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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we all face it. We all get them nights.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you watch film and you're like, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: That was the one. She got me slipping yo yo yo.

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Speaker 5: Live on location. This is a big one. Was me

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Speaker 5: and the blackest one. We were staying I ass at

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Speaker 4: We got the young legends.

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Speaker 5: South Carolina's own putting it, putting a state on our back.

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Speaker 5: Aga Wilson in the building. We appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you. Happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Columbia, South Carolina. Yep, it's nothing in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: I went to South I went to I went down

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Speaker 5: And correct and let him know what's going on and

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let you disrespect my place like that.

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Speaker 1: Because I love the fans, Like the fans that came

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Speaker 3: It's just the vibe. It was just just real dope.

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Speaker 1: But heath Wood Hall, you started as an eighth grader.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm telling my kids that I got When you

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Speaker 1: or the history kind of started with you because I'm

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Speaker 3: There before the history, but you created the history there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nuts. Honestly, I wasn't even thinking about

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Speaker 5: Pretty cool, right, right, That's what I wanted to ask, Like,

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Speaker 5: started seeing you, Because you know, you don't just go

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Speaker 5: from play you play Gatorade, break mc donald's everything, So like,

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Speaker 5: at what at what point did that turn for you?

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Speaker 5: Like what year was that when everybody said, oh man,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have to say it was maybe my

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Speaker 2: I'm going I go to school with Asia and now

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Speaker 2: And at the time, I'm like, I'm in high school.

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Speaker 4: That's huge, That's huge.

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Speaker 4: Oh Man.

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Speaker 2: I love that school, like I love Yeah. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: Oh. I would have to say that coach has done

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Speaker 2: So that is something that everyone's like, Oh, what she

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's dope for former players who have

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, for.

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Speaker 5: Her to be an African American woman who's done and

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, I'm not disrespecting any other

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Speaker 1: Yeah, after your first year at South Carolina, what did

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Speaker 3: That changed the next three years?

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Speaker 1: Because the next three years you play of the Year,

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Speaker 2: I think I realized just who I was. I think

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Speaker 2: even thought of if she didn't call me out on

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Speaker 2: it and like it and just be different things. It's

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Speaker 2: I'm like, what you mean? Like what you mean? I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm not. And then I think I'm like she knew

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna show her why I don't like why I

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Speaker 5: How did it feel for you to to power and lead,

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Speaker 5: you know, South Carolina a team that had never done

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Speaker 5: and it's really in the time where everybody knows Yukon's

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Speaker 4: And all of that stuff.

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Speaker 5: How did that feel to like step in in break

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Speaker 4: One time one of them. Yeah, straight up.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, when people count you out, that's the best

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Speaker 2: Because no one expected us. We got hit with injuries

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Speaker 2: Like it wasn't just like the school, but we talked

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Speaker 2: at the women's game like that, like to get out early.

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Speaker 2: Everybody would be in the Colonia lif arena. And it's

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Speaker 2: So to bring back a banner and to still look

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Speaker 2: It's a feeling that I'm like, man, this is good.

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Speaker 2: No one like this is how I feel.

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Speaker 3: You experienced college. You get the whole college experience.

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Speaker 1: I ain't get a chance to go to college, so

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Speaker 3: You're a student athlete.

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Speaker 1: You're in the classroom getting your work, and you pledge,

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Speaker 2: It was like it was amazing, Like it was something

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Speaker 2: athletes were put into this bubble to where we see everybody.

434
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,760
Speaker 2: We had to go to training table, you see the

435
00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,959
Speaker 2: football players, you see the like you just see it's

436
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,960
Speaker 2: a cycle. And like you never got an opportunity to

437
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,280
Speaker 2: be on campus or in clubs or do anything with

438
00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,400
Speaker 2: the normal kid because you're always in a gym. Yeah,

439
00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,560
Speaker 2: like you're always in a gym where you're always in

440
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,760
Speaker 2: the classroom. Yeah, it's no different. So pledging it really

441
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:38,560
Speaker 2: helped me because like I gained sixty sisters and I

442
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 2: and allowed me to see a different side of campus

443
00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 2: that I probably wouldn't have seen it if I didn't

444
00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 2: get into it let alone. It's just what AKA stands for.

445
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,320
Speaker 2: It's just a great thing to me. I just love

446
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,359
Speaker 2: all the community or that we put out there, Like

447
00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,400
Speaker 2: you said, just amazing. You're surrounded by just amazing black

448
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:59,000
Speaker 2: women that they had the same mindset like and it's

449
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 2: just I just love the feeling of it, and I

450
00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 2: was so happy. I was a little worried about telling

451
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 2: Coach day. I didn't tell her until I was like

452
00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,040
Speaker 2: the last last day because I was like, Lord, this

453
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 2: way about to go crazy, and like it was why

454
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 2: are you so scared crazy? I don't know what she

455
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 2: was gonna do. I don't know what she was gonna do,

456
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 2: and say, you know, I'm gonna wake this out.

457
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,840
Speaker 4: So she can't make you stop her. It's too late

458
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:25,200
Speaker 4: to stop.

459
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm already, I'm too far going. So

460
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 2: it was like the last day and I remember that

461
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 2: and I have practice and then once kind of we

462
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 2: had our probate and everything, and I revealed myself. I

463
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,919
Speaker 2: just see her and my teammates up in the stands

464
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,040
Speaker 2: and I'm like it just was a moment where all

465
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 2: my world's collided and I was like, wow, like this

466
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 2: is epic, Like I just love this feeling. And you know, Coach,

467
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:47,879
Speaker 2: that's another thing about it. She supports you anything that

468
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 2: you do, but you just got to kind of stay

469
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 2: a little quiet sometimes, but like she really supports you.

470
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 2: She really does, so like that was definitely a big,

471
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,399
Speaker 2: big moment for me. It's just to be able to

472
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,600
Speaker 2: like just see that other side. Like we, like I said,

473
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 2: were just always in this bubble all the time and

474
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 2: they just see you as just an athlete. But then

475
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 2: one time pledged and our cost. I was like, okay,

476
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,159
Speaker 2: like I feel like a student now. Even though I

477
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 2: did it my senior year, I still felt like I

478
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,119
Speaker 2: was just like real well rounded in a way. And

479
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, I'm good, Like I'm really happy with

480
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 2: my decision.

481
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,199
Speaker 5: But this is definitely the first mention of a sorority

482
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 5: on our show.

483
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,239
Speaker 4: So you you you own that. I'm not saying that

484
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 4: we don't.

485
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 5: I think I'm pretty sure somebody got guesses and fraternities

486
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 5: and stuff, but we still never talked about it.

487
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: This is the first mention on this you know, like

488
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 1: our celebration that we do, the knuckle Heir celebration. It

489
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: started because we couldn't do we couldn't throw Q dog

490
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: all the.

491
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,399
Speaker 3: Way up, so we had the ball.

492
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it changed to something and now we're here

493
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,200
Speaker 1: on Knuckleheas five g everywhere.

494
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 3: Uh, everybody wanted to be the number one.

495
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,720
Speaker 1: Pick, everybody dreaming their draft, that draft. It's always a

496
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: special moment this year. You know, you can't have the

497
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 1: ladies or the gentlemen going to the draft and getting

498
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 1: that experience. How was that experience for you to be

499
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: like the number one pick of the w n B

500
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: A and get a chance to walk and shake hands

501
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:17,239
Speaker 1: and get your jersey and that's that whole experience.

502
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 5: Like for your family going to Vegas Vegas and your

503
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 5: family the like, I know, that's a lot.

504
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:25,959
Speaker 3: How is that for you?

505
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 2: Oh?

506
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 1: Man?

507
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 2: It was nice. It was really cool, Like like I

508
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 2: think I remember Sup Birds saying this in an interview,

509
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:33,439
Speaker 2: Like a lot of a lot of people may not

510
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 2: know you from what school you play or like maybe

511
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 2: even the sport, but then once you said you're a

512
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 2: number one draft pick, they're like whoa, because like everyone's like, oh,

513
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 2: you're good, Like like every since yeah, ever since you

514
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 2: said then, I was like, that is my life. Like

515
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 2: a lot of people may not know what team I

516
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 2: play on or anything, but once I say, yeah, you know,

517
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 2: it's a number one draft pick, they're like what, Like wow,

518
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 2: I'm like So it was. It was a lot of fun.

519
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 2: Like it allowed my parents to go to the top

520
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,959
Speaker 2: of the Empire State Building, which was hilarious because we

521
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,880
Speaker 2: just looked like a bunch of crazy people up there,

522
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 2: but we went to like the top Top, so we

523
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 2: got to view New York in a different way, maybe

524
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 2: not like your average tourist of you. It it was

525
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 2: just cool to just be there, let alone just get drafted.

526
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,679
Speaker 2: I think that was the night where it was just

527
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 2: so much going on. My blood was flowing and like

528
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 2: everybody like what you worried about? Like what you nervous?

529
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 6: You already know, And I'm.

530
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 2: Like how did I understand? Like this is this is

531
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 2: the draft? Like you dream of this, like just like

532
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 2: it was just nuts, Like I remember I couldn't sleep,

533
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 2: my hands the sweat, and I was like, you got

534
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 2: to get yourself.

535
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: Together like everybody, because I been thinking about them steps

536
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,360
Speaker 1: like oh I got big feed.

537
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 3: Walking up.

538
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 4: I always thought that too. I'm like everybody else looking

539
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 4: at you, like what you sweating for?

540
00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 5: You? You the top pick you easy Street, Like no,

541
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 5: you don't know whether I'm.

542
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 2: Going nobody don't even think about me getting there. They're

543
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 2: gonna be Like I was like, I was just running

544
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 2: in my mind like just don't trip, don't trip, and

545
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 2: like once your name gets called, it's like my heart

546
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 2: just like stopped. I'm like, oh, my gosh, like this

547
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 2: is it? Like this is the best thing ever. Like honestly,

548
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 2: it was because I'm like, I'm a professional athlete now,

549
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 2: like I'm done with school. Bye see y'all, I'm.

550
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 6: A professional athlete now.

551
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh my god. Yes, And let alone

552
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 2: the president during the time say okay, she was my sore.

553
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 2: So we went up there and threw our pikies up.

554
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 2: It was like pretty cool to have that moment for

555
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 2: her as well. So that night was crazy.

556
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 5: Let me ask you this, how how was it was

557
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 5: it difficult or easy for you to get your outfit

558
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 5: for Draft night together? Because I know how it was

559
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 5: for us as guys. Now for y'all as women, it's

560
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 5: gotta be even more.

561
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I had to like have my name, so

562
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 2: I'm good. I had it made for me to just

563
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 2: stand up only and it was like a strip going

564
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 2: down my back, so it was only made for me

565
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 2: to stand up. So when I sat down, it was

566
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,719
Speaker 2: like it was just tearing. I was like, oh, if

567
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 2: I could do this my shoes on. I was in

568
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 2: the baptob trying to put my shoes on because I

569
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 2: literally could not bend, Like I couldn't move and my

570
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 2: mom comes there. She's like, hell, are you gonna sit

571
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 2: at somebody table? I was like I don't know. I

572
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 2: was like I really don't know. I really don't know.

573
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 2: So we're I was late to the bus and everything,

574
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 2: and I'm like walking like, please, don't pop nothing. I

575
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 2: just got to make it to my chair. So I

576
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 2: was like leading in a chair like this, and then

577
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 2: when they call my name, I'm like sitting up and

578
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 2: I'm like I had a choker and it was like

579
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 2: choking me and I was like I can't do this.

580
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 2: I said, I'm not the faint right here at the table,

581
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 2: and my mom was like, are you know I can't

582
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 2: breathe like my money. So I was actually really had

583
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 2: I don't know if I could have made it past one,

584
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 2: because I think I would have passed out what you

585
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 2: call my name. I'm like, understand that that's not.

586
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,719
Speaker 1: Your first year. Now you're playing against the best in

587
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 1: the world. You know what I'm saying. Your first year

588
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: you win Rookie of the Year, but like, now only

589
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: you win Rookie of the Year. You look like an

590
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: all store out there for a team that's like an

591
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 1: expansion team, a team that just started this year, so

592
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: you know a lot of girls that kind of got shuffled.

593
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 3: On the team. You know what I'm saying, how was

594
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 3: that for you?

595
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: Like that first year to play against the best and

596
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: see like, oh ship, I can hold my own.

597
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 4: Get some of.

598
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: It was nerve wrecking, honestly, Like I was just so

599
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 2: so nervous and just playing every single night because like

600
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 2: you said, we ain't playing no SEC. This is like

601
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 2: the best in the world, and it's just like wow.

602
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 2: And I was coming straight off of just a collegiic season,

603
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 2: like we don't have a break only you get drafted

604
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 2: in but then.

605
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 4: A week season.

606
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm like I still got a transition from

607
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 2: the collegiate game. Like I was just like what is

608
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 2: going on? And let alone. I had Bill in my

609
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 2: ears saying go ahead, lead this team, and I'm like,

610
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 2: what you mean lead?

611
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 6: I don't know what I'm doing. This is my first

612
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 6: time in this league, Like you ask me, Yeah, I'm

613
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 6: like I just got like this, like I don't know,

614
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 6: and I'm like, oh my god, I have to think

615
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 6: about all these things because I have to try to

616
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 6: tell a bit what to do and then do what I.

617
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 2: Need to do. But also try to defend a person

618
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 2: who's been in the league for like six years. So

619
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 2: it was so much that I had to think about that.

620
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 2: I'm like wow, Like it kind of made me forget

621
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 2: that I was a rookie. I kind of just threw

622
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 2: that out because I'm like, Okay, I need to handle

623
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 2: my business and I got to hold my own. So,

624
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 2: like rookie year was a lot of fun, even though

625
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 2: we didn't make it to the playoffs and we were

626
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,479
Speaker 2: almost like the worst team in the league, but we

627
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: grew together, which was a lot of fun as well.

628
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 2: We grew a fan base. But it was just it

629
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 2: was so nerve wracking, like I'm like, oh my goodness,

630
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: this is this is it like.

631
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: After your first year, you know, you play so good

632
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: and now you get Cambridge. It's like, yeah, y'all like

633
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: the Twin Towers, Like I had y'all to win the

634
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: championship last year because I was like, shit, y'all ain't

635
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: gonna stop them, especially when y'all gave a few games

636
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: up in the playoffs and then came just had the interview,

637
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: was like, oh, they can't take it. They might need

638
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: to get out the kitchen. I'm like, oh, yeah, they

639
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: ready now, like to have a player huck caliber that's

640
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: so good to play with you, and then the role

641
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: players you.

642
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 3: Have and like you had Ty Young had.

643
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: I forget this girl name every time I think about

644
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: saying it ain't a point guard. But but y'all have

645
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: all these good players around. And then the shot. I know,

646
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: people say when they win championships, you gotta have luck,

647
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: you gotta play good it and everything gotta kind of

648
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: go into play. So when I say in the lucky

649
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: shot that she made after this still, I was like, oh, yeah,

650
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: they win in the championship.

651
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 2: You and everybody else see she laughing?

652
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: Spot that bring us because I was passing was my

653
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: kick last year because I was like, that's just too

654
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: unstoppable to to go. And when y'all went to the

655
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: post war, I felt that y'all was too unstoppable.

656
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 3: They didn't have enough files for y'all.

657
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: So I was like last year and trying to getting

658
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: that and seeing what y'all really got in the U

659
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: N Cambridge being that yeah, dominant together.

660
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeah it was. It was a lot of fun. Like

661
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 2: I think that was my second year was a lot

662
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 2: of the year of learning, Like I really learned a

663
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 2: lot about myself and my teammates because we really had

664
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 2: to adjust to adding list and to adding sugar, like

665
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 2: we had so many different pieces then that we're like, okay,

666
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 2: it's gonna be adjustment. It's not gonna be like a

667
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 2: rookie year where as you get up fifteen plush shots.

668
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,239
Speaker 2: Like it's gonna be different. So, like I was just

669
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 2: happy because I got very quickly because it was second year.

670
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: But it was just pretty cool to just see on paper.

671
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 2: I was like, whooh goodness, this is a nice fire team.

672
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 2: But then like once we got together, I was like, okay,

673
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 2: we got some nice things going. Like everything was like

674
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: we were meshing together very very well. And yeah, we

675
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: came up short. And also the basketball GOSSI was with

676
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 2: us with that shot, Oh my goodness. I still it

677
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 2: still plays back in my head. But like I think

678
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 2: that was a year of like a lot of learning happened.

679
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: So this year, my thirty, y'all was like Okay, I'm

680
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 2: like so excited to get back on the court because

681
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 2: I'm like this is the time, Like, yes, okay, we

682
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 2: build our first year, second year we learned. Now it's

683
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 2: like okay, third year, we about to get this thing going.

684
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was a lot of funding. Yeah, it

685
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 2: was just a lot of fun just seeing everything come together,

686
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 2: even though it was at the end, but you learned

687
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: so much when you lose an elimination game like that.

688
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 2: Those were the games that you like, Okay, we gotta

689
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 2: go back to the drawing board. So I was. I

690
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 2: was wasn't too pleased because we didn't win it all,

691
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 2: but I was definitely pleased about the second year.

692
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: One of the things I like about your game is

693
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: you are big. You were big, You're powerful. Sometimes you

694
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: play center, but you can step out with range, like

695
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: you got a jumper, like like, who who is hold on?

696
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say instilled because folks were saying I was

697
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: too because I said installed, Like they know what I

698
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: was saying last interview, But I'm gonna say it's still

699
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: I'm a correct the word who instilled the jumper?

700
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 3: The jump in your game?

701
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: I say my dad. My dad probably really helped me

702
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: because I didn't hit a grocsburt until my freshman year

703
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 2: in high school, so I was in the late blooming.

704
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 2: So my dad was like, Okay, I'm working with a

705
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 2: guard here, Like okay, we're gonna see what we can do.

706
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: Because my dad's like six says, so he's a big dude,

707
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 2: but he's like, okay, cool, Like this is what I'm

708
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: gonna work with. So he really just kind of helped

709
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 2: me focus on just the face up game because he

710
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 2: saw me as just a little five seven girl. But

711
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 2: then once I started hitting my gross word, it was

712
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: just something that we just continue to do in training,

713
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: Like I never let that game get away from let

714
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 2: that part of my game get away from me. So

715
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 2: I have to say I have to give all the

716
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:18,959
Speaker 2: credit to my dad because it will be times when

717
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 2: I'm like, I really don't want to be working on

718
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: this jumper, but like that's what he would do, Like

719
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 2: he would always say, you know, this is what you

720
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 2: need in your game, this is how you need to

721
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 2: handle it. So he's definitely someone that has really put

722
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 2: that and influenced me to get that face up jumper.

723
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 4: So would you.

724
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 5: Say the fact that he played Overseas ball for ten

725
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 5: years professionally, like he was able to be your personal

726
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 5: trainer growing up, telling you and showing you anything you

727
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 5: needed as.

728
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 4: Far as hoops.

729
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. He was definitely the trainer in my

730
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 2: life every day we'll go to Heathwood and we'll just

731
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: get yourself. We'll train, He'll put a weight best on

732
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 2: me that I absolutely hated. We had everything like it

733
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 2: was just like I'm not dealing with this. And it'll

734
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 2: be times where I was like, mom, either he go

735
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 2: or I go, because I could not staying because I

736
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 2: never saw him as trainer. I always saw him as dad.

737
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 2: So I'm like, where is my dad like being so

738
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 2: hard on me? But in his mind, yeah, I was like,

739
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 2: oh no, one of us got to go. Like every

740
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 2: time I wouldn't talk to my dad for like a week,

741
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not dealing with you. Get out of

742
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 2: the house like bye. So like he really kind of

743
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 2: helped me. He really developed me into my game. And

744
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 2: when I tell you, I was not the best. I

745
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 2: didn't even play on my AAU team my first two

746
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 2: years and my dad was his assistant coach and he

747
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 2: didn't even say let my daughter play. I'm like, dang,

748
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 2: I really suck my own daddy won't let me play.

749
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 2: So like he really kind of was like, you know,

750
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let you go out bad or said,

751
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 2: so come on, let's get to the gym.

752
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: Pretty girl, were pearls. Yes, how you fall in love

753
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: with with the pearls?

754
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, my grandmother I actually have her talent on

755
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 2: my Ris Hattie Way, Hattie Wade Race. She it was

756
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 2: someone that was like my listening ear through anything and

757
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 2: everything like she would and like growing up, you know,

758
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 2: as a girl, it's kind of tough, my head would be.

759
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 2: I was on proportioned, I had a whole little bands

760
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 2: up with my sock. I looked so missed, like I

761
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 2: was a hot mess. But my grand my grandmother was like,

762
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 2: you know, you gotta have confidence in yourself. You gotta

763
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 2: be who you are. And so she gave me my

764
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 2: first set of pearls, and she said, you know, pretty

765
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 2: girls were pearls. And I'm like, oh my god, this

766
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 2: makes me pretty. Like I'm like, okay, I'm gonna put

767
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 2: this on. So I would wear it with anything. I

768
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 2: would wear it with my school uniform sweats. I would

769
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 2: wear my pearls anytime, and like that really just kind

770
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 2: of that was just a model that I always had

771
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 2: in my head. It's like it doesn't necessarily mean like wallless.

772
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 2: Pretty girls were just being pretty in your own way

773
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 2: in the inside, being a woman who cures herself very highly,

774
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: and that's where it all came from. My grandmother. She

775
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: passed away in twenty sixteen. I hate she couldn't see

776
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: the national championship, but like I always knew she was

777
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 2: gonna be there with me, So yeah, she was my

778
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 2: number one person. Her only game she ever saw me

779
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 2: play was my freshman year at South Carolina. We had

780
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 2: an exhibition game at noon, So yeah, that's that's the

781
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: woman behind the pearls.

782
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: How did you feel about cod How did you feel

783
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: about Kobe and how he supported the women's game and

784
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: how he was one of the best in the game

785
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: and given a lot of support for the women game

786
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: and his daughter. It was one of the ones that

787
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: was coming up. How did you feel about that?

788
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 4: Man?

789
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 2: It was something that really, I mean, it touched the

790
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 2: whole basketball world's hearts. But definitely I think the women's

791
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 2: game as well felt it just as much as the

792
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 2: me inside. And it's because I don't think I've seen

793
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: anyone put that much energy and effort and just really

794
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 2: loved into our game until Kobe. Like Kobe was someone

795
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 2: that was foot down with like this is who I'm supporting.

796
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: I'm a rally behind them regardless and of course everyone

797
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 2: I mean the NBA that I mean, you guys, y'all

798
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 2: love us, like that's the support that we need. But

799
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 2: like Kobe, it was just different, and I think he

800
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 2: felt it because he had his daughters, like he felt

801
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 2: on that level, and we were so grateful to have

802
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 2: him come to our game. He came to a couple

803
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 2: of our games, like he came to our All Star,

804
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 2: so he was very visible. It was someone that you

805
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 2: saw was like, oh my god, he's here because that

806
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 2: is Kobe, Like it's Kobe. So like he really really

807
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 2: did so much for our games that he probably didn't

808
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 2: even know how many people that he touched within our

809
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 2: game because like we hear about it, but you don't

810
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 2: really see it like that, Like a lot of people

811
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 2: come out to our games, but it's like when Kobe

812
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 2: came out, it was like it was for the bigger picture.

813
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 2: It wasn't just being in there to be seen or

814
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 2: being there just to you know, support us. It was

815
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 2: like bigger and like he said, Gigi, she was up

816
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 2: and coming. I mean they were all up and coming,

817
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 2: and that was like the next generation to change to hopefully,

818
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 2: you know, our earlys is already on the upward scale,

819
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 2: but they were going to be at the top of

820
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 2: just the change of our league. So it rested like

821
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 2: you said, recipes to them all. But it was just

822
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 2: something that I really honestly never seen, Like he was

823
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 2: rocking on our jersey at a Lakers I meanty at

824
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 2: a Lakers game, Like It's like wow, like you really

825
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 2: like that's big time, Like you don't really see that.

826
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 2: So like for him to go out of the state

827
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 2: to have everyone support us, that was just huge. And

828
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: you know, he's the realist. He's still the goat. He's

829
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 2: always gonna be that and just rest in peace. Honestly.

830
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: Speaking of jerseys, y'all got the dope? Do y'all have

831
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: the dopest jerseys in the.

832
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 4: W n B?

833
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 2: A Yeah, I'm gonna be super biased. I don't see

834
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 2: anybody colors are fire.

835
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 4: That's us.

836
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: We got the fireest jerseys ever. Like that's me. I'm

837
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 2: too happy to put on my red jersey.

838
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 5: Fool Oh, how is it for you playing? Like how

839
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 5: how is it playing in Las Vegas? Like you know

840
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like it's obviously y'all getting the raiders

841
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 5: about to be out there about to.

842
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: Be is it It is lit always twenty four hours.

843
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 2: It's so nice, like it would be mid game. I

844
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 2: look over like Flavor Places and I'm like I'm like flame.

845
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 2: It's just so dope because you just never know who

846
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 2: comes to the games, and like you already know I

847
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 2: have time performances be fired because you know were on

848
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,959
Speaker 2: the strip. So it's like it's just a lot of fun.

849
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 2: It really is. You can tell that Vegas really needed

850
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 2: sports and now that they have it, they're just so

851
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: and like MGM is so invested into us, Like it

852
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 2: is crazy. I've never seen anything like it. Like I

853
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 2: remember when I first got drafted, Me and my family,

854
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 2: we're driving down the strip and it's just this big

855
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 2: marquee on the arias like welcome Asia Wilson, and I'm like, yo,

856
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 2: like this is incredible, Like this is like.

857
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 5: This is fine. You got to make it out there.

858
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 5: It got a couple of games. Some check it out.

859
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: Man, It's a lot of fun.

860
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,280
Speaker 1: When you got hurt, when you have the ankle injury,

861
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: use out for like four or five weeks, was that

862
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 1: the first time you can kind of like sit and

863
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: kind of see everything, Like stuff kind of slow down

864
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: because you went from college and playing the season, then

865
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: you go over seas and you're playing back in the

866
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: season with them four weeks.

867
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 3: I know that's not long. It's got to really look

868
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 3: at it.

869
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: The time was it was it time to kind of

870
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: reflect and kind of sit back and like, all right,

871
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: I can see stuff and slow down.

872
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 3: For a minute.

873
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was definitely a time where I'm like,

874
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: all right, let me get my mindset, let me mentally

875
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 2: prepare with what I And at the same time, I

876
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 2: was like, okay, let me mentally prepare myself. But when

877
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 2: I come back, but also how can I help my teammates?

878
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 2: And I just that's the time that I was just

879
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 2: so happy for Deer can hand me because she got

880
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 2: put into a role that she wasn't really used to

881
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 2: at the time because she was our sixth woman coming

882
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 2: off the bench. But then she had to put a

883
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: she came into a role and people will say, oh,

884
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 2: you got big shoes to feel, but she handled that

885
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 2: role so great. Like it was a moment where I'm like, oh,

886
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 2: I can come off the bench because like Deer, because

887
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 2: she handled her business. And like that's when I saw,

888
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 2: you know, not necessarily the team doesn't need me, but

889
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 2: the team like we're a well on machine, like we

890
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 2: can put in somebody, we can switch it out if

891
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 2: anything can happen, because we just had that chemistry. So

892
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: it's oh god, it was the worst four to five

893
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 2: weeks in my life because I'm like, okay, I want

894
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: to play. And then they moved me from the crutches

895
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 2: to the scooter and I'm like, oh my god, I

896
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 2: got this boot. Honestly, yeah, I'm like it's too much

897
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 2: Like I was just like, I just want to walk

898
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 2: and yeah a moment.

899
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: What did you do on that scooter that you ain't

900
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: posed to be doing cause you know you got that

901
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: little school. He's like, then you mess around to hit

902
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: a currg too hard and kind of leaveth on the

903
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: boot a little bit too old.

904
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 3: You're like, did anybody it was time I.

905
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 2: Catch myself falling. Then I'm not supposed to put pressure.

906
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 2: I had to catch myself from falling. Just that just

907
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 2: sent me back.

908
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, you know we're not you know

909
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: we're not. Just I mean one time I was I

910
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: didn't pose. I was on crutches, but I was driving

911
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: this stuff, so I didn't pose. The uh put no

912
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: weight on my leg, so you know, I'm driving and stuff.

913
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 1: So one day I forgot I guess I ain't closed

914
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: my back door all the way so I'm driving and stuff.

915
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: So I just hop out the car like just to

916
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: close my back door. And I just failed because I

917
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: ain't putting no.

918
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 4: Weight on my leg.

919
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 3: About two months and I was like, damn, I'm looking.

920
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: I'm looking in the middle of the roads seeing if

921
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 1: somebody see me mess my stuff up. I just so

922
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: you know, when you be hurting your athlete, you so anxious,

923
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:21,760
Speaker 1: can't sit still.

924
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 5: Bro, if it was if it was for real, Hitdney cameras, bro,

925
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 5: like we brouh. You know how they everybody be on them,

926
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 5: love them little Segway two wheel joint.

927
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 4: Well, I ate it so bad in real life, in real.

928
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 5: Life, forget her, forget a TikTok or a video boy

929
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 5: I'm talking about in real life. Had my whole right

930
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 5: side with bruised. It was crazy, said, I came in.

931
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 5: I ain't never get on that thing again. After the

932
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 5: outside when I hit it, I couldn't even walk home straight.

933
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 4: But I was limping. I'm carrying this little thing I'm

934
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 4: carrying on limping.

935
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 5: I say, boy, I felt like seeing entertain my whole

936
00:42:58,680 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 5: right side.

937
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: Just think about that. I know they gave you a school,

938
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: I know, something recklessly.

939
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, I got to get out of this.

940
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: I'm getting me out of here.

941
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 5: Tell me about your experience going over to China to

942
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 5: play in eighteen and nineteen.

943
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 4: How was that for you?

944
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 2: It was a culture shock. It was very, very like

945
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 2: very different because you know, when you go to like

946
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 2: Europe or you know, like a Spain somewhere, like you

947
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 2: can say or do what you need, like if you

948
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 2: say fish or chicken, like you can kind of mimic

949
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 2: what you want. But in China, it's like, oh, we

950
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,720
Speaker 2: don't know what that is. So I'm like, oh my goodness,

951
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: Like how am I supposed to communicate? And I had

952
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 2: a translator and my dad was there with me as well,

953
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 2: so he was kind of putting me at ease because

954
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 2: it was just a huge culture shock for me because

955
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 2: you know, it's just different. You're in a whole different place.

956
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 2: No one understands you, you can't even think that they understand you.

957
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 2: And at the time, it was like, Okay, I'm here

958
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 2: to play, let's go. Let's right. So the lead I mean,

959
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say that it was like league was

960
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 2: the best of the best, but it was definitely a

961
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 2: league that he's like, Okay, I can give you a

962
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 2: couple of points here and there. Let's go ahead, let's rye.

963
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 2: So that's how it was. I was just like, you know,

964
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 2: I'm here to play. That's like, let's just do it.

965
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 2: Let's just go for it. But it was it was different,

966
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 2: for sure. It was definitely different. Looking back at you, Yeah,

967
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 2: I'm not rolling.

968
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 5: I'm not rolling. I don't want nothing with eyes in

969
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 5: my plate. No, So tell me what you thought, Well,

970
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 5: what you think and how how you felt when they

971
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 5: came up with the new CBA that kind of, you know,

972
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 5: put you guys in a different situation where I don't

973
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 5: know if everybody still has to go overseas or not,

974
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 5: but I know that it's you know, things are on

975
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 5: an up ticket as far as like trying to get

976
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 5: things more even for you guys and more fair. So

977
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 5: how did you What was your take on the CBA.

978
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 2: Oh, I think it was it was great. It was

979
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 2: great the way that they handled it and everything that

980
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 2: went down, And like you said, I think it was

981
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 2: key to finding different ways to where it's fair and

982
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 2: for everyone. And I think that's key to us. And

983
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 2: I just remember Kennon's Parker when you when we would

984
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 2: tell people, yeah, like this we got this, we got that,

985
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 2: They'll be like, oh, you ain't already got that, and

986
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 2: it's like, no, we don't. So for that to now

987
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 2: be in it and I'm like wow, Like that's when

988
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 2: I was really seeing growth in the league. I mean,

989
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 2: I saw girls my rookie year when numbers was going out.

990
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 2: We were on Twitter the Twitter games and things like that.

991
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 2: But when our CBA came out and you really kind

992
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 2: of saw, Okay, I get a room to myself, Like

993
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 2: that was pretty cool. Like I wouldn't be able to

994
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 2: get a room to myself until I was like a

995
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,760
Speaker 2: fifth year, and I'm like, oh my goodness.

996
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 4: It was crazy.

997
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,919
Speaker 5: Like when told us that, I was like, what, yes,

998
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,439
Speaker 5: goots have to share rooms like I got.

999
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 3: I got kicked out of my own room.

1000
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 4: I coached do this shit.

1001
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, I make seven million dollars, I'm not finish.

1002
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 2: Stay in the room, right, So just have those little

1003
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 2: things like that. I was like, Okay, we're on the upward,

1004
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 2: Like we're on the Upward Hill right now, and I'm

1005
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 2: just I was happy to see just the growth and

1006
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 2: also just to talk around it. I think you saw

1007
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 2: a lot of people invest in our game because they're like,

1008
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 2: oh wow, like we're making some shake. And I was

1009
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 2: just so happy to be a part of it and

1010
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,479
Speaker 2: just still be in it, honestly, because it's one hundred

1011
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 2: and forty four spots in that league. That's it. Ain't

1012
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 2: no GZ, it ain't no nothing. It's like that, or

1013
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 2: you're just not in the WNBA. So like, I'm just

1014
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 2: so happy to be one of those one hundred and

1015
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 2: forty four that's in it.

1016
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen a lot of girls getting weighed and

1017
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: stuff like that. A lot of girls didn't make team,

1018
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: and that's sad to see. You know, you always hat,

1019
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, when guys was coming to preseason. You always

1020
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: hate to be around a guy for two weeks. He'd

1021
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: be cool and next thing you know, he waved could

1022
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: and gone.

1023
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 5: You know, I don't think I even looked at it

1024
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 5: like how you just said, where it's only one hundred

1025
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 5: and forty four spots, no GV, you know nothing else.

1026
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 5: I had never thought about the WNBA like that. That's

1027
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 5: such a smaller number than what we have.

1028
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.

1029
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 4: I was like, that is crazy.

1030
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 2: It's twelve teen twelve spots, but that's it.

1031
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: Who did you when you came up? Who was the

1032
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: female that you was looking at that you was like,

1033
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,280
Speaker 1: I want to be like, hell, I pad my game

1034
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: after hell I took a couple of moves from this

1035
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: person of that person.

1036
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 2: Oh that's a good question. It's like a mixture because

1037
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 2: I'm too young to actually watch Lisa Leslie play, but

1038
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 2: I just loved her style of play. When I would

1039
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 2: watch it, like I would just be like, okay, you

1040
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 2: would see clips of here and there with if they're

1041
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 2: talking about her and things like that. But then I

1042
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to meet her because I won her

1043
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 2: award my senior year, and just speaking with her and

1044
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 2: the way that she spoke to me, I was like,

1045
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 2: oh my god, Like you're you're my role model and

1046
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 2: I always knew you. But I'm like, yeah, you just

1047
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,959
Speaker 2: steal the deal because she's such a lady, like she's

1048
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 2: just who she is. Yeah, Like I'm like, you do

1049
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 2: one like it's it, And like that was a moment

1050
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 2: where I'm like, Okay, Lisa Leslie, you got it like

1051
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 2: you're it, You're it. But then like growing up, I

1052
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 2: could watch Candice Parker play of course, so like she

1053
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 2: was definitely so, and I'm like, Okay, this girl is

1054
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 2: good and I just want to follow her career out

1055
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 2: because she's gonna go very very far. So when I

1056
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 2: played against Kennon, I was like, all right, if you

1057
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 2: can't be acting like no star struggle, like you gotta

1058
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 2: lock it up. Really it wasn't the best at times.

1059
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 2: I kind of sit up here, but it was good

1060
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 2: to be out there. Like when they say your items

1061
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 2: willcome your rival, if that's legit, like it's really.

1062
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,760
Speaker 3: Really definitely true.

1063
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 5: Tell me how it is playing for the bad Boy

1064
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 5: Deal Lame Beer and then him.

1065
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 2: It really is different because my Rickie I was like,

1066
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 2: all right, I don't know how this is about to go,

1067
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 2: Like I don't really know this man like that, I

1068
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,399
Speaker 2: don't know what's going on. But Bill is actually he's

1069
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 2: a player's coach, like he really wants what's best for

1070
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 2: you as a player, Like he doesn't care what it takes.

1071
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 2: If he got to stare at somebody down, then he's

1072
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 2: gonna do it for you. Like he is really on

1073
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 2: our side and it's just great to have somebody like

1074
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 2: that behind your back. Let alone what comes behind him,

1075
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 2: of course, but like he is just someone that's just

1076
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 2: like you. If I didn't do well with my hands down,

1077
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 2: He's like, hey, pick it up, like keep going. So

1078
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 2: he's constantly in my ear all the time. We always

1079
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 2: have conversations, side conversations and stuff like that, and he

1080
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 2: just really likes to pick your brain. But let alone,

1081
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 2: you can pick his brain because I mean, coaches basketball

1082
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 2: IQ's it's so good, like he just knows things all

1083
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 2: the way down to just numbers. He's constantly reading stuff,

1084
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 2: so like he's always in tune into the game. So

1085
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 2: that's someone that I'm like, okay, like this is good.

1086
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 2: And now I ain't trying to get no planing time

1087
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 2: out of him, but I'm like, okay, I need to

1088
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 2: pick your brain a little bit to see how you

1089
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 2: see the game minus the fighting.

1090
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 4: Somebody that I grew up. I grew up with Boo.

1091
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,359
Speaker 5: I'm from Chicago Bulls fan all my life growing up,

1092
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 5: and I hated Bill Lane beer. But like watching what

1093
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 5: you know as you get old and you you understand

1094
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 5: different things, Like I totally respect him even right now

1095
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 5: with everything you saw, how you know whatever, he's dirty

1096
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 5: and the left. I respect him. He's still got his stand.

1097
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 5: She's unapologetic about it. I didn't this is how I played,

1098
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 5: this is how it went, and I ain't what like

1099
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 5: and I love that one hundred percent. He like, I

1100
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 5: ain't what I ain't about to what you want a

1101
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 5: statement like I still feel the same. That's the statement,

1102
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 5: like you know what I'm saying, Like I respect it.

1103
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 5: And it's like, you know, playing in the league and

1104
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 5: being in the league, you you.

1105
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 4: Can you learn to look at it different.

1106
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 5: And I and I totally respect the way he went

1107
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 5: about his business.

1108
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 4: And and like you said, he's smart.

1109
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 5: He knows the game. He's still coaching the game. And

1110
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 5: you know, nobody can't take that away from your two

1111
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 5: time champion.

1112
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:36,720
Speaker 1: The players and his players and his teammates always speak

1113
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: highly of them, so regards of what you did too, spoke.

1114
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 3: Just speak highly of all times.

1115
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: So sometimes you know you're looking at it on TV.

1116
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 3: It looked like something, but it really not.

1117
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that dude is the same. Like people's like, oh,

1118
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,959
Speaker 2: is he different? I'm like no, when they ain't shake hands,

1119
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 2: he would not shake hands today, like he does not

1120
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:03,359
Speaker 2: switch up enoughing. Nobody. Bill is Bill the whole time.

1121
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 2: It's so funny when people like ask him or recognize, oh,

1122
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 2: you're been ad here, He's like, yeah, I'm like, all right,

1123
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 2: y'all need to back up. I need to go somewhere.

1124
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's him.

1125
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 5: Tell me what inspired you to come up with your

1126
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 5: foundation and what what what got you to do that?

1127
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 2: Yeah? As soon well, and my junior in high school,

1128
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,479
Speaker 2: I got tested with the learning disability called dyslexia. And

1129
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 2: it's where you get numbers and letters, a lot of

1130
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 2: things mixed up and a big chunk of work. You

1131
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 2: get it mixed up in your mind and it makes

1132
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 2: it very difficult to understand and read. And it was

1133
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 2: a very very low hard point in my life because

1134
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, I'm an athlete. I'm just I'm coming

1135
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 2: up into the world and now they're going to think

1136
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 2: that I can't read. So it was a point in

1137
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,839
Speaker 2: my life where I was like, I don't know, like

1138
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 2: I don't like this, and my parents they thought I

1139
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 2: was being a lazy teenager because I'd be like I

1140
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 2: study all night and when I get this test, I

1141
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 2: don't understand it. So they thought I'd being lazy and

1142
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 2: it wasn't studying. But then they got me tested and

1143
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 2: it came back that I had dyslexia. So all the

1144
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,759
Speaker 2: way through college and I give Coach Daily pretty much

1145
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 2: have the credit on this. Coach Dayly would make me

1146
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 2: read our daily devotions before games because it's no cure,

1147
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 2: but that's how you can get comfortable with just reading aloud.

1148
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 2: And when I tell ya, I was so nervous. I

1149
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 2: was like, I am terrified because I'm like, I don't

1150
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:30,399
Speaker 2: want people to think I can't read. It'll be times

1151
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 2: where I would just memorize stuff so I just wouldn't

1152
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 2: have to read it. And so it was very very

1153
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 2: hard for me to deal with the fact that I

1154
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 2: had a weakness. And then that's when I got with

1155
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 2: Players Tribune and I wrote my story about it, and

1156
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 2: that's when I saw a lot of people related to

1157
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 2: me that I was like, wow, like my son has

1158
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 2: this SLEXI and my daughter I had it. So it

1159
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 2: was like and let people know that they weren't alone,

1160
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 2: but let alone. The whole time they was letting me

1161
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 2: don't know that I wasn't alone. And when I got

1162
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 2: and I would tell my parents. I was like, you know,

1163
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 2: soon as I get out of college, I want to

1164
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 2: help I want to start a foundation that's surrounded with

1165
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 2: a learning disability. And that's when it all started. My

1166
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 2: mom was like, well, what do you want to do.

1167
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 2: I said, well, I want to give resources to children

1168
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 2: to help them because if I didn't have I had

1169
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 2: a pen that would listen to my professor while I'm

1170
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 2: taking notes, So if I miss something, I can play

1171
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 2: it back on the pen and I would be able

1172
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 2: to hear my professor. And I'm like, if I didn't

1173
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,840
Speaker 2: have these little things in my life tell me overcome this,

1174
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 2: who knows where I would be. I wouldn't be discomfortable

1175
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:31,760
Speaker 2: with speaking about it because it took me a long

1176
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 2: time to speak out about it. So I was just like,

1177
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 2: you know what, mom, I want to I want to

1178
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 2: form something to help children and their families with learning disabilities.

1179
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 2: And that's where the ag Wison Foundation came from. And

1180
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 2: it's hard to believe that we're maybe like sixteen months, oh,

1181
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,720
Speaker 2: like it's still new, but we've raised so much money

1182
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 2: because I think people just really see what it can do.

1183
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 2: And I'm just so happy and grateful for everyone that's

1184
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 2: been around it. So yeah, that's how the foundation got started.

1185
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 5: That is that is awesome, and we salute doing that,

1186
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 5: like using using your platform and sharing your story because

1187
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 5: like you said, and sharing your story, you see how

1188
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 5: many people will help. But also it helped you alone

1189
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 5: the way and you didn't even set out to do that.

1190
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 5: So that's that's awesome and you're using your platform in

1191
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:18,439
Speaker 5: a positive way.

1192
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1193
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm definitely believing that we did this. We did

1194
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: our articles with UH with Players Tribune, and it was

1195
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 1: like it was definitely like stress relief, you know what

1196
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's like it released and then just to

1197
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:36,240
Speaker 1: hear the positive feedback you get from like the people

1198
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: who would be like, man, I relate to that or

1199
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from. That's that's definitely a dope.

1200
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: Et Sperien. Thank Players Tribune for even just putting that

1201
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: out because I think that was dope because I definitely

1202
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: was a firm believer go to the grave with it.

1203
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 3: I ain't telling nobody.

1204
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 5: And I and I think I think y'all this this

1205
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 5: generation of the athletes, both male and female, y'all represent

1206
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,439
Speaker 5: openness with y'allselves and with things that y'all have going

1207
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 5: on that our generation would never We wasn't going like

1208
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 5: if we had like Kevin Love speaking out the way

1209
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 5: he did, you know, with his mental health thing, like

1210
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 5: all of those different things. People, we didn't have a

1211
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 5: whole lot of that in our generation and obviously the

1212
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 5: generations before that, because that was that was seen as

1213
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 5: like you we and I'm you know what I'm saying,

1214
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 5: I'm proud of this generation and you got people like

1215
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 5: you stepping up using your platform, letting little kids know

1216
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 5: that you're not crazy, you're not different. It's look, it's

1217
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,359
Speaker 5: somebody just the number one overall pick. They had these

1218
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 5: same issues and I'm still successful and i still achieved

1219
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 5: my dreams and I'm still doing it now. So like

1220
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 5: to have those examples of stars, it's not like somebody

1221
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 5: that's not a star, it's like, you know, they could

1222
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 5: they can still dream that they could be you or

1223
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 5: whoever else to have those same things. So I salute you,

1224
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 5: Kevin Love and everybody like y'all and it just just

1225
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 5: going out there and putting putting their stories out there

1226
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 5: and sharing with everybody because it's.

1227
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 2: Huge, just needed, and it shows that we're human. I

1228
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,240
Speaker 2: think we as athletes really get caught up in the whole.

1229
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 2: You have all the accolades, you're this, you have the

1230
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,800
Speaker 2: perfect life. But then once I kind of released that letter,

1231
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 2: I could just tell by the response that I was

1232
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 2: getting their life. Oh my gosh, you're human, like you

1233
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 2: go through stuff. I'm like, hell yeah, go through stuff

1234
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 2: like I get through the day just like that. So yeah,

1235
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it was good for everyone.

1236
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,280
Speaker 2: And like you said, this generation just to show people

1237
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 2: we're human, we feel the same things that you guys

1238
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:39,439
Speaker 2: feel like it's it's real.

1239
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And they get to get a glimpse they

1240
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 5: get to get a little good, a little glimpse into

1241
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 5: because I remember when I put my letter out the

1242
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 5: lot of like ah, I got a huge response from

1243
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,479
Speaker 5: the New York area because you know, a big part

1244
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 5: of my struggle happened right when I got to New York.

1245
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 4: I lost my brother. He got killed in Chicago.

1246
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 5: And so you know, they them as fans, they got

1247
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 5: to watch me for four years play, but they didn't

1248
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 5: really know what me, the person, that human being was

1249
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 5: in Like you know, like you said, they think, oh,

1250
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,720
Speaker 5: you making ten million dollars A yeah, kind of perfect somebody,

1251
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 5: no bro, like my brother, Like my first year, my

1252
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 5: brother got killed when I first got here, and that

1253
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 5: that sent my whole New York thing up. And like

1254
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 5: I wasn't right, you know what I'm saying, Like I

1255
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 5: ain't get situated till I got to Miami and it's

1256
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 5: messed up. But like then, once you put that off there,

1257
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 5: I start to see the response. And they was like,

1258
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 5: you know, the fans, different fans, different people, different players

1259
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 5: coming up to you talking to you like, dang, bro,

1260
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 5: I don't know you was you know what I'm saying,

1261
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 5: going through this and that, and it's like you kind

1262
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 5: of like you said, it's therapeutic and you see that

1263
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 5: you are actually helping others, but you helped yourself alone

1264
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 5: the way too.

1265
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:44,919
Speaker 3: Yep.

1266
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: Who is your favorite five? Not your top five? Your

1267
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: favorite five women's players?

1268
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 2: Ooh, favorite five? I would have to say Don Staley,

1269
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 2: of course, Lisa Leslie, Cheryl Suits, Lauren Jackson, and then yeah,

1270
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 2: and I gotta go with Diana Tarazzi. I think that.

1271
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 1: Rossi was you were selected to play for the Olympic

1272
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 1: teams this twenty twenty. They are gonna have it. But

1273
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: your old coach was selected to be the coach.

1274
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 3: How was excited? Was I was excited?

1275
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: Was you when you heard like to be selected and

1276
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: to be coached by your coach again?

1277
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 3: It was?

1278
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 2: It was actually crazy, like when she found out. I

1279
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 2: was still in college. I can't I think it was

1280
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 2: my junior year, and I remember when they told us

1281
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 2: that she had a press conference, I was like a

1282
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 2: balling in tears, and.

1283
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 6: I was like, oh my god, like this is amazing.

1284
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 2: Because I'm just like this woman looks like me, like

1285
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 2: she is someone that has really like shattered the glass

1286
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 2: ceiling in this way. And I was just like overwhelmed

1287
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 2: with happiness, as I always am, because I'm like I'm

1288
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 2: a bucket of tears when it comes to just like

1289
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 2: good things happening to great people. So I was just

1290
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 2: like really really excited to, you know, see her in

1291
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 2: that light. And I remember when we were playing, we

1292
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,720
Speaker 2: would hate when she would go with Team USA because

1293
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 2: she'll come back and think that we're some Olympians. I

1294
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 2: know you was just with Sue and Diana, but you're

1295
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 2: here with me, got me, I'm sorry, So like it

1296
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 2: was just like dang, like I would you. We used

1297
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 2: to can't stand when she would go. But like then

1298
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 2: being in that atmosphere and like when we went to

1299
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 2: the World Cup and like seeing her in that light,

1300
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, they grew up so fast, because it

1301
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 2: was just like she's like she gets in her element

1302
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 2: and she's just a different person and it's like a

1303
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 2: great feeling to see her succeed in that way. So

1304
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 2: it was pretty cool.

1305
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 1: Start bitch cut, bench cut done Staley, Lisa Leslie, Diana Tarassi.

1306
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm gonna do this just to make

1307
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 2: just to make coach stillly mad. Cut.

1308
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 1: It's a head out on you right now. Hold up,

1309
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: when you ain't gonna get all us in trouble. We

1310
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: all ain't gonna get our asso for that one.

1311
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:23,439
Speaker 4: No, you can't do that. Here he's gonna come for y'all.

1312
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 2: I'm gonna startling Celestie and I'm a bench dt but

1313
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 2: she's gonna come off the bench though. So it's all

1314
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 2: good just to make coach man, you're cut down.

1315
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 4: Crazy.

1316
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 3: You got anything else do?

1317
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 4: Yeah? I got it. I got you know, I got

1318
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 4: my million dollar question when you first got the money first?

1319
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 3: She only two years in, she.

1320
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 5: Got some money. She did number one overall. Pick me

1321
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 5: like like number one overall. Pick talk like that's a

1322
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 5: little bit different, unusual cything coming.

1323
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 3: You know, you go ahead, go ahead.

1324
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 4: If you asked my money.

1325
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 5: I apologize for that. I apologize like I was like

1326
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 5: I was fixing the same when the money came. You know,

1327
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 5: what did you do? Like even though it was probably

1328
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 5: a little recent, is it?

1329
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 4: You know?

1330
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 3: We gotta treat yourself.

1331
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:18,439
Speaker 4: You know, pretty girls love pearls.

1332
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 5: Did you get yourself some pearls or something that you

1333
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:21,439
Speaker 5: upgrade the pearl game?

1334
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 4: What happened? What did you do when you got yourself

1335
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 4: some change in your pocket?

1336
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 2: What did I do?

1337
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:26,919
Speaker 6: Oh?

1338
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 2: I bought you know those new iPads, like the big

1339
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 2: big I pads. Okay, I bought one of those, and

1340
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 2: then I bought a Max Book Pro like.

1341
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 5: I bought text players right quick, little couple of text players,

1342
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 5: real quick.

1343
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 3: Usually you put them on a little way, you separate them.

1344
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 3: I can't get them all at once.

1345
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 2: I gotta put Yeah, I got those out. I got

1346
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 2: very happy.

1347
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 4: Make it all right.

1348
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 5: That's been a wrap, man, This was too awesome. We

1349
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 5: appreciate you. The young legend Willson come through pulling up

1350
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 5: on us. This is big time. She is she is

1351
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 5: staying at home in Las Vegas, live on location, and

1352
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,440
Speaker 5: d Miles is staying ass at home, live on location

1353
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 5: here in Orlando. But we got them five G towers,

1354
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 5: so we staying connected, you know, I.

1355
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 4: Mean with a T and T five G. We appreciate

1356
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 4: you for coming through, Young Legend.

1357
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much for having me. The

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