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Speaker 1: First question we asked everybody to come on the show

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Speaker 1: is when you first made to the w NBA, who

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Speaker 1: was the first person.

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Speaker 2: To bust your ass?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I know you was giving a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of buckets your rookie year. Who was that one person

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Speaker 1: bucking right back.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to say DT Diana, Diana or you

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Speaker 4: the cappy. You know, we went one and two, so

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Speaker 4: that game was like big We went neck and neck.

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what we ended up having in

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Speaker 4: that game, but I just know both of them players

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Speaker 4: was on the same team. That's a tough guard like

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Speaker 4: to have to deal with Diana on the wing, Campy

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Speaker 4: coming on the other wing. You know, then Diana being

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Speaker 4: able to shoot from anywhere, you know, being aggressive in

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Speaker 4: her prime in her younger days, can't be being able

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Speaker 4: to want to drip a.

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Speaker 3: Pull transition three, big problem.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was probably one of them two players that

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Speaker 4: might have They might have hit me for about their

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Speaker 4: thirty piece. I ain't gonna lie might have hit me

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Speaker 4: thirty piece. And plus I wasn't even on no defensive thing,

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Speaker 4: like you know my rookie year. I'm just trying to

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Speaker 4: get some bucks.

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Speaker 2: Yo Yo Yo Yo Live on location.

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Speaker 5: Me and the blackest one are still here in Orlando,

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Speaker 5: staying our asses at home. And today we got basketball

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Speaker 5: royalty with us. Y'all, we got money, moan Dad and

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Speaker 5: Ruge's own. She put it on the map on the

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Speaker 5: couple of sports illustrated before she even touched the high school.

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Speaker 2: Who we are bees to have with.

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Speaker 5: Us today, miss Money, moan Simon Augustus, thank you for

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Speaker 5: joining us, for having me.

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Speaker 1: Bad and Ruse Louisiana, who put that ball in your

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Speaker 1: head because they said you've been You've been the one

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Speaker 1: since anybody can be the one? Like, so who started

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Speaker 1: you off with that ball? Man?

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Speaker 4: Pops put the ball in my hand. I tried mini

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Speaker 4: sports though I tried tennis, softball, I mean, you name it,

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Speaker 4: I probably tried it. But like basketball, well, I just

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Speaker 4: had a natural feel for it, like put the ball

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Speaker 4: in my hand, able to shoot, able to dribble.

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Speaker 3: I just remember my.

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Speaker 4: First session when I decided like this was what I

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Speaker 4: you want to be great. Now I'm like, I don't

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Speaker 4: ain't have a lot of money or nothing like that.

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Speaker 3: So he just started like makeshift and stuff in the yard.

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Speaker 4: Took the lawn chair, made like a little obstacle course

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Speaker 3: Took his belt like.

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Speaker 4: Tied up my arm so I have to use one

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Speaker 4: hand and after the other. He took my mom's bowling

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Speaker 4: ball glove and put it on my shooting hands so

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Speaker 4: and things like that. I don't know where he found,

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Speaker 4: like now it's a thing, but you remember the glasses

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Speaker 4: that you prevented you from looking at when you drive.

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Speaker 4: Where he got him from back then, I don't know,

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Speaker 4: but I had those any and everything that he could find.

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Speaker 4: He was using it for to help me get better

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Speaker 4: on the court. And then I grew up playing on

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Speaker 4: the gravel court, so like you hit the ball the.

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Speaker 3: Wrong way, that gravel gonna take it.

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Speaker 4: So people like how you got your handles nice like

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Speaker 4: playing on gravel, Like I didn't know what the ball

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Speaker 4: So you know, other than that, he his first my

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Speaker 4: first intro to like studying the game was like the

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Speaker 4: old school pistol p doctor j Iceman, Like, I had

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Speaker 4: a VHS tape of pistol p when he was doing

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Speaker 4: all his like no look passes, behind the back elbow

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Speaker 4: like Jason Williams and all them guys started doing it.

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Speaker 4: I was just watched that tape until I couldn't watch

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Speaker 5: At what age so early on, would you say it

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Speaker 5: really clicked for you where you knew that you were

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Speaker 5: You were better than the rest of the kids that

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Speaker 4: Man very early, like maybe nine and ten years old

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Speaker 4: when you was playing on.

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Speaker 3: The baskets that they had the hook to the big basket.

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Speaker 3: I just remember being there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember being in the yard and I was

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Speaker 4: banging on our goal, like just dunking on it, and

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Speaker 4: Pop was like, you're gonna tell if I'll go when

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Speaker 4: I could dunk and all this stuff, and they allowed

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Speaker 4: me to dunk as long as I didn't hang on

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Speaker 4: and just banged on like one of the dudes in

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Speaker 4: from that day forward, the gym at a bitty ball game,

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Speaker 4: nine and ten year old bitty ball game.

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Speaker 3: It was like pack.

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Speaker 4: That's when I first learned about like haters and people

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Speaker 5: They never believed you was the right age. They won't

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Speaker 4: Hunh, well no, I ain't care about that. It was

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Speaker 4: just like a girl just banged on my son, Like

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Speaker 4: what's the At first it became it was like funny friendly,

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Speaker 4: like oh you can crack jokes, and then it got serious,

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Speaker 4: you know, like some of them gyms can get rowdy,

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Speaker 4: and so then that's like when your family get into it,

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Speaker 4: and it becomes like a protective thing after a while,

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Speaker 4: just trying to make sure I'm safe and I'm able

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Speaker 4: to do what I love without any problems, you know.

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Speaker 1: To make the cover sports illustraight, to make the cover

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Speaker 1: before you even play.

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Speaker 6: A high school game, Like.

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Speaker 2: How is that? Like that's that's crazy? Is she? The

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Speaker 2: next MJ? Though? Like like man They.

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Speaker 4: Put some pressure on me, didn't They Like, I didn't

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Speaker 4: even know. I honestly didn't even know. They told me

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Speaker 4: I was going to Tennessee to do a shoot to

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Speaker 4: meet Shamika Holst Law, and so I was just like, yo,

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Speaker 4: hold slaw. You know, that's during the time Tennessee was

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Speaker 4: doing that thing they had the three weeks by blah blah.

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Speaker 3: So I'm just excited about that.

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Speaker 4: I'm thinking I'm gonna get a little piece in the

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Speaker 4: inside of the magazine.

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Speaker 3: And just so happened. We made it to the state

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Speaker 4: One of my teammates had to go to Walgreens or

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Speaker 4: back to the hotel and was like, Yo, you knew

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Speaker 4: from that point on, it blew up. While we was

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Speaker 4: championship game and we lost, and the team that beat us,

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Speaker 4: the coach said something slick like, you know, I guess

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Speaker 4: we should be on the cover.

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Speaker 2: Of you know, not the Codes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So from that point on, it was like I

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Speaker 4: had the biggest bullsie on my back because it's like,

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Speaker 4: oh yeah, that's a girl on Sports Illustrated.

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Speaker 3: But it helped me.

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Speaker 4: Like though it was like, you know, it seemed like

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Speaker 4: all this, it was actually good because it helped me

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Speaker 4: hone in on my game really focused on that. No game,

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Speaker 4: whether I was playing pickup or this was pro am whatever,

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Speaker 4: I had to bring my a game because people wanted

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I always love to hear stories like that because, you know,

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Speaker 5: especially nowadays with the climate of the hoop culture and

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Speaker 5: how these kids get so much crazy not variety at

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Speaker 5: a young age. They be seventh and eighth graders with

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Speaker 5: a million, one hundred thousand followers on social media. So

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Speaker 5: to hear somebody like you did, like you really was

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, make it to the WNBA, because you and I,

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Speaker 5: all of us know that a lot of people to

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Speaker 5: Sometimes somewhere on the line they lose that passion or

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, had it bigger than most people. It's not

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Speaker 2: But you had it before high school and.

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Speaker 5: You still, you know what I'm saying, stayed on task

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Speaker 2: That's a big, major salute to you.

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Speaker 4: That's a shout out to moms and pops because they

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Speaker 4: made sure I stayed humble the entire time.

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Speaker 3: He was like, you know, the little saying you're.

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Speaker 4: Only as good as your last game, and you know,

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Speaker 4: Also just really seeing them make the sacrifices that they

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Speaker 4: Pop's going to work and have a newspaper in the

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Speaker 4: go to waste. So I use that as motivation as well,

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Speaker 4: Like I want to see my parents happy, I want

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Speaker 5: Well, that's a big salute to the parents as well, then,

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Speaker 5: because that's a job well done.

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Speaker 1: You grew up with a couple with a couple of

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Speaker 1: players and stuff that made it to the league and

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, had successful lives and career.

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Speaker 1: One of the players that you grew up around was

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Speaker 1: Big Baby. When it was the first time you met

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Speaker 1: Big Baby.

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Speaker 4: Man, we and Big Baby kind of grew up together.

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Speaker 4: Like when you use that saying like it takes a

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Speaker 4: village to raise a kid. Big Baby was that child.

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Speaker 4: You know, he had a very challenging upbringing, and so

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Speaker 4: everybody in the community saw what he could be and

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Speaker 4: were just kind of like protecting him. But we would

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Speaker 4: or whatever, and he got that nickname from the gym

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Speaker 4: there he was the biggest kid in the gym. Of

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Speaker 4: course you want him on it on your team, but

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Speaker 4: he was the softest kid in the gym.

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Speaker 3: He didn't want nobody to touch him.

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Speaker 4: He would always run and he was the kid that

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Speaker 3: And you was like, oh man, you big baby.

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Speaker 5: So extremely extremely yeah, I need to know the story

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Speaker 4: And I just told Ma I was about to do

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Speaker 4: I want a ten piece all breasted with mashed potatoes

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Speaker 4: Mom's all right cool. She ordered the ten piece. Then

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Speaker 4: But you know, get home, he smashed that meal, like

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Speaker 4: Tried everything to get them stains out of there, and

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Speaker 4: Whatever it is that Pallo Santo, y'all, y'all going on here,

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Speaker 3: Since he then owned up to.

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Speaker 1: It, Hey, he told us that story, man, I'm talking

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like he was like ten, between ten and

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Speaker 3: Old enough to get up and go to the bathroom, Like, bro,

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Speaker 3: what happened?

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Speaker 2: He said, he was nervous.

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Speaker 3: It might have been all that chicken with his guts. Man.

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Speaker 6: So you get to high school, you lose your first.

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Speaker 2: So after that you started like running them off.

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Speaker 4: I actually lost the first two years, and you know,

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Speaker 4: believe it or not, people don't understand. Like I know

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Speaker 3: And so I can't do everything by myself.

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Speaker 4: I can score thirty, but if the other team's going forty,

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Speaker 2: So tell me this, Like I remember Big Baby also

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Speaker 5: While they went on to be you know, all Americans

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Speaker 2: Everybody was coming to the school to see you.

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Speaker 5: You was more like the the not the big man,

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Speaker 4: Man, you know that was crazy, and we didn't even

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Speaker 3: People were just in there. And you know what brought

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Speaker 3: We never had that meal. Grandma was in there.

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Speaker 4: They was like, we're gonna go over to Capitol High

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Speaker 2: So that's the real something right there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, could could have been anybody else that could have

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Speaker 4: Somebody almost got me, to be honest, I wanted to

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Speaker 5: My homegrow from high school went to Natasha Pointer and

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Speaker 2: Went that play point guard. Then obviously CAPI went after her.

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Speaker 4: Exactly, So that would have been a time in CAPI

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Speaker 3: That would have been crazy.

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Speaker 2: That would have been a problem. Crazy.

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Speaker 1: So you get to LSU and you know you still

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Speaker 4: I remember my first day at LSU was conditioning, six am, conditioning.

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Speaker 4: So I pull out what's the Jordan Jordans? I don't know,

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Speaker 3: Sixteen?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sixteen sixteen.

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Speaker 4: Them the heavier ones out of the bunch of Jordans.

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Speaker 4: So I pulled out my Jordan sixteens.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to the.

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Speaker 4: To the indoor football field. They said we were going

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Speaker 3: I died. I was like, I don't even know why

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Speaker 3: I'm here.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: That was the real day. I was like, what happened?

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Speaker 4: You know, in high school you have maybe a week

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Speaker 4: Season starting, and I almost was like, you know, I

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Speaker 4: then we had twenty four one hundred yard sprints like

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00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,359
Speaker 4: the next conditioning day that we had to make the

446
00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,600
Speaker 4: guards had to make it under like ten seven seconds

447
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,600
Speaker 4: in the post was like twelve thirty something like that.

448
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,399
Speaker 4: I was like, this is don't make more sense. I

449
00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:09,359
Speaker 4: don't need to be in that much shape. I really don't, right.

450
00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,439
Speaker 5: I hated that was the thing I hated more than

451
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:18,399
Speaker 5: anything like this, anything when we had to run sprints, lines, miles,

452
00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,200
Speaker 5: anything around.

453
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:20,920
Speaker 2: Track I hated.

454
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:23,520
Speaker 3: In fact, I would always get sick.

455
00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 4: I would get sick the morning prior to like we

456
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,280
Speaker 4: wing to the track because you never know knew what

457
00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:29,160
Speaker 4: it was going to be.

458
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 3: I remember one day we had a ladder.

459
00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,800
Speaker 4: We went like one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four

460
00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,320
Speaker 4: hundred and then back down and when we got to

461
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,120
Speaker 4: the end, we was like, Okay, we're cool. Coach Holland

462
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:44,000
Speaker 4: mild after all of that, he was like, mile I

463
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,159
Speaker 4: was like, yo, he laughing, he joking right.

464
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,240
Speaker 2: Now, sung like yeah, I'm about to be out.

465
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,240
Speaker 4: Couple times I was like, this college thing not meant

466
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,840
Speaker 4: for me, this this, but you know now, knowing what

467
00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,399
Speaker 4: I know when I talk to young young ballers, I'm like,

468
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 4: college is meant to break you down to see what

469
00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,680
Speaker 4: you're gonna do, Like see how far you're going to

470
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,640
Speaker 4: push yourself because a lot of stuff just didn't make

471
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 4: no sense. But now when you look back at it, it's like, well,

472
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:10,719
Speaker 4: how bad do you want it?

473
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:11,280
Speaker 3: This is?

474
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 4: This is that moment, Like, so I'm glad I did

475
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,199
Speaker 4: you know have teammates around your coaching staff, and I

476
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,119
Speaker 4: just had that inner, you know, determination and want to

477
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 4: just be better and push myself.

478
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,960
Speaker 5: So at what point, like when you got to college,

479
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,160
Speaker 5: did you feel like all, right after you got past

480
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 5: all of the condition and stuff, once you hit the courts,

481
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 5: how did you feel you felt like you you was

482
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 5: right where you belonged, or you was on the level

483
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 5: of everybody else.

484
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,639
Speaker 2: So you were you were? You was comfortable where you

485
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 2: was at.

486
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,640
Speaker 4: I was comfortable with where I was at. I grew

487
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 4: up watching uns you used to go. We couldn't afford

488
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:43,879
Speaker 4: to go be a season ticket holder and all that.

489
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 4: So they had packed the p MAC, which was a

490
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,879
Speaker 4: dollar game, and they normally did to pack the p

491
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 4: MAC against their big time rivals like Tennessee or Georgia

492
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,119
Speaker 4: where they really need a big crowds, and so I

493
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 4: would get to go and see him play. A lot

494
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,960
Speaker 4: of the girls I grew up playing with or against AAU,

495
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,200
Speaker 4: so I was very fromamiliar with them, and so once

496
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 4: we got into practice and started playing games, it just

497
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:09,880
Speaker 4: kind of clicked. Like it was just me assessing the situation.

498
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,679
Speaker 4: Always was like man one or two pieces LSU would be,

499
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 4: they'll be nice if they got a couple of people,

500
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,440
Speaker 4: and you know, when it was my opportunity to be

501
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,120
Speaker 4: that piece that they needed, I stepped in and everything

502
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 4: just kind of happened. We just kind of started rolling

503
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 4: and just kind of enjoying, enjoying ourselves out there. That

504
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 4: was probably the freest I had been, you know, without

505
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 4: any stress, all the stress that I told you prior

506
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,440
Speaker 4: to that point, even though it was still a lot

507
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 4: of pressure, I was at a point where I was

508
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 4: just having fun.

509
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 2: You know how that run felt when you were at LSU.

510
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 5: To run out those three years in a row And

511
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 5: what was it like when in the midst of y'all

512
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 5: running that off Sylvia coming through the doors to be

513
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 5: part of that.

514
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 4: Man It felt amazing, especially the first year we went

515
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 4: on that run. That Final four was in the Wormings,

516
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,439
Speaker 4: and so all we was thinking about, you know, in

517
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,679
Speaker 4: the locker room. Every time we came in the locker room,

518
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,439
Speaker 4: it was a picture of the dome that we was

519
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 4: gonna be playing in.

520
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 3: And so every day we was like, we're going to

521
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 3: that dome. We're going to the Dome.

522
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 4: And we just worked at it every day. And I

523
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 4: just remember what was it, Usher's Confession. Confession's album came

524
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 4: out that year.

525
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,920
Speaker 3: Why that was like the team album.

526
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 4: I have no idea, But when we made it to

527
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 4: the Final four, that was blasting on the bus while

528
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 4: we had a police escort heading to the New Orleans

529
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 4: or whatever, you know, getting there the second line, Like

530
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,359
Speaker 4: you know, if you've ever been to New Orleans, you

531
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 4: know they tell you don't ever stop people from second line.

532
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 4: And that's like, you know, if somebody was sleepwalking, you

533
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 4: never worked to wake up a sleepwalk You just let

534
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,360
Speaker 4: them do their thing. And so we got there and

535
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 4: this lady was working at the hotel and the second

536
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 4: line band started playing. She forgot she was at work.

537
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 4: She just started getting down, like just started getting down. So,

538
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 4: you know, we just remember those Mamy. It was bittersweet,

539
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 4: like we lost to Tennessee on the last last place situation,

540
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,439
Speaker 4: but you know, to get there and look around and

541
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 4: we had all this purple and gold, this big following

542
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 4: and then that carrying on for the next two years.

543
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 3: That was amazing.

544
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,479
Speaker 4: But you know, Sylvia taking her visit to LSU was like, everybody,

545
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 4: stop all what you're doing. Nobody's going home for the weekend.

546
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 4: We got one of the biggest recruits, you know this

547
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 4: time coming in. We got to make sure she feel

548
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 4: comfortable and really and truly, like still is so simple.

549
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 3: I took her to Jack in a Box.

550
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 4: We got like Ultimate cheeseburger, some egg rolls in the shake,

551
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 4: and like just chilled out.

552
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 3: And she was like I'm coming, like I'm coming here.

553
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 4: I don't know why y'all doing all of this, but

554
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 4: you know, make that knowing at the time, but she

555
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 4: was just like, I ain't made my mind if I'm

556
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 4: coming here. And I remember when she came, she had

557
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 4: sold us some pillows like sea loves ball, but she

558
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 4: loves like doing knitting and things like that with her hands.

559
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 4: And so I'm like this big old six six up

560
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 4: in here knitting pillows right now. But you know, we

561
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 4: knew at some point she was gonna be in the

562
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 4: paint dominating for this is like if that's what you

563
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 4: want to do off the court, cool, like do your thing,

564
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 4: but make.

565
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 3: Sure you bring it a game when you get here.

566
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 3: So now I was dope to see.

567
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: Sefia like like you kind of see her career unfold

568
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: and like she one of the best centers ever to

569
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 1: play the game.

570
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 2: Like from saying that, then when she.

571
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: Was getting recruited us, you would see her now being

572
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 1: one of the best centers ever to play in the game.

573
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: Like how was that to watch her career I watch

574
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: her blossom into that, man.

575
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 4: It was it's kind of like seeing big baby. I

576
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 4: remember when still get there and she was like real

577
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 4: like soft, and you know we had to just kind

578
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 4: of like live it up to and she'll catching and

579
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 4: put it in like she really hadn't developed her game

580
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 4: when she had back to the basket game or whatever.

581
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 4: To see her then and then to see her go

582
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 4: through her Chicago days when we had to, like we

583
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 4: go and see her today, like what we're gonna do?

584
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 4: We double with triple team, were gonna bring the whole team,

585
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 4: Like how we gonna do this? Because if not, you know,

586
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 4: we're gonna have a long night to then being able

587
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 4: to play with her again and to actually again like

588
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 4: on the team in person, like damn, I don't.

589
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 3: Have to just lip it up to you no more.

590
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 4: I can give you a little bounced feed, a little

591
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 4: one hand and she stepping off the block, hitting them

592
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 4: with the jumper and something like.

593
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 3: She never had that in her package, you know, in school.

594
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,719
Speaker 4: But I was just grateful to be a part of

595
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 4: like witnessing her greatness and seeing her growth throughout the years.

596
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember when she first got to Chicago. We

597
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 2: were still working out at Hooston Gym and they was

598
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 2: practicing then. I remember just watching her dunk and catch.

599
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, what is going on?

600
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 3: Man?

601
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 2: She definitely came a long way.

602
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just wanted her to have a little bit more.

603
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 3: I was like, man, why didn't God bless me with

604
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 3: a little bit more height like that? Wanted to be

605
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 3: six six.

606
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 4: I would have told this place down had I been

607
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 4: six six like Sill could have dominated even more, like

608
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 4: the dunkin and stuff. She would do it like at

609
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 4: practice and stuff. But I'm like she did it once

610
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 4: I think in the game in college and that was it.

611
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 4: But she could have did that on a regular and

612
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 4: I would try to bring that dog out her all

613
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 4: the time and she just like, nah, I'm gonna go

614
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 4: knit pillows.

615
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 6: What did they still play of the year? How would

616
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 6: you feel when you won that?

617
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 4: Man, a lot of them awards, So I never really like,

618
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 4: you know how people sit down right down the listen.

619
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 3: I was never that player like I just do the work.

620
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 4: I get on the court, do my thing, and if

621
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 4: the powers that be decided that I should win that award,

622
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 4: then I win that ward, and it's all.

623
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 3: It was always a.

624
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 4: Shock to me because I'm looking across the board at

625
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 4: the talent that I'm playing against and who's around the nation,

626
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 4: and I'm like it could be any anybody any given night,

627
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 4: and for them to you know, award me that award,

628
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 4: I was just like, yo, like, you know, I really

629
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 4: didn't have words to express, you know how I felt

630
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 4: still don't, like I really haven't had time to sit

631
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 4: down and just look at my trophies and really assess

632
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 4: all the success that I've had throughout my career, because,

633
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 4: as you know, we just one thing to the next,

634
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 4: so you know, just being able to I don't know

635
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 4: that you know you bringing this up. I'm about to

636
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 4: go in the living room and like really like sit

637
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 4: there and really observe it because I really hadn't had

638
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 4: time to process a lot of the stuff that I've done.

639
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: Oh well, shit, you can did some shitt, did some shit,

640
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: because man, like what you did down there, it's like

641
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: they ain't.

642
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 2: Never seen that before.

643
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: It's time you changed the whole environment for women who

644
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: down there.

645
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 2: Like that's that's crazy.

646
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 4: That was my goal, you know, as like going back

647
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 4: to high school, Like you know, I didn't get to

648
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 4: go to a lot of camps. I wasn't on a

649
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 4: travel team like you know, the kids have the day

650
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 4: and all that. But the camps that I did go to,

651
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 4: I noticed that I was the only person from Louisiana there,

652
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 4: and so I prided myself like, if it's the first

653
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 4: and the last time somebody gonna see a baller from Louisiana,

654
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 4: then I want them to remember me. So I would

655
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 4: always go out there and that just kind of trickled

656
00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 4: into you know, college pro international basket. Like, if this

657
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 4: is the first time you've seen somebody who from Louisiana,

658
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,239
Speaker 4: then I want this to be your best experience. I

659
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 4: want you to understand that it ain't a lot of

660
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 4: us out there, but where we come from, we got

661
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 4: a lot of heart, we got a lot of determination,

662
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 4: and we got a lot of like work, I think,

663
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 4: and we're gonna we're gonna bring out all you know

664
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 4: what I mean.

665
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that's I mean, even aside from the awards,

666
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 5: So just the respect, you know what I'm saying, from

667
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 5: from when I would talk to Big Baby as my teammate.

668
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, man, Brandon bed It's funny.

669
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 5: I had both of them with our teammates in Orlando,

670
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 5: but they just the way just to hear them talk

671
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 5: about how you were the real superstar there in the city,

672
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 5: in the school amongst two kids. They both went McDonald's

673
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 5: and did big things, they both went pro and all

674
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 5: of that. To hear them say that, that lets you

675
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 5: know from a different light that you know, you got

676
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 5: the respect of the guys and it's genuine. This ain't

677
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 5: in front of nobody it's us just hanging out chilling

678
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 5: when it ain't nobody impressed or no capping going on.

679
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 5: It's like they telling true stories about the crowds everything

680
00:29:58,320 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 5: you just said.

681
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 2: So that's that's that's amazing. You know what I'm saying.

682
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 5: I mean beyond when you sit the thing and looking

683
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 5: at the trophy, you think about that too. You know

684
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. The respect of our peers. We want

685
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 5: that more than anything, and.

686
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 3: Especially from those guys like seeing that process. Like I

687
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 3: was there.

688
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 4: You know, when Big Baby was trying to decide whether

689
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 4: he was gonna play football basketball. We all knew it

690
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 4: was gonna play basketball because hedn't want to take three

691
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 4: hits in football like that wasn't happening.

692
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 3: But he could have very well went you know in

693
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 3: football as well.

694
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 4: If you pull up some of his YouTube, some of

695
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 4: his footage from high school, he was dragging the whole

696
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 4: team in the end zone, you know. And Bass to

697
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 4: be honest, Bass and really get a lot of looks

698
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 4: until his junior going into his senior year and so

699
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,239
Speaker 4: to see he really pulled the Lebron on us, like

700
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 4: you know, rookie year Lebron and then be small Lebron

701
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 4: Like the next year.

702
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 3: Just got in the gym and got the working bass.

703
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 4: Did that his junior to senior year and just to

704
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 4: see him kind of blossom and grow and to have

705
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 4: that respect we always at LSU.

706
00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 3: We went to the final four together.

707
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 4: We had that year where both teams went to the

708
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 4: final coourn and shared that, Like, you know, that was amazing,

709
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 4: especially like you know, from us, we grew up together.

710
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 4: We seen each other go through struggles together. We dreamed

711
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 4: about being here, like you know, laughed about being here

712
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 4: and not even knowing how we was gonna get here

713
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 4: and who we are. Like everybody fulfilled their their goals

714
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 4: and dreams or whatever.

715
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 3: So you know that's that's the biggest thing.

716
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 2: Nah, that's super dope.

717
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: LSU retired your jersey, Like for your jersey, get retired

718
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: at LSU.

719
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 2: How does that feel?

720
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 3: Man?

721
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 4: You know what I had to reflect on, Like when

722
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 4: I made my decision to come, I sat down with

723
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 4: a lot of elders and they would tell me about

724
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 4: times when they couldn't even come on LSU's campus. And

725
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 4: so they was like, yo, you know, you broke down

726
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 4: some barriers, you know what I mean, Like we came

727
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 4: down there for you and to see a sister get

728
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 4: our jersey hume in you the arena that we at

729
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 4: one point in time couldn't even you know, sit in

730
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 4: or be a fan of or nothing like that.

731
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 3: It was just like that racial divide down here.

732
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 4: They was like, you know, thank you, and you know,

733
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 4: I was like, I didn't even think about it, but

734
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 4: you know, your elders always have that knowledge and wisdom that.

735
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 3: You need to tap into.

736
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 4: And so from that point I really felt proud because

737
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 4: it was so many, you know, of my ancestors and

738
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 4: the eldest that was just so proud, like, you know,

739
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 4: one of us made it up there.

740
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 3: I don't.

741
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 4: They didn't care male or female, like all of that

742
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 4: was out of their mind.

743
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 3: Like this sister made it. She lived out her dream.

744
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 3: She made us proud.

745
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 4: And that's how I felt with my jersey hanging up there.

746
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: That's what's that's what's up.

747
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: So now we're going to the draft, asked the famous

748
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: quick draft question. Q.

749
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so she already going to the you know,

750
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 5: saying she in the green room.

751
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 2: She ain't she ain't like me, she ain't teetering.

752
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 5: On the edge of it, saying like am I gonna

753
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 5: get invited? Am I going what pick? Am I gonna be?

754
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 3: She?

755
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 5: First class? You're talking about? She top either the world? Crazy,

756
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 5: she said, she already know. It's already known that you

757
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 5: was gonna be number one all your Probably your biggest

758
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 5: worry was no outfit, right, well, what you go with

759
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 5: to the draft?

760
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 2: Right?

761
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 3: No way?

762
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 4: Not my biggest out I didn't know if I was

763
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 4: going to want to too. It was man cappy and

764
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 4: it could have went either way. And even coming down

765
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 4: to the outfit. We was at the final four that year,

766
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 4: and back then the draft was the next day after

767
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 4: the final four, so you really ain't have that much time. Obviously,

768
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 4: you see, I'm a tomboy at heart, so I don't

769
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 4: know nothing about no you know, business, casual clothes, what

770
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 4: you're supposed to be wear or whatever. So we go

771
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 4: to Ann Taylor and I'm like looking for stuff in

772
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 4: there that can fit me. Obviously I'm taller than the

773
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 4: normal average height of a woman, so everything was hard.

774
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 3: So I just kind of, you know, put something together

775
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 3: to go to the draft.

776
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 4: What you saw was the best that I had at

777
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 4: the moment, with the time that I had. But you know,

778
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 4: my concerns were just getting drafted. Even though I know

779
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 4: I was going, I didn't know it was gonna be

780
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 4: Minnesota or Phoenix at that point. Really truly, I didn't care.

781
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 4: I didn't like, you know, like you guys probably researched

782
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 4: where they going, who's there, what's going on. I just

783
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 4: wanted to get drafted, like I just wanted to be

784
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 4: in the league. I didn't care one or two. I

785
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 4: knew I was gonna do my thing once I got

786
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 4: in there.

787
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, so officially to go number one, how did

788
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: that feel?

789
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: Like? You the number one pick in the WNBA draft?

790
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 4: That felt good. I got to hug my parents, I

791
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 4: got to hug my dad like he's my biggest critic.

792
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 4: So that was one moment where he gave me some

793
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 4: props because other than that, he like, oh I could

794
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 4: have had one hundred percent game from the free throw

795
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 4: forty points. This that he got something to say, And

796
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 4: that was the one time he was like, you know,

797
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 4: you did good, like we made it.

798
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 3: To number one.

799
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 4: Now once that was over, then it was like, well

800
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 4: now it's back to scratch, like you got to prove

801
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,919
Speaker 4: why you was number one. But I was excited because

802
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 4: I got to show that moment with my parents. My

803
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,479
Speaker 4: grandmother was there who also supported me throughout my time,

804
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 4: and my great aunt also.

805
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 3: At the table with me.

806
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 4: So to be able to go up there and finally

807
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 4: get that relief off and hold a jersey with the

808
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,919
Speaker 4: president of the w n b A, I felt good.

809
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody remember them draft days, some draft days. It's amazing.

810
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: It's like you you go up another tax bracket. You

811
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: always remember that, you go up another taxt bracket, but

812
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: you all.

813
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 4: Go up another text, you all go up another text

814
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 4: back my parents still had jobs and I was still

815
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 4: trying to figure out, you know, save my little pennies,

816
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 4: put it to the sides.

817
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 2: I feel, let's let me get ask you this.

818
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 5: So you you hit the ground running your rookie year

819
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 5: though like not not a lot of people get to say,

820
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 5: you know, I came right in and set right on

821
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 5: the scene at the All Star How was that for you?

822
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 2: Like?

823
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 5: How did how did you feel going into the All

824
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 5: Star break and knowing that you you're gonna be you know,

825
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 5: you're part of the All Star team as a rookie though.

826
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I felt good about that. You know,

827
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 4: individual bards, but team wise, we I don't even know

828
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 4: we had our first win by then, like we you

829
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 4: know what I mean. So I was always a team player,

830
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 4: and I was kind of you know, even though I

831
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 4: was happy about being an All Star going in my

832
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 4: rookie year, I was disappointed that, Like my college coach

833
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 4: was like, hey, congratulations on your first win.

834
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 3: And it was right.

835
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 4: Before All Star break, you know, so you know, I

836
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 4: just wanted to embrace the moment. Obviously, I was out

837
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 4: there with some of the greats with swoops and Lisa

838
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 4: and Sue and you know, I mean, you name it.

839
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 4: I got a chance to being a Skills Challenge and

840
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 4: won that year.

841
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 3: So that brought a little.

842
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 2: Light back to Yeah, sixteen points left the team to

843
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 2: score on too.

844
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean did we win though I ain't get Yeah,

845
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 3: we ain't win. The sixteen went down to dream.

846
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 4: I hate what happened, Like as a hooper, you go

847
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 4: out there, lay your game now and.

848
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 3: Then your team losing them. It's just like you a little.

849
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 2: Y'all could have been an MVP. Maybe y'all won, you feel.

850
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 4: I feel you look at that, but now you know,

851
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 4: things happen the way they should, and I was able

852
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 4: to at least get something and go back and use

853
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 4: that to kind of celebrate back in Minnesota and also

854
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 4: use that as motivation to keep going.

855
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 6: You scored a lot of points your your rookie year.

856
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: When did you it clicked to you, like, oh, yeah,

857
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm finn I'm finna get buckets.

858
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 2: Every night or ever.

859
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: It's guard me because you you you came out aggressive

860
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: like your rookie year, and you was buckets.

861
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 2: They said the next you.

862
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 6: Was at least four hundred, five hundred points more than the.

863
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 2: Next person on your team.

864
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 4: You're telling me something I didn't even though I was

865
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 4: just out there getting buckets. Seeing college, we ran a

866
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 4: motion offense, so it basically went off of what the

867
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 4: other player did and you made your moves or whatever.

868
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 3: And I did fairly well in that system.

869
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 4: But then pro style, you know, we run a few plays,

870
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 4: but then they'll put you in some ISO situations where

871
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 4: you can get down.

872
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 3: Yeah I got you know, I got called in.

873
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 4: ISO situations more more than enough times where I got

874
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 4: I got a chance to get busy. And at the

875
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 4: time I was playing the three, so I was quicker

876
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 4: than most threes. So I can utilize my footwork like

877
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 4: they always call me, like baby mellow, how mellow catch

878
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 4: you in.

879
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 3: That little yes?

880
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 4: Yeah? Do I give them a little shot fake get

881
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 4: around them and get to the post, get to the

882
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 4: goal or whatever.

883
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 3: I pull up for my jumper.

884
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 4: Like you know, everybody's like your jump was lethal because

885
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 4: it opens up the floor for me.

886
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 3: Like, how do you go to person that has a

887
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 3: great jump shot?

888
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 4: Like you know how to go to Yeah, you know

889
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 4: how to go to three point shooter? You run them

890
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 4: off the line, you know how to guard the driver?

891
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 4: You you close out short? How do you close the jump?

892
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 4: How do you know, defind a jump shot a jump shooter.

893
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 4: People really hadn't figured that out because before me and Cappy,

894
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 4: I don't know if there was you know, players in

895
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 4: the league that was going in that range consistently like that.

896
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 2: No, that's a great comparison, baby Melow. That's exactly.

897
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 5: That's seventeen eighteen foot area is you know obviously in

898
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 5: our game they don't talk about it that.

899
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 2: Much as as much anymore. But that was a murder

900
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 2: and so were you in.

901
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 3: That area exactly?

902
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: So you're you two your acl Like, how was that

903
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: for it? That was the first time you ever had

904
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: a real injury like that.

905
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 2: Yep.

906
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 3: Everything after.

907
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 4: Everything before that was just like little ankle sprains and

908
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 4: stuff like that. And you know, now I'm into meditation,

909
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 4: affirmations like speaking, you know, things.

910
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 3: That I want positively to existence.

911
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,879
Speaker 4: Because I remember when I came out of the game,

912
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 4: like we were in Phoenix, we were playing, we got

913
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 4: back in the game, and so coach tried to give

914
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,919
Speaker 4: me a little break and as soon as I sat

915
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 4: down got some water, they went on the run and

916
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 4: so I remember the coach was like, come on, get

917
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 4: back in and I literally I was like, damn, I'm gonna.

918
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 3: Get a break. Like that was the thought that came

919
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 3: in my head.

920
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 4: And then the possession or two later, I tore my

921
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 4: ACL and it really like it messed me up. I

922
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 4: didn't really think I told my ACL, to be honest,

923
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, I just you know, dislocated my

924
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 4: kneecap popping back in. I can go back out here

925
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 4: and do my thing. And I was like, nah, mo,

926
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 4: like you're done for the season. And so that's when

927
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 4: like the mental injuries are more mental than it is physical.

928
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 4: Your body, your mind plays games on you because every

929
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 4: day it's different. I go I went in Sidney Spencer

930
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 4: was a young lady that I spoke to. She had

931
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 4: previously to her ACM. She was like, Mom, I'm gonna

932
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 4: give you this advice. Set a goal for yourself every

933
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 4: day you go into therapy. And she was like, some

934
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,439
Speaker 4: days you go and achieve and goal, some days you want,

935
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 4: but no matter what, to try to push for that goal.

936
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 3: And so that's what I did every day. If it

937
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 3: was just trying to get neflextion, if it was trying to.

938
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 4: Stand up on one leg balancing like, I would try

939
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 4: to go as long as I could, or you know,

940
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 4: surpass the time that they gave me things like that.

941
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 4: So I kept myself, I guess, and as an athlete

942
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 4: competing with myself that eventually, you know, it helped me

943
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 4: heal and get over my hurdle. But to be honest,

944
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 4: it wasn't until that same play happened to me that

945
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 4: I was able to get over that fear. So once

946
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 4: I did get back on the court, we were at

947
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 4: practice and I made the same move, rove to the

948
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 4: bucket the same way, and one of the practice guys

949
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 4: kind of like bumped me, and once I like went

950
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 4: up for the shot and came down. At that moment,

951
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 4: was like, oh, I'm good right, yeah you at that

952
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 4: point I was like, I'm back straight up.

953
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 6: So when you come back off that surgery, now you.

954
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: Got weapons, you got way, you got more, You got

955
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: Bronson like, it's not the same old team it was

956
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: when you got hurt, but now they win.

957
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 6: It got strapped up for you.

958
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: Like, how did it feel to kind of have that

959
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: star power around you when and girls to play on

960
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: a higher level like you man?

961
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:31,879
Speaker 3: That felt good?

962
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 4: Like and people, you know when we went on our

963
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 4: run with the links and everything, people like y'all cheating? None, No, no,

964
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 4: I'm like I went through what four years of losing? Well,

965
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 4: we only won ten games a season, so there wasn't

966
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 4: no oh. We plotted a plan like nah, the stars

967
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 4: a line and we was able to get Maya.

968
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 3: Trades happened.

969
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 4: We was able to get Whalen Bronson or actually Bronson

970
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 4: was through the dispersal draft when Sacramento folded and we

971
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 4: look around and it's just like in your league, you

972
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 4: look around at great teams, but some times them teams

973
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 4: don't come together like you think they should. And the

974
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 4: first wee could practice, we going had to head. We

975
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 4: didn't do anything with the practice, guys, we just went

976
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 4: mino y mino, Like it was just us a shell drill,

977
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 4: defensive drills like and you just saw.

978
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 3: People like it's cold, like getting after it.

979
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 4: Like you know, Mayo over here taught you like she

980
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 4: ain't really talk no trash, but she had to look

981
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 4: like when she jade you up, she was like like.

982
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 3: Wailing in there. Like it was.

983
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 4: It was the intensity of that team, the tenacity that

984
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 4: we played with. On the defensive end, you got a

985
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 4: prime Bronson that's just a rebounder, just bording everything.

986
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 3: We just ate.

987
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 4: We were just able to play free and to be honest,

988
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 4: I think at that point Bronson hadn't been to a

989
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 4: final since her time, and said Way hadn't been to

990
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 4: a final since her like early years in Connecticut.

991
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 3: I had never been to the playoffs. Maya had just

992
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 3: lost the n C championship.

993
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 4: So we were hungry, like we had something to prove,

994
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 4: and it just all came together at eleven and it

995
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 4: was amazing.

996
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 3: It was amazing to feel like.

997
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: To win a championship like, ow, y'all, y'all was so deep.

998
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 1: Then y'all get Cynthia Files and it's just like man,

999
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: they can't be stopped. Like that's just that's when of

1000
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: the all time great teams ever you to be a

1001
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: part of that with so many great women, like I

1002
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: was like top five in every position.

1003
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's crazy, Like I didn't even think we would

1004
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 4: get sealed, Like I never imagine being able to play

1005
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 4: with Sylvia again in my career, Like I'm just like

1006
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 4: nobody's getting rid of her. And the opportunity came and

1007
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 4: we had already got what too prior to her coming,

1008
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 4: and we was like, oh snap, like we could probably

1009
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 4: go get four or five at this point.

1010
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 3: You know, health, you know health, while God say the same.

1011
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 4: We could do some things and was able when she

1012
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 4: came in in fifteen. It was the last two weeks,

1013
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 4: I said, So we didn't even know how well she

1014
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 4: was gonna mess with the team, but still came right

1015
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 4: in and did what she does all the time, like

1016
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 4: do her things.

1017
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 3: She just dominated the post.

1018
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: I'm aation.

1019
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 3: Nation.

1020
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 2: Somebody get that ship out of here. Don't come down

1021
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 2: with that.

1022
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 4: The stress that other teams had whaling coming down the

1023
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 4: floor with the rock facilitating everything. Me and Maya's flying

1024
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 4: the wings, steal and Bruston in a post, I couldn't

1025
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 4: imagine having to scout that game and who gonna guard

1026
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 4: who and what.

1027
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 3: We're gonna do.

1028
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 4: It's like most teams would be like, all right, in

1029
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 4: y'all situation, just say, let James Harden get sixty, we're

1030
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 4: gonna stop everybody else.

1031
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that wasn't it with us.

1032
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 6: Work work with her, Let me ask you this, let

1033
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 6: me ask you this.

1034
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 3: Wait.

1035
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: Walen played like how she was she was. She always

1036
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: pushed the pace. She always looked for a teammates to

1037
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 1: try to get everybody in the ball. Didn't make it

1038
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: easier for you and Maya to coexist since y'all was

1039
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: so dominant scoring wise.

1040
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would like when I talk to young punkirs,

1041
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, watch film and Lindzae Wadean. Whalan understood

1042
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 4: the game beyond like the normal, like, oh, come down one,

1043
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 4: everybody set up, I passed, I cut like no. Whalen

1044
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 4: was like three or four steps ahead of everybody. She

1045
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 4: knew when we was gonna run two for plays. She

1046
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 4: knew when we were we needed to pick up the

1047
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 4: patnew and needed to slow it down. She looked, she

1048
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 4: saw matchups like as she was coming on the court,

1049
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 4: like oh, she got my let's run this for my

1050
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 4: real quick. Oh y'all playing it like that, We're gonna

1051
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 4: go over here like all of that. In the process

1052
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 4: of the game, she was definitely extension of the coach.

1053
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 4: Like sometimes she would go over and talk to talk

1054
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 4: to Reeve and what she was saying was what Reeve

1055
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 4: was thinking. So, you know, like when you got a

1056
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 4: point guard that's on top of her game to that point,

1057
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 4: it's easy for us to cause it.

1058
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:47,439
Speaker 3: All we got to do is run and play.

1059
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 4: Run the pan down, come flying off of that thing,

1060
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 4: and she gonna get you the rock or you know,

1061
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:53,919
Speaker 4: whatever the situation may be.

1062
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 3: So it was it was amazing play with us.

1063
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 2: She got that Steve nash Mute power. Yeah, that part

1064
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 2: of the me and crew.

1065
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 5: She got to say, Steve nash Mute, they got the

1066
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 5: same mutant power.

1067
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: Knowing Maya, knowing how much see how good she is,

1068
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: had love to play this game. How was it for

1069
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: you to when she made a decision to stop playing.

1070
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, the selfishness in me is like, man, you know,

1071
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 4: I wish that she would come back, But then you know,

1072
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 4: the I guess the humanness in me is just like

1073
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,240
Speaker 4: my soul within is like she was following a passion

1074
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 4: of purpose. And now we know, you know her and this,

1075
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 4: her and mister Irons were actually like together, and so

1076
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 4: that makes sense.

1077
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:42,919
Speaker 3: Now, you know what I mean.

1078
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 4: But it was hard to digest at the moment because

1079
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 4: it's like, no, we can possibly get one more. But

1080
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,800
Speaker 4: you know, when that call and calls and when you

1081
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 4: when it's times for you to fulfill your purpose, then

1082
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 4: I understood it.

1083
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 3: Obviously.

1084
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 4: She had conversations with all of us to start in

1085
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 4: five and everybody to explain what journey she was about

1086
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 4: to go on. And at that point all we can

1087
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 4: do is really like respect it and then support her,

1088
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 4: you know, on our way. And you know, thankfully, you know,

1089
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,280
Speaker 4: her movement met his moment, you know now with everything

1090
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 4: that's going on, and he was able to be released.

1091
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 4: They were able to get married, and I'm quite sure

1092
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 4: babies are sure to follow. But I'm happy for Mady

1093
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 4: because she seems really happy. We know, like I got

1094
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 4: to witness the pressures that she went through playing having

1095
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 4: to be great every day every night on the court,

1096
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 4: off the court, like you know, having she couldn't really

1097
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 4: go anywhere.

1098
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 3: I remember her first year.

1099
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 4: You know, it's supposed to be like at the hotels,

1100
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 4: you know, security.

1101
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 3: Da da da da.

1102
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 4: You know, you had the people that was dropping our

1103
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 4: food off, leaving cars to be signed for her and

1104
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 4: stuff like that. So I I respect like she did

1105
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 4: everything that she could have did as a woman's beast.

1106
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 4: She don't want everything every possible award. I mean, I

1107
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 4: don't know what else it is that people want her

1108
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 4: to prove or show. But you know, she's happy and

1109
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 4: I'm happy.

1110
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: For definitely know y'all proud of her, and especially to

1111
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: see it all unfold and come on out like I

1112
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: definitely know y'all proud of her and what she and

1113
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: grew to like you know what I'm saying, all the

1114
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: fights that she is.

1115
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 2: You know, she took the world by storing y'all.

1116
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: It's one of the most dangerous combinations ever to be

1117
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: put together, right and that has ended like that You

1118
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: never know, but you know, we all as a basketball

1119
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: community is proud of her. H for sure, what your

1120
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 1: other teams when when y'all when y'all lost to the field,

1121
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: because I know y'all was like once y'all got y'all won,

1122
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: that y'all won, and y'all like we finna run these

1123
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: jontes off, Like it's no brain that we finna kill everybody.

1124
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 6: So, like, how was it when y'all y'all got there

1125
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 6: and then y'all lost?

1126
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: Cause it takes it takes, you know, it takes a

1127
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: lot for teams to sit here and compete at the

1128
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: highest level. Y'all went to championship, championship, championship after championship,

1129
00:48:57,719 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: and you know, the whole league is trying to take

1130
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: y'all that, so it takes a lot of focus to

1131
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,959
Speaker 1: continue that. But what was the team like when y'all

1132
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: lost it?

1133
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, believe it or not, we had never repeated, so

1134
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 4: we didn't know the pressure of repeating. Like every game

1135
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 4: that year was tough, and Indiana hit they stride in

1136
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 4: the playoffs. That was the good and the bad of

1137
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 4: our playoff situation. I think we converted over to what

1138
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 4: the new format, I'm not sure at this point, but

1139
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 4: we had a lot of rest in between that series. Well,

1140
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 4: Indy was rolling and came right into our series rolling

1141
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 4: as well, and they were a very physical team. They

1142
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 4: really got after us, with Tamika Catchings leading them on

1143
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 4: the defensive end and on the offensive end. So she

1144
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,479
Speaker 4: was hungry for her first championship, and we just could

1145
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 4: not match you know that what they brought. Yeah, the

1146
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 4: intensity they punched us in them off and they just

1147
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 4: kept punching and we were just like back on our

1148
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 4: heels and never did regain our footing.

1149
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 3: And so we learned a valuable lesson.

1150
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 4: Like it was quiet in that locker room after the game,

1151
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 4: you know, especially for myself because I felt like I

1152
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,959
Speaker 4: didn't play as well as I should have to help

1153
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 4: my team. But you know, it definitely helped us prepare

1154
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 4: for thirteen.

1155
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, next year.

1156
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 4: The next year, there wasn't no words, it wasn't no

1157
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 4: motivation needed.

1158
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 3: We didn't have to have no pep talk yet.

1159
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 4: Like Cheryl came in did her normal like beginning of

1160
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 4: the season speech, and it was that we was after it.

1161
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 2: That was it, That's what's up. So that that was motive.

1162
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: That's that's the straight hold motivation for the next season

1163
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: to win the championship.

1164
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

1165
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 4: For sure, we wanted to reel off a back to

1166
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 4: back because it hasn't been done since the Sparks did

1167
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,439
Speaker 4: it in the early two thousands. So we was like, man,

1168
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 4: if we can reel off four that'll you know, put

1169
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 4: us up there with the comments, and we can get

1170
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 4: us a factor back in there, that'll put up there

1171
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 4: with the sparks, and then we you know, we up there,

1172
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 4: we might be able to talk about being you know,

1173
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 4: the team.

1174
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 3: But you know, it didn't happen like that. We ended

1175
00:50:59,200 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 3: up getting a four.

1176
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 4: But nothing will never whatever compared to what the comments

1177
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 4: then really off for in the row.

1178
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 3: Like I don't even know if that'll ever happened again.

1179
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 4: But you know, just to be in the same breath

1180
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,720
Speaker 4: as a team like that, as a player, as players

1181
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 4: like that, it means a lot to all of us

1182
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 4: straight up.

1183
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 5: I mean, tell me how it is for you to,

1184
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 5: you know, spend fourteen years with one organization and then

1185
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 5: you have to you know, you leave and you go

1186
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 5: from Minnesota to LA.

1187
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 2: How was that for you?

1188
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the fourteen years was amazing.

1189
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,839
Speaker 4: Obviously, what eight or ten of those years we you know,

1190
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 4: went on an amazing run. My time in Minnesota, like

1191
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 4: prior to getting there, my draft night, we flew I

1192
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 4: flew out. Right after that, I remember in the media

1193
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 4: asking me questions about what you know about Minnesota. I

1194
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 4: knew absolutely nothing. I didn't know the home of Prince.

1195
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 4: I didn't know Atland of ten thousand, like I knew nothing,

1196
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:57,479
Speaker 4: But over my fourteen years, I grew to learn a lot,

1197
00:51:57,840 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 4: a lot about it. I gained a lot of knowledge

1198
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,240
Speaker 4: about that city, about the place, a lot about the fans.

1199
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 4: And they embraced me, you know, being there, putting my

1200
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 4: all into the game, even in the years when we

1201
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 4: were losing, you know, they embraced us. So that was

1202
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 4: a wonderful journey. But then it was like a bittersweet ending.

1203
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 4: As we know how business is can be. It's just unfortunate.

1204
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 4: I had to learn that at that moment. And so

1205
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 4: making that transition to LA was tough because we, I

1206
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 4: mean technically we was rivals sixteen seventeen, were going back

1207
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 4: and forth competing for a championship, and we looking to

1208
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 4: beat them. And now I'm like, well, what I'm gonna do?

1209
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 4: You know, now I gotta make a decision. I could

1210
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 4: have went back to Minnesota, but it was still like,

1211
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 4: you know, some ill feelings, like I felt, you know,

1212
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 4: hurt a little bit, and it's like, can I still

1213
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 4: go there and perform and be myself? And so LA

1214
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 4: was the team that was the front runners. You know

1215
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 4: they came in and was like, yo, we would love

1216
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 4: to have you. I didn't know what my role would be. Obviously,

1217
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 4: I'm very smart about where I'm at in my career,

1218
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:57,839
Speaker 4: a lot older.

1219
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 3: And still get out there and get a few buckets

1220
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 3: and everything.

1221
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 4: But more than anything, was probably gonna be, you know, mentorship,

1222
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,439
Speaker 4: just staying in younger player's ears and trying to help

1223
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 4: them grow to become the team that the Sparks hoped

1224
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 4: to be in the near future. So I felt like

1225
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 4: it was a great fit for on core and possibly

1226
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 4: off court opportunities.

1227
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 3: As I, you know, transition off the court.

1228
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 2: I know what I want to ask.

1229
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 5: I got I like, you know, I'm that guy even

1230
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 5: he said you didn't you know you didn't move up

1231
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 5: in a tax bracket. You know when you got your money.

1232
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 5: When you got your money, I see you like shoes

1233
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. I'm a shoe me and d

1234
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 5: and I love shoe. What did you do when you

1235
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 5: got yourself a nice little you know, you got that

1236
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 5: nice pocketbook money you and you know you ain't killing me,

1237
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 5: but you got nice little pocket money where you go

1238
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 5: treat yourself? What did you do to treat yourself? Did

1239
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 5: you look back on like right now have been you know,

1240
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 5: I wouldn't probably do that now, but I appreciate the

1241
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 5: hell out of it when I did it back then

1242
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 5: as a young Nah.

1243
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 3: You know, I did exactly what I said I wanted

1244
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,359
Speaker 3: to do. I had. I had an uncle that just

1245
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 3: like he had a bunch of old schools. He had,

1246
00:53:58,200 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 3: you know, lived his life. He was chilling.

1247
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 4: I'm chilling at home, get up everyone, lift weights, do

1248
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 4: his thing, drive, run his old school.

1249
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 3: And I was like, I'm gonna be like on Monday,

1250
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 3: you know.

1251
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 4: And when I was able to get my get my

1252
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 4: money up and stash my cash, I went and got

1253
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 4: the same car Uncle Harold had. He had a nineteen

1254
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:21,439
Speaker 4: sixty eight and paula supersport converted. And so I went

1255
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:25,919
Speaker 4: and got that same car and just you know, did

1256
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 4: my thing on it, and I would just ride around.

1257
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,320
Speaker 3: I was like, oh man, I felt good. I still

1258
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 3: have that car. Now, you know, I still have that car.

1259
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 4: So I didn't really go and buy like crazy stuff

1260
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 4: like stuff that didn't have any value to me. Now,

1261
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 4: like you know, classic car you can always be able

1262
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 4: to sell and make a little money off of it.

1263
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 6: So when you drove the old school call.

1264
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: I know when I used to drive my old school,

1265
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: I just had old He thought he was baby snoop everybody.

1266
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 2: Because I had my old school. So you did you

1267
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 2: old school music too? Or you kept the music?

1268
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:03,399
Speaker 1: Nah?

1269
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 4: You know we're from br. So we was bumping at

1270
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 4: Bootsy and Webby back in the day.

1271
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:08,760
Speaker 3: Go hard.

1272
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 4: You had to go hardcore if you was Ronda old

1273
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 4: school Sundays.

1274
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 3: Now that's me and Pops.

1275
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 4: We would hop in there and we would ridey put

1276
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 4: al Green and you know some of that old school

1277
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 4: When I was in there, I kept it straight gunning.

1278
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,720
Speaker 4: We were straight br BR's finest, the little Boosy Webby

1279
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 4: and anybody else at that time.

1280
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: So when you came up like, no, you love basketball,

1281
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,880
Speaker 1: but who's the the women basketball players that you've seen

1282
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: from afar? Like, I know you mentioned Shamika hold Club,

1283
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: but who's the women that you've seen them for that

1284
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: you was kind of looking at and trying to take

1285
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 1: like something patting some of your game after or be

1286
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 1: like man, I want to be like her.

1287
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 3: Man.

1288
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 4: I know people don't say her enough, but Teresa Edwards

1289
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 4: like she was a hooper and I actually got to

1290
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 4: be coached by her with at the Links. She was

1291
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 4: one of our assistant coaches one year with the Links,

1292
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 4: and she was like, you remind me a lot of me,

1293
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 4: because sometimes it took me to get mad or angry

1294
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,760
Speaker 4: in the game. Maybe somebody pushed me talk some trash

1295
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 4: to me. Rath blew a bad call for me to

1296
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 4: just like then go to work. And she was like,

1297
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:18,720
Speaker 4: that's the stuff that I would do, Like I would

1298
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:19,839
Speaker 4: just wait and then go.

1299
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 3: She was like, you just gotta go out there from

1300
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:22,879
Speaker 3: the tip.

1301
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:24,879
Speaker 4: She was like, if that's what you need, find something

1302
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 4: that pitched you off before the game and then you're

1303
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 4: ready for the game or whatever. But I just always

1304
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 4: admired her, you know, intensity on the floor, like she

1305
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 4: has some stuff with her game, she has some stuff

1306
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 4: with her like she can do a little bit of everything.

1307
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 4: And then the fact that I just like that no

1308
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 4: back down type thing, like she ain't back down for

1309
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 4: many people. And like watching them old school games, you know,

1310
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 4: I don't remember. I think she might have broke Birdie

1311
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 4: those one game, like not on purpose only, but it's

1312
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 4: just like her aggressiveness.

1313
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 3: She like, yo, get off me. Yeah. So I always

1314
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 3: appreciate her game.

1315
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: Not your top five but your favorite five, your favorite

1316
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 1: five women's players that you love to watch, Like, who

1317
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 1: is your favorite five?

1318
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 3: All right?

1319
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 4: I said, T Edwards d T Dang see, y'all put

1320
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 4: me in it because it's so like a y'all putting.

1321
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 5: Okay, your favorite five, it's strictly your you like to watch.

1322
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 2: In that box. It's just your favorite player.

1323
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 3: All right?

1324
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 4: Uh T Edwards, DT, Cappy, Lauren Jackson, Oh Kellor?

1325
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 3: What is that? That's what? Three? Four?

1326
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1327
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 3: One more? Y'all got me going through? You know what

1328
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 3: I used to like.

1329
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 4: K Low didn't get celebrated a lot in now league,

1330
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 4: but Carol Loston like mine off of them screams and

1331
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 4: her her early days and Sacramento like that technique was

1332
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 4: almost similar to what you witnessed with Golden State and

1333
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 4: Klay Thompson and Steph.

1334
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 2: Curry was solid. Yeah.

1335
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 4: I love to watch her footwork catch if you're not

1336
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 4: there's up that So yeah, I think those.

1337
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: Players start bench cut now.

1338
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 2: This is what he trying to get you. You got

1339
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 2: a bitch one. You gotta cut one.

1340
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: Uh, Diana Trassi, Cappy point dexter at Teresa.

1341
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 3: Oh Man, you got me? All right, I'm gonna have

1342
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 3: to dang. I'm gonna start DT bench cab cut.

1343
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: Tea, Okay, I gotta start like it hurt to say,

1344
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 1: it really did.

1345
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 2: You can't get in no trouble for this. Start bench cut.

1346
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 2: We're gonna.

1347
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 5: I see you a sneaker here. You got your Jay's

1348
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 5: back there, super name Jordan's trung so start bench cut,

1349
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 5: Air Jordan one, Air Jordan three and Retro eleven.

1350
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 2: Start bench cut.

1351
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 4: Oh man, all right, start start the ones bench even

1352
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 4: cut the threes.

1353
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 5: You got okay, see I'm with her, I'm with her.

1354
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:25,479
Speaker 5: The ones gotta be it's too many ones. It don't

1355
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 5: matter what they come out with. The ones can go

1356
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 5: with any and every type of outfit and any and

1357
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 5: every type of cover. It don't matter. So the one

1358
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 5: has to be the one. And they broke the old

1359
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 5: with it. They broke them.

1360
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 2: Old with.

1361
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 4: Them on a daily And like when I'm trying to

1362
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 4: figure out what I'm gonna tell you.

1363
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 2: It don't matter what's going on the ones.

1364
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 5: You could just pull out any type of ones and

1365
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 5: they gonna go with anything that.

1366
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 2: You can come up with.

1367
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, yeah, tell me this, tell me this,

1368
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 5: so you you just won, you know, three gold medals

1369
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 5: in the Olympic Games. But how how did it feel

1370
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 5: to be on that top twenty at twenty list? You

1371
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Top twenty WNBA players ever to

1372
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 5: be part of that the original first double list, how

1373
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 5: did that make you feel?

1374
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1375
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 4: I remember, I think it was a fifteen list that

1376
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 4: came out before, and I wasn't knowing that one, and

1377
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 4: I remember sitting down with Coach Reeve and she was like,

1378
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 4: why do you think you're not on this list?

1379
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 3: And I looked at everybody, and most everybody.

1380
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 4: Had like a championship and you know, some other big

1381
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 4: time awards and now I was like, but I just

1382
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 4: straight went to the championships.

1383
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 3: And she was like, well, what do you want your

1384
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 3: legacy to be?

1385
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 2: Like?

1386
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 4: At this point you can change the trajectory of what

1387
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 4: your career and what your legacy will be.

1388
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 3: From this point on.

1389
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 4: And so that's what I was working for that next

1390
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 4: what five years until they made the next list. That's

1391
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 4: what my game was about what my legacy was gonna be.

1392
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 4: And so to then get to the top twenty list

1393
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 4: and see my name on that, I was like, you know,

1394
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 4: it was gratification, Like all the work that I had,

1395
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 4: you know, everything that I had done to get to

1396
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,439
Speaker 4: that point and to see my name on the list

1397
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 4: with all these legends, to be able to stand out

1398
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 4: there while we're taking pictures, and I'm like, like, damn,

1399
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 4: I'm a legend too, you know, yeah, like you, you

1400
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 4: can't process. I was still early in my career at

1401
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 4: that point too, but I was like, damn, these these

1402
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 4: women like really did this. They paid the way for me,

1403
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 4: and now I'm sitting up here enjoying a piece of

1404
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 4: the pie with them.

1405
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 1: You know.

1406
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, You're definitely a legend in our book.

1407
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: Like, man, it's been fun watching you play and continue

1408
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: to watch you play, like every time we see you

1409
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: smiling or you busting somebody ass, like that's that's the

1410
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: best part about it.

1411
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 2: Man. Since high school, since I seen you on the cover.

1412
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 1: We've been watching it and following your career and it's

1413
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: definitely been a pleasure to watch you hoop and.

1414
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 6: And put baton rugs on the map in this jump.

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01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:57,880
Speaker 3: Thank you'll appreciating all right, that's been a wrap.

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01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 5: We appreciate it. This has been Hughes with the Baden

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01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 5: Rules Legend a k A Money Mom, a k A

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01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 5: Top twenty w NBA All Time soon to be in

1419
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame whenever she get done. You're ready,

1420
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 5: but we appreciate you. This was major salute to you.

1421
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 5: Appreciate you for coming on with us.

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01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. I appreciate you

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