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Speaker 1: has done this season we have never seen in this league.

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Speaker 1: Never Stewie has done. We've seen it before. Like I'm

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Speaker 1: they're not even I don't even know if for real.

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Speaker 2: Like if they would, I'm gonna say they would be

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Speaker 1: Playoffs because dB is still tough, Like they have other

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Speaker 1: She is defender one.

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Speaker 2: She is like she has triple double.

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Speaker 1: It. I don't know if y'all understand how hard it

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Speaker 1: is to have a triple double, like oh my god,

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying, Like Pau, you're doing what people.

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Speaker 1: Be trying to flame her for a shot. I'm like,

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Speaker 4: So welcome back to Sometimes I Hoop. We've got a

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Speaker 4: tough veteran Hooper on the pod today.

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Speaker 5: A quick humble brag about our superstar twenty nineteen WNBA

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Speaker 5: Champ Washington Mystics Franchise Leader and Assists twenty twenty two

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Speaker 5: WNBA All Defensive First Team none other than Natasha Cloud.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being on. Thank you for me girl. You

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Speaker 1: deserve it. You deserve it. Appreciate it. How you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm good.

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Speaker 4: I rookie season is over now I get some chance

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Speaker 4: to relax, which is what you needed to.

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Speaker 1: Take a breath. Just take a breath, and you cann't

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Speaker 1: going overseas this year. I didn't ask you that.

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Speaker 3: Possibly in January. It's the plan.

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Speaker 4: Take some time I'm coming off the college year, and

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Speaker 2: I think that's really smart because that's what I might

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but sometimes it decompress for sure.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Like just lock myself in this rule exactly exactly.

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Speaker 4: We'll just jump right into the landscape of what's going

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Speaker 4: on right now. Playoffs are in full swing. You and

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Speaker 4: I both got knocked out in the first round, which

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Speaker 4: was tough.

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Speaker 4: It's tough, but I mean, you were on one creating

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Speaker 1: You had a thirty three ball, which.

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Speaker 4: Was insane, insane, But just talk to us about the series.

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Speaker 3: What was that like? You were just being a menace

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Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, we were happy that y'all finished in six

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Speaker 4: When you look at that roster fully healthy, it's scary,

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Speaker 4: But just to think about, you know, us come in

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Speaker 1: And I appreciated coach Sandy for being like, we're playing

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Speaker 1: But quickly me and Slim figured out like we were

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Speaker 4: just being physical, especially with like Connecticut where you have

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00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,199
Speaker 4: so many different options with you got Tip Hayes, you

440
00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,359
Speaker 4: got DV, you got like all these different looks that

441
00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:29,400
Speaker 4: they're able to bring.

442
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,200
Speaker 3: Especially with Tip going off for thirty ball the other day.

443
00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,000
Speaker 1: It's just like, that was amazing.

444
00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,440
Speaker 3: She was hot and she's talking her stuff. She talked

445
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:38,280
Speaker 3: about you can't guard me.

446
00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:42,480
Speaker 1: All this other stuff. I was the game. I was like, oh, and.

447
00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,880
Speaker 3: They kept zooming in on her mouth.

448
00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,320
Speaker 1: They kept I loved. It was good. It was good.

449
00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,440
Speaker 1: People don't know we talked in our league. I think, yeah,

450
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,480
Speaker 1: that like it's all coolb no, like we're no. But

451
00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,160
Speaker 1: when we step across those lines, like it's different. It's

452
00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 1: a different ball game. But I'm glad that you brought

453
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,199
Speaker 1: Tip up to because she's been another player that's just

454
00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,840
Speaker 1: been kind of She did her thing in Atlanta for years,

455
00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:09,040
Speaker 1: but because Atlanta didn't necessarily get the attention that they

456
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,480
Speaker 1: wanted at the time, like she wasn't necessarily pushed out there.

457
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,040
Speaker 1: But her and beck Allen, Yeah, her and rebeccs factor

458
00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,679
Speaker 1: the X factor for Connecticut. The pickup of them in

459
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,679
Speaker 1: the off season made Connecticut, who was already like a

460
00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,680
Speaker 1: championship team and was missing pieces news where they're missing pieces.

461
00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 2: So it's excited to see them playing so well right

462
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 2: now for them.

463
00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,680
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I completely agree. And Tip has the quickest

464
00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,280
Speaker 4: first step I have ever. When it's when I say,

465
00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 4: you we played them in our I think we played

466
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,919
Speaker 4: us preseason, and then we played them after somehow I

467
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:46,480
Speaker 4: got matched up with her immediately, immediately Rip driving and

468
00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 4: I stood there and I was like, I literally we

469
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,359
Speaker 4: watched it in film and they're like, yeah, heyy you

470
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 4: just had to eat that one.

471
00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:52,560
Speaker 1: You just got to eat.

472
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,080
Speaker 4: It like it's your first game. I'm like, I don't

473
00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 4: even know what I'm doing right now.

474
00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,080
Speaker 1: There is literally nothing you can do. But it's not

475
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 1: even her first step. So TIF always starts with a job.

476
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 1: So she's reading the defense like she is trying to

477
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,679
Speaker 1: see what it is that you're going to do. But

478
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,639
Speaker 1: what people don't give her credit for is her read

479
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,480
Speaker 1: off of that job is ridiculous. If you don't step,

480
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:18,120
Speaker 1: she's going, oh step, she's going the opposite way, and

481
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,639
Speaker 1: that's where that first step becomes so dangerous. So Tip

482
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 1: is just a lead offensive score, and she always has

483
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,719
Speaker 1: been since her Connecticut days. I think that she's going

484
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,480
Speaker 1: to go crazy in this series against New York, especially

485
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 1: because she already found her confidence. She's play that once

486
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,879
Speaker 1: she finds it. It's not leaving. Oh, tell me about it.

487
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 3: After that first job she got me, I put on

488
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:39,440
Speaker 3: somebody else.

489
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 1: She was like, bring that ball back.

490
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,920
Speaker 4: I mean, like I said, relax, I said, big al

491
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 4: you better go get her, let me get somebody else.

492
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 1: Or like, let me just force it into the ball

493
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: screen now. And y'all got to help you that way.

494
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, We're gonna figure it out a different way because.

495
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,439
Speaker 1: I was hot. Yeah, that first step is lethal.

496
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 4: But I mean in this playoffs right now, we have

497
00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 4: so many heavy hitters. We have all three of that

498
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,719
Speaker 4: MVP he raised and Stuwie ended up getting it.

499
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 3: But okay, so.

500
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 4: My prediction prior I always laid it out and first

501
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 4: of all three of some of the most amazing players

502
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 4: we've ever seen. All of them are having these stellar

503
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 4: seasons as they all always do, and so I was.

504
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 3: Like, Okay, Asia gonna do her. We gonna do her.

505
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 3: But for me, at having a season like this where.

506
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 4: You're averaging almost a triple double and you're doing it

507
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,400
Speaker 4: on a team where Bionna Jones, who's an All Star

508
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 4: goes out, Connecticut would not be where Connecticut is without

509
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 4: At doing what she's doing. And so I've always been

510
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,200
Speaker 4: like you know, Stewie and Asia amazing.

511
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 3: Anything ALB seasons. But you take Asia and Stewie off

512
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 3: of those teams. You can talk about Kelsey.

513
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 4: Jack, Chelsea, right, you just go on and on exactly,

514
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,119
Speaker 4: but you take a t off of Connecticut and the

515
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 4: value that she brings there is it's uncomparable exactly. So

516
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 4: that's always been my argument. But back to you, it

517
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 4: seems like we have a similar point.

518
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: Of view going we do. We do, I think because

519
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: we both appreciate underdogs too, right of, Like there is

520
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: no hate to Stewie, Like Stewie is extremely deserving.

521
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,120
Speaker 2: If Asia would have won it, she's extremely deserving.

522
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,119
Speaker 1: What a time for our league that we have three

523
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: candidates that had phenomenal last seasons to be like even

524
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: in the in the mix where but I had the

525
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: same sentiments. What Alica Thomas has done this season we

526
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 1: have never seen in this league, never st We've seen

527
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: it before. Like I'm not I'm not taking no knockoff

528
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: of that because what they are able to do right

529
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: now and the efficiency that they are playing at two

530
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 1: all season like that is something to be said. But again,

531
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: if you take at off the Connecticut, they are not

532
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,880
Speaker 1: in the semi finals. Yeah, they're not even I don't

533
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 1: even know if for real, Like, if they would.

534
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say they would be.

535
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: In the playoffs because dB is still tough, Like they

536
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 1: have other pieces right and TIF and back.

537
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:04,400
Speaker 2: But at is QB one. She is defender one.

538
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: She is like she has triple double, all of it.

539
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all understand how hard it is

540
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 1: to have a triple double. Oh my god. And on

541
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: two torn shoulder labrooms.

542
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 2: That's all this on two torn shoulder labrooms.

543
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying, like two torn laboroms.

544
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: Right.

545
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 4: First of all, I didn't even like know that until

546
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 4: a few years ago, and I was like, Pa, you're

547
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 4: doing what?

548
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, people be trying to flame her for a shot.

549
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, if y'all only knew she has two torn And.

550
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 4: Then you take that into account, she's doing all of this,

551
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 4: no three balls, your three balls, triple dubs, no three balls.

552
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 3: It's like you to guard her exactly.

553
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 4: And then on top of that, you're doing it from

554
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 4: a forward position, and then you take Breanda Jones out

555
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 4: of the equation. She's kind of playing the center and

556
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,199
Speaker 4: their starting lineup, so for you to be for you

557
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 4: to be averaging a triple dub playing the center is insane.

558
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: You're out here, big T.

559
00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 7: Giving her triple dub, grabbing rebounds, whatever, and doing your

560
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 7: damn thing like doing it at such an elite level

561
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 7: every single night.

562
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: There hasn't been like an off moment for At. And

563
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 1: what sucks is that even I experienced it. I had

564
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: never been voted on to an All Defensive team until

565
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: like maybe twenty one, I want to say, and the

566
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 1: only reason that I feel like I got voted in

567
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 1: is because I started going off in my media interviews

568
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: after I'm like, y'all gonna start talking about me. Y'all

569
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: are going to start talking about me, because if you're

570
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,120
Speaker 1: not going to do it, I'm going to advocate for myself.

571
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: And I feel like At started to do that this

572
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: season because it's like, what more do I need to

573
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: do for y'all for y'all to give me my flowers?

574
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 1: And I'm tired of hearing that At is not marketable.

575
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: I'm tired of hearing that she's not one of the

576
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: bigger fits. She is. She is, but At is very

577
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,880
Speaker 1: much just the low key. She stays out of the way.

578
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: She knows who she is, she's confident who she is,

579
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: and she does her job every single night. She shouldn't

580
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: have to advocate for herself. So that's the frustrating part

581
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: within like the voting or around our league is like

582
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: there is bias the fact that someone gave Wilson and

583
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: I am determined to figure out. I am the truth,

584
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: figure out who gave Angel Wilson that fourth place, because

585
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: you got to see me and that's not even my

586
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 1: teammate the way you gotta see me, the way you

587
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: are literally taking my questions as it's so don't get

588
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: me going.

589
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 3: The following questions were, who are the voters the fourth place?

590
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: Who is voting?

591
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 3: I want the media who gave me vote?

592
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 1: The media? The media, which is which is crazy to me,

593
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: Like I'm it's no hate, Like, let me say this,

594
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: the people that cover our league, we love y'all because

595
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 1: there is so many different media outlets that still don't

596
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: want to be a part of our league, that don't

597
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: want to It is crazy to me. So I do

598
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: appreciate the people that do like cover our league as

599
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: our media people. But with that being said, y'all bullshit

600
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: because you're biased. You truly have to go into voting

601
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 1: at Switzerland. So with a lot of our media, even

602
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 1: for me, I'm friends with some of our media, Like

603
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: I won't go out, I will be out and about

604
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: with them, I'll hike out with them. You're naturally going

605
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: to have a bias towards your friends, and I think

606
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: that happens a lot within our voting also, like personal biases.

607
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: You might have been a Yukon fan and you don't

608
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: like South Carolinia, so that's why Asia got a fourth

609
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 1: place vote like that, to me, that's just the pettiness

610
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: and the bullshit that I feel like if we if

611
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: we just put out there what media personnel voted and

612
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: who they voted for, the same as the NBA does,

613
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 1: it takes away that bullshit voted. And I know a

614
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: lot of media because Courtney Williams had tweeted that the

615
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: other day and some media had come back and been like, no,

616
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: there's no one more biased than players. No, I feel

617
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: like there's no one more brutally honest than us as players,

618
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: Like I agree, I'm.

619
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 4: Playing against you, so like yeah, here giving me buckets.

620
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 4: I gotta respect you, no matter if my feelings about

621
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 4: you personally, I respect you because of your play.

622
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: I just feel like, as a whole, if we voted

623
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: like the people AT would have been voted at MVP.

624
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: If our league voted like, if players voted, coaches voted,

625
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: I really do feel like At would have worn because

626
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: we see her, we all are in some way being like,

627
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: you know what, damn like at some point you got

628
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: to give this girl her flowers before it's too late, right,

629
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: So I mean it is what it is, a game.

630
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 2: I like, congrats to Stewie and all of this.

631
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: I don't ever want to take away from Stuwie and

632
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: the player that she is. And unfortunately I don't think

633
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: that's what the media understands is because they vote with bias.

634
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: Now Stewie gets looked at like, oh.

635
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: You didn't deserve this, no no, no, no no, you played

636
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: a phenomenal season. You deserve this. But what At is

637
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: doing on the other side has never been done in

638
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: our women's game ever.

639
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, And I mean, just talking about the

640
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 4: media biases and who gets coverage x y Z, I

641
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 4: feel like we have a lot of underrated players in

642
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 4: our leagues.

643
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: That don't get talked about.

644
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 4: Talking about people like you, people like At, who's having

645
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 4: empty Calber season, but you just don't see her in

646
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 4: the media as you do other players. So who do

647
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 4: you feel like we're some standout underrated players in the

648
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 4: W this year?

649
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: Well, I love that question first and foremost. Courtney Williams

650
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: for Chicago.

651
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: Courty is wasn't a point guard until this year.

652
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, and played amazing in that role.

653
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: You want to talk about triple doubles like I as

654
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: an eight year point guard, I haven't had a triple

655
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: double yet. Like I've been closed, I've been on the cusp.

656
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: Courtney is another person that has had multiple triple doubles

657
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: and doing it with a team that their coach left,

658
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: their players got hurt. You have again, you want to

659
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: talk about starters going down, you have Rebecca Gardner and

660
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: Izzy Harrison that go down and you have to figure

661
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: out how to now play a season without them. I

662
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: really do feel like Courtney went crazy this year. I'll

663
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: say my teammate, Slim. I want to say Slim doesn't

664
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: get them big one. That's probably my number one. That's

665
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: probably my number one is Slim, obviously because there might

666
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: be a little bit of bias with me. But the

667
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: bias comes because I see the work that she puts in. Yeah,

668
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: I see the work that she puts on it on

669
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: both ends of the floor too, Like, I don't think

670
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: we give two way players enough credit in this league.

671
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: There is Yeah, there's a lot of offense, and people

672
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: love offense and offenses flashy, but like there's something about

673
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: a player that's going to hoop on both ends of

674
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: the floor that like, I just love I love that.

675
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: Alicia Gray Lisha Gray is another one. So happy for

676
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: her with that move out of Dallas and just being

677
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: appreciated and valued for who she is and what she brings.

678
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: That was really special. Cheyenne Parker is another one, like

679
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: a super mom. Oh no, Fisa, let's talk about another superman?

680
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Like Nefisa is another player that I feel

681
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: like probably should have been the fourth person talked about

682
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: in MVP. Yeah caliber season, Like she really did have

683
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: an amazing season. We don't talk enough about moms when

684
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: they come back from actually having kids and how hard

685
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: that is, Oh my god, crazy, Like it is crazy.

686
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: So I want to make sure I give a shout

687
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: out to her. Kelsey Mitchell is another player that people

688
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: don't talk about and I hate that shit because she

689
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: is a phenomenal, phenomenal player, even better person. I want

690
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: to say, Leah Boston, she surprised me. I'm not gonna

691
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: lie to you. Yeah, yeah it dizy. She had an

692
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: amazing year. And I don't say surprised in the sense

693
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: of I just never played against her, so like the

694
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: first time I'm seeing her, I'm like, girl, you are

695
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: six five for real, Like you is a legit surreal.

696
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: You are strong, your footwork, your ability to just read

697
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: where the rebound is going to be, your ability to

698
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: oh god, like I really was. Then coming in as

699
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: a rookie and doing it, like you're getting double teams

700
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: thrown at you, You're getting shit talk to you. You're

701
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: coming in with a target on your back because you

702
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: are one of the top players coming out of college. Like,

703
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: I feel like that's something you need to talk about,

704
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: Like how does that feel coming out of college being like,

705
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: you know what, we're top players, so we definitely have

706
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: targets from them, vets being like welcome.

707
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely an adjustment because you have a target

708
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 4: in college obviously, but it's different.

709
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: You're a senior.

710
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 4: You're a senior. You're all America doing this and that,

711
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 4: So it's like you're like, what I've been through this,

712
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 4: Like it's fine, who's gonna match up with me? And

713
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 4: then you get to the league and it's like, okay, Olympian,

714
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 4: I look you my whole life at a posterview and

715
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 4: now you're over here like, oh you're the rook I'm

716
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 4: gonna show you what's up, and it's like all right.

717
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: So yeah.

718
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 4: So it's definitely an adjustment coming in and you already

719
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 4: have all these expectations for yourself. If it's like, Okay,

720
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 4: I'm a tough draft pick, I want this happen.

721
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 3: I want to be like this for my team.

722
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 4: It's just an adjustment coming in where it's the pace,

723
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 4: the skill level, all these different things. That mental adjustment

724
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 4: that you have to make is different. Thinking of other

725
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 4: underrated players. One that really comes to my mind is

726
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 4: Jordan Canada had an amazing, amazing year because she was

727
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 4: in Seattle for so long and you're playing under Sue,

728
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 4: and then when Sue was hurt, she had this huge season.

729
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 3: It's different coming to LA where they also had a

730
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 3: lot of injuries this year.

731
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, you know, she's this amazing point

732
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 4: guard and talking about two way players somebody like slim.

733
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 4: She was picking up full court, cool game, locking down,

734
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 4: taking her defensive assignment. So seriously, the speed that she

735
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 4: plays with, the pace, it's never ending. And so I

736
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 4: think she had an amazing year. And the other one

737
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 4: also on la Azara Stevens. Oh my gosh, she was

738
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 4: a sleeper for me. I never really played against her

739
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 4: or watched her like that, and I was just z

740
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 4: is tough. All of a sudden I matched up and

741
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 4: I'm like, what is going on? Like why are you

742
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 4: pulling it in my face?

743
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: And then get me down.

744
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,719
Speaker 3: I'm like, let's Relax's crazy.

745
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: She doesn't get the KDS comparisons that she should, like

746
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: when you were talking about a KD very like similar

747
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: player is six what probably like six' five six sixty six,

748
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: Tall nike, skinny but like, strong her, footwork her, Versatility

749
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: she's a guard in a post player's. Body, yeah which is.

750
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: Crazy it's. So but Also i'm glad you brought Up

751
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: jordan Because jordan has always been that, defensive like crazy,

752
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: person but where her game truly truly took off with

753
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: her offense this. Year, yeah and just being, confident AND

754
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: i want to give a shout out to athletes unlimit

755
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: it BECAUSE i truly felt like the first year WHEN

756
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: i played in that AND i came, back it was

757
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: LIKE i fell in love with the game of basketball

758
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: again because we were just, hooping, Right, yeah you can

759
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 1: find your self confidence. Again it's, like, NO i really

760
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: am this player THAT i. KNOW i like that and,

761
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: yeah Like i'm like. THAT i think the same thing

762
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: happened For jordan this. Year she found her confidence in

763
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: au when she carried that shit over To, la, like

764
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: this is my, spot this is my. Spot i'm not losing,

765
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,919
Speaker 1: it And i'm going to do it to the best

766
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 1: of my, ability And i'm going to put you back

767
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: on the map.

768
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 2: That i've always been this.

769
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: Player And jordan is such a sweet human being, too

770
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 1: So i'm.

771
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 3: Very Genuine, no she's.

772
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 4: AMAZING i think a lot of people just had great

773
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 4: growth seasons this. Year you can go on and out

774
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 4: about that most improved race was all over the place

775
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 4: because so many hat these breakout.

776
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: Years, yeah really. SPECIAL i was, LIKE i don't even

777
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: know who. Pick, honestly for, Me saw has always been this,

778
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: player but, obviously like knowing that she's battled through, injuries

779
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,919
Speaker 1: through not playing majority of the. Seasons it was really

780
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: good to see her win and just get those flowers

781
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: because she really did have a crazy. Season.

782
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 4: Yeah but turning it towards you a little bit in

783
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 4: your early basketball career growing, up was basketball like was

784
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 4: that your? Thing or who put the ball in your?

785
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,280
Speaker 4: Hands why? Basketball tell me about?

786
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 2: It so basketball wasn't always my.

787
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: THING i was clearly like if you watch, me if

788
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: you watch our social, MEDIA i am. Hyper like this

789
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: has always been this like. Hyper i'm thirty one and

790
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: people are, like there's no way you're thirty one because

791
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,919
Speaker 1: of how you. Act i'm, like, yeah the kid never left.

792
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: Me like, Yeah so my mom and dad blessed their

793
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: hearts for having to deal with my hyper ass as a.

794
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 2: Kid but they were, like you're playing every.

795
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: Sport SO i would literally go from like soccer to

796
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: football to softball to. Basketball but it was just like

797
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: whenever they could do, that by the time we got

798
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: home at, NIGHT i would just.

799
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 2: Crash that's what they want.

800
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 1: One SO i started basketball late around probably. Twelve and

801
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 1: my Aunt don who is A hall Of famer from

802
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: where we grew up In Delaware, county in basketball and,

803
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: softball she just was the role model for. Me she

804
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: made it okay for me to be a, tomboy be

805
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: confident in, it to be really good at, sports to be,

806
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: strong and like see my strength as beauty and not as, like,

807
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: oh you're too masculine or, whatever you know people want

808
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: to talk shit. About SO i feel LIKE i really

809
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: did have great women role models in my. Life BUT

810
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: i wanted to be like. HER i wanted to be

811
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: like my. Cousins they played. Basketball that's WHY i took

812
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: the number, fifteen because it was their, number and THEN

813
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: i just fell in love with. It AND i growing

814
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 1: up in a middle class, family right that my dad's

815
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: working two jobs to keep a roof over our head

816
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: and food on the.

817
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,479
Speaker 2: Table LIKE i knew basketball was my way.

818
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: Out AND i feel like a lot of people that

819
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: look like us that is the, case and so understanding

820
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: THAT i could go get a college degree THAT i

821
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to afford, elsewise THAT i can potentially

822
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,919
Speaker 1: Gory and OBVIOUSLY i didn't Know i'm a mid major,

823
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: kid So i'm like THE. Wnba they're not even necessarily

824
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: like on my. Radar it's just, like how CAN i

825
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: put myself in the best position moving forward through this

826
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: game That god has given me like this, beautiful beautiful.

827
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: Game and you, know THEN i go To Saint. JOE'S

828
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: i start going crazy And i'm like hold, on like we're.

829
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: Playing like we Played maryland after the YEAR i transferred

830
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: out Of, maryland beat. Them they were top five in

831
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: the country at the. Time Played syracuse When slim was on.

832
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: There we lost by. One so we were playing all

833
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: these top teams in the. Country went To Notre dame

834
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: only lost by like, seven and in THAT i was,

835
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: like oh, NO i can do. This i'm guarding at

836
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: Like i'm Guarding. Slim i'm guarding all these players that

837
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: are top prospects for the draft next. SEASON i think

838
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: within that the mystics started coming to watch, me and

839
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: that was so exciting for. Me like a mid major,

840
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: kid an, underdog someone that's always been told like you're,

841
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: good but you're not good. Enough that was really special for.

842
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: Me so that was the only, team the only team

843
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: that looked at, me that believed in, me and was

844
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: the fifteenth.

845
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 2: Draft that number fifteen is good to.

846
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: ME i was the fifteenth pick of the twenty fifteen

847
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: draft And i've been IN dc ever.

848
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 4: Since so, YEAH i mean it's amazing to hear you

849
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 4: talk about growing, up you play all these different, sports

850
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 4: you find this love of, basketball you have this amazing role.

851
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 4: Model but you, know you start At maryland and then

852
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 4: you transfer To Saint. Joe's so what was that process

853
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 4: like Choosing? Maryland AND i know transferring is a hard

854
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 4: thing and you don't know what's coming. Next you're, like

855
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 4: you envisioned yourself at a, school this life that you're can.

856
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 4: Have so, yeah what was a transfer process like going

857
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 4: from a power five to a mid?

858
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 3: Major still hooping on that.

859
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: Level, Yeah so the high school THAT i played, For cardin,

860
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: o'hier we were number one in the country at one

861
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: point WHEN i was in high. School, yeah little two.

862
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 3: State, SHIPS i see, You, okay we like.

863
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: It but BECAUSE i played on such an amazing, team

864
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: like we had all Five division one, place and so

865
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: that got me the looks THAT i truly needed to

866
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: coming out of high. School So, maryland it JUST i

867
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: fell in love with it the minute THAT i went to,

868
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: campus the minute THAT i got.

869
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 2: Around the, team going to a, game seeing the, environment the.

870
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 1: Atmosphere and two those that don't know like my background,

871
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: Stories i'm the only. Mix i'm the youngest of. Five

872
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 1: i'm the only mixed RACE i. Am my whole entire

873
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: family is. White my o'hia was. White like my entire

874
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: upbringing is very. White SO i never got to necessarily

875
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: tap into my blackness UNTIL i went To. Maryland and

876
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: that's WHY i, truly truly Loved maryland so much was

877
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: because of the diversity that it. Included SO i really

878
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: found my blackness WHEN i went To, maryland and that

879
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 1: was such a cool feeling for. Me but at the same, time,

880
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: TOO i don't feel LIKE i was getting the respect

881
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: THAT i deserved That maryland. Either AND i say that

882
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: with Like maryland being such a huge part of WHO i.

883
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: Am LIKE i, KNOW i was only there for a,

884
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: year but it was such a huge part in my

885
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: development as a player and standing WHO i, was and

886
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 1: obviously as an eighteen year old going off into college

887
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,399
Speaker 1: for your first. Time my grandfather got sick and then

888
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: my sister got, sick and that was really hard for.

889
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 2: Me when you talk about basketball is and it, is,

890
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 2: yes it is.

891
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: A priority in our, life but my family comes first

892
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: and foremost, always so being two hours away that was

893
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 1: really really hard for me during that. Time so going

894
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: and transferring back To Saint, joe's which was twenty five

895
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: minutes from my, house and my family and my grandfather

896
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: got the opportunity to watch me for four more years in,

897
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: college and my sister being able to be there for

898
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: her and my oldest, niece like that was really important for.

899
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 2: Me so that was the best. DECISION i just took

900
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 2: a leap of.

901
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: FAITH i knew That god had would always provide regardless

902
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: of my. Decision but WHEN i Left, MARYLAND i remember

903
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: one of the coaches being, like that might be it

904
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: for YOUR wnba, dream AND i was, LIKE i would.

905
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 3: Say it's all, right bet understood it.

906
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: Was it wasn't the very day BECAUSE i was, LIKE

907
00:40:58,040 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: i hear.

908
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 8: You but at the end of the, day if that doesn't,

909
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 8: happen Then god didn't have it in my plans to begin.

910
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: With BUT i know, that, like this is What he

911
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 2: has set for me.

912
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: Now so when had a great four, years but the

913
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: transfer process wasn't easy at. All HOW i even ended

914
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: up transferring back To Saint. JOSE i Remember Saint jose

915
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: recruited me out of high school AND i was like absolutely, not,

916
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 1: No i'm going Like i'm going somewhere. Else, LIKE i

917
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,399
Speaker 1: want to go away from home all this, Stuff and

918
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: IF i would have chose a college out of high

919
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:31,879
Speaker 1: school would have Been. Nova IF i would have chose

920
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: a local like, college it would have been going. OVER

921
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 1: i JUST i loved. It it was they have the men,

922
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: seen they have, football they have a women's basketball team

923
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: that gets like all the, perks the, bells the, whistles.

924
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: Like it was just a really cool. School but WHEN

925
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: i went, HOME i did AN sjau camp just for extra.

926
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 2: Money you, Know i'm just home for the, summer so why.

927
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: Not WHEN i tell, YOU i felt more comfortable in

928
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: that locker room with that team THAN i ever did

929
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: for that full year THAT i was At. MARYLAND i was,

930
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: like this is Where i'm supposed to. Be, yeah this

931
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: is Where i'm supposed to. Be AND i had a

932
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,439
Speaker 1: friend that WAS i had played against her in high

933
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: school when she was actually on the, Team Aaron, shields

934
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 1: so that immediately started talking and went. HOME i cried

935
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: to my. MOM i was, like let me go To Saint,

936
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: John let me go To. John it's like it's. Okay

937
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: so that was just to have the support of my parents,

938
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: too and just understanding that family came, First but, yeah

939
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: there was a lot of people that were, like you're,

940
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: dumb you shouldn't do, this or leaving A bcs school for,

941
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: why like just work, Harder And i'm, like people have no.

942
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: Idea SO i came. In there was already a senior point,

943
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: guard there was a sophomore point.

944
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 2: Guard then there was.

945
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: Me then we Recruited Lexi brown after. Me that was my.

946
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: Recruit we Recruited lexi and we Recruited brene, Mostly and

947
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: So i'm, like there is six point. Guards, yeah you

948
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: think That i'm. Playing SO i feel like over the

949
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 1: last few, years people have been talking shit about how

950
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: much kids, transfer but it's like you do not know

951
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: what the situation is at that. School, yeah and my

952
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: little experience At maryland was one THAT i. Needed but

953
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: it wasn't sweet, Either like it was really hard for.

954
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: Me it was really hard to feel LIKE i was

955
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: already being put into that villain role at eighteen When i'm,

956
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: Like i'm just trying to figure out, life, like, so,

957
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: yeah it was the best decision for. Me so for, kids,

958
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: like you really have to sit with what is best for,

959
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: you not best for anyone, else best for, you your

960
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 1: family and your. Journey, no you're completely.

961
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 3: RIGHT i think the transfer, portal it's there's two sides to.

962
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 3: It were on one.

963
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 4: Side it could be, like you, know a kid is

964
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 4: Like i'm not, Playing i'm gonna, leave.

965
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: Right there are some of the stories like.

966
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 4: That but on the other, SIDE i feel like there's

967
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 4: more stories where it's like you talked about that feeling

968
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 4: that you had At Saint joe's where you get along

969
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 4: with the, girls there's that come. RON i think you

970
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 4: don't realize how much the people you're surrounded by are

971
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 4: going to, experience like just influence that experience that you're gonna.

972
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 4: Have and so you, know it just wasn't your. People

973
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 4: you didn't feel comfortable all these different. Things now you

974
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,800
Speaker 4: Say joe's that allows you to, Thrive oh so many different.

975
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 3: Ways it's like this my, Game i'm ready to.

976
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: DO i was at a.

977
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 3: World, yeah it's just like a different type of vibe

978
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 3: that it brings.

979
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 4: You SO i think it's. Amazing and you have to

980
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 4: play in front of your, family LIKE i know, Exactly

981
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 4: LIKE i know how important that it. Is stanford is

982
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 4: an hour away from home for, me my to come

983
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 4: in to my, Games like it's just a different.

984
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: Vibe really is it really, is like it really. Is

985
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: people don't understand how hard it is to be a professional.

986
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: ATHLETE i understand that we get paid a lot of

987
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: money to do what we do in a short amount of,

988
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: time but people don't understand what we put ourselves. Through

989
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 1: what we.

990
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 2: Sacrifice more than anything is the time with our.

991
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: Family LIKE i have nieces and nephews THAT i missed

992
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: half their childhood from devoting myself to this. Game and

993
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: even like my nephews are older, now and my one

994
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 1: nephew after my game In New, york he send me

995
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: like this. Paragraph this is this paragraph about like how

996
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: you're a role, model how much we look up to.

997
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: You like all this STUFF i saw like a, baby

998
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: because oh it means the. World it means the. World

999
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: and like my text backt him was LIKE i know

1000
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: THAT i have been gone for a long since of

1001
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: time and all these. Things and obviously you make time

1002
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: for your family when you can and make you have

1003
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: to make, time and you have to make sure that

1004
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: you're giving you your family. Attention but at the same time,

1005
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: Too i'm, like this is WHY i do, It LIKE

1006
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: i don't only play for. MYSELF i very much play

1007
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 1: for our, family like AND i very much hope That

1008
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: i've made you all proud through this experience with, me

1009
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: because you very much are carried through everything THAT i.

1010
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: DO i know my. Why my family is my. Why

1011
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: when it shit hits the fan and stuff starts going

1012
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: crazy like that is my go to saying is know your,

1013
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 1: why because when you know your, why who you're doing it, for,

1014
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: what you're doing it for nothing the adversity along the,

1015
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: way it can't knock you off your track because that's

1016
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: what keeps you locked.

1017
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 4: In you're completely, right that support system is, everything the

1018
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,959
Speaker 4: ups and, downs trials and, tribulations and just like there's

1019
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 4: going to be so many other people because of the

1020
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 4: profession that we're, in everybody feels as though they have

1021
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 4: an opinion on who we are and how we perform

1022
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 4: all these different. Things but for me having the understanding,

1023
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,479
Speaker 4: that like the opinions that matter to, me the PEOPLE

1024
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 4: i do it for are my, family and those are

1025
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 4: the people that you have to listen to because you

1026
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 4: get caught up x Y, z which has definitely happened

1027
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 4: to me.

1028
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,959
Speaker 3: Before and it's just it's a slippery see.

1029
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: Too it's hard that, Shit, yeah it's really hard to

1030
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: ignore all that. Stuff i'm sure you see on the

1031
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,919
Speaker 1: social media all the, Time like there are points where

1032
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: Like i'll have a bad game AND i won't go

1033
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: on social media, because, oh you don't want to see

1034
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 1: all the shit y'all.

1035
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 3: Talking, no because it's like we already, know we're so.

1036
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 4: ANALYTICAL i already, know, MA'AM i already know something that because,

1037
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 4: lord so you talked a little bit about your draft,

1038
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 4: experience fifteenth pick early in the second round and The

1039
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 4: mystics being the only team that reach. Out so what

1040
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 4: was that draft day experience like where it's, like you,

1041
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 4: know you only talk to The mystics and it's, like

1042
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 4: are they going to take?

1043
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 3: Me are you going to pull the? Plug are you?

1044
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: Not how was that draft?

1045
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 4: Like and being so little roster spots as you headed

1046
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 4: into the, league the nerves coming in, out having those

1047
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 4: vets on the, TEAM.

1048
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 2: I could have thrown up the whole, Day like the whole,

1049
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,760
Speaker 2: day AND i was so happy THAT i decided.

1050
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 8: TO i just am a, homebody LIKE i just wanted

1051
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 8: to experience that moment with my family more so than,

1052
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 8: anyone like my parents and my grandparents because they sacrificed

1053
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 8: so much for me to.

1054
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: Be able to be WHERE i was in that, moment

1055
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: and my parents had the whole team, over like the

1056
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: Whole Saint joe's team over our. House we had like

1057
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: a team, dinner and then we had the draft. Up,

1058
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: unfortunately my grandfather are going into the hospital the same,

1059
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 1: day so he wasn't able to be at the house with.

1060
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 2: Us but it was just LIKE i couldn't even eat.

1061
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 1: People my mom was, like are you gonna? EAT i

1062
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: was like, NO i Think i'm literally LIKE i can't

1063
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: eat anything right. Now i'm. Nervous i'm, sweating like feel my,

1064
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: palms my armpits are, nasty like over, here another shower.

1065
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 3: Here i'm, like it's.

1066
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: Embarrassing but then you have all the pressure of like

1067
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: everyone's watching you, too which is, cool but it's, like,

1068
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: yeah Like i'm already nervous, enough you don't have to

1069
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: put a pressure on.

1070
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: Me and then just to see my, NAME i will say.

1071
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 1: THIS i know the w has gotten better at the

1072
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,959
Speaker 1: draft of like the second round, picks BUT i didn't

1073
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: even like hear my name. Announced it was just like

1074
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: it popped up on the bottom of the screen Like

1075
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: washington mystic Select Natasha cloud and we just went. Crazy

1076
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: my parents start. Crying well THEN i start crying because

1077
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: my parents are. Crying my siblings are all, There like

1078
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: it was just a really really cool. Experience and when everyone,

1079
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: Left i'm so thankful to the hospital because they actually

1080
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: let me go see my grandfather pass like visiting, hours

1081
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: and that's WHEN i really felt. It LIKE i can

1082
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: remember going into this hospital room and like literally just

1083
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: falling on his chest and crying and being like we did.

1084
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: It like he was so. Excited he was telling all

1085
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: the nurses like they got from me WHEN i came.

1086
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: In but just to be able to share that moment

1087
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: with your family that has seen you go through like

1088
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: all the, ups all the, downs like you, said the

1089
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,919
Speaker 1: trials and. Tribulations they watched me be Told i'm good

1090
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: not good, Enough like to have this moment just kind

1091
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: of come to to. Existence that's just such a surreal

1092
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: and you know it from your experience. Too it is

1093
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: such a surreal moment for all your work and sacrifice

1094
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: over the past however ninety, years to pay off in

1095
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: that very little, moment it becomes.

1096
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 4: Massive oh, yeah it's so hard to explain when people

1097
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 4: ask what it feels like because you've put in so

1098
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 4: much time and sharing it with the people who have

1099
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 4: seen you go through, it all the people who got

1100
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 4: you started with.

1101
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 3: Basketball, yeah so.

1102
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 4: Special like WHEN i got my name CALLED i THINK

1103
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 4: i blacked. OUT i don't really remember what, Happened LIKE

1104
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:38,919
Speaker 4: i watched the video, MYSELF i, hope SO i THOUGHT

1105
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,720
Speaker 4: i was gonna, Fall LIKE i hear my name called?

1106
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 3: Blackout, oh, mom, dad, Brother i'm.

1107
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 4: CRYING i THINK i Hugged, KATHY i talked To holly

1108
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 4: Like i'm just walking and it was just such a

1109
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 4: blur and then you think about it later and it's

1110
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 4: like this really, Happened like that was the. PINNACLE i

1111
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 4: don't remember any of. IT i have a, video couldn't

1112
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 4: tell you that it was me or. Not it's like

1113
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 4: when you watch film and you throw to all these

1114
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 4: turnovers and you're, like who is that out?

1115
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 3: There that's not me, saying because that's not me exactly

1116
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 3: what you.

1117
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 4: Felt so it's such a surreal experience and so to

1118
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 4: hear that you had to share that with the people

1119
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 4: closest to, you And i'm sure your teammates.

1120
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 6: Were just going, crazy like it's just a wilderience because

1121
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 6: it's just like it doesn't happen that often for mid majors,

1122
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 6: Either so for them to like experience that with me

1123
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 6: and they still, Come like my college teammates still come

1124
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 6: to games all every.

1125
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 2: Summer they make it a point to. Come we still hang,

1126
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 2: out we still get.

1127
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: Together so like those relationships that we established in, college

1128
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: those are lifeball, friendships relationships that will just carry you,

1129
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: through right because we don't talk about college. Basketball that

1130
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: ship is.

1131
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 3: Hard what it's, like it's trauma bonding on some.

1132
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: LEVEL i always about to, say they break you down

1133
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: to build you, up and that's the breakdown point isn't.

1134
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 3: Fun i'm like the Break.

1135
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: I'm like, you all, right, okay we're. Here is this

1136
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: rock bottom you feel like?

1137
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 4: It college is a lot and there'd have to be

1138
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 4: a different episode we dedicate to.

1139
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: College but, okay.

1140
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 4: It is such a time and then you get to

1141
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 4: the league and it's this crazy. Adjustment so it really

1142
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 4: is what what was that period like for you as

1143
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 4: you get to training, camp you get to the. League

1144
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,879
Speaker 4: they said that was there kind of a rookie wall

1145
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 4: that you would say you hit that you had to

1146
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 4: push through an adjust to feel comfortable in the.

1147
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,439
Speaker 1: League SO i will say WHEN i WHEN i came,

1148
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: in even THOUGH i was. Drafted you, know as as

1149
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: a draft, pickle you stuff to earn your. Spot no.

1150
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 3: Guarantees people don't know there's not.

1151
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 2: There is no, Guarantees so you stuff to earn your.

1152
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: Spot SO i very much went into that training camp

1153
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: LIKE i need to bust, everybody including the people that

1154
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: have already been on this. Team but, again it's another.

1155
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: Level so high school to college is a different. Level

1156
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: college to pros is a different. Level AND i wouldn't

1157
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: even say like college to overseas and overseas to THE

1158
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: w is a whole other. Level. Yeah, so and as

1159
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: a point, guard you're hitting the ground running like it

1160
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: was my rookie, moment like my first. Year it's just

1161
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: like we have twenty plays in this. PLAYBOOK i have

1162
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: to remember all of. THEM i have to be able

1163
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 1: to put you and be confident enough as a twenty

1164
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:12,919
Speaker 1: three year old to tell a thirty one year old

1165
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: yes to the? Block, Hm hey do you, Mind like

1166
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: maybe if you're free going.

1167
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,879
Speaker 4: To that, block excuse, me if you had the time

1168
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 4: of your, DAY i would really.

1169
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 3: Appreciate and it's not just like learning the place for.

1170
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 4: Yourself the thing that got me that t gets on

1171
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 4: me about is you have to know the, plays but

1172
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 4: you have to know where everybody else is on top of,

1173
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 4: That LIKE i have to know what Actions ryan, likes

1174
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 4: what Action alicia, likes WHERE ct wants the, ball AND.

1175
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 3: I have to know all This And i'm like.

1176
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: All of that What you're, Like i'm on. OVERLOAD i

1177
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 1: just brought myself to the game. Today that was a

1178
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: win for. Me that was a win for.

1179
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 3: Me i'm, Here, YES i made it, here be, proud give.

1180
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:56,720
Speaker 1: Me, YEAH i will SAY i feel LIKE i didn't

1181
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: necessarily have like two over well BECAUSE i was, Playing

1182
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: like that was the THING i think that. WAS i

1183
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: was surprised THAT i was, playing SO i DIDN'T i didn't.

1184
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: Start but midway through my rookie, SEASON i become a

1185
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: starter And i'm, like, yeah what we? HAVE i re

1186
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 1: lot on our, team like we Have carol loss and

1187
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: it's like you want me to start? Me so that was.

1188
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: Hard BUT i think my biggest like is me being.

1189
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 1: Honest my third, year we started making trades in the

1190
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:31,240
Speaker 1: off season and because we were Acquiring elena And, christy

1191
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: AND i was TERRIFIED i was over In australia like, stressing, stressing, stressing,

1192
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: stressing BECAUSE i was, LIKE i think my name might

1193
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,320
Speaker 1: be on the chopping, block like no one is safe

1194
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,399
Speaker 1: when it comes to acquiring big names like. That so

1195
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: that moment for me really put things into a lot of.

1196
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: Perspective and that's actually WHEN i reached out to our

1197
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: sports site for the first time of, like, Hey i'm

1198
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: dealing with a lot of anxiety surrounding these trades and

1199
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: Whether i'm going to remain IN dc or not and

1200
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: being able to like really just own. It and that

1201
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: trade refocused me Like, okay that was a wake up, call, like,

1202
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: no this shit really does. Happen SO i have to

1203
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 1: figure out how to do my role to the best

1204
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: of my ability that they cannot bring me off the.

1205
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: Floor on top of, it how DO i make myself

1206
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: into a fan favorite so you cannot move? Me, yep

1207
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,439
Speaker 1: you can and you are and you. Are, Okay i'm,

1208
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 1: like but that very much just leaning into like my

1209
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: personality and WHO i am as a, person LIKE i

1210
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,439
Speaker 1: just want people to see IF i can just bring

1211
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: a little al to light to.

1212
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 2: People that's a word for. Me so that year, three the.

1213
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 2: Trades that was a lot of.

1214
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: Things in the perspective for, ME i was, LIKE i

1215
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: got to get my stuff together on both ends of the.

1216
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 4: Floor, yeah, well just talking about. Trades nobody's safe in this,

1217
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 4: league all this different. Stuff you acquire.

1218
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 3: A hall Of Famer elena del dun, right what is That?

1219
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 4: Like you come back From australia and now you have

1220
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 4: more amazing players with.

1221
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 3: You what is that?

1222
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 4: Like working somebody of that caliber into the, team being a,

1223
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 4: guard learning how to play with somebody like, that the,

1224
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 4: tendencies all these different.

1225
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,280
Speaker 3: Things what is that? Experience?

1226
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 1: Like it has been the greatest blessing to my career

1227
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:12,320
Speaker 1: to play alongside Of Lada. Dela she is, truly TRULY

1228
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: i don't care what people are saying after this, season

1229
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: Like i'll get into that, later but this is to,

1230
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: me this is the best player in the entire. WORLD

1231
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: i played with her for six years AND i got

1232
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 1: to witness and experience her, greatness and not only experience

1233
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: her greatness on the, court but experience her humbleness and

1234
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 1: her heart off the. Court AND i think sometimes WHICH

1235
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,399
Speaker 1: i love our, league BECAUSE i feel like a lot

1236
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: of the franchise players are like very just dope and

1237
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: down to, earth, Right but you do have some of

1238
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: those franchise players that you're, like, wow, okay have you

1239
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 1: lost touch with? Reality because we're here On, Earth we're, here.

1240
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: Okay i've never had that From alena now once in

1241
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 1: my six years of playing with.

1242
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 2: Her it's always been.

1243
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 1: About, yeah LIKE i know WHO i am for, us

1244
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: but this IS i only go as you, GO i

1245
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:06,439
Speaker 1: only go as we. Go and SO i had to quickly, learn,

1246
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: like this is the best, player where do you need the?

1247
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: Ball like asking little things about where do you need the,

1248
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: ball place for your shot, pocket like those are big

1249
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:16,240
Speaker 1: things when it comes to players like. That so because

1250
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: she's so, versatile because she's so great at what she,

1251
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: does she's able to extend to the, three past the

1252
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: THREE nba, three she's able to shoot off the, dribble

1253
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: she can post up on the. Block she just has

1254
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: such versatility to her. Game it literally makes my job

1255
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: as a point guard so freaking. Easy so even a

1256
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: lot of my, accolades What i've been able to do

1257
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: in my career are literally a direct correlation To Elena,

1258
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:41,439
Speaker 1: deladon And i'm so thankful for. That but it got

1259
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 1: to a point where it was just like it Was

1260
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: batman And, Robin like people really referred to us As

1261
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: batman And robin because you could not stop us in

1262
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: the pick and. Roll like, Yeah and regardless Of elena

1263
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: was involved in the offense or, not LIKE i was

1264
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,359
Speaker 1: always going to find. Her and it became a point

1265
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: to where, like, statistically IF i was off the, Court

1266
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: elena's numbers went like tremendously opposed to WHEN i was

1267
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,239
Speaker 1: actually on the court with her and talking about how

1268
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: hard it is to get to this, league but stay

1269
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: in this, league like you have to find what you

1270
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: do and do it. WELL i did, that which that

1271
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: made a franchise player be, Like i'm not playing with

1272
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: any other point. Guard this is my point. Guard that

1273
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: solidified my role IN dc for however many more.

1274
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 2: Years so it really has been A Batman robin.

1275
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: Thing i've been blessed to be able to play with

1276
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: the best player in the, world one of the most

1277
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 1: humble players in the entire. World and it really is

1278
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: sad to see how people approach her. Now and it's

1279
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: not even, sad Like i'll fight about her LIKE i

1280
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: will fight About, elena AND i don't know one could,

1281
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: ever ever ever go through what this woman went through

1282
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: three back. Surgeries she WON us a championship on three

1283
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: herniated disc in her. Back we were literally shooting this

1284
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: girl up with medicine before our.

1285
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 2: Games and she might not tell, y'all But i'm telling.

1286
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: Y'all because it's just not fair the backlash that she receives,

1287
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 1: Now like to go into a major surgery like a

1288
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: back surgery and your, doctor fuck it, up your doctor

1289
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 1: that you went, to that you entrusted with your, career your,

1290
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: life your longevity of just like you got to go

1291
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: back in now something's else. Wrong you got to go

1292
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: back in and then your. Recovery, hayley she gets to

1293
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: the gym at six am every. Morning it doesn't leave

1294
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: till six. Pm and that has been her last three.

1295
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,919
Speaker 1: Years not only DO i have to go through back,

1296
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: surgery at the back, surgery at the back. Surgery, now

1297
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: anyone that's ever been through a major injury and has come,

1298
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: back you know how hard that is, physically, mentally, emotionally

1299
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: spiritually to do that three, times and then to be

1300
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 1: a franchise player that's expected to be who she, is

1301
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: to get the backlash that she gets people talking shit,

1302
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: like oh she should just. Retire are you out of

1303
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: your fucking? Mind, yeah because even with all that, Happening

1304
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: elena was still able to come back this season and

1305
00:58:56,440 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: put up her average, numbers and that's without. Practicing she

1306
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: did not. Practice so it's like she's going to rehab her,

1307
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 1: ankle she's going to rehab her, back and then we

1308
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: throw her into the game and this girl is averaging

1309
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: twenty points in this. Game, like that's insane to. Me

1310
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: So Elena doldon is one of the most special players

1311
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: that has ever played this. Game SO i love that

1312
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: girl through and. Through it's been a blessing to play alongside,

1313
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: her And we've done some really great things together That

1314
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 1: i'm really proud of.

1315
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 4: Too oh, YEAH i, mean just to hear the passion

1316
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 4: that you speak About elena, way, YEAH.

1317
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: I, think oh, yeah.

1318
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 4: YEAH i, mean like it is so special when you

1319
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:36,919
Speaker 4: have a bond with a team and eate like, that

1320
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 4: because it's also just like who she is as a.

1321
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 4: Player to come back from an injury after surgery is

1322
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 4: already hard, enough but a back surgery is something the

1323
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 4: back surgeries and you're limited for the rest of your

1324
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 4: life to have three and continue to come back and

1325
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 4: go through what she's been, through and then you're like you,

1326
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 4: said An All star.

1327
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 3: Season is, insane and it is.

1328
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 4: INSANE i feel like across the league we all treat

1329
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 4: her with that. Respect it's the outside world that's, like oh,

1330
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 4: this and that they don't see the scout that we

1331
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 4: have to put together for that.

1332
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 3: Woman it's even it's.

1333
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: Intense elena could shoot zero shots and she is still

1334
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: the primary target every defensive.

1335
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 4: Scheme, yes and it's just like it's not like you're

1336
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 4: going to take something. Away it's make it, hard make it.

1337
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 4: Difficult and that's how it's amazing to see what she's.

1338
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 3: Done like, YOU i think you put it very.

1339
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 4: Great she's one of the best players to ever play this,

1340
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 4: game AND i think for her to be disrespected as she,

1341
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 4: is and even last year coming out and talking ABOUT

1342
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 4: i remember it was last, year but it was some

1343
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 4: year she was talking about in her, interviews just not

1344
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 4: getting foul, calls getting that it's all comes from, That,

1345
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 4: yeah she doesn't, ever it's coming from that level of

1346
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 4: respect that people need to have for, her which is just.

1347
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 4: Different but you talked about what she did for you

1348
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 4: in your, career but also the mystics organization in twenty,

1349
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 4: nineteen you as come in and you have that championship

1350
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 4: run and you as, women which is. AMAZING i remember

1351
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 4: Watching that's. Crazy that's WHEN i graduated high, school and it.

1352
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: Was just like watching you, guys don't do that to.

1353
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,479
Speaker 1: Me don't do that to. ME i, like.

1354
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 4: Damn watching watching how the city got behind you, Guys

1355
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 4: just like the influence that you guys had that year

1356
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 4: on THE bnba was.

1357
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 3: Incredible so talk.

1358
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,919
Speaker 4: Me through that final, suite just that whole, year how

1359
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 4: that season. Went because when she came into twenty seventeen

1360
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 4: and then all of a, sudden you guys win two years,

1361
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 4: later it's an insane turnaround to.

1362
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: Have it's in a same turnaround and we almost fucked

1363
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:30,520
Speaker 1: around and one the year, before but we just had

1364
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:32,160
Speaker 1: a Better seattle.

1365
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 3: Team and they were crazy that year.

1366
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: Too oh why? Crazy they still Had Stuie Tash Sue

1367
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 1: Alicia clark, like, yeah it's like this is, unfair, bro

1368
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: we no matter what we do on, defense like you

1369
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: have a counter to. Everything so when we lost in twenty,

1370
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 1: eighteen we sat in that locker room and after the coaches,

1371
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 1: left we were, like, Essentially seattle is the version of

1372
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: ourselves that we want to. Be we're not there. Yet

1373
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: we just saw that we're not there, yet but we're right. There,

1374
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 1: yeah you can't of us leaves this locker room and

1375
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: approaches this offseason to get one percent better and to

1376
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: bring that back to this. Team we're gonna win a

1377
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: championship the next. Year so the whole off season we all,

1378
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 1: like you, know it's hard to stay you, know, see

1379
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 1: it's hard to stay attached to your teammates and the

1380
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 1: off season like overseas and life and everything's going. On

1381
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: we all stayed so attached to that off season and

1382
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: it was constantly run it, back run it, back like

1383
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 1: when you're playing like pickup and you get scored, up

1384
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,800
Speaker 1: run that shit back. Like so that's very much what

1385
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: our mindset was going into that twenty nineteen, season and

1386
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: all of us did what we said we were going to.

1387
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: Do we came back one percent. Better so that whole training,

1388
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: camp LIKE i can't tell you we came.

1389
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 2: IN i was, like we look scary.

1390
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 1: Good we Have Elena. Della our start in five was

1391
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:54,439
Speaker 1: Me christy Ariel, Atkins Elena della, Down LaToya, sanders Which

1392
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: LaToya sanders our coach she doesn't get the credit that she.

1393
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 1: Deserves she was our anchor for everything that. Year off

1394
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: our bench Is Emma. Mesa, men that's.

1395
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 7: Crazy off the wild you have An All, star you

1396
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 7: have one of the best players to ever played in

1397
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 7: the w and doesn't get the respect that she deserves

1398
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 7: either coming off our.

1399
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 2: Bench so we were just we were.

1400
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 1: Scary And i'm telling, You i've never felt more confident

1401
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 1: than that. Season it didn't matter what game we went,

1402
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 1: into it didn't matter who we were. FACING i was,

1403
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: like we're gonna. Win so we set all these, records

1404
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: we sat all these offensive, records all THESE wnba records

1405
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 1: as the, Season but in our locker, room we had

1406
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 1: this biggest target on our. Back but in our locker,

1407
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 1: room pressure is the, Privilege like this is exactly where

1408
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: we wanted to, be this is exactly what we set

1409
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: out to. Do pressure is the. Privilege seeing the aces

1410
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: in the semi final that was. Scary that was scary

1411
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 1: Because liz it was a really good. Matchup took it

1412
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 1: To game five and we came out of. That going Against,

1413
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: connecticut that was like we are going to be battle

1414
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: tested and it went to a game.

1415
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 2: Five that's probably the best championship series.

1416
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 1: In the last few. Years And i'm not just saying

1417
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 1: that BECAUSE i played in, it but you just literally

1418
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 1: didn't know who was gonna. Win and that final, game

1419
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 1: there was a point where it was like four minutes

1420
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: left we went or like six minutes, left we went

1421
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 1: down by, eight AND i was, like oh, shit. Y'all

1422
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: and then HERE i. COME i hit two. Threes we

1423
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: right down. There HERE i, go HERE i. Go we

1424
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:24,479
Speaker 1: hit two big AND i had not hit a shot

1425
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: the whole. Game LIKE i say that BECAUSE i had

1426
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: not hit a shot the whole, game and here are

1427
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: my teammates still being confident in me. ENOUGH i think

1428
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 1: one came From emma and the other one came From

1429
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 1: Christy tolliver passing me the ball to shoot the three

1430
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 1: and being like shoot that. Bitch. Yeah AFTER i hit

1431
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: those two, threes we didn't look. Back and when that

1432
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: final buzzer went, OFF i ran To alena LIKE i

1433
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:47,120
Speaker 1: dropped the ball before the, ball like the clock even went.

1434
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: Down AND i looked at her AND i was, like

1435
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: we fucking did, It, like, yeah we did. It and

1436
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: to see, like as a point, guard there is nothing

1437
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 1: more THAT i wanted to. Do there to Bring Alena

1438
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 1: dell out her first. Championship she had every act in

1439
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 1: her career except for A wnba. Championship that's why she

1440
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:06,920
Speaker 1: came to us during that. Year fifty forty, Ninety that's

1441
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 1: what that girl. Was fifty forty NINETY mvp, incredible never

1442
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 1: been done in a women's game. Before like, again three herniated,

1443
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: disc three herniated disc and we Won AND dc was behind.

1444
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 1: Us WHEN i came in TO dc in twenty, fifteen

1445
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: no one knew about the. Mystics now we can't walk

1446
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: anywhere without being. Noticed and that's, like that is the

1447
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: coolest thing for me to see because that means we're

1448
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: having impact on our, community. Right that means that like

1449
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: our community is coming behind. Us SO i don't. Know

1450
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 1: that was such a surreal moment for me being a

1451
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 1: mid major kid and. UNDERDOG i, MEAN i ran to my,

1452
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 1: mama like WHEN i was done hugging the, LANE i

1453
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: ran up into the, stands ran to my, parents my

1454
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 1: family that was up, there just boohoo and crying and

1455
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 1: not JUST i can't even tell you that moment was so.

1456
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 1: Surreal BUT i will Say i'm pissed we never got our.

1457
01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 1: Parade we never got a. Parade you never. HAPPENED covid

1458
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,919
Speaker 1: happened right after it. Gotcha so it was, like y'all

1459
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:06,520
Speaker 1: gonna run this parade back because we fucking deserved that.

1460
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 1: Shit i'm, LIKE i want to smoke on the bus

1461
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:12,440
Speaker 1: to running through the, City LIKE i want to be

1462
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 1: Like asia drinking four locals out here.

1463
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 4: Too first of, all one of the four locals is, Crazy, Asia,

1464
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 4: asia crazy for, That like you didn't have to put

1465
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 4: that motor oil in your.

1466
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: Body my, god that's.

1467
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 3: INSANE i can't four locals on a bus a moving.

1468
01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 1: VEHICLE i did that in college a few times AND

1469
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 1: i just never recovered quite from. This don't need, it

1470
01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 1: don't don't need. It you don't need.

1471
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:42,400
Speaker 4: It so you guys had that amazing championship, run, right

1472
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 4: it just cummitted to this amazing.

1473
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 3: Season and then you talked about the next YEAR covid.

1474
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: Happened bubble.

1475
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 3: Season there's a lot.

1476
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 4: Going on and during that, Season George, floyd all these

1477
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 4: different social activism, movements all these different, things and you

1478
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 4: were one of the most vocal athletes across not just

1479
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:02,760
Speaker 4: W ba but all, sports being out in the media

1480
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 4: talking about these different, days being at, protests all the

1481
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 4: different stuff in that social climate that we were. In

1482
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:12,480
Speaker 4: so how was it balancing being an activist and standing

1483
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 4: out what you're believing being an? Athlete but it wasn't

1484
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:17,400
Speaker 4: like you meshed the two, together which is something that

1485
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 4: we hadn't really seen before on such a big. Stage

1486
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 4: so what was that experience like for you being so

1487
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,840
Speaker 4: outspoken and just respected for that on some?

1488
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 3: Places but it's also backlash, Coming so what was that?

1489
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 2: Like what the backlash THAT i received for WHAT i

1490
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 2: do is.

1491
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: Insane this is something that in my mama like embraces

1492
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 1: my heart when my mama starts caring about. It because

1493
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 1: in this role THAT i do take about the topics

1494
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 1: THAT i talk, ABOUT i received death threats all the,

1495
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:50,840
Speaker 1: TIME i received death. THREATS i received. Threats i've had

1496
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 1: weird ass people like follow me like it. Is it

1497
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: really is, Insane AND i very much understand that this

1498
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 1: is What god intended for. Me SO i trust it

1499
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 1: AND i understand that could be a potential that something

1500
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:06,440
Speaker 1: happens along the, way, right but that's not going to

1501
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: stop me from speaking the truth and speaking for The

1502
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 1: Voice list, right being a voice for The Voice. List

1503
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 1: it goes back to that testament of, like this game

1504
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 1: has given us so, much BUT i truly believe That

1505
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 1: god intended it to be a gateway into what this,

1506
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,600
Speaker 1: is of me being a servant to my, community to,

1507
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:25,599
Speaker 1: others being a voice for the voice. List and in twenty,

1508
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 1: twenty that DECISION i was the hardest decision of my

1509
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:31,520
Speaker 1: life to sit that year, out coming off a, championship

1510
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:34,719
Speaker 1: coming off of personal best. Season for, Me i'm the point,

1511
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:37,400
Speaker 1: Guard i'm the, Leader i'm the player. Rep so when

1512
01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:40,320
Speaker 1: we're in these conversations about the, Bubble i'm, like hold on,

1513
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: now like our money isn't. Guaranteed it was just like

1514
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: it was a lot going. On, yeah it was a

1515
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:48,640
Speaker 1: lot going on all at. Once but then, again you

1516
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 1: have the reality of you are a black woman In.

1517
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 1: America so everything that is, happening whether we it affects

1518
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 1: us directly or, not we feel all that. Trauma as

1519
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: black and brown people in The. America we feel that

1520
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 1: trauma every single. Day whether we Knew, george whether we Knew,

1521
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 1: brianna it doesn't matter because we have the potential to be.

1522
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 1: Them the MOMENT i leave my, HOUSE i have the

1523
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:12,639
Speaker 1: potential to because of the color of my, skin Because

1524
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:15,840
Speaker 1: i'm a woman BECAUSE i present as, gay, LIKE i

1525
01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:16,920
Speaker 1: have the potential to be.

1526
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 2: Harmed that's a scary. REALITY i don't even.

1527
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,120
Speaker 1: Have to leave my. House you can come into my

1528
01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:24,479
Speaker 1: house and literally kill me the people that are supposed

1529
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: to serve and protect. Right so at that, moment there

1530
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 1: have been such a shift in our country and really

1531
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: just as a whole of, like we could no longer

1532
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:38,519
Speaker 1: trust in our, Politicians so people turn to, athletes right

1533
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 1: because at the end of the, day, yes we're put

1534
01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 1: on these stages and all the bright lights are on,

1535
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:46,639
Speaker 1: us but when we take those jerseys, off we face

1536
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: the same issues that y'all face every single. Day so

1537
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 1: we're these politicians who have had a silver spoon in

1538
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 1: their mouth their entire. Life they don't know what it

1539
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,640
Speaker 1: means to work two. Jobs they don't know what it

1540
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:00,760
Speaker 1: means to give your kids food money instead of eating.

1541
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:04,760
Speaker 1: Yourself they don't understand what we go. Through athletes do

1542
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:07,760
Speaker 1: and SO i think that's where the shift started to.

1543
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 1: Happen and there had never been such a momentum behind

1544
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 1: black lives, matters especially after The george And breonna, stuff

1545
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 1: because we had been screaming it for, years but our

1546
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:21,080
Speaker 1: white counterparts never truly understand because it's not something they,

1547
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 1: face AND i know that's really. Hard and even in

1548
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 1: my family having those conversations of, like there is a

1549
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: privilege there, that, yes because you don't live this life

1550
01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:34,599
Speaker 1: and it doesn't affect, you that it doesn't necessarily fall

1551
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 1: on your, radar but now you are seeing. It for,

1552
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:40,719
Speaker 1: however many minutes that video was Of george being killed

1553
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 1: in broad, daylight you now see. It so people were,

1554
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 1: Outraged our allies were outraged for the first, time and,

1555
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: LIKE i was, like we have to capitalize off this

1556
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 1: moment here right, now because this is where the shift

1557
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 1: is going to start to. Happen AND i sat with.

1558
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: IT i was honest With coach t about. It he was,

1559
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:04,240
Speaker 1: Great like The mystics, organization they understood what my stance

1560
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: was and WHO i, was AND i was super appreciative of,

1561
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 1: that because, again it's not only hard to get in our,

1562
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:11,040
Speaker 1: league it's hard to stay in our, league and then

1563
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 1: you're voluntarily being Like i'm not.

1564
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,439
Speaker 2: Playing, YEAH i didn't know if my job was going.

1565
01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 1: To be there WHEN i got. Back that's the honest.

1566
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 1: Truth and, again distrusting In, god trusting in my circle

1567
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 1: LIKE i woke up one morning and was, like this

1568
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,800
Speaker 1: is What i'm finna do because this has been weighing

1569
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: on my heart AND i don't feel LIKE i can

1570
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 1: go into the bubble and be a champion on the

1571
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:34,879
Speaker 1: floor and for my, team and also be a champion

1572
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:37,679
Speaker 1: in my community as. Well because that bubble what people

1573
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: didn't tail that, bubble you couldn't, leave like you couldn't

1574
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 1: ever leave BECAUSE covid was literally just hitting. Us SO

1575
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: i want to be in the rooms that are having

1576
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 1: hard dialogues and passing legislation and making. DECISIONS i want

1577
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 1: to be on the front lines at. PROTEST i want

1578
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: to as, athletes we can be played on such a.

1579
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:57,760
Speaker 1: Pedestal sometimes take us off because we face these same

1580
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 1: problems every single, day and you guys need to see

1581
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: us as a part of the. Solution and so the

1582
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: only way that we can bring a solution is by

1583
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:08,680
Speaker 1: listening to the people that it affects the. Most so

1584
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 1: that's WHAT i. DID i linked up with grassroots organizations

1585
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:14,799
Speaker 1: that have devoted their entire lives and their entire beings

1586
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 1: to these. CAUSES i understood THAT i don't know, everything

1587
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:20,679
Speaker 1: BUT i understand THAT i have a really good. HEART

1588
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 1: i know right from. Wrong i'm very. INTELLIGENT i understand

1589
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:28,879
Speaker 1: how things are supposed to. WORK i understand how our government,

1590
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 1: works but how it really is supposed to be intended to.

1591
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:36,240
Speaker 1: Work but like How america operates is. Intentional it was

1592
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: supposed to operate this way in a way that it

1593
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:42,960
Speaker 1: keeps black and brown people out and. Down and so it's,

1594
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:45,559
Speaker 1: like how those low hanging fruits that you were talking about,

1595
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:49,679
Speaker 1: earlier what are the tangibles THAT i as an athlete

1596
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:53,120
Speaker 1: with my, platform with all the people THAT i, do

1597
01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:56,080
Speaker 1: with all the resources THAT i could, utilize with THE bistics,

1598
01:12:56,160 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 1: organization with our friendships of like knowing each, other going

1599
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 1: THE nba, Players, like how do we combine our platforms

1600
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:05,920
Speaker 1: during this time to really implement change that this country.

1601
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,800
Speaker 1: Means And i'm really proud of myself for that year

1602
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:10,240
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i learned so much about.

1603
01:13:10,479 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 2: MYSELF i learned so much about humanity, too.

1604
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: Of, like we're not in this. Alone AND i think

1605
01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 1: that was the bridge of the gap that we, needed

1606
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:23,519
Speaker 1: especially between us and THE. Nba they had separated us

1607
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:26,559
Speaker 1: for so, long and why do they separate? Us because

1608
01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 1: our platforms are more powerful. Together SO i think finally

1609
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:33,519
Speaker 1: like being able to be in those, rooms to partner

1610
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: up with OUR nba brothers and be.

1611
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 2: Like all, right what are we, Doing, like what are

1612
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 2: we doing to better our?

1613
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,080
Speaker 1: Communities what are we doing to make sure that we're

1614
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 1: shedding light on issues that face people that look like

1615
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:47,240
Speaker 1: us every single? Day how do we make voting easier

1616
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,639
Speaker 1: in an election that means so much to this? Country

1617
01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 1: how do We it was? Crazy people are, like, oh

1618
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,120
Speaker 1: you just took the year off and all this. Stuff i'm,

1619
01:13:55,160 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 1: LIKE i worked from morning until. Night and what people

1620
01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 1: don't understand is this is. Traumatic so every single, day

1621
01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: from nine to like, Five i'm reliving by. Traumas i'm

1622
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: trying to be vulnerable so other people can. Understand i'm

1623
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 1: having to deal with ignorance and privilege because they don't.

1624
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 1: Understand and then on top of, It i'm just having

1625
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: to deal with blatant racism. Ignorance like there was a

1626
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:23,880
Speaker 1: lot of nights THAT i ended up just LIKE i

1627
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:25,680
Speaker 1: would have to turn my phone. OFF i would be so,

1628
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:29,839
Speaker 1: DEPLETED i would, CRY i Would it was not easy

1629
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:32,639
Speaker 1: in any, sense but again just falling on Like god

1630
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:35,360
Speaker 1: has a bigger prophecy for me AND i truly believe

1631
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:38,080
Speaker 1: that this is what it, is and trusting that even

1632
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 1: THOUGH i set out THE wcs and, like BECAUSE i

1633
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:42,960
Speaker 1: followed his plan for my, life That he will always.

1634
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 1: Provide and converse was such a huge piece in that,

1635
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: too BECAUSE i went into that UNDERSTANDING i was taking

1636
01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:53,280
Speaker 1: zero dollars from my, salary SO i didn't know WHAT

1637
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 1: i was going to.

1638
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 2: Do, hayley like just being honest with, YOU i don't

1639
01:14:56,120 --> 01:14:57,160
Speaker 2: play overseas like that.

1640
01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: ANYMORE i maybe, did like maybe three years. Overseas so it's,

1641
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: Like i'm watching my account dwindle down and here comes

1642
01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:07,200
Speaker 1: converse being, like, yeah here comes convers being, like, hey

1643
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: we love, you we support. You this is exactly why

1644
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 1: we signed you to not only talent on the, floor

1645
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:15,200
Speaker 1: but who you are for your community off the. Floor

1646
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 1: we're going to make sure your family is okay during this,

1647
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: time and we're going to pay YOUR wnba. Salary WHEN

1648
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 1: i tell, you LIKE i talking about it, NOW i,

1649
01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:27,600
Speaker 1: Sobbed like, YEAH i sobbed because that moment for me

1650
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,640
Speaker 1: Was god will always provide when you follow what his

1651
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 1: plan is for your, life when you just lean into

1652
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:36,639
Speaker 1: the things that you know are, right he will always

1653
01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:39,439
Speaker 1: provide and So i'm really thankful For congress for, that

1654
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:41,519
Speaker 1: but also just thankful for the people THAT i worked

1655
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:43,600
Speaker 1: with along the, way people that teamed up with, me

1656
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 1: the people that educated me and helped me be WHAT

1657
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,679
Speaker 1: i was during that, time for the community that desperately needed.

1658
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 3: It you said that also eloquently and so put.

1659
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 4: TOGETHER i, Mean congress is amazing for doing, That BUT

1660
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 4: i think it just beaks to the character that you.

1661
01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 4: Have a lot of people are afraid to the person

1662
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 4: that you were take a step back from basketball for

1663
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 4: all these different. Reasons and it goes back to the

1664
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 4: theme we were talking about where we're more than, basketball.

1665
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 4: Right it's a pathway to figure out your greater, purpose

1666
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 4: and for, you it's, This and SO i think partnering

1667
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 4: up with THE nba doing these different things with grathroots,

1668
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:19,800
Speaker 4: ORGANIZATIONS i think it's all so special because it talks

1669
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:21,759
Speaker 4: about there was a whole shut up and dribble movement

1670
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 4: a few years, ago and it's showing that you can

1671
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 4: use your platform as a basketball player to do greater

1672
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:28,680
Speaker 4: things beyond just the rub of.

1673
01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 3: Sports so you took That you're doing.

1674
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 4: Social activist and all these amazing, things AND i think

1675
01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 4: the influence that you had over other, Athletes like we

1676
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:38,320
Speaker 4: had a conversation about what you were doing At stanford

1677
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 4: and talking about like and just like different things that

1678
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:43,840
Speaker 4: then we could do and those tangible things that you can.

1679
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 3: Change and you.

1680
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 4: Also touched upon like having you, know a white family

1681
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 4: And i'm mixed as. Well and so it's the conversations

1682
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 4: that happened in your own household where it's like the hard,

1683
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:56,479
Speaker 4: yeah and it's my dad taking me and my brother

1684
01:16:56,520 --> 01:16:59,320
Speaker 4: do a protest here In Santa cruz and just understanding

1685
01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 4: and it's it's a difficult. Place oh, yeah it's a

1686
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:04,559
Speaker 4: difficult place for them to be in because you have

1687
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 4: kids that are black and brown and you don't share

1688
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 4: the same. Experiences so what CAN i do to protect

1689
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:11,839
Speaker 4: my own family from things THAT i don't deal with? Myself,

1690
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 4: Yeah and so it's having those type of conversations with your,

1691
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 4: families with your, teammates different people in your, life and

1692
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 4: sharing that message that you know it's going to spread

1693
01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:22,519
Speaker 4: in the things that they can do to then change.

1694
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:25,559
Speaker 4: It because, honestly it's like you talked, about like having

1695
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 4: those allies and arms where now that they speak about it,

1696
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 4: too it takes.

1697
01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:29,880
Speaker 1: It a whole other.

1698
01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 3: Level it's now a whole now it's a, real real,

1699
01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:33,600
Speaker 3: thing which is.

1700
01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 4: Unfortunate but you have to play into the system because people,

1701
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 4: talk people talk a lot about you, said like the system,

1702
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 4: Right and it's.

1703
01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 3: Not a broken system because the wind was.

1704
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:47,000
Speaker 1: Built it is, functioning is functioning as it was intended

1705
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:47,759
Speaker 1: to a high.

1706
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:51,640
Speaker 4: Level and so it's just having those conversations and you,

1707
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:55,000
Speaker 4: know legislative, processes all those different things to actually make

1708
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 4: a real. Difference SO i think it's so special that

1709
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:01,759
Speaker 4: you talk about using using platform in all these different

1710
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 4: ways that it allows you to and making.

1711
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 1: IT i love THAT i want to say one more

1712
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:08,639
Speaker 1: thing before we get like move off to the next

1713
01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:11,960
Speaker 1: topic or. Whatever but, LIKE i think the biggest thing

1714
01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 1: That i've learned through my advocacy too is like people.

1715
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 1: Allies every, day people are scared to speak out because

1716
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 1: they don't know what they can, Do like they don't

1717
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 1: know how much power they.

1718
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:25,600
Speaker 2: Have we had a lead call With Michelle obama and

1719
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 2: SO i was super.

1720
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:30,360
Speaker 1: Hype but the one thing THAT i took from her

1721
01:18:30,439 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: and Then i've shared with like, everyone even like especially,

1722
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:35,360
Speaker 1: kids BECAUSE i feel like the next generation is the

1723
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:38,080
Speaker 1: generation that's really going to make changes that this country.

1724
01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 1: Needs you don't have to be an, athlete, celebrity or

1725
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: someone with status to have impact on your. Community it

1726
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,840
Speaker 1: starts with your every single. Day it starts in how

1727
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: you handle your. Home it starts on how you raise your.

1728
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:53,240
Speaker 1: Kids it starts and how you allow people in your

1729
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: everyday life to. Navigate like if you're in school and

1730
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:58,599
Speaker 1: you see a, bully call the bully, out, like oh,

1731
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 1: yeah and when you get into the greater scheme of

1732
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 1: things of now we're facing real life issues with these

1733
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: same bullies that we saw in elementary, school middle, school

1734
01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 1: high school that were never fucking. Checked so when they

1735
01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 1: became full grown, adults, no now it's just blatant. Racism

1736
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:19,880
Speaker 1: so how can we just nip things in the butt

1737
01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:23,520
Speaker 1: within our own every single day lives and our workspaces

1738
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 1: with our friends and our, Allies LIKE i don't truly

1739
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:29,760
Speaker 1: think our allies know how important they.

1740
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:32,760
Speaker 2: Are even my mom being like my mom will be, like,

1741
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 2: YEAH i.

1742
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 1: Gotta no argument with someone, Today And i'm, like what'd

1743
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 1: you get in an argument? About she was, Like she'll

1744
01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:41,240
Speaker 1: like talk about a social issue That now my sixty

1745
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:44,639
Speaker 1: year old, mama like that just grew up in White

1746
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 1: mama that just grew up in a different time, too is, like, well,

1747
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:50,759
Speaker 1: no that's just not how stuff, works because she's taken

1748
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 1: the time to educate herself to listen to, me to

1749
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:55,600
Speaker 1: listen to WHAT i, face even though she might not

1750
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:58,840
Speaker 1: have faced. It my mom always understood that WHEN i

1751
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:01,120
Speaker 1: walked out of the, house my siblings walked out of the.

1752
01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 1: House it was two completely different. Things so you don't

1753
01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: have to be a celebrity or someone with statist have.

1754
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 1: Impact you just have to have the will to be

1755
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:12,599
Speaker 1: able to voice and just call stuff out in the

1756
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 1: bigger picture of things to really make a huge. Difference,

1757
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:15,720
Speaker 1: YEAH i.

1758
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:16,400
Speaker 3: Mean you're completely.

1759
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:18,599
Speaker 4: Right just find that small tangible thing that you could

1760
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 4: start with and then from there you can. Grow you

1761
01:20:21,160 --> 01:20:22,640
Speaker 4: can do whatever you want to, do take it in

1762
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:26,200
Speaker 4: whichever direction you want. To but one thing you talked

1763
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:28,880
Speaker 4: about a lot was The mystics organization and what they

1764
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 4: did for you during that time allowed take a year

1765
01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 4: off and really go for, It and SO i think

1766
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:36,800
Speaker 4: that's that's really, special because, honestly in the, league not

1767
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 4: everything was going to, happen and not every team was

1768
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:41,640
Speaker 4: going to give you that same opportunity to go do.

1769
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:44,720
Speaker 3: That so what was that? Like moving from.

1770
01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 4: Taking a season, off focusing on all these things which

1771
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:50,320
Speaker 4: you're still focused on, now but then transitioning back into

1772
01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:51,679
Speaker 4: the league for that next training.

1773
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 1: Camp so what was what was? That? Like it was

1774
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 1: hard BECAUSE covid was not nice up put on so

1775
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 1: much weight. TOO i was just in the house no

1776
01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: for really, REALLY i put on like fifteen. Pounds i'm

1777
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: not even being, funny, like, Yeah i've figured out like

1778
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 1: what my playing weight. Is it's around like one fifty

1779
01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 1: one to fifty. Five during THAT COVID i bumped up

1780
01:21:08,240 --> 01:21:11,320
Speaker 1: to one eighty. Five i'm, Like i'm not playing so.

1781
01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: Cool that was, Hard but the whole point of twenty

1782
01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:18,360
Speaker 1: twenty Was, Okay i'm gonna sit this year out And

1783
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:21,240
Speaker 1: i'm gonna make sure THAT i have everything. Working i'm

1784
01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:23,679
Speaker 1: aligning with the right companies that WHEN i do decide

1785
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:26,000
Speaker 1: to go back and play that even While i'm on the,

1786
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:29,000
Speaker 1: court everything is working behind the scenes as everything. Set,

1787
01:21:29,680 --> 01:21:32,400
Speaker 1: yeah So i'm still being a champion in my community

1788
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:34,559
Speaker 1: While i'm still being a champion on the court as.

1789
01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:36,320
Speaker 1: Well and that's WHY i didn't feel LIKE i could

1790
01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 1: do that in twenty twenty BECAUSE i didn't establish the

1791
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:42,639
Speaker 1: community stuff, yet and BECAUSE i had, EVERYTHING i had

1792
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:44,800
Speaker 1: worked my ass off And i'd set everything. Up NOW

1793
01:21:44,840 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 1: i can really just focus on basketball and then WHEN

1794
01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:49,559
Speaker 1: i need to implement on those things that are working

1795
01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:52,880
Speaker 1: behind the scenes for my, Advocacy like that's. Cool coming

1796
01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:54,800
Speaker 1: back into the team in twenty twenty. One that was

1797
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:57,360
Speaker 1: a little bit different because we looked really. Different elena

1798
01:21:57,560 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 1: just had her back, surgery Me, elayne and who else

1799
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 1: stayed out of the, Bubble so it Was Emma. Mesaman

1800
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 1: mayisha had a crazy year in the. BUBBLE a had

1801
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:10,880
Speaker 1: a crazy year in the. Bubble we had lost ap

1802
01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:14,160
Speaker 1: we had Lost, emma we had brought In Tina. Charles

1803
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:17,720
Speaker 1: it was a. Lot, yeah that whole. Years it was

1804
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:20,719
Speaker 1: a huge. Difference so again just figuring, out Like, okay

1805
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:22,639
Speaker 1: how DO i be the leader of this. Team that

1806
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:25,639
Speaker 1: this isn't the same twenty nineteen that we won, with

1807
01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 1: so like this is completely. Different i've been out of

1808
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 1: it for a. Year it took me a while to

1809
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:34,639
Speaker 1: like feel, Like, Okay i'm back to like feeling good

1810
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: about my. Play because that was the hardest thing IS

1811
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: i haven't seen live action for about a year and

1812
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:41,680
Speaker 1: a half almost two years, now so that was an,

1813
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 1: adjustment but probably midway through the season you started hit your.

1814
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:48,520
Speaker 1: Strides you started to feel more, comfortable more like. Yourself and,

1815
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: again The mystics organization was. Phenomenal so even with like

1816
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 1: me sitting out and coming, back everything was set up

1817
01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:57,640
Speaker 1: so THAT i could just come back and just easily

1818
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:00,000
Speaker 1: like adjust back to The mystics and what it meant

1819
01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:02,479
Speaker 1: to be a part of The, mystics and then them

1820
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:05,439
Speaker 1: with my advocacy. Presenting we're In, WASHINGTON, Dc we're in

1821
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: the most powerful city in the entire. World like that

1822
01:23:09,040 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 1: is WHY i challenge us as an. ORGANIZATION i challenge

1823
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 1: our organization all the. TIME i know they love, me

1824
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:16,120
Speaker 1: BUT i Know i'm a pain in their ass Because

1825
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 1: i'm not taking. Frums like we have a chance to

1826
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 1: make real impact and we're going to be about what

1827
01:23:21,479 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 1: we say we're. About AND i love that they are

1828
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: okay with being held to those. Standards but they really

1829
01:23:27,560 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 1: were great for just like plugging me in with The,

1830
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:34,719
Speaker 1: capital plugging me in with every town that's a, nonprofit like.

1831
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:36,640
Speaker 4: Putting you in, touch putting you in touch with The,

1832
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 4: capitol and just all these different organizations doing things outside

1833
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:41,320
Speaker 4: of basketball was really. Special like we, said not every

1834
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 4: organization is going to set you up in those different.

1835
01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:46,879
Speaker 4: Ways but you, know a lot of this the platforms

1836
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:48,519
Speaker 4: that we, have things that we're able to do from.

1837
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:51,000
Speaker 4: IT a lot of it comes from this newfound coverage

1838
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:51,800
Speaker 4: that women's sports is.

1839
01:23:51,840 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 3: Getting and it's a line of, like.

1840
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 4: You, know being appreciative and thankful of where we are

1841
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:57,760
Speaker 4: and where we, are but.

1842
01:23:57,760 --> 01:24:01,400
Speaker 3: Like you're still wanting, more unsatisfied with where we're. At

1843
01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 3: but it's been.

1844
01:24:02,200 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 4: Growing what do you think are some of the ways

1845
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 4: that the coverage of the game has been getting better

1846
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:09,160
Speaker 4: over the years that you've been in the league and

1847
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:11,640
Speaker 4: even through, College like you've seen it really.

1848
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:14,240
Speaker 3: Grow throughout your. Career so what has that been like

1849
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:14,880
Speaker 3: to be a part of that.

1850
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:16,400
Speaker 1: Change it's been really.

1851
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 2: Cool obviously now that you're in the.

1852
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:19,680
Speaker 1: LEAGUE i know you feel it, too like we want

1853
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:21,599
Speaker 1: to leave this game better than when we found. It

1854
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: And i'm so glad That i've been a part of

1855
01:24:24,280 --> 01:24:26,960
Speaker 1: the one point forty four that has made this league and.

1856
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:29,040
Speaker 2: Pushed it forward to the point that you can come

1857
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:29,800
Speaker 2: in and get more.

1858
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:33,000
Speaker 1: Coverage and that doesn't also take away from what you

1859
01:24:33,040 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: did in college and what other college players are, doing

1860
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:39,439
Speaker 1: like the fact THAT lsu AND iowa gain like was

1861
01:24:39,479 --> 01:24:42,640
Speaker 1: as popular as it. WAS i went to. IT i

1862
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 1: was so, Excited LIKE i went to it like it

1863
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 1: was really really dope to just finally see like we've

1864
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: been deserving of. This we deserve the same, Respect we

1865
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 1: deserve the same investments that all of our counterparts get

1866
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:02,760
Speaker 1: when it comes to being. Supported and so WHEN i

1867
01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:04,559
Speaker 1: came in at twenty fifteen and it was like we

1868
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:06,679
Speaker 1: all allot of work to, do, y'all like this ain't

1869
01:25:06,720 --> 01:25:10,320
Speaker 1: really necessarily, it but obviously we've worked our asses off

1870
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:12,360
Speaker 1: to get to this. POINT i think the biggest changes have,

1871
01:25:12,439 --> 01:25:16,680
Speaker 1: been like obviously investments into our league from different. Companies

1872
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:19,759
Speaker 1: the main thing is the, media, Right like the media

1873
01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: that covers. Us i'm like little things LIKE Tnt Candae

1874
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:25,360
Speaker 1: parker is on your shit all the. Time why have

1875
01:25:25,439 --> 01:25:27,680
Speaker 1: you not played the w game? Yet why have you

1876
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 1: not made that investment into our league when you have

1877
01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 1: one of the best that has ever played the game

1878
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:36,120
Speaker 1: in basketball under your contract to begin, With like that's

1879
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:40,120
Speaker 1: the part that kills, me is still not seeing the

1880
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:43,760
Speaker 1: full investment into women in, Sports like even we can

1881
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: talk about THE, NWSL i wouldn't even talk about THE.

1882
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: WNBA i think they've made a crazy ass jump in

1883
01:25:50,120 --> 01:25:52,840
Speaker 1: the last two three years for, Real and it's from

1884
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:55,640
Speaker 1: what investment of. Women like the fact that you have

1885
01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: women owners that are like actresses and you have people

1886
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 1: that are eos and women CEOs that are investing into your.

1887
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,920
Speaker 2: LEAGUE i love. That now WHERE i get mad is

1888
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:06,360
Speaker 2: where is the?

1889
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: Disconnect what does your demographic look like opposed to what

1890
01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:12,960
Speaker 1: our demographic look? Like and then it becomes a conversation

1891
01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: of why do we not support black? Women so that's

1892
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 1: still WHERE i very much feel like we need to

1893
01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 1: grow is our investment into black. Women BECAUSE i see

1894
01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: it in THE. NWSL i see the investment into white,

1895
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: women AND i love.

1896
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 2: It there is nothing that makes me.

1897
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:31,320
Speaker 1: Happier i'm trying to go to a game on the

1898
01:26:31,360 --> 01:26:34,000
Speaker 1: fifteenth IN La, like, yeah, YEAH i love that. SHIT

1899
01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:36,320
Speaker 1: i love that we have the spirit IN. DC i

1900
01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:38,519
Speaker 1: go to the games all the. Time Like Trinity. Rodman

1901
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:41,839
Speaker 1: that was when we drafted. HER i was so. Hyped,

1902
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 1: yeah hang, Girls SO i love.

1903
01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 2: It but like, that that's the thing that still gets

1904
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:47,479
Speaker 2: me is.

1905
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: That people are, like why do you always talk about

1906
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: race because UNFORTUNATELY i have. To UNFORTUNATELY i have. To

1907
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: so while our league has grown tremendously over the last

1908
01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:59,160
Speaker 1: eight years That i've been a part of, it we

1909
01:26:59,240 --> 01:27:02,600
Speaker 1: still have so much room to. Go and that just

1910
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:06,960
Speaker 1: simply comes from people respecting investing into black. Women SO

1911
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:09,400
Speaker 1: i don't know when that's going to. CHANGE i hope

1912
01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:11,599
Speaker 1: that we. Continue we're obviously going to continue to. Push

1913
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 1: but the one thing THAT i will, Say i'm so

1914
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:16,439
Speaker 1: proud of black and brown women over the last few.

1915
01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:19,160
Speaker 1: Years we don't settle for shit. Anymore you're not giving us.

1916
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 1: Crumbs we're not accepting crumbs. Anymore we want a. Meal

1917
01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: why because we're the. Meal we want a whole. Meal

1918
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:26,200
Speaker 1: give me the full.

1919
01:27:26,360 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 3: Course you are, correct you not you blessing a little.

1920
01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:36,800
Speaker 3: Bit the analogies all day have been killing so.

1921
01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:39,160
Speaker 1: Good BUT i, mean you're so.

1922
01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:42,719
Speaker 4: Right you're so, right because it's when you talk about

1923
01:27:42,760 --> 01:27:45,720
Speaker 4: like the growth and THAT lsu AND iowa game and

1924
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:48,840
Speaker 4: just the W nba being. More it's when you give

1925
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:51,720
Speaker 4: us the, platform you see what then, happens and then

1926
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 4: you talk to the rest and it's just like with THE,

1927
01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:59,080
Speaker 4: Nwsl LIKE i am a fangirl Of sony and it's

1928
01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 4: just like coverage that they're getting in the way that

1929
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 4: they've been able to. Grow and then you talk about

1930
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,320
Speaker 4: the demographic change and the differences between the different leagues

1931
01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:12,000
Speaker 4: that we, have which is crazy because their league is

1932
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:15,840
Speaker 4: a lot. Younger but it's wild to think about because people,

1933
01:28:15,880 --> 01:28:17,759
Speaker 4: SAY i talk about race so, much all these different

1934
01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:18,240
Speaker 4: things that you just.

1935
01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:20,320
Speaker 3: Mentioned if you didn't have, to you.

1936
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 4: Wouldn't but it has to be a part of the

1937
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:25,200
Speaker 4: conversation because that's the way that we are right.

1938
01:28:25,240 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 3: Now AND i think it's just it's just.

1939
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:29,960
Speaker 1: Different it. Is and you, know as a mixed, kid

1940
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:32,000
Speaker 1: we wouldn't talk about race if we didn't have, to

1941
01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:35,160
Speaker 1: like we very, much even as mixed, kids we have a.

1942
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:38,639
Speaker 1: Privilege we have a privilege as light skin mixed, kids

1943
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: which is so.

1944
01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:42,280
Speaker 3: Crazy it's so, crazy.

1945
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 1: But like that self accountability is, like so that's what we.

1946
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:48,040
Speaker 1: Need but, yeah that's the, Thing like we didn't have

1947
01:28:48,080 --> 01:28:50,040
Speaker 1: to talk about, race we. Wouldn't we don't want to.

1948
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:53,240
Speaker 1: Anymore we want to be we want to have equity

1949
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:55,880
Speaker 1: across the board for who we are as a human.

1950
01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:57,600
Speaker 1: BEING i want you to see my heart before you

1951
01:28:57,640 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 1: see my, skin AND i want you to see my

1952
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:03,280
Speaker 1: heart BEFORE i Who i'm deciding to. Love that's WHAT

1953
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:05,120
Speaker 1: i want you to. See and THEN i want you

1954
01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:06,760
Speaker 1: to tell me that you don't fuck with me as

1955
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 1: a human being for any other thing besides my. Heart, like,

1956
01:29:10,160 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 1: yeah that's what it really comes down. To SO i

1957
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:13,960
Speaker 1: just want people to invest in.

1958
01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 2: Us.

1959
01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:17,760
Speaker 3: Snap that's his, snap not a roll on a roll.

1960
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:20,639
Speaker 4: Day so we're going to head into our last, section

1961
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:23,519
Speaker 4: which is a rapid fire portion we call the vibe.

1962
01:29:23,560 --> 01:29:27,120
Speaker 4: Check so we had Some, yeah so some guests are

1963
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:28,120
Speaker 4: great at the rapid fire.

1964
01:29:28,160 --> 01:29:30,720
Speaker 1: Aspect some are not so. Great So i'm excited to

1965
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 1: see where we.

1966
01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:35,240
Speaker 3: Fall you're a.

1967
01:29:35,280 --> 01:29:40,840
Speaker 1: Privilege you're gonna kill. It look competitor and me BECAUSE

1968
01:29:40,840 --> 01:29:43,479
Speaker 1: i sat up And i'm, like, okay focused, girl this is.

1969
01:29:43,400 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 3: The time to bring out that. Fire no more, water

1970
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:47,000
Speaker 3: Straight fire's.

1971
01:29:47,640 --> 01:29:50,160
Speaker 4: Okay so what's the one drill you never want to

1972
01:29:50,160 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 4: see on your practice?

1973
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:52,920
Speaker 1: Plan? Anything full?

1974
01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 3: Court had you're, EASY i want to say half.

1975
01:29:55,920 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: Court we could go for three hours half, court but

1976
01:29:58,439 --> 01:29:58,960
Speaker 1: just make it half.

1977
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:02,519
Speaker 3: Fork i'm with, you, You. Okay who's best dressed in the. League,

1978
01:30:03,120 --> 01:30:05,240
Speaker 3: oh there's a.

1979
01:30:05,280 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 1: Few i'm gonna put herself. There slam Shtrri Erique, Diamond

1980
01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:15,800
Speaker 1: izzy And Olivia olivia From. Connecticut she was all, Crazy

1981
01:30:16,040 --> 01:30:19,799
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk About Christina niguay because that's who's been styling.

1982
01:30:19,840 --> 01:30:24,320
Speaker 1: Her also her line Tiff hayes Tif she's been styling

1983
01:30:24,360 --> 01:30:26,040
Speaker 1: the both of. Them so if y'all haven't tuned, in

1984
01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:28,920
Speaker 1: go check Out christine's line because that shit is. Crazy

1985
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:29,200
Speaker 1: she's so.

1986
01:30:30,320 --> 01:30:34,160
Speaker 3: Great great list to really. Good This, okay game winning

1987
01:30:34,200 --> 01:30:35,160
Speaker 3: shot or game winning.

1988
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:37,639
Speaker 2: Block game winning? Block we defense first.

1989
01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:40,519
Speaker 3: Love it and one or three pointer and one Because

1990
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:43,040
Speaker 3: i'm flip and so it.

1991
01:30:43,160 --> 01:30:47,920
Speaker 4: Is, yeah, okay toughest place to play in the W New,

1992
01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:51,680
Speaker 4: York New. York what's your go to trash talk?

1993
01:30:51,800 --> 01:30:55,040
Speaker 1: Line, oh this ain't what you. WANT i gotta go

1994
01:30:55,080 --> 01:31:00,320
Speaker 1: with My philly this what you. Want i'm also Use

1995
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:03,000
Speaker 1: i've also used you not about that life because a

1996
01:31:03,040 --> 01:31:04,599
Speaker 1: lot of people in our lead try to talk ship

1997
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:06,559
Speaker 1: And i'm, like but you won't see me outside after.

1998
01:31:06,640 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 1: This you're not about that? Life all? Right those are?

1999
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:09,680
Speaker 1: Good those are.

2000
01:31:09,720 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 3: Good who's the biggest trash talker in the.

2001
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:16,360
Speaker 1: League, oh my, gosh there's a. Lot there's a. Lot

2002
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:19,679
Speaker 1: it's hard to. PICK i think, Recently tiff is, Funny

2003
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:22,479
Speaker 1: Like tiff will talk her ship and that that's. Funny

2004
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:25,880
Speaker 1: slim won't necessarily talk unless she's like egged on to,

2005
01:31:25,960 --> 01:31:30,080
Speaker 1: talk then she's gonna talk her. Ship. Marina marina is

2006
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:34,040
Speaker 1: a ship, talker, maybray she is. Talking she be. Talking

2007
01:31:34,280 --> 01:31:35,560
Speaker 1: she do be. Talking the.

2008
01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 3: People the other one people be saying is dt DT

2009
01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:39,840
Speaker 3: t What.

2010
01:31:42,040 --> 01:31:45,400
Speaker 1: Kelsey Plum kelsey plum want to her, too her, Too

2011
01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:46,519
Speaker 1: but she won't talk shit to.

2012
01:31:46,600 --> 01:31:49,960
Speaker 2: Me she won't talk. Shit that's, love all.

2013
01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:51,240
Speaker 3: Right who's the hardest player to?

2014
01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:57,479
Speaker 1: Guard oh my, Gosh i'm gonna say for, Me sat

2015
01:31:57,800 --> 01:32:01,000
Speaker 1: because is six, Five so it's like there's only so

2016
01:32:01,160 --> 01:32:03,960
Speaker 1: MUCH i can, do right of like staying in front of.

2017
01:32:03,960 --> 01:32:06,400
Speaker 1: Her sat is really hard to. Guard rique is so

2018
01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:09,960
Speaker 1: hard to. Guard that girl is just like she can

2019
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:12,679
Speaker 1: shoot when she comes over half. Court, Yeah tip.

2020
01:32:12,760 --> 01:32:15,160
Speaker 2: Is another, Player Alicia gray is another.

2021
01:32:14,920 --> 01:32:19,160
Speaker 1: Player And ryan like delicious goes on the. Lees that

2022
01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:21,320
Speaker 1: is like something that has been the question people have

2023
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:23,160
Speaker 1: been asking me, recently AND i have to give a

2024
01:32:23,240 --> 01:32:26,080
Speaker 1: bunch of, answers And i'm like that just shows the

2025
01:32:26,280 --> 01:32:28,559
Speaker 1: growth of our league, too and how much better we've

2026
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:31,559
Speaker 1: gotten every single, year like someone is gonna murk.

2027
01:32:31,600 --> 01:32:33,639
Speaker 2: You you any, night you can get a thirty piece

2028
01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 2: on your head in our.

2029
01:32:34,520 --> 01:32:35,320
Speaker 1: League that's.

2030
01:32:35,400 --> 01:32:38,880
Speaker 3: True you're, right who's got the best Handles Chelsea?

2031
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:40,080
Speaker 1: Gray, yeah?

2032
01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:45,799
Speaker 4: Insane and then biggest flopper, Ooh sophie Cunning.

2033
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:53,720
Speaker 1: Ham Sophie cunningham Or soberena and that's. Woo. Listen we love,

2034
01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:56,880
Speaker 1: y'all y'all great, hoopers but y'all be motherfucking flopping out.

2035
01:32:56,920 --> 01:32:58,680
Speaker 1: Here and it makes me so mad because they give

2036
01:32:58,720 --> 01:33:00,360
Speaker 1: you the. Calls they give you the.

2037
01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:03,280
Speaker 4: Calls you're so funny because those are big common, Answers

2038
01:33:03,320 --> 01:33:04,040
Speaker 4: but everybody.

2039
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:05,639
Speaker 3: Else is, like, oh CAN i say and Then i'll

2040
01:33:05,640 --> 01:33:05,920
Speaker 3: give them.

2041
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:08,160
Speaker 1: One you're, like, No i'm gonna say that shit with my.

2042
01:33:08,320 --> 01:33:14,439
Speaker 1: Chest i'm phenomenal, teammates BUT i hate playing against, Them, like,

2043
01:33:14,600 --> 01:33:16,880
Speaker 1: YEAH i hate playing against those two because they're gonna.

2044
01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:19,240
Speaker 1: Flop you're gonna get your second found now your assole

2045
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:22,760
Speaker 1: on the bench in. Trouble right the fuck you're too?

2046
01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:26,280
Speaker 3: Good, okay your biggest basketball.

2047
01:33:26,360 --> 01:33:30,160
Speaker 1: Ick, okay mistakes, happen, Right mistakes are part of the.

2048
01:33:30,240 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 1: Game we're trying to be. Perfect are perfect? Game don't

2049
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:35,360
Speaker 1: make the same mistake two three? Times all, right don't

2050
01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:38,040
Speaker 1: don't make the same and if another, one if we

2051
01:33:38,120 --> 01:33:39,800
Speaker 1: come out of a timeout and you don't know the

2052
01:33:39,840 --> 01:33:41,920
Speaker 1: play that we just grew. Up i'm pissed because you

2053
01:33:41,960 --> 01:33:44,280
Speaker 1: could have. Asked you could have. Asked there was too

2054
01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:46,320
Speaker 1: much time for you to ask for him to redrawl

2055
01:33:46,360 --> 01:33:47,920
Speaker 1: it up or to ask, me is your point? Guard

2056
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:50,360
Speaker 1: where AM i supposed to? Be because now you're running

2057
01:33:50,400 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 1: the wrong And i'm being guarded ninety feet from the

2058
01:33:52,080 --> 01:33:53,080
Speaker 1: basket and you're pissing me.

2059
01:33:53,120 --> 01:33:55,880
Speaker 3: Off yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that one got some. Passion

2060
01:33:55,960 --> 01:33:58,719
Speaker 3: your budd came flying, out your body came flying.

2061
01:33:58,960 --> 01:34:01,320
Speaker 1: Better, no you, Better, okay damn.

2062
01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:06,240
Speaker 4: It like, okay if you talk, trash.

2063
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:08,200
Speaker 3: But you're not backing it? Up are you?

2064
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:12,040
Speaker 1: Talking that's WHY i was nervous about that In New york.

2065
01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:13,600
Speaker 1: GAME i was, LIKE i talked to a lot of

2066
01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:17,200
Speaker 1: ship THAT i need to back it. Up ship. UP

2067
01:34:18,600 --> 01:34:22,880
Speaker 1: i listened to Meet mill all. Day it's time to

2068
01:34:22,960 --> 01:34:24,599
Speaker 1: go Meet mill straight Meat.

2069
01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:27,000
Speaker 3: MILL i, mean that's what you.

2070
01:34:27,080 --> 01:34:27,680
Speaker 1: Need that's what you.

2071
01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:29,439
Speaker 3: Need, OKAY i feel like you know your. Answer but

2072
01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:29,920
Speaker 3: who's your?

2073
01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:34,920
Speaker 1: Goat? Oh my goat Always my goat is Always elena

2074
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:36,600
Speaker 1: outside Of, Elena sue is my.

2075
01:34:36,720 --> 01:34:44,679
Speaker 3: Goat, okay, No i'm going with My. MORE i love

2076
01:34:45,240 --> 01:34:49,400
Speaker 3: My more growing, UP i love my that was my.

2077
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:51,760
Speaker 1: That was my. Person WHEN i came in to leave

2078
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:52,920
Speaker 1: with all the free throw, LINE i was.

2079
01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:58,800
Speaker 3: Like Get oh my, god that's such a real. Thing

2080
01:34:59,160 --> 01:35:01,960
Speaker 3: even coming to THE i was, like, okay let me be.

2081
01:35:02,120 --> 01:35:05,880
Speaker 1: Cool my one fan girl was a d and.

2082
01:35:08,280 --> 01:35:11,000
Speaker 4: BECAUSE i watched them At louisville AND i was, like

2083
01:35:11,760 --> 01:35:13,680
Speaker 4: ad and our lockers are right next to each, other

2084
01:35:13,920 --> 01:35:15,519
Speaker 4: AND i was, LIKE i came in the first DAY

2085
01:35:15,760 --> 01:35:17,719
Speaker 4: i listened to the, LOCKER i was, like oh, GOD.

2086
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:23,599
Speaker 1: I love. That they're so sweet. Too they're so sweet.

2087
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:25,479
Speaker 1: Too they are the, sweetest but.

2088
01:35:25,920 --> 01:35:30,840
Speaker 3: Yay our last question is your best impersonation of coach

2089
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:32,120
Speaker 3: t give it to.

2090
01:35:32,280 --> 01:35:37,320
Speaker 1: Us so. Coach she actually doesn't do a lot of

2091
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:41,840
Speaker 1: like he won't verbalize his, frustration but like he is

2092
01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:44,880
Speaker 1: very much a he's going to get beat. Red and

2093
01:35:45,040 --> 01:35:50,360
Speaker 1: the minute that you see his H i see. It

2094
01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:53,880
Speaker 1: he LIKE i know that that going into THE gm,

2095
01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:56,680
Speaker 1: Role like, yes he was so happy for his son

2096
01:35:56,760 --> 01:35:59,479
Speaker 1: to take, over but like this man coached for his entire.

2097
01:35:59,560 --> 01:36:02,080
Speaker 1: Life so that moving to A gm and A gm

2098
01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:04,560
Speaker 1: ONLY i would see him on our sideline because he

2099
01:36:04,640 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 1: sits courtside and he's, Here he'll still be talking ship

2100
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:12,520
Speaker 1: to the rest. Too he'd be, LIKE i ain't. Don't

2101
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 1: so he's Not he's not like much of a. Talker

2102
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:17,800
Speaker 1: but if you get your hand hand and the hand

2103
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:20,800
Speaker 1: if the handles before head, back like.

2104
01:36:21,320 --> 01:36:24,200
Speaker 2: WHEN i see him do, it it immediately still triggers

2105
01:36:24,280 --> 01:36:25,360
Speaker 2: me to be black home.

2106
01:36:26,680 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 1: Messing.

2107
01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:31,160
Speaker 3: Up so every, coach every coach has that. Thing it's LIKE.

2108
01:36:31,280 --> 01:36:33,759
Speaker 3: Ptsd it's, like oh my, god like my high school.

2109
01:36:33,800 --> 01:36:36,000
Speaker 4: Coach my high school coach do this. Day IF i

2110
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:38,360
Speaker 4: hear a, Whistle i'm, like where is? She she's, here

2111
01:36:39,120 --> 01:36:40,479
Speaker 4: there's the, thing BUT i.

2112
01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:43,400
Speaker 3: Lied my last question is those Four Meek meal songs

2113
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:46,680
Speaker 3: that got you hyped? Up we the people need to

2114
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:47,639
Speaker 3: know for their next.

2115
01:36:47,520 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 1: Game dreams And nightmares nineteen forty. Two what else THAT

2116
01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:54,680
Speaker 1: i have on their? Levels there was one? More oh

2117
01:36:55,080 --> 01:36:58,040
Speaker 1: h the intro it's a. Championship oh those are. Good

2118
01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:04,000
Speaker 1: SO i had those four songs just Like i'm normally before.

2119
01:37:04,040 --> 01:37:07,799
Speaker 1: Games i'm normally like, happy my normal like light annoying.

2120
01:37:07,920 --> 01:37:09,880
Speaker 1: Self that, GAME i didn't talk to no. ONE i

2121
01:37:09,960 --> 01:37:12,280
Speaker 1: didn't swallow. It no, one you're up in that, Line

2122
01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:15,000
Speaker 1: i'm ready to. Go LIKE i knew you was ready

2123
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:16,920
Speaker 1: to go because you wouldn't even look at. ANYONE i was,

2124
01:37:16,960 --> 01:37:20,080
Speaker 1: like BECAUSE i was in such a villain. Mood it's

2125
01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:21,800
Speaker 1: like one part during the game that my usould like

2126
01:37:21,840 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 1: said something to me AND i was, like. Huh she

2127
01:37:23,960 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 1: was like WHEN i was, Like i'm, SORRY i was,

2128
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:28,920
Speaker 1: Like i'm. SORRY i was, LIKE i am in this

2129
01:37:29,080 --> 01:37:31,599
Speaker 1: villain role through and. Through i'm dedicated to. It i'm,

2130
01:37:31,640 --> 01:37:32,799
Speaker 1: Sorry i'm.

2131
01:37:32,720 --> 01:37:34,920
Speaker 3: We if you're having like a method, actor you're locked.

2132
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:37,800
Speaker 1: In i'm the villain To i'm, LIKE i understand why

2133
01:37:37,880 --> 01:37:42,160
Speaker 1: actors and, ACTRESSES i get. IT i love. That that's.

2134
01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:45,600
Speaker 3: Amazing but this has been so much. Fun thank you

2135
01:37:45,920 --> 01:37:47,920
Speaker 3: so much for me every.

2136
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Speaker 1: Moment i'm GLAD i got to know you on a

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