker 1: I can't you can pass, you can pass both.
Speaker 2: This is on brand for me.
Speaker 3: W CBA or w n B A w NBA. Why
Speaker 3: you scored like fifty two in the w c H
Speaker 3: Yeah that is true.
Speaker 4: And like I look, before I tore my achilles in China,
Speaker 4: which was trauma. Bro, we were everybody in China. I
Speaker 4: forgot I scored fifty two? Yeah, you come fact I
Speaker 4: forgot I scored fifty two.
Speaker 2: Don't hold on.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm just like I think you they're
Speaker 1: reminding me.
Speaker 3: Of course, you know I've scrolled on that Wikipedia. I
Speaker 3: did drop it.
Speaker 1: That is okay, keep going, okay, sorry, yeah, oh god, okay,
Speaker 1: last shot superd or Diana Trossi Diana.
Speaker 3: Sorry, so I love you, but last past superb easy.
Speaker 1: Lakers are Clippers, Nike or Deez? What talked enough about thispers.
Speaker 3: I love you too, Clippers, but I don't hate me.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, we'll see what gatory I mean I
Speaker 4: want money from both, so both.
Speaker 2: I'll drink either.
Speaker 3: Okay, love both. What is your favorite flavor gatory?
Speaker 4: Oh I'm oh. I don't like any of the funky stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, cucumber, la moone or whatever.
Speaker 4: So I'm going like, there's always the white, red, orange
Speaker 4: blue light No, I know white, No.
Speaker 1: Get what it's called the light blue. Isn't it like
Speaker 1: glacier free? Yeah, Almo's not bad, but it's like too light.
Speaker 1: I think a solid red. Oh god, no, too much
Speaker 1: red forty that's like that's like not I didn't have
Speaker 1: the problem of being those kids that drink it and
Speaker 1: then you know they drink it because they ran out
Speaker 1: and like everything is like their mouths to be honest,
Speaker 1: like the yellow one's good, Like it's not like good,
Speaker 1: it's underrated.
Speaker 4: I think the blue is a little too. No, I
Speaker 4: think it comes like I read an orange freeze it
Speaker 4: freeze the blue one and eat it with a spoon.
Speaker 3: Oh, like, oh that makes sense. I'm trying to think
Speaker 3: of what my favorite flavor was.
Speaker 4: I think they only give us like red and oranges
Speaker 4: in our practice cooler or maybe.
Speaker 3: You Oh that was so dumb. I would say, how
Speaker 3: can you tell? But I guess you're not like drinking
Speaker 3: from this spout you put it. No, they give it
Speaker 3: to us individually.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you got to survive these COVID days,
Speaker 4: so Instagram or TikTok Instagram, out on the town or
Speaker 4: Netflix and chill Netflix and chill Zion or jaw.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I was like thinking, I say, it's like okay in
Speaker 1: New York or La La rinaldo or messy.
Speaker 4: Oh now my dad's going to watch this podcast with
Speaker 4: your dad, Peter him.
Speaker 3: Peter, thanks for I have this is really great. Thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe you could become friends with my dad.
Speaker 4: They would like literally hit it off. My dad is
Speaker 4: the coolest ever. Oh yeah, MESSI.
Speaker 3: Is that because Peter told you that.
Speaker 2: I know this is know this is.
Speaker 4: Because he won the World Cup and like is one
Speaker 4: of the most well rounded athletes ever in the history
Speaker 4: of mankind.
Speaker 3: And like, which is insane because he's five times you
Speaker 3: watched I am Georgina, I have Do you like it?
Speaker 2: I don't really have.
Speaker 3: Anything opinion on it?
Speaker 1: Like, I mean, yeah, I mean, like Loki, I would,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess look why.
Speaker 3: I don't care. Yeah, And I don't say that disrespectfully.
Speaker 4: You are a woman in yourself. You are Georgina, but
Speaker 4: like a queen in her own right. Yes, But like
Speaker 4: I know, I was, I was like, this looks interesting.
Speaker 4: I just saw on Netflix the other day. I was like,
Speaker 4: oh should I watch this?
Speaker 1: I was like, get that birl, look do the same
Speaker 1: thing if I was sitting there as well.
Speaker 3: That was a Gucci employee, you right, But also like,
Speaker 3: I know she does amazing things.
Speaker 4: So do.
Speaker 3: We stand? Sam Kerr, Alex Morgan, whoa that think them? Wow? Okay,
Speaker 3: oh I'm saying Crystal done love, Yes Thorne's queen.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, you or your sister Neka, I mean what,
Speaker 1: let's just be real here, but.
Speaker 3: You can still come on the show. Okay, have a
Speaker 3: different answer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm here. But next time we'll do it. We'll
Speaker 4: do a sibling pod.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, maybe we can invite like the Nasais and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yes, and then we can play one on one after
Speaker 4: and we'll all fire a whole bunch of se you'll
Speaker 4: rough and announce definitely not rough.
Speaker 3: But I'm just like you.
Speaker 1: I feel like that would be like too problematic, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want you get definitely save.
Speaker 2: All fouls on them and we would win.
Speaker 4: I would like, totally depends unless you there's someone there
Speaker 4: that's Jordan Poole or Kelly Uber there, and then we'd
Speaker 4: lose because I mean, she's a home.
Speaker 3: If Quentin Grin is there, who I love the name,
Speaker 3: Oh Lord help us.
Speaker 1: Quenting Grimes is there? I think Okay, last question, Okay,
Speaker 1: announcing right here.
Speaker 2: You I mean, this is a layup.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say me and then we'll just sign off,
Speaker 1: end of the podcast.
Speaker 2: How about this.
Speaker 3: In a couple of years, I'm gonna say you.
Speaker 1: Now, fine, fine, you right now now.
Speaker 4: Your time will end and I will never the bags won't.
Speaker 4: Maybe my time will end, but the bags won't.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I see you. Same with Georgina. Hey, the bags never ends.
Speaker 3: That's all we have to get to. That's all we
Speaker 3: have to get to. Thanks for listening to Slow Notes.
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