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Speaker 1: Levels to This is an iHeart women's sports production in

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Speaker 1: partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, what's going on. It's your girl, Trerika Foster Brasby.

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Speaker 2: What's up, y'all? It's your girl Cheryl swoop Hey. And

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Speaker 2: this is the levels to this podcast. This is the

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Speaker 2: show where we share that it's levels to the ship

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Speaker 2: that women go through. And we have got a great

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Speaker 2: show lined up for you today. My girls, Cheryl and

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Speaker 2: I we gonna kick it, talk about you know, a

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Speaker 2: lot of WNBA movement. But first before we go there,

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Speaker 2: I need y'all to know that Cheryl is rocking the

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Speaker 2: hell out this blonde clay that she got going on.

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Speaker 2: And I need everybody to get I need a photo.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna need a video to hit up on social

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Speaker 2: or something because y'all got to see this is I

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Speaker 2: love this like this is you. This is your style.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So thank you first of all. And I love

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Speaker 1: it because it's simple, right. I tied it up, I

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Speaker 1: wake up, take it off, run my fingers through, and

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Speaker 1: keep it moving.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But I want to share real briefly with you, because

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Speaker 1: this is the show that we talk about all the

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Speaker 1: shit that women go through. And you know, we've also

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Speaker 1: had our episodes where we had our health episodes where

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Speaker 1: we talked about everything from menopause to alopecia, I don't know, diabetes.

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Speaker 2: Just shit that we go through as women.

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Speaker 1: And the interesting thing is, so I got my hair

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Speaker 1: cut a couple of days ago, and I knew I

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Speaker 1: wanted to do it because one menopause, the hot flash

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Speaker 1: is the heat, the one hundred degree weather in Houston.

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Speaker 2: It's just way too hot for all of that hair.

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Speaker 1: And so I went, I did it. My hair had

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Speaker 1: been shedding. I just wasn't liking it. Well, went to

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Speaker 1: that I have three different types of alopecia.

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Speaker 2: I cried, one traction.

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Speaker 1: Yes, one is traction. I'm going to tell you because

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Speaker 1: of them. So one is traction alopecia, the other one

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Speaker 1: is scarring alopecia, and the other one is CCCA and

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Speaker 1: that's central centrifical. The other C I couldn't spell, and

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Speaker 2: Okay, now that one is new to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was like the first one she said traction,

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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, makes sense right, from all of

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Speaker 1: my years of wearing braids and playing ball and all

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Speaker 1: the different side, all the things right. And then she

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Speaker 1: went to the CCCA, and girl, my mind was blown.

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Speaker 1: And then I cried for a minute. And at the end,

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Speaker 1: I said, you know what, it's just hair.

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Speaker 1: People in this world going through way more than having alopecia.

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Speaker 1: Even I got tears in my eyes right now, but

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Speaker 1: getting used to, not necessarily the shortcut, but the color.

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Speaker 2: I was like, eh, I don't know, but I do

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Speaker 2: somebody who has to deal with alopecia, to I understand

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Speaker 2: that initial diagnosis, your mind is just like because we're conditioned, right,

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Speaker 2: And it's not to say that it doesn't. You look good,

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Speaker 2: me like like like this doesn't define me. So I'm

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Speaker 1: But I know, I knew you come relate And I

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Speaker 2: seen it. I sure did, I sure did. I said,

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Speaker 1: I was like, like, my my heart my soul, my

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Speaker 1: But then I said, you know what, it's just hair.

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Speaker 2: It's just here, like, and there's so many things that

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Speaker 2: Throw a hat on, you don't want to do it today,

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Speaker 2: throw a head on like it is just so many

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Speaker 2: things it is. It's like fee feel being your feelings

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Speaker 2: And then once you're done, it is what it is.

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Speaker 2: It's just here. It's just here. That's it. That's it, honey.

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Speaker 2: We will walk, we will we will walk a ball

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Speaker 2: do and be a battie out here. Do you hear me? Like,

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Speaker 2: don't play with us. That's that's how dope we are.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, we have a really really fun show lined

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Speaker 2: up today because there has been so much movement in

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Speaker 2: this recording, I have a game Connecticut is going to

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Speaker 2: be playing against Chicago later this evening in Connecticut and

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Speaker 2: I get to see Aliah Edwards again because Aliah Edwards

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Speaker 2: washing from Washington to Connecticut. And I'm like, it ain't

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Speaker 2: even like I'm dope, Like I'm geeked to see a

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Speaker 2: her often. But these these fans are about to get on

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Speaker 2: my nerves today because all of this Yukon that's going

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Speaker 2: we got up. We got Olivia Nelson a Doda on

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Speaker 2: she coming back. Now Aliah Edwards is going to tea.

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Speaker 2: If you wanted to build a Husky squad, just say that.

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Speaker 1: So well, you know the fans are gonna show up

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Speaker 1: because the Connecticut Huskies they love their team, their players.

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Speaker 2: They love it, love it. It don't matter who team

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Speaker 2: when you show up. Not not to mention, the general

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Speaker 2: keep thinking, and I just keep thinking like, and Gino

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Speaker 2: ass is too out here coaching. That is so true. Wow,

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I knew that, but when you put it

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Speaker 2: That the whole Connecticut bro. And then let's I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: take it a step further. The Playboy. One of the analysts,

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Speaker 2: Ashley Battle, went, you guess, yes you did, Yes, you did,

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Speaker 2: Yes you did. Yes, ma'am. I'm sick of it. I'm

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Speaker 2: sick of it much damn. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: They said, take it, take it, take all of it.

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Speaker 2: Hey, y'all trying to move a team. Y'all tripping, girl,

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, y'all are ripping. But with all that

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Speaker 2: being said, you know, Alea wasn't the only movement that

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Speaker 2: happened over this last past week or two. It's been

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Speaker 2: a lot of movements. So let's just go ahead and

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Speaker 2: always difficult for there to be much movement during the

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Speaker 2: by that time, certain teams kind of have already found

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Speaker 2: it's always tough to really see anything that shocks and

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Speaker 2: I think this year there were certainly some moves that

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Speaker 2: this year, right, And so first gotta show some love

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Speaker 2: to Djna Carrington, who has traded from to the Minnesota Links.

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Speaker 2: My girl, Djna Cheryl. I love Djna, adore Djna, And

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Speaker 2: I was so pissed, for lack of better terms, at

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Speaker 2: But honey, what were y'all doing? Like? What were y'all doing?

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Speaker 2: This is the former most improved player of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: This girl was a candidate, a high candidate for defensive

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't have kind of relationships with them that

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Speaker 2: But I will say this, tee.

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Speaker 1: People may not realize and understand there is a difference

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Speaker 1: and I'm saying that about Chris right when when you're

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Speaker 1: what you're getting paid the big bucks for, right, And

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Speaker 1: and to your point in the off season, I was like, Okay, great,

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Speaker 1: these are great moves for Dallas with dj Na, with Alyssa.

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Speaker 1: I felt like her role in Dallas. I don't think

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Speaker 1: really not saying she got away from being the defender,

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Speaker 1: but it was more about scoring, right. So there were

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Speaker 2: I got a score.

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Speaker 1: I got a score because if I don't score, we're

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Speaker 2: Or what do you want us to do?

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Speaker 1: And that's just not a good look. I can't tell

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Speaker 2: Listen, I ain't even got to watch the huddle on TV.

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Speaker 2: I don't have a report. I don't have because I

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Speaker 2: they did get Diamond Miller and Karlie lu Samuelson and

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Speaker 2: I feel like Diamond could be an asset to a team.

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Speaker 2: She was starting to develop more. She got injured early on,

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Speaker 2: that and that is just I just don't I just

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Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know. Like I'm not saying that

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Speaker 2: there aren't other people on that coaching staff, Like I

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that it ain't other people that can

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Speaker 2: Like there's a lot of movement that's gonna happen in

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Speaker 2: Could be a part of another situational trade, could be

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Speaker 2: you know anything, Right, So there is some possibility of

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Speaker 2: her being on another team, But just as of today,

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Speaker 2: so excited about Dallas at the beginning of this season.

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Speaker 2: I saw, my gosh that pieces that they were getting.

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Speaker 2: I was like, yo, I am high on this and

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Speaker 1: And Okay, here's here's my question. I'm just gonna ask

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Speaker 2: Okay, what do we do?

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Speaker 1: Melissa leaving going to Vegas I think was a great

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Speaker 1: move for Vegas, not not so good for Dallas. Dejanee

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Speaker 2: I am there with you, huge fan of Diamond Miller.

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Speaker 1: I think she has so much talent, so much potential

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Speaker 1: you got to be in the right situation, the right organization,

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Speaker 2: Is that with Dallas? To your point, I don't, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Then you waive Tierra McGowan. I will say that does.

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Speaker 2: Not me at all.

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Speaker 1: I said at the beginning of the season, I didn't

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Speaker 1: Tiera mcowan. When she is balling, she's she's very difficult

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Speaker 1: to defend, right, Yeah, So I bring all that up,

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Speaker 1: and there's a player that I haven't brought up that

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Speaker 1: I'm about to. I'm confused because even even o Rique

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Speaker 1: A Rique is not playing like Arique. Tierra wasn't playing

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Speaker 1: like Tierra. So what what is it? Maybe Dallas is saying,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we're just gonna start all over. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go young, and we're gonna try to around Page.

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Speaker 2: To me, that's what it's looking like. And that might

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Speaker 2: this was a team that literally just supposedly was in

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Speaker 2: a rebuilding phase, like that was the point of the

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Speaker 2: Irique and then having Sa too and then you know

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Speaker 2: the possibility of adding Page, but then Satu leaves and

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Speaker 2: then like it just felt like how many opportunities or

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Speaker 2: how many times are we going to say that Dallas

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Speaker 2: Where is the build? You know what I mean? Like

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Speaker 2: it reminds me and I don't always like to do

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Speaker 2: for years we were like, damn, where's you're building in

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Speaker 2: your building? And you and you and there's a process

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Speaker 2: and there's a process. Then it got Joel and Beid

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Speaker 2: and then his nickname became the process and now we like, damn,

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Speaker 2: we still have we still haven't gotten what the promised

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Speaker 2: land was supposed to be. I says, I feel you.

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Speaker 1: I am there with you. I was one of the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, I did. I did. I did not see.

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Speaker 2: I did not see Dallas being this Dallas me either.

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Speaker 2: I just didn't and I didn't either. And because of that,

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Speaker 2: I have a lot of questions. I'm not gonna put

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Speaker 2: it all on the.

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Speaker 1: Coach, because the the GM is the one pulling the streets.

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Speaker 3: It's all I'll say. But that's all I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 3: mm hmm, Okay, I'm gonna let that Lae. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: let that rocket comment.

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Speaker 2: I'm not you ain't gotta come not.

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Speaker 1: But players also have to take accountability too, so you

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Speaker 1: can't put it all on on the coach or the GM.

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Speaker 1: But I do believe Dallas is better than an eight

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Speaker 2: I agree with you one hundred percent. And at the

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Speaker 2: between Dallas and what I see going on in LA

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Speaker 2: because Dallas's head coach used to be Letricia Tramil. Electricia

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Speaker 2: Tramil is now on staff in LA special assistant to

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Speaker 2: the head coach in LA than one. Several games in

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Speaker 2: a row have positioned themselves to be a playoff team,

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Speaker 2: and Rakia Jackson looks unstoppable. Say it again, as a

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Speaker 2: Ray Stevens better be in somebody's in myp conversation. Say

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Speaker 2: it again, Dereka Hanby been her, said again, And at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, cam Brink being on the court,

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Speaker 2: even though she's still getting her bearing and getting her footy,

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Speaker 2: her being on the court creates so much space and

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Speaker 2: makes this a completely different team that if y'all ain't

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Speaker 2: putting in respect on LA and it is not lost

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Speaker 2: on me that this turnaround shift started to happen and

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Speaker 2: my eyes when Letricia Trimmell got on that staff. And

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Speaker 2: so all I'm saying is sometimes if it ain't broke,

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Speaker 2: don't fix it. And I'll let that go in that order.

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Speaker 2: But if y'all ain't paying attention to the Sparks out here,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you're doing. You might need to

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Speaker 2: open your eyes and pay attention to the Sparks out

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Speaker 2: here because they are going to be a dangerous team

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to see them. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: And if I'm Indiana, I definitely don't want to see

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Speaker 2: them because they have been your achilles heel the entire season.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to see them. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: see them. That's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: The last few games that I've watched the Sparks play, Oh,

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Speaker 1: they they bad about it, and they are like, okay,

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Speaker 1: count us out if you want to. And and you

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring up the one player whose name you

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Speaker 1: didn't mention Kelsey Plum.

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Speaker 2: Kelsey Plump, but Kelsey Plum is like.

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Speaker 1: Not saying this is my team, but she's running it

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Speaker 1: she's playing.

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Speaker 2: She's having fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this this Sparks squad to me, and you said

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Speaker 1: her girl, Rakia Jackson, I'm gonna just call her my

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Speaker 2: Rakia Jackson is for real and I hate that she

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Speaker 2: got her.

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Speaker 1: There's so much that we could talk about this Sparks team,

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Speaker 2: The Sparks are for real. They making some noise.

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Speaker 1: And if I'm any team right now, I don't want

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Speaker 2: I don't want to see them. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: see them. Yeah. Definitely a team that we don't have

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Speaker 2: to keep our eye on as this season continues. No

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Speaker 2: trades per se happened with LA, but they did pick

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Speaker 2: up Alisa Peelee and sign her to a seven eight contract.

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Speaker 2: She was released earlier this year from the Minnesota Lynx,

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Speaker 2: and that doesn't surprise me at all. Considering that Lynn

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Speaker 2: Roberts was in Utah, Alisa played in Utah, it makes

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Speaker 2: sense to me. Another piece I love that for her

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Speaker 2: too as well. We're gonna take a quick break and

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Speaker 2: when we come back, we will talk about this other

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Speaker 2: player who I am so excited has just moved herself

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Speaker 2: My girl Slim is now a member of the Seattle Storm. Okay.

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Speaker 2: And I could not love this more for Britney sits

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Speaker 2: because as much as I believe that she deserves to

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Speaker 2: she finally got her moment be in Seattle, playing alongside

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Speaker 2: Skyler Diggins and Gabby Williams and Ezie Matd Magore and

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Speaker 2: Mekka Agooma Cake Babe be Erica Wheeler. Site's about to

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Speaker 2: love it. She is such a defensive guard like Slim

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Speaker 2: is about to be so good in Seattle, and I

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Speaker 2: love that for them. Seattle's good for her and she's

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Speaker 1: One piece that I've been like with Seattle that I've

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Speaker 1: been like, God, they need they need another guard coming

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Speaker 1: off the bench, and Slim could so be that guard

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Speaker 1: right he got right now with their starting Erica Wheeler, Skyler,

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Speaker 1: Gaddy but you can, you can even move Eweezy to

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Speaker 2: At the hell of a lineup. That's a problem. That's

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Speaker 2: a problem. That's a whole problem. And when you look

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Speaker 2: at the Seattle defense, they already got the second best

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Speaker 2: her on my All defensive team many times. Like she

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Speaker 2: the girl can ball, and even though she's probably gonna

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Speaker 2: would not be surprised if Noh was like, let's just

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Speaker 2: she will absolutely be coming off the bench. But if

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00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 2: she was to start ahead of Erica Wheeler, I couldn't

431
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 2: be mad of it. I couldn't be mad about it.

432
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 2: I just I love this for her. She literally and

433
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 2: instantly went to a contender team. Which is something that

434
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 2: I love for both her Andie is that they had

435
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 2: the talent, their talent wasn't fully showing the way that

436
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 2: it could with the teams that they were currently on. Well, actually,

437
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 2: in a let me take that back, let me walk

438
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,239
Speaker 2: that back, because I think Britney's talent is still going

439
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 2: to be shown, but will be shown in a different

440
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 2: way because she's not going to be a starter, whereas

441
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 2: Djane going to Minnesota, she's playing around players that see

442
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 2: the floor differently. Their offensive rating is higher and the

443
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 2: Feasta calli eras out when she made her debut, so

444
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 2: her usage was different. Like it's just so, it's just

445
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 2: these were great moves, Like I really enjoy the movement.

446
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: I think these were great moves, and so I love

447
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 2: what Britney Sites can bring to to Seattle. In return,

448
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 2: Washington got Alisha Clark. Alisha Clark is very familiar with

449
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 2: the Washington Mystics. She won a championship with the Washington Mystics,

450
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 2: so it's not like this is a new place in

451
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 2: a new experience for her. However, the Mystics is a

452
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 2: very different team now than it was when she was

453
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 2: there previously, but to her credit, she does get to

454
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 2: play alongside Sonya and Kiki and some great rookies who

455
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 2: can help bolster. I think just her presence and her

456
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 2: mentorship to those players are going to be incredible. And

457
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 2: Washington is still going to be a team that can

458
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 2: really disrupt. I believe can really disrupt some people's playoffs

459
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 2: hopes and playoffs potentials. And I would love being that team. Like,

460
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 2: if I know that my team may not be guaranteed

461
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 2: to be a playoff team, I want to be the

462
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 2: team to make sure your ass don't get in. If

463
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 2: I can't get in, can't nobody, Yeah, no doubt. Let

464
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 2: me be the spoiler. Let me be the spoiler.

465
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: Let y'all come in here thinking because we ain't in

466
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: the playoffs, then we ain't about to play, like period,

467
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: I meet the girl, I oh yes, yes, I'd be like, Okay, well,

468
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: if we ain't in it, y'all ain't gonna be in it.

469
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 2: If we got something to do, and then it ain't

470
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 2: nobody finna be in. Ain't nobody gonna play. But they

471
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 2: got a Leasha Clark, they got Zia Cook, and they

472
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 2: got a twenty twenty six first round pick. So I

473
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 2: feel like that was a good move for Washington. It

474
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 2: Washington didn't they wave Zia. They did wave Zia but

475
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: I guess what I'm saying is excuse me speaking futuristically

476
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 2: crazy to me, but which I mean you could use. Yeah,

477
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 2: But speaking futuristically, I think it was a good move

478
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 2: for Washington because you got some pretty good value for

479
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 2: Britney Sykes, sites gets to play for a contender. You

480
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 2: get a twenty twenty six first round pick, and that

481
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six first round draft. Twenty twenty six draft

482
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 2: is gonna be nice and you probably won't be like

483
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 2: you probably won't be a lottery pick, but you I mean,

484
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: it could be a lottery pick. It depends on how

485
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 2: the balls fall. But at the end of the day,

486
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 2: I think you got very good value to help build

487
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: around the young pieces that you got. It's conversations about

488
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 2: them possibly moving Aliyah Edwards. I have seen the valkyries.

489
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 2: I have seen Chicago. I've seen quite a few names.

490
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 2: I mean, Connecticut need to be a been there. They

491
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 2: need to be looking at trying to get Aliyah. But

492
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 2: according to Washington, they're still talking about they not They're

493
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: not looking to do any trades. They don't know anybody.

494
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 2: You know. Sidney Johnson is like, that's above me. I

495
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 2: don't have any thing to say about that. Blah blah

496
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. But with all of that being said,

497
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 2: I just think that this is a good position for

498
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 2: Washington to be in to literally use you talk about

499
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 2: building for the future, This is a good position for

500
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 2: them to be in to build for the future, and

501
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 2: a great position for Brittany to go to a team

502
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 2: where she can actually win now. So yeah, it's been

503
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 2: a very very interesting few days as it relates to

504
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 2: the trade deadline, as it relates to moves that were made.

505
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 2: Can't forget Emma Mesa men going bast Re signing with

506
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 2: New y Love that for her for New York. How

507
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 2: about Cheryl Reeves comment she made the wrong decision, She

508
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 2: made the wrong decision. I ain't mad as Cheryl, though

509
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: I love Let's say I'm not.

510
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: I was trying to think, like what peace New York

511
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: needed in addition to you know, uh, when they picked

512
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: up Tosh Cloud, I was like, what what position do

513
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: they need or what player could they use that could

514
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: almost guarantee them another championship? And Amisaman could be that

515
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: player For people who don't remember her or know her game, Oh.

516
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: She is the truth and she she's like a silent assassin.

517
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: And and right now the way they're playing with Stewie.

518
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 2: Out, who they need New.

519
00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: York, New York, Uh, New York just they just not

520
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: better better with her.

521
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, one percent. She is someone who is so versatile,

522
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 2: so great around the rim. I mean, she's a three

523
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: time MVP in euro League for a reason, back to back.

524
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 2: And it's funny because John Quoe Jones said in a

525
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 2: statement yesterday I want to say, or recently she said,

526
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 2: Emma Messa Men and Natasha Cloud are now my teammates.

527
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 2: My biggest heartbreak have now become like my biggest joy,

528
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 2: my biggest it because John Quell was on that Connecticut

529
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 2: team that lost to Emma and Natasha Cloud in twenty

530
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 2: nineteen in the WNBA finals and so and Emma Mesa

531
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 2: Men was finals MVP. So just you know, she's still

532
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 2: getting the hang of it. You I don't got to

533
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 2: tell you, but everybody knows who follows the league that

534
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: practice time and things like that is not something that

535
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: is a luxury that you are not afforded in the

536
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 2: WNBA on a regular basis. So you kind of sometimes

537
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: have to learn on the fly when you are traded

538
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: or when you are like an n season transaction, and

539
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 2: that's what Emma is kind of having to do, Like

540
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 2: she kind of had to just sign and get thrown

541
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 2: in and kind of learn on the fly. But she's

542
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 2: such a smart player that it makes so much sense

543
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 2: that she'ld be able to fit right into that New

544
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 2: York Liberty schematic and really make a difference, especially with

545
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 2: Stewie being out. So you know, New York has done

546
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 2: the right thing with getting themselves a player that can

547
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 2: keep them afloat until Stuie is back off that bone bruise.

548
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 2: But there is so much that we have coming up

549
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 2: in the W and so much more that we're gonna

550
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 2: have to have an opportunity to discuss. The playoff picture

551
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 2: is something that I know you and I will definitely

552
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 2: talk about. But with all that being said.

553
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 3: Is.

554
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: We're just gonna have to come back next week or

555
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 2: week after or whenever and kind of like break down

556
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: what this playoff picture is really gonna look like, because

557
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: I got a feeling that the way these standings look

558
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 2: right now, somebody is gonna shift, And I'm gonna tell

559
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 2: you who I think somebody is. Las Vegas Aces Wait

560
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 2: shift as in shift as in fallout.

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00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I listen, you know, I'm I'm that person

562
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: that says I never count out an Asia Wilson team.

563
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: But I'm also that person that's realistic in saying Asia

564
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: Wilson needs some help, and I don't know, I don't know.

565
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 2: Where that is.

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00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you on the on the playoff picture,

567
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: I could see the Golden Saate Valkyrie is trying to,

568
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: you know, ease up in that that that a spot.

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00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 2: I just I like this.

570
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: Team, but the Sparks too.

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00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 2: I just I don't know.

572
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: We absolutely have to come back and have another conversation

573
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: around playoffs and where teams are and who we think

574
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: will make it, because I think it's gonna be some surprises,

575
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: and you're right, Vegas could be the biggest one that

576
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: we're talking about not being in the playoffs.

577
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. If LA continues to play the way that they play,

578
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 2: that is my sadly, that is my bold prediction is

579
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 2: that if Lah's playing the way that they're playing, Golden

580
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 2: State is going to stay a playoff team and move up.

581
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 2: Las Vegas might fall out and the Sparks might slide

582
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 2: in and be that team to to get into the playoffs.

583
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 2: So we will see, but we're gonna go ahead and

584
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 2: close this thing out, so we will be back to

585
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 2: level on off right after this. So yeah, sure, a

586
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 2: lot of movement going on, a lot of people in

587
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 2: a lot of different places, and I want to take

588
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 2: this as an opportunity just kind of update our fans

589
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 2: really quick on where everybody is currently. So you know,

590
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 2: when you talk about team movement and player movement, like

591
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 2: where is everybody fighting for? And so as of now,

592
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 2: as of today, you know, Minnesota is still sitting firmly

593
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 2: number one. They have officially clinched a spot in the playoffs.

594
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 2: The New York Liberty is two, the Dream of three,

595
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 2: Phoenix is four, Vegas is five, Indiana is six. In

596
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 2: the standings, The Golden State Valkyries are sitting number seven.

597
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 2: They are on their way to being the first expansion

598
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 2: team to clinch a playoff birth and then at number

599
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 2: eight is the Seattle Storm So nine, ten, eleven, twelve,

600
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: and thirteen, while thirteen and twelve in eleven, Dallas, Chicago,

601
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 2: Connecticut are pretty much out of it. The Sparks and

602
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 2: the Mystics have a case. So definitely keep your eye

603
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 2: on seven through eight.

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00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I want to say this real quick. The

605
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,439
Speaker 1: Sparks are playing really well right now. I could see

606
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: the Sparks moving into.

607
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 2: Eight or seven.

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00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: So yep, excited that the Valkyries are doing what they're doing,

609
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: but they better keep playing because the.

610
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 2: Sparks are now. I can see them.

611
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: Getting into the playoffs and I would not want to

612
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: be the team to play them in the first round

613
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: because the Sparks are playing really, really, really well right now.

614
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 2: They are.

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00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: Last thing I want to say, Tea, because we didn't

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00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: mention it. Just want to send a shout out and

617
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: good vibes to Sid Colson and to Aery McDonald man.

618
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: I hate that for both of them. Yes we're playing

619
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: really well, but want to send good thoughts and vibes

620
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: and get well soon, healthy, rehab, all those things to the.

621
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 2: Two of them. Absolutely hate to see players go down,

622
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 2: but especially players like them who play really hard, great energy,

623
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 2: great vibe. Yeah, definitely sending our love to them. So

624
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 2: I'm sure how you're gonna level us out today? Well,

625
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 2: I got a good one.

626
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: I got a good one, and it kind of applies

627
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: to me right now because I, as I shared before,

628
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: was just feeling sorry for myself a little bit after

629
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: my doctor's visit. But it says, and this is by

630
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: forgive me if I pronounce the name wrong, but it's

631
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: Sancheta Pandy.

632
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 2: Do you know that name?

633
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: Nope, And it says, never let the things you want

634
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: make you forget the things you have.

635
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 2: Mm m m hmmm mm hmmm. Perspective.

636
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I needed that for my soul today.

637
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: Yep, yep. Very good perspective on lose sight of what

638
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 2: you have for things that you want. Love that great perspective.

639
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: Thank you for that, Thank you for that word and

640
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 2: for that message, and thank to all of you for

641
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 2: continuing to listen to Levels to This. We will be

642
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: back next week with more Next Level conversations just about

643
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 2: the real shit that women go through. And I want

644
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 2: to share in this moment that I always tell you

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Speaker 2: Until then, keep your mentals ground level and we will

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