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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where

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Speaker 1: cam Brink just got a Flaunt cover. Asia Wilson got

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Speaker 1: a Marie Claire cover, and we want to know who's

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Speaker 1: putting us on the cover. On today's show, we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk with ESPN analyst, Olympic gold medalist a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer Rebecca Lobo about the WNBA season so far

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Speaker 1: and this weekend's All Star festivities. But first, here's what

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Speaker 1: you need to know today. Big news for the WNBA.

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Speaker 1: They're signing a new broadcast rights deal that'll be worth

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Speaker 1: an estimated two hundred million dollars a year. This first

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Speaker 1: reported by The Athletic. That's a huge increase from the

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Speaker 1: league's current deal, which is valued at just sixty million.

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Speaker 1: The league will reportedly enter new agreements with ESPN, Amazon,

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Speaker 1: love this news. This is huge. Speaking of money, a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of it is going to the NWSL's Angel City.

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Speaker 1: The team announced on Wednesday that the club is being

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Speaker 1: sold to Disney CEO Bob Iiger and his wife will Obey.

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Speaker 1: Shouts to will Obey. I think original host of Inside

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Speaker 1: So shout out to Inside Stuff and will Obey Bob

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Speaker 1: Iiger and will Obey new owners of Angel City. The

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Speaker 1: So many questions about that for all my Angel City

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Speaker 1: Doyle and Jennifer Garner before games? All of those superstars

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Speaker 1: the rest of their owners but just want to hang

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Speaker 1: out asking for a friend. Simone Biles Doc. Are you

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Speaker 1: series on Simone Biles has dropped, and it details Simone's

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Speaker 1: get into it. You're gonna find out, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: follow her journey back into the gym as well. Part

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Speaker 1: two of that series is going to be released in

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Speaker 1: the fall. And first of all, we'll watch Simone Biles

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Speaker 1: doing literally anything. And I couldn't be more excited that

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Speaker 1: But my favorite thing about Simone is is she's such

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Speaker 1: In La they get crazy, in Miami they get crazy,

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Speaker 1: Because we learn that Pitbull is going to be performing

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Speaker 1: The Chicago Sky announced yesterday that the team have acquired

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Speaker 1: Rachel Bannam, Mariah Jefferson, the twenty twenty five first round

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Speaker 1: up Barbie too. Mattel announced that the former Seattle Storm

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be famous by the Father because forever's too short.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna chat with one of the best in the business.

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Speaker 1: She knows Little Stinker and all the New York Lonely Boys,

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Speaker 1: Rebecca Lobo up next. We're back and we're almost heading

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Speaker 1: out of town because this weekend is the twentieth WNBA

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Speaker 1: All Star Game. I will be there in Phoenix. And

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Speaker 1: if you're in the know about how many WNBA seasons

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Speaker 1: We got twenty eight seasons and only twenty All Star games.

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Speaker 1: What's up? Rebecca?

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Speaker 1: It's like my favorite story. I am always telling people

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Speaker 1: By the way, just in case, I'm not encouraging men

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Speaker 3: over the next couple of years, the infusion of even

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Speaker 3: more prepared talent into the league.

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Speaker 1: Agreed. Agreed, there's some really fun young stars. Speaking of stars,

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Speaker 1: can you even put into context what we're seeing from

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas Acas star Asia Wilson this season?

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I can. The best context. The

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Speaker 2: best context is, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, my colleague Ryan Ruco said she's playing as well

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Speaker 3: as anyone has in the history of the game. And

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Speaker 3: I'm one hundred percent agree with that. And I'm the

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Speaker 3: type of person who, like, I really want to give

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Speaker 3: something a lot of thought before I say she's playing

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Speaker 3: better than anyone has in the history.

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Speaker 2: Of the league. But I'm getting closer and closer to that.

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Speaker 3: When I was watching their game the other night, Vegas

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Speaker 3: against Chicago, and I'm just like, wow, Asia is not

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Speaker 3: only head and shoulders above anyone else on the floor

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Speaker 3: on this game, She's heading shoulders above everyone else in

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Speaker 3: the league right now. And it's what she's doing on

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Speaker 3: the offensive end and the defensive end. Certainly she's playing

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Speaker 3: as well as anyone in the history of this league.

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Speaker 3: Could she be playing better in this stretch than anyone

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Speaker 3: in the history of the league.

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Speaker 1: She might be, she might high praise and right now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, she is definitely the leader for MVP and

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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year. And I know at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the season, Asia said flat out like she's

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Speaker 1: motivated by the fourth place vote that she got in

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Speaker 1: the MVP race last year. And I wonder after the

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Speaker 1: Olympic break, who do you even see that could make

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Speaker 1: a run at her and try to steal some votes.

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Speaker 3: If Asia continues to play the way she is playing now,

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Speaker 3: no one. If she continues to play the way she's

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Speaker 3: playing now, it should be a unanimous m VP. By

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Speaker 3: the way, I was not the fourth place vote. There's

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Speaker 3: a like a little sub thread on Twitter that.

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Speaker 1: Oh to say it was me and they got you

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Speaker 1: got pointed out for that Oh, okay, I haven't.

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Speaker 3: I haven't responded because it's such a stupid thing to say,

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Speaker 3: but whatever it was on me.

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Speaker 1: Do you think we should be shipping about that going forward?

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Speaker 1: To be too hard now because now there's so much

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Speaker 1: going on with like HATELN and Angel that if you

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Speaker 1: make the Rookie of the Year votes then it's like, yes.

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Speaker 2: I think I think it might be insanity. I think

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Speaker 2: you might push some voters away.

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Speaker 3: If it was transparent, I would be fine with it,

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Speaker 3: and maybe it would make people more accountable and and

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Speaker 3: you know, take very seriously the thought that they put

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Speaker 3: into their different awards. But I think it also might

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Speaker 3: maybe in a couple of years. Yeah, but yeah, right now, again,

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Speaker 3: if she comes back from the Olympics healthy and continues

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Speaker 3: to play the way she's been playing, she's untouch. She

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Speaker 3: could be the unanimous MVP. I don't know if we've

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Speaker 3: ever had a unianimous like everybody getting the number because

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Speaker 3: you vote for five. I don't know if we've ever

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Speaker 3: had a case where one player has gotten all the

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Speaker 3: number one votes.

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Speaker 2: But if not, she could be that first.

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Speaker 1: It'd be this year. We mentioned Caitlyn Clark and Angel

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Speaker 1: Reese and the fun little rivalry. We can all decide

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Speaker 1: for ourselves how much they really don't like each other

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Speaker 1: versus it just being basketball and regular competition. But they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be teammates this weekend in the All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: What do you expect? Keep it business like? Do you

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Speaker 1: think they'll surprise some folks with the little buddy cop

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Speaker 1: chummy dynamic, just to like shake things up? What do

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Speaker 1: you expect to see?

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Speaker 3: I think it has been like a fun rivalry We've

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Speaker 3: never you know, we had the angel you know, you

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Speaker 3: can't see me, you know, after Caitlyn had done it

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Speaker 3: their junior years in college. But I don't feel like

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Speaker 3: we've seen anything extra since that moment. You know, when

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Speaker 3: they when they met in the regional final game, it

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Speaker 3: was just great basketball. And then you had a three

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Speaker 3: matchups so far in the w n b A and

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Speaker 3: you know, he had the one where Kennedy shoved her,

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Speaker 3: but the other two it's just been great basketball. Two

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Speaker 3: of the three games were decided by a single point.

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Speaker 3: So I think I think it's gonna be fun. I

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Speaker 3: think I think you'll see you know, maybe you'll see

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Speaker 3: some pick and roll, although that isn't a heavy part

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Speaker 3: of Angel's game. But Angel run the floor, Katelyn will

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Speaker 3: give her the ball find It'll be fun. Yeah, hopefully

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Speaker 3: there will be some of those like little banter moments. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think people would like to.

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Speaker 2: See to them at once.

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Speaker 1: You can't see us. I want to see that.

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Speaker 2: To one of the Olympians.

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Speaker 4: Love that.

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Speaker 3: But but yeah, like they've they've always been really cool

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Speaker 3: when talking about one another.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we also have a fun fiance versus fiance dynamic

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Speaker 1: in the game. We got d Wanna Bonner on Team

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Speaker 1: w NBA taking on Alyssa Thomas on Team USA. They're

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Speaker 1: usually teammates in the w NBA playing against each other. Okay,

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Speaker 1: picture this, It's Bonner versus Thomas, one on one. Who

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Speaker 1: is going harder? In your mind? Who wants and needs

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Speaker 1: that more?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this, like Alyssa Thomas is probably the

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Speaker 3: most physical defender in the w NBA. Like, she will

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Speaker 3: lay you out if she needs to, and bump you

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Speaker 3: and stuff. I would imagine she wouldn't do that toa

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Speaker 3: to Dowana, But I don't know if it was gonna

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Speaker 3: be like a you know, do Wanna is the more

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Speaker 3: gifted like offensive scorers?

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Speaker 2: You know, she can hit, you know, drain from the outside.

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Speaker 3: Alyssa can't really but Alyssa, I don't know that that

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Speaker 3: would be you know what, that would be a smart

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Speaker 3: fun thing to do in the All Star Game, like

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Speaker 3: give it to one of them, probably do wanna and

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Speaker 3: clear out the other side of the floor Florida. Like,

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Speaker 3: I don't know how much of that kind of stuff

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Speaker 3: we're going to get from the Olympic team. I think

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Speaker 3: a lot for them. This is a real tune up,

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Speaker 3: a real game. But maybe we'll see some of those

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Speaker 3: fun moments, like in the past we've seen Britney Grinder

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Speaker 3: bring the ball down the floor and take a three,

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Speaker 3: that sort of thing. Maybe we'll see that more from

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Speaker 3: the w NBA All Stars.

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Speaker 1: Do you have an all time favorite WNBA All Star moment?

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Speaker 2: Gosh, there have been some great ones.

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Speaker 3: One of the all time incredible performances, but was by

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Speaker 3: Shony Shimmel, which was actually the All Star Game was

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Speaker 3: in Phoenix that year. I don't remember the exact year,

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Speaker 3: but she came out and she just had so much

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Speaker 3: flair to her game. But the last time in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty one, when the Olympians played the All Stars and

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Speaker 3: a Rique went off and the All Stars won the game.

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Speaker 3: That was pretty cool too, because it's always more fun,

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Speaker 3: of course, when it's competitive and the teams are playing

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Speaker 3: really hard, and that game was a situation where that

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Speaker 3: was the case.

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Speaker 1: A Rique is an interesting one to say when they're

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Speaker 1: competitive and it matters, because we've seen her speak out

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Speaker 1: about the Team USA roster and kind of saying she

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Speaker 1: pulled herself out of the process because she didn't think

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Speaker 1: it was fair or an honest process for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: and she's gonna she's gonna want to go off in

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Speaker 1: this game. I could see a Rikue wanting to get MVP,

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Speaker 1: wanting to beat Team USA and prove some sort of points.

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Speaker 1: So that's a good one to bring up. We might

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Speaker 1: see that again, all right, So w n B a

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Speaker 1: second half. Mercury, Fever Sky and Dream are kind of

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Speaker 1: the teams that look like they'll be battling for the

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Speaker 1: seven and eight, those final playoff spots, which too Doc

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Speaker 1: making the cut.

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Speaker 3: Mercury, Fever Sky and Dream the Mercury, I mean, once

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Speaker 3: they get everybody healthy, I mean they're just so talented

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Speaker 3: you would imagine that they would be in there. Atlanta

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Speaker 3: hasn't figured things out. They're really struggling. And even when

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Speaker 3: Ryan Howard returns, you know, I don't know that they're

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Speaker 3: gonna they're gonna be.

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Speaker 2: In that mix.

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Speaker 3: Dallas, of course, is a mess right now. You know

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Speaker 3: they're you know, Si will return. She was a first

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Speaker 3: team All w NBA member last year, so she could

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Speaker 3: have a significant impact. Maddie secrets getting healthy as well.

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Speaker 3: I think that you will have Indiana and Chicago both

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Speaker 3: in the playoff. In the playoff picture, I forget who

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Speaker 3: the four are, the Washington Atlanta, below them Dallas and

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Speaker 3: then the fourth oh in l A. I think both

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Speaker 3: Chicago and Indiana will be part of the playoff picture

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Speaker 3: for sure, which would be incredible for just to continue

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Speaker 3: the ratings and you know, the fan attendance and all

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Speaker 3: those other things. I mean, people are gonna watch the

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Speaker 3: other teams.

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Speaker 2: What we know that things are being fueled in a

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Speaker 2: lot of ways by those two teams.

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Speaker 1: Last one, give me one big prediction for the second half.

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Speaker 3: One big prediction for the second half of the season.

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Speaker 3: I predict that with a healthy Nafisa Collier, the Minnesota

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Speaker 3: Links will be challenging to will be challenging to get,

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Speaker 3: not only to the semi finals, but could make a

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Speaker 3: real run for that championship series.

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Speaker 1: There is a real attempt for there to be a

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Speaker 1: top trio instead of duo, and the Links keeps being

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Speaker 1: in and out of that. So I'm excited to watch.

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Speaker 1: She was not the fourth place vote. Guys. Okay, enough

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Speaker 1: with that, Rebecca Lovo Hall of Famer al timer, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for coming on. We got to take

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Speaker 1: a quick break. When we come back. The dunk heard

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Speaker 1: round Chicago. Oh hello again. It's time for the Good

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Speaker 1: Game Hall of Fame, the segment where we celebrate women's

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Speaker 1: sports lore and start telling the stories of women's sports history,

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Speaker 1: just like we do all the stuff the guys did.

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Speaker 1: Start carving the plaque, find a good place on the wall.

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Speaker 1: We've got our very first inductee to the Good Game

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, the Good Game Hall of Fame. First,

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Speaker 1: I want to set the scene for you. I want

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Speaker 1: you to think back to two thousand and nine. Producer

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Speaker 1: Mish was probably not born yet. It was two thousand

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Speaker 1: and nine. Boom boom, pow, hope and change. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: let you finish. You remember in her first WNBA All

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Speaker 1: Star appearance, Sylvia Fowls then a member of the Chicago

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Speaker 1: Sky made a statement by dunking. Pretty cool, But thirteen years,

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Speaker 1: two WNBA titles and zero in game dunks later, Fowls,

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Speaker 1: then with the Minnesota Links, and already having announced that

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Speaker 1: she'd retire at the end of the season, dunked in

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game again in Chicago, back where she

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Speaker 1: used to play. You could damn near here. The crowd

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Speaker 1: go crazy all the way in Indiana. This is one

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Speaker 1: of my all time favorite sports moments to witness in person.

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Speaker 1: Dunking in your final All Star game after not dunking

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Speaker 1: in a game in thirteen years. The ovaries on this woman,

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Speaker 1: just zero fear of getting rejected by the rim in

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Speaker 1: her fourteenth season in the league. One foot out the door,

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Speaker 1: ready for a life of leisure, and she goes for it. Unreal.

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Speaker 1: Congrat Sylvia Fowls, You are forever in the Good Game

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, the Good Game Hall of Fame. All right, listeners,

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Speaker 1: we still need to come up with the name for you.

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Speaker 1: So far haven't gotten enough good responses. So at Sarah

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Speaker 1: Spain on Twitter, hit me up, what should we call you?

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Speaker 1: We love that you're listening, We love that you're here.

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Speaker 1: But we need to call you something and we want

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Speaker 1: you to get in the game every day too. So

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Speaker 1: here's our good game play at the day ahead of

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Speaker 1: this weekend's WNBA All Star Game. We want to hear

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Speaker 1: your favorite WNBA All Star moment. You just heard mine

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Speaker 1: that fouls dunk, But tell us yours. Hit us up

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Speaker 1: leave us a voicemail message eight seven two two o

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Speaker 1: four five seven. Oh, tell us your all time favorite

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Speaker 1: WNBA All Star moment. Mesh, you got one. You're a

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Speaker 1: WNBA head, it's your favorite All Star moment.

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Speaker 4: I gotta say back in twenty eighteen, when Christy Tolliver

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Speaker 4: made the All Star Game, DMV product first and foremost

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Speaker 4: went to Maryland, broke some hearts, aid Duke in six

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Speaker 4: if you know you know, but yeah, she dropped twenty

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Speaker 4: three points in that All Star Game, and she is

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Speaker 4: my goat.

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Speaker 1: So I was what tens in twenty eighteenety no baby,

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Speaker 1: noise play it.

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Speaker 4: I was twenty one in twenty eighteen, and that was

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Speaker 4: just a beautiful moment for me because on the back

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Speaker 4: half of her career. To see her, you know, get

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Speaker 4: that light and make the most of it and shine

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Speaker 1: On that stage was so special to me. Love it, Alex,

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Speaker 1: you got one, Yeah, I do.

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Speaker 5: Mine is a bit more recent. I'm gonna go to

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty two, and at that time, Brittany Griner was

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Speaker 5: still being wrongfully detained in Russia, and originally players were

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Speaker 5: being very tactful about not speaking up too much about it,

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Speaker 5: thinking that that would help Griner's case. But as the

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Speaker 5: that year at All Star all the players came out

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Speaker 5: for the second half wearing number forty two Grinder jerseys,

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Speaker 5: and just seeing that level of support from the players

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Speaker 5: I think helped shift the conversation around Grinder's plight and

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Speaker 1: Love it. Those are awesome. Send us yours see if

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