Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 2: This episode of the Heat Check, given that we are
Speaker 2: not talking anymore about the Lakers dumpster fire, because that
Speaker 2: could be literally its own podcast. Given how much news
Speaker 2: is coming out and there's a lot. Lebron James is
Speaker 2: only answering questions from women at this time, which is
Speaker 2: hilarious to me. Uh, he still is going to remain
Speaker 2: hopeful no matter what happens, as long as he said,
Speaker 2: he said, unless he's stomped out into the grave and
Speaker 2: his head is chopped off like he was some monster.
Speaker 2: I said. We were going to talk about it, so
Speaker 2: we're not going to talk about it, but just go
Speaker 2: find it because it's absolutely bonkers what's going on. Given
Speaker 2: that we're not doing that for consecutive episodes, we're going
Speaker 2: to delve into something that's a little less sexy, but
Speaker 2: definitely with just as much drama. There is some recent
Speaker 2: news in women's hoops that is going to blow your
Speaker 2: fucking mind. Why the system of sports pretty much is broken.
Speaker 2: What's happening to the w NBA players currently playing in
Speaker 2: Russia and Ukraine. Fascinating stuff and more so, go ahead,
Speaker 2: bro drop.
Speaker 1: That b.
Speaker 2: So the trade deadline's over all Star Game in the
Speaker 2: rear view mirror playoffs still month and change away. It's
Speaker 2: Paul's time. There's not a lot of news. We've got
Speaker 2: buyouts obviously that are sort of rumbling, but we kind
Speaker 2: of need to take a breather. I'm a little tired
Speaker 2: of dissecting some of these dumpster fire franchises with every
Speaker 2: little minute piece of news that comes away. Apparently Rob
Speaker 2: Polenka botched a bunch of conversations where he wasn't calling
Speaker 2: people back. I mean, the drama continues, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he wasn't answering phone calls. Just like, look it up.
Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about it. I don't like
Speaker 2: he used to look it up. I don't he's so bad.
Speaker 2: I just like, there's so much raw material in fodder
Speaker 2: for me. It's like red meat and a hungry rottweiler.
Speaker 2: I am the rottweiler in this situation. Rob Polinka is
Speaker 2: the red meat and the Lakers and just how much
Speaker 2: joy I get from shit talking them. But like it's
Speaker 2: boring to you, even though if it might be hilarious
Speaker 2: to me. So let's break down some hoops. But today
Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking about one of my favorite things
Speaker 2: in the world WNBA. So there's multiple WNBA stories going
Speaker 2: on right now. Both of those are actually global news stories.
Speaker 2: We'll start with what's happening right now in the Ukraine
Speaker 2: and how that has the ability to affect how the
Speaker 2: women's game operates moving forward. As everybody knows, unless you've
Speaker 2: been living under a rock kind of like I've tried
Speaker 2: to avoid it. If you need to tell me if
Speaker 2: I need some some news, I'm just gonna make sure
Speaker 2: that Twitter tells me or someone on the street tells me.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go out here and be looking for
Speaker 2: for Sea. Hey, did you know I hear somebody on
Speaker 2: a train I'm listening on Amtrak. I got I got
Speaker 2: Chris Coons behind me on the Amtrak talking about Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't escape it, right. So, unless you're
Speaker 2: sitting in your crib playing two K you know that
Speaker 2: Russia invaded Ukraine a week ago and the economic fallout
Speaker 2: has been immense. There's been immediate economic sanctions against the
Speaker 2: Russian state. They've literally tanked the ruble. We've got the
Speaker 2: owner of Chelsea pretty much being forced to sell the
Speaker 2: team because he's broke. Now all of these Russian oligarchs
Speaker 2: are losing their wealth. Uh, it is just abs slutely.
Speaker 2: Bonker's Russian stock Market, which is an aggregate of the
Speaker 2: biggest companies in Russia, lost eighty percent of its total
Speaker 2: value in the first two days alone. Let's just say
Speaker 2: things are not going the way that the head of
Speaker 2: Russia named Vladimir Putin has anticipated them going. We'll just
Speaker 2: say things have not been going according to plan. Major
Speaker 2: foreign investors have pulled out of Russia. The country has
Speaker 2: been banned from international banking platforms. If you want to
Speaker 2: wire money from country to country and you're Russian, that's
Speaker 2: a know. Some people have lost all access to Pornhub
Speaker 2: if you're in Russia, which is a huge loss. Russian
Speaker 2: oligarchs who have built multi billion dollar portfolios stand to
Speaker 2: lose everything. So the lot is a lot has happening,
Speaker 2: Lots popping around the world here. How does this affect
Speaker 2: women's hoops? Though? Let me explain, for years there has
Speaker 2: been an unspoken right, This is a fascinating shit unspoken
Speaker 2: rivalry between various Russian oligo billionaires and that has spilled
Speaker 2: over onto the court. In this case, Russian women's basketball
Speaker 2: Premier League has been the biggest payday by far for
Speaker 2: women's basketball players for many, many years. Folks like Brittany Griner,
Speaker 2: Breonna Stewart, Diana Tarasi have played for Russian teams for
Speaker 2: seven figure or more contracts, which, to be frank is
Speaker 2: a lot more money that they make in the United States.
Speaker 2: They have made well over five times the maximum salary
Speaker 2: allowed in the WNBA in Russia. It's good business to
Speaker 2: hoop in Russia if you're a woman. And it's basically
Speaker 2: just we'll just say what it is, a dick measuring
Speaker 2: contest by really rich guys in Russia that decided that
Speaker 2: the women's basketball Russian Women's Basketball Premier League. Hard to say.
Speaker 2: Is there a little breeding ground for how they end
Speaker 2: up competing with one another. It's their little sex squid
Speaker 2: games to a degree, only no one gets hurt. In
Speaker 2: the past past two days, this just like another way
Speaker 2: of them, you know, measuring how good they are with
Speaker 2: one another. So the past two days, though women's basketball
Speaker 2: players living in Ukraine and Russia struggling to get out,
Speaker 2: a move made more difficult since Russia has now made
Speaker 2: it very difficult to fly out, having banned flights from
Speaker 2: thirty six countries and counting. Thankfully, all the American players
Speaker 2: who played in the Ukraine are out. But Russia's war
Speaker 2: on the Ukraine's going to change the balance of women's
Speaker 2: basketball from these intermediate term, at least because who knows.
Speaker 2: Who knows before the status quo returns in Russia. Who
Speaker 2: knows when these women who make their livelihoods where they
Speaker 2: make the majority of their dollars in the offseason will
Speaker 2: be able to play there again.
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Will those same oligur so that I mentioned that lost
Speaker 2: eighty percent of their wealth, Will they be so inclined
Speaker 2: to have women's basketball be their dick measuring contest anymore?
Speaker 2: They might just be looking to just hold on, We're
Speaker 2: going home kind of vibes, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Just hang on for dear life. Who knows? Time will
Speaker 2: tell I'm not optimistic. So it will put more pressure
Speaker 2: on the WNBA to pay equitably. Now that overseas cash
Speaker 2: cow has fallen to Putin's ill timed, ill planned moves,
Speaker 2: Which brings us to the real story, the real huge story,
Speaker 2: something that's been hiding in plane sight boom, airplanes, charter
Speaker 2: planes to be exact, all right, So sports illustrated just
Speaker 2: randomly on a Monday, just a random Monday, two days ago,
Speaker 2: drop one of the biggest stories to be about the WNBA,
Speaker 2: maybe ever one league handed out record fines against the
Speaker 2: New York Liberty. Not only did they do that, the
Speaker 2: WNBA threatened to take the Liberty's draft picks away, and
Speaker 2: they even floated the idea of not only making the owner, Josi,
Speaker 2: same guy who owns the Brooklyn Nets, sell the team,
Speaker 2: but also folding the entire franchise together. It was fucking serious.
Speaker 2: What could have been so gregious that they would fold
Speaker 2: an entire WNBA team where there's not that many be
Speaker 2: the first one to contract to have to just close
Speaker 2: up shop go home in the biggest market in the country.
Speaker 2: What could he have done? It was so terrible. Was
Speaker 2: there some sort of some sort of pizza ring, underground
Speaker 2: pizza ring going on in some basement? What could have
Speaker 2: been happening?
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 2: Tell me? I need no wait. Josi put his players
Speaker 2: on a charter plane and took them to Sonoma for
Speaker 2: wine tasting. You mean to tell me that that was
Speaker 2: so egregious that he would be possibly forced to sell
Speaker 2: a team and fold the entire New York Liberty as
Speaker 2: a whole, All because Josi wanted to take them on
Speaker 2: a team building trip, All because he wanted to treat
Speaker 2: his players like male players are treated, All because he
Speaker 2: didn't want the New York Liberty to fly Southwest next
Speaker 2: to Fred and Karen and their little baby Eli on
Speaker 2: their way to some family trip in Phoenix. All because
Speaker 2: of that. Mostly, when you go bird's eye view, it's
Speaker 2: because Josi, the owner of the New York Liberty and
Speaker 2: the owner of the and the Brooklyn Nets, same vibes,
Speaker 2: same intentions, same mentality. Josi is willing to do what
Speaker 2: so many other owners are not willing to do. Do
Speaker 2: whatever it takes, pay whatever it takes to show your
Speaker 2: players you invest in them, and you're willing to do
Speaker 2: whatever it takes to compete and win, like he's doing
Speaker 2: with the Brooklyn Nets. You cannot make that shit up.
Speaker 2: Here's what happened, Josi. Here's the backstory. Josi, billionaire owner
Speaker 2: of the Brooklyn Nets but also the New York Liberty,
Speaker 2: wanted to give the Liberty a team building trip to Napa,
Speaker 2: so he charted a plane and sent them off the
Speaker 2: Wine Country. Why you don't say star player Dede Richards,
Speaker 2: rook a rookie said at the podium. Randomly, they asked
Speaker 2: her what her favorite off the court moment was, and
Speaker 2: she said, NAPA. NAPA was just so much fun. NAPA
Speaker 2: was an opportunity for us to get together as a
Speaker 2: team and just be beautiful. And you know what, I
Speaker 2: love that. I was just planning for days what I
Speaker 2: was going to war. Where to NAPA? Once they told us, Josi,
Speaker 2: you monster, shut the league down, Shut the team down.
Speaker 2: Force this man out, Get on the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2: Liberty guard Jasmine Jones said that the team owners treat
Speaker 2: us like they treat an MBA team. That is fucking awful.
Speaker 2: You don't say, folks, what's the problem here, what's the
Speaker 2: problem here? The problem is that it violated the WNBA's
Speaker 2: Collective Bargaining Agreement, which constrains the benefits that you can
Speaker 2: give players. Is that not the stupidest fucking thing you've
Speaker 2: ever heard in your life? There should be. Well, it's
Speaker 2: just hold that thought for later. But it gets even
Speaker 2: more stupid. The Liberty chartered flights for each road game
Speaker 2: of the seasons second half, beginning in August, with the
Speaker 2: trip to Minnesota and the WNBA was fucking pissed Cauz.
Speaker 2: Right now, they're using commercial flights like Southwest with Brian
Speaker 2: and Karen and Eli on their trip to Phoenix. You'd
Speaker 2: be on the same fight with Brian and Karen and
Speaker 2: their little baby Eli, crying and screaming when you're trying
Speaker 2: to get your mind right for your game. That's what's
Speaker 2: happening now. Josi was like, this is ridiculous, especially when
Speaker 2: there's issues with weather, issues with plane delays, issues with
Speaker 2: everything that comes with being just a normal traveler, which
Speaker 2: these people are not. Josai Apparently the punishment that WBA
Speaker 2: was floating around was upseed, and Josi was like, you
Speaker 2: know what, I don't care. I'm gonna continue to do
Speaker 2: it anyway. You can tell me not to, but I'm
Speaker 2: going to. In fact, he doubled down stating that WNBA
Speaker 2: athletes should be treated like the elite players that they are,
Speaker 2: and then he went public on Twitter over the fact
Speaker 2: that he can't fly his own team via charter because
Speaker 2: he has a lot of money. Josi, as an aside,
Speaker 2: is the co founder of Ali Baba, which is the
Speaker 2: Google in China. So then he does the most extraordinary thing.
Speaker 2: He was like, well, because they said, well, this is
Speaker 2: this is a competitive balance issue. If your team can
Speaker 2: fly charter and which is against the law or the
Speaker 2: rules of the CBA, and all the other and all
Speaker 2: of the other teams cannot, that gives you an advantage.
Speaker 2: It's not correct, that's not right, and it's cost too
Speaker 2: much money for these other non quote unquote non billionaire
Speaker 2: team owners, so it's wrong. And then he does this,
Speaker 2: He found a sponsor to fly all the WNBA teams
Speaker 2: for three years for free.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Do you know what happened next? Of course, all the
Speaker 2: teams were.
Speaker 1: Like hell yeah, right. No, they weren't.
Speaker 2: Like hell yeah, they were like, absolutely fucking not. The
Speaker 2: WNBA Board of Governors turned it down. Let me say
Speaker 2: that again in the back for the folks in the
Speaker 2: back not quite listening. Josi, the owner of the New
Speaker 2: York Liberty, was so committed to giving his players what
Speaker 2: he felt they needed to be success. We'll be ready
Speaker 2: and to have no travel hiccups because he's a multi
Speaker 2: multi billionaire. And when he was told he couldn't do
Speaker 2: that because it gave him a competitive advantage, he found
Speaker 2: a way for everyone to have the same exact thing.
Speaker 2: Which he thought was the bare minimum for travel for
Speaker 2: an elite athlete, and the Board of Governors said no.
Speaker 2: According to s Y. If you are wondering why that
Speaker 2: might be, according to them, quote, here's where it gets
Speaker 2: fucking crazy. Some owners worried that the players would get
Speaker 2: used to it and there would be no going back.
Speaker 2: Others wondered whether players might prefer a salary hike instead.
Speaker 2: That's not how this works. You can't just say, uh,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, net Jets, I would prefer that money go
Speaker 2: into my pocket instead of just you giving us planes.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, pause, let's just say, let's just bring this
Speaker 2: all back. They didn't want players to get used to
Speaker 2: what to get used to being treated like professional athletes,
Speaker 2: the elite athletes that they are. They wanted them to
Speaker 2: be seen and felt as just regular joes on a
Speaker 2: Southwest flight or a Delta flight flying commercial. You cannot
Speaker 2: make this shit up, dog the WNB. It is absolutely bonkers.
Speaker 2: And here you are, here, I am thinking that Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball had a monopoly on being cheap billionaires. Here
Speaker 2: I am thinking like it's just them. No, No, cheap
Speaker 2: bastards are found in every corner of the world.
Speaker 1: The League.
Speaker 2: Originally, here's what they wanted to do to the Liberty
Speaker 2: League wanted originally to slap a million dollar fine on them,
Speaker 2: by far the most in the history of the league,
Speaker 2: and then they dialed it down to a half a million.
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, though, that this is a league that
Speaker 2: has cap salaries at two hundred and twenty one thousand
Speaker 2: dollars per year. That is the supermax for a WNBA player,
Speaker 2: And you wonder, you have to wonder why Mark Davis,
Speaker 2: who also co owns the Raiders, owns the Aces, why
Speaker 2: he decided to pay Becking Hammond a million dollars to
Speaker 2: coach Because he can. Because that's the thing that he
Speaker 2: doesn't have any restraint over. He can, he wants to,
Speaker 2: and he thinks that it's going to help his team win.
Speaker 2: That's how you think like a real billionaire who wants
Speaker 2: to win games. It's also the only salary that's not
Speaker 2: capped in the CBA. The WNBA is in grave danger.
Speaker 2: I would say, you've got issues with players who are
Speaker 2: not not making money in Russia any longer, they're going
Speaker 2: to put pressure on the WNBA. The WNBA has been inflexible,
Speaker 2: even when there's free stuff that gives them an ability
Speaker 2: to grow the game, and the CBA will do nothing
Speaker 2: to pay these players what they are worth. And the
Speaker 2: CBA is in place until twenty twenty seven. That is
Speaker 2: an eight year long CBA. They got that deal done
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and it does not end. It does not
Speaker 2: expire until twenty twenty seven. So what does that all
Speaker 2: mean for me? It means I've come to the reality
Speaker 2: and I've come to the conclusion that professional sports is broken.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just just up in front in the
Speaker 2: last month. You've got the Olympics, you've got baseball, you've
Speaker 2: got the WNBA. There are let's just break down how
Speaker 2: this works. Very very very rich people get to a
Speaker 2: level in their life and then the status where they
Speaker 2: get in ced into a fraternity. Thirty teams in the WNBA,
Speaker 2: it's way less. So you get invited into this fraternity,
Speaker 2: you go through all the hoops and you have billions
Speaker 2: of dollars at your disposal. You've made a killing in
Speaker 2: your life and this is one of those final little
Speaker 2: infinity stones in your glove where you feel like you're
Speaker 2: a real person. Now, something to complete you, something to
Speaker 2: go off and tell your friends about. Something where you
Speaker 2: get free this and free that, box seats and charter
Speaker 2: flanes and free shit, and people oohing and awing over
Speaker 2: you because you own a sports team. Whatever sports team
Speaker 2: it is, doesn't really even matter, and that is you
Speaker 2: and those people, as my grandma would say, they don't
Speaker 2: get rich by giving it away. They don't get rich
Speaker 2: by giving it away. And even when they are worth
Speaker 2: five six seven billion dollars, that mentality sticks, that cheap ass,
Speaker 2: poor me mentality, despite them being worth literally more money
Speaker 2: than they could ever spend no matter what they wanted.
Speaker 2: Not even Phil Mickelson could spend five billion dollars, and
Speaker 2: that is something that he probably would get close to
Speaker 2: given his gambling issues. If you're a billionaire and you
Speaker 2: own a team and you're not willing to do whatever
Speaker 2: it takes to get that team to win, which is
Speaker 2: the entire point of owning a team, competing and playing
Speaker 2: to win. That's literally the only goal of a sports
Speaker 2: team is to win, and to win at the highest level.
Speaker 2: And you're not, and you're against the free market of
Speaker 2: paying players the elite of the elite. As much as
Speaker 2: it takes for you to collect the team that will win.
Speaker 2: You're fucking cheap ass, and you don't deserve to own
Speaker 2: a team winners, which apparently you are not winners, do
Speaker 2: whatever it takes to win no matter what. There's billionaires
Speaker 2: owning teams that would rather cheap out, cheap out on
Speaker 2: everything on their team, on how it's ran, on what
Speaker 2: their players make, on what their coaches make, because they
Speaker 2: still make enough money anyway. That to me is a problem. That,
Speaker 2: to me, is a gigantic problem that hampers the growth
Speaker 2: of a game that is struggling to get new consumers,
Speaker 2: get new eyeballs.
Speaker 3: Nobody fucking cares right now about the WNBA because they
Speaker 3: won't put money into it. The product is good, These
Speaker 3: girls put up buckets, the jerseys are nice. They're trying
Speaker 3: to figure out a way to get more people interested
Speaker 3: in the game. And then you do shit like this,
Speaker 3: like it's absolutely bonkers.
Speaker 2: So how do we fix the WNBA specifically, how do
Speaker 2: we fix it? My man Tom Ziller? I love Tom Ziller.
Speaker 2: He's got a great newsletter on Substack called Good Morning Basketball.
Speaker 2: He wrote, the salary cap is the problem right now
Speaker 2: for the WNBA. There's new energy and new resources available
Speaker 2: in and around women's sports. Literally four or five billionaires
Speaker 2: the own WNBA teams that have gotten walled off. When
Speaker 2: they're trying to do whatever it takes to win, they're
Speaker 2: running into like, well, I want to pay Liz Cambridge
Speaker 2: X and I can't. And now Liz Cambridge Cambage, Cambage
Speaker 2: has left, and this is what he says. More. There's
Speaker 2: more resources available in and around women's sports, but the
Speaker 2: league's conservative mindset is keeping it closed off to lots
Speaker 2: of potential growth. The WNBA has been so focused on
Speaker 2: mere survival for so long that it's unable to pivot
Speaker 2: into an expansionary strategy. The conservatism of the league is
Speaker 2: baked hard, crusted onto the WNBA, to the point where
Speaker 2: money bag investors like Josi and aces Mark Davis are
Speaker 2: unable to break the status quo. Fuck that, fuck that
Speaker 2: He proposes the wa NBA adopt a similar structure as
Speaker 2: the EPO, where rich owners spend as much as they
Speaker 2: want to build a sustainable powerhouse, and then the rising
Speaker 2: tide lifts all ships. Who cares if a few teams
Speaker 2: in this league are killing, absolutely destroying investing in marketing
Speaker 2: and branding and events and trying to make this as
Speaker 2: most the most sexy team, most sexy league as possible.
Speaker 2: That tide lifts every single w NBA team up with
Speaker 2: Mark Lore Who's going to own who is currently owning
Speaker 2: the Links? Josi, Mark Davis. They are begging, salivating as
Speaker 2: owners of other businesses. Who knows what it takes to
Speaker 2: grow something from scratch. All they want to do is
Speaker 2: do what it takes to grow the game. And the
Speaker 2: w n b A won't let them draconian rules that
Speaker 2: don't make no sense. So what we do know is
Speaker 2: the way that the w n b A has handled
Speaker 2: this is a nightmare. It's got to change because the
Speaker 2: league itself is growing. Ratings are way up over the
Speaker 2: last two years despite the pandemic. The league has new
Speaker 2: equity owners that include Condoleeza, Rice and Nike. The valuation
Speaker 2: of the league and its franchise is supposed to be
Speaker 2: around a billion dollars right now. Gross. And because we're
Speaker 2: pushing p because we're pushing pe, we're wanting to try
Speaker 2: to pivot hard away from hating the powers structures of
Speaker 2: the WNBA and Major League Baseball and the Olympics. We're
Speaker 2: gonna get away from that and just tell you about
Speaker 2: really fast this very side road about Don Staley, who
Speaker 2: could have been the coach of the Portland Trailblazers if
Speaker 2: they would have done the right thing. Same thing with
Speaker 2: Becky Hammond actually, but no shade to Chauncey Bullops. There's
Speaker 2: a terrific story on an scape which you should be
Speaker 2: called the undefeated. They've changed names about her incredible influence
Speaker 2: on the world of women's basketball and in this case
Speaker 2: black female head coaches. Back in twenty fifteen, Staley received
Speaker 2: a piece of the net cut down by Carolyn Peck,
Speaker 2: head coach of the Purdue boiler Makers who won the
Speaker 2: title in nineteen ninety nine, making her the first black
Speaker 2: head coach in history to win a title in the
Speaker 2: nc DOUBLEA. And that act of kindness doing what the
Speaker 2: WNBA should be doing, which is literally pulling people from
Speaker 2: behind up to lift them to see what's possible, to
Speaker 2: make sure that you're making the world a better place
Speaker 2: for the generations after you. That act of kindness influenced
Speaker 2: Don Staley to the point where she cut her own
Speaker 2: NCUBA championship net from twenty seventeen into ninety pieces and
Speaker 2: sent them to black female head coaches in basketball. This move,
Speaker 2: she said, connected them all together in an unbreakable bond.
Speaker 2: That's what we need more in sports is for people
Speaker 2: to know how they fit into the greater puzzle of things.
Speaker 2: How great is that? Nicole Powell, a young black Head
Speaker 2: coach at UC Riverside, said, Don Staley's move is getting
Speaker 2: me to think bigger. We all need as people, and
Speaker 2: especially in these leagues that think bigger. How can we
Speaker 2: support others, other coaches, other people younger than ourselves at
Speaker 2: whatever level. Veteran coach Diane Richardson of the Tauson Tiger
Speaker 2: summed it up best. She says, I carry this piece
Speaker 2: of the net in my backpack as a reminder of
Speaker 2: the generosity of Dawn, but also the vision and for
Speaker 2: us to aspire to do things like this, lift the
Speaker 2: people below you up and they will do the same.
Speaker 2: She said. It was emotional for me because I know
Speaker 2: how important it is to hold on to the nets
Speaker 2: and all those things for your championship. She felt strong
Speaker 2: enough about us and this fight to hit her to
Speaker 2: cut it up and share it with us. And that's
Speaker 2: the legacy. That is the legacy that the WNBA needs
Speaker 2: to impart. That's the legacy that a team like that
Speaker 2: even other leagues that are not related to basketball need
Speaker 2: to think about doing that. And it also, slightly in
Speaker 2: the midst of all this craziness, gives me hope that
Speaker 2: despite how broken things are now, things can change with
Speaker 2: one or two people. The number of female black coaches
Speaker 2: and women's basketball has doubled in the past twenty years,
Speaker 2: and the game is better for it, because these days,
Speaker 2: with all this shit happening, we need a symbol of
Speaker 2: hope that tomorrow is going to be better than today,
Speaker 2: even if it's something as small and simple as a
Speaker 2: piece of a championship. Note that's all the time that
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