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Speaker 3: I'm good?

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Speaker 2: So how are you feeling today?

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Speaker 3: Feeling good? I'm ready for the interview. I'm ready.

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Speaker 2: You're not nervous about you?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: I preparing before I got here.

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Speaker 2: How do you prepare for this? I'm just curious.

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Speaker 4: I was looking over the notes I had and I

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Speaker 2: You're just like me.

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Speaker 1: That's what I do. I over prepare for everything. You

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Speaker 1: didn't look at lip service, right, never mind? And your

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Speaker 1: Are still are you? Guys are still coaches? Okay? So

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Speaker 1: was there ever any pressure for you as a kid

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Speaker 2: You just enjoyed it?

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Speaker 3: No, not really.

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Speaker 4: I was always they told me that I was on

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Speaker 4: It definitely challenged me a lot because I know there

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Speaker 2: They're like, why can't we stop this little girl?

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Speaker 1: And as far as regulations, for you to be so

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Speaker 3: I get a's and b's.

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Speaker 4: I'm working on straight a's overachiever.

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Speaker 2: What's your favorite subject?

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Speaker 3: I would say math, That's one of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like I always was good at math,

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Speaker 4: We're doing taxes. We have like this simulated thing where

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Speaker 1: But at least you don't have to pay for training

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now who's the better coach?

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Speaker 1: See, I like that you're very good at your media training.

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Speaker 2: And we've also heard stories of people like all right.

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Speaker 3: It won't phaze me.

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Speaker 3: I'm not looking like yeah, I'm not looking like what.

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Speaker 2: But I heard that Maryland come out.

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: I feel you You ever been mad at your dad

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Speaker 4: I can imagine, Yeah, I get frustrated, like if I'm

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Speaker 3: But it's just helping me get better, that's all it is.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about your nil deal that you have

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Speaker 4: I was actually I was at home on the counch. No,

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Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know, I just show my dad.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think it was a DM. Okay, yeah, but.

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Speaker 2: That must have felt amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, you know, for the Jordan brand because

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm the first high school athlete to do it.

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Speaker 4: And it's like that's really big because no one else

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Speaker 1: Before, right, male or female. Huge, let's put some respect on.

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Speaker 2: That, all right.

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Speaker 1: And so what process happened after that? So you got

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Speaker 2: Then what happened.

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Speaker 4: We might have just called We might have just called

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Speaker 1: That is spectacular. Did you know what you wanted before

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Speaker 2: Did you have those conversations where you're like, I'll wait, no.

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Speaker 2: How does that affect where you want to go to college?

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Speaker 1: Does that affect that at all when you think about

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Speaker 3: Oh no, it doesn't at all.

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Speaker 4: I'm still going to choose the school off of the

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Speaker 4: it doesn't affect it at all, and I'm free to go.

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Speaker 3: Wherever I want.

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Speaker 1: Now we talk about how because nil deals are still

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Speaker 3: But so for the women, you can't do that.

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Speaker 4: That's only for the guys, right, So for the women,

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Speaker 2: Graduate from college. Also you have to go to college.

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Speaker 3: Yeah you have to.

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Speaker 4: That's four years or just two. It's an age thing.

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Speaker 4: But for me, I'll have to go all four years.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So that was never a choice anyway,

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Speaker 1: because the WNBA.

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Speaker 2: Is really exciting right now.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 2: I go to the New York Liberty games.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I went to one of the playoff games

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Speaker 4: That was really cool because my first w NBA game,

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Speaker 3: I was say the mystics just because it's back home.

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Speaker 2: Like at Life Center Academy in Burlington, New Jersey.

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Speaker 4: It's different because like some people like are asking like

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Speaker 4: It's just really it's a really cool experience because like

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Speaker 2: And how has life changed for you since signing this deal?

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Speaker 3: So that's that was one of the big things that's changed.

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Speaker 4: So at my school, we go K through twelve, so

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Speaker 2: Now, when I ask you this as somebody who's in radio,

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Speaker 4: No, I'm still trying to narrow it down my list.

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Speaker 4: Uh, definitely a school or like a team that when

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Speaker 1: You think that when you go as a freshman, right,

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Speaker 3: I think it will be like you're recruiting me for

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like you're not just gonna recruit me for no reason,

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Speaker 1: And I know that people are going to be coming

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Speaker 4: I'll say one person that I met in person with

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, so cool.

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Speaker 1: I was like, no way, did you ask for a picture?

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Speaker 3: At least no I could.

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Speaker 1: I was like, You're like, man, I should have asked you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I really. I was like, oh my god.

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Speaker 2: But you got to run into him again, I hope.

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Speaker 1: So, no, You're definitely will because I feel like now

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely I'm paying attention to you and looking to

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Speaker 2: Now it is a nice quick drive, you know, from home.

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Speaker 1: And I'm excited about the fact that just even talking

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Speaker 1: And the fact that you're interested in personal finance that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that too, that was a really important part. Like

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Speaker 4: I really want to take that class. My dad really

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Speaker 4: But all the classes I'm trying to take now is

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Speaker 2: See. I like that.

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Speaker 1: You see what can happen when parents are involved, like

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Speaker 2: It really does make such a difference.

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Speaker 1: You know, were they ever apprehensive about anything when you

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Speaker 2: For you as their as their little girl.

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Speaker 1: And I know you're you have brothers and sisters too, right,

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Speaker 4: They're starting to the second oldest she just started high school.

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Speaker 2: But nothing like, they're not better than you. It's what

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Speaker 3: Well, absolutely not, and they know it. They know it.

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Speaker 1: I mean for people to understand the dedication that it takes.

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Speaker 1: I was watching Steph Currie's documentary. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you saw that. I know what you're talking too, but

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Speaker 1: how much work that Like, it's a NonStop of what

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Speaker 4: Oh, the hardest part. I don't even know what the

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Speaker 3: What Actually, I can't even say that because that's too much.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to give it away too much.

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Speaker 2: Uh oh, but some secrets, some secret sauce.

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Speaker 4: But like definitely like the basics because that helps me

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Speaker 4: like create, Like the basics is what you need to

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Speaker 4: create all the other moves that I do. So like,

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Speaker 1: That's how you break those ankles after where well, listen,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: I'm really excited that you came through.

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Speaker 1: I'm just excited for people to see this interview because

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Speaker 1: you are so impressive. Thank you so much, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I just love the fact that we did not

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Speaker 1: in outside of that. That's gonna mean you're gonna be

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much. I really appreciate that my.

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Speaker 1: Parents do too well, thank you so much for coming through,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to keep on following up at you

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Speaker 1: and I cannot wait to see where you decide to

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Speaker 1: go to school, and I know that school can't wait

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Speaker 1: to find out either.

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Speaker 2: Does anybody have an edge? They don't know?

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Speaker 3: They probably do, they don't know yet though.

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Speaker 2: All right, all right, well, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: coming through. It's way up with angela ye