Speaker 1: Welcome back, guys, to fund around and find out. It's
Speaker 1: your girl, Ashanti. And today we have a very special guest.
Speaker 1: I know we say that all the time, but I
Speaker 1: really mean it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: After a legendary career at Stanford, she was the twenty
Speaker 1: fourteen number one draft pick, Rookie of the Year, and
Speaker 1: two time WNBA All Star. Now, she's an ESPN analyst
Speaker 1: and trailblazer in sports media as the first black woman
Speaker 1: to host a national daily sports radio show and the
Speaker 1: first active professional athlete to hold a full time national
Speaker 1: sports broadcasting position while still playing in the league. She
Speaker 1: also has a new podcast and digital show that just
Speaker 1: launched in March, Chane Today.
Speaker 2: Welcome chanee o.
Speaker 3: Good Okay, what's up girl? Oh that's so cute. Oh
Speaker 3: she's in so hard when you were saying all that.
Speaker 3: And also, legendar girl, you do it a lot, you
Speaker 3: do it a lot.
Speaker 2: I don't know about legendary. Listen.
Speaker 1: First of all, you're getting all the flowers on this
Speaker 1: show because listen, there's no me without you. You are
Speaker 1: a trail blazer, Okay, you are setting the standard. I
Speaker 1: know every time I tune into a show and I
Speaker 1: see you there, I see myself and I see other
Speaker 1: young girls who look like us, So it means so
Speaker 1: much for real to have you on like you are
Speaker 1: a dream guest.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I can't even process that. I just
Speaker 3: got goosebumps. It doesn't feel real to me. I still
Speaker 3: feel like I'm out to prove so much and I
Speaker 3: want to represent us so well, and just for you
Speaker 3: to say that, it takes me back, girl, It takes
Speaker 3: me back because when I started, it was not like this.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I was a cure.
Speaker 2: I was on the struggle bus. People didn't know how
Speaker 2: to say my name. Where are we? Hey?
Speaker 3: Hey, but you know what, shout out to glo ups,
Speaker 3: shout out to glops.
Speaker 2: Okay, I know that's right. Oh man, thanks for having me,
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on. Another thing.
Speaker 1: You know. I also want to mention you're Nigerian. I
Speaker 1: did my twenty three and me I'm also Nigerian from
Speaker 1: the e Bow. Try hello.
Speaker 2: What's your percentage? Girl? What's your percentage? You know it? Six?
Speaker 2: See six? You in there, in there, in there and there.
Speaker 2: At this point, I need a new name.
Speaker 3: Amaka amaca beautiful come on, Amca.
Speaker 1: It just came to me.
Speaker 2: Do you like that? Ashanti am I love that? Okay?
Speaker 2: Your forever a maka to me from that one.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna change my Instagram name after we be
Speaker 1: done with this. But speaking of that, there's a photo
Speaker 1: that we're gonna have someone send you, because girl, why
Speaker 1: everyone and their mom been calling me Meka.
Speaker 2: I went to the w n B A draft. We
Speaker 2: actually saw each other there.
Speaker 1: And they took pictures of me on the orange carpet
Speaker 1: and this like paper posted me as like one of
Speaker 1: the you know, most fashionable looks and my name is
Speaker 1: Necho there.
Speaker 2: First of all, yes, you were most fashionable. I came
Speaker 2: up to you. I was like, I need that. I
Speaker 2: need that now.
Speaker 3: One two, what we're doing, there's too many times where
Speaker 3: we're making this mistake. I just had to go on
Speaker 3: threads and correct somebody too, and I said put them
Speaker 3: in jail, like what's going on here?
Speaker 2: It's not that hard.
Speaker 3: But three three, I will say you do favor us
Speaker 3: to some degree.
Speaker 2: Heavy on that sixty percent.
Speaker 3: Okay, heavy on that sixty Even when you send this picture,
Speaker 3: I looked.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I can sort of see it.
Speaker 3: But first of all, out fit tea hair goodlam amazing,
Speaker 3: send me the shirt and you my sister from another
Speaker 3: mister clearly okay, but like, can we do better? Can
Speaker 3: we like proofread these photos? We used to proofread words.
Speaker 3: Can we proofread these photos?
Speaker 2: Mind you?
Speaker 1: They ask for my name, They're like, can you say
Speaker 1: your name into this mic? Like wrote it out everything
Speaker 1: just for them to call me Neka.
Speaker 2: But you know what, shame? I am shame? You want
Speaker 2: to get thrown shame? Yes, the walk of shame.
Speaker 3: Hey, we'll take it though, come on, come on, sister
Speaker 3: number five.
Speaker 1: You heard it here first, y'all, y'all heard it here first.
Speaker 1: But anyways, thank you, thank you so much. That definitely
Speaker 1: just made my day. I definitely want to hop into
Speaker 1: some things that you got going on. And our girl
Speaker 1: AZ has gone on, so there's a huge announcement. By
Speaker 1: the time this comes out, it's already out. I want
Speaker 1: to say congratulations to A Z for signing with Project B. Yay,
Speaker 1: and this is you know major and you you play
Speaker 1: a role in Yes, I Project B.
Speaker 4: Tell us more? How are you involved in Project B?
Speaker 2: First of all, congratulations to a Z.
Speaker 3: But I'm also excited to share that I am an
Speaker 3: advisor to Project me because, as you know, Shanti or Amaka,
Speaker 3: as you know, basketball love it. Basketball just means so
Speaker 3: much to me, and being able to share the game
Speaker 3: globally has been my mission. I know, people see me
Speaker 3: all over the world. I was just in Rwanda in
Speaker 3: the middle of the Eastern and Western Conference finals. I've
Speaker 3: traveled the world. I've played in Italy, I played in China.
Speaker 3: Did my sister who played in Russia. She's played in Poland,
Speaker 3: She's played in China as well. And I feel like
Speaker 3: this is a great opportunity to fill the gap, you know,
Speaker 3: especially with women's hoops, and to be able to bring
Speaker 3: the game to so many more fans. So you can
Speaker 3: add me to the list as an advisor with Candice Parker,
Speaker 3: Lauren Jackson, Cheryl Miller, Sloan Stevens, who I adore, Novak Djokovic.
Speaker 3: This is a squad that's really on the ground floor,
Speaker 3: and so I think it's also important to note because
Speaker 3: you know, I'm someone that like is very heavy into research.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Yes, my team, I'm sure Asy's team have done extensive
Speaker 3: research about Project B. We've done our homework, and you know,
Speaker 3: I think it's important to say that when it comes
Speaker 3: to the investors and the partners. Project B has maintained
Speaker 3: because a lot of people have some you know, conversation
Speaker 3: about like the league and have questions, Project B has
Speaker 3: maintained that every step of the way, there's no Saudi funding,
Speaker 3: no Saudi investment, no Saudi ownership, and they are not
Speaker 3: currently engaged with the group and they haven't worked with
Speaker 3: them for a couple of years now, and so this
Speaker 3: is something that we have researched. This is something that
Speaker 3: we see as a great opportunity for people to grow
Speaker 3: the game globally, to grow their brands. And if you
Speaker 3: think about like the standards that we're experiencing right now
Speaker 3: with the WNBA and so many other leagues, Like the
Speaker 3: investment is there, and I feel like fans you know,
Speaker 3: around the world should be able to partake in it.
Speaker 3: I will probably get into the like the nitty gritty
Speaker 3: the leads on my show Chiney today. I know this
Speaker 3: is your show, but like, as you know, I'm very
Speaker 3: I take the stuff very seriously. So does Azy, So
Speaker 3: does my sister, so do my former teammates Alyssa Thomas,
Speaker 3: I know JJ that have all joined. We just like
Speaker 3: want to see the game continue to grow, and I'm
Speaker 3: just super grateful. I know that's my spiel. I'm done
Speaker 3: with my ted talk, but I'm so excited to be
Speaker 3: an advisor. I'm excited to see a Z join and
Speaker 3: and just help usher these girls as they make the
Speaker 3: next these women as they make this next step and
Speaker 3: this big step in their career.
Speaker 2: That's like my mission. So there you go go, period girl.
Speaker 4: You know ask to seventy six question. I know that's right, Okay.
Speaker 1: I just know I'm super excited to know that you
Speaker 1: are involved, to see that Easy is involved, especially because
Speaker 1: I know she loves to travel, that's all she's talking about.
Speaker 1: Especially she took that trip with Stepha Curry to China
Speaker 1: to see her fans out there. I mean, the girl
Speaker 1: loves to chapel and now she gets to travel and
Speaker 1: play the sport that she loves.
Speaker 2: So I think this is a great opportunity for her.
Speaker 1: And then also her dad played abroad and her mom
Speaker 1: also wanted to play abroad, but then she had her
Speaker 1: so it's just like full circle for her. She gets
Speaker 1: to do all the things that she loves to do,
Speaker 1: her family gets to be a part of it.
Speaker 4: I just I love it for her.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Also, like I think that's a great point to note
Speaker 3: because I even remember when Steph took ASY and I
Speaker 3: was like, first of all, shout out to Steph.
Speaker 2: For making sure, you know, women are front and center.
Speaker 3: Also because that's not a normal experience people see Asia
Speaker 3: on her tours as well, Like this is still very
Speaker 3: new for women's basketball, and to see that hype around
Speaker 3: not just stuff but also like the fans for Asy already,
Speaker 3: that to me was super cool. And then, like you mentioned,
Speaker 3: there's so many people that have you know, back this what.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call hoop OG's like back of my days.
Speaker 3: All the ogs before the WNBA was putting out seven
Speaker 3: figure deals. You know, we were going overseas and I
Speaker 3: think a lot of times because we wanted to spend
Speaker 3: more time at home.
Speaker 2: People thought that we didn't like it being overseas.
Speaker 3: It was grueling, it was hard to play year round,
Speaker 3: but no one would trade those experience.
Speaker 2: One because we're getting paid really well.
Speaker 3: But two because we got to see the world. I'll
Speaker 3: never forget. I played in Italy and I opened my
Speaker 3: back window, which was like terraces, and I just saw
Speaker 3: what you would think was like, was it Chloe Bailey,
Speaker 3: No Halle Bailey and reggae, Jan Page, you Me and
Speaker 3: Tuscany like that was that was what I had.
Speaker 2: That's what I had when I was playing in Italy.
Speaker 3: I went to China, the Hunan Province and we took
Speaker 3: a team that was relegated the year before that made
Speaker 3: it to the top. I actually had my career high.
Speaker 3: And also side note, ate some of the best fried
Speaker 3: chicken on my life playing in China, girl, Yes, and
Speaker 3: some of it came from McDonald's McDonald's. I know I
Speaker 3: got up to an excited question, but my point is,
Speaker 3: like I ate MCDs, I traveled. I remember being in
Speaker 3: China and so many people were there. I mean, you
Speaker 3: had the experience where people I knew I was the
Speaker 3: first black woman that they saw, you know, in these
Speaker 3: certain areas. But it also was like this off for
Speaker 3: women's basketball and I got to experience that. I went
Speaker 3: to Russia and saw my sister playing Course and they
Speaker 3: were like a top team. And I remember seeing Mekka
Speaker 3: when she was playing for Course and I'd go, you
Speaker 3: know you since you honorary Nigeria. Now they're Nigerians everywhere,
Speaker 3: and so when Neha joined them, when Naha joined the
Speaker 3: team in course, Russia, which by the way is very
Speaker 3: close to Ukraine, and at that time, people were like, hey,
Speaker 3: there's this like thing brewing.
Speaker 2: It was a little.
Speaker 3: Scary, but still there were people were like so on
Speaker 3: the weekends, there was a Nigerian community in Russia that
Speaker 3: came to all of Mecca's games just because Nekka was playing.
Speaker 3: For course, Like, there's so many cool moments about the
Speaker 3: game globally that we don't want to miss, and I
Speaker 3: think like Project B is bringing an opportunity to support
Speaker 3: these women kind of like in that Grand Prix style,
Speaker 3: which is like super exciting right now, where you go
Speaker 3: from city to city and you are treated really well
Speaker 3: and you know they understand the women that like they're
Speaker 3: signing up and that they're representing. And so I'm just
Speaker 3: I'm just glad to like you can tell the passion
Speaker 3: for the global game is here. For myself, I'm excited
Speaker 3: for Asy as well, but like it's there are a
Speaker 3: lot of really good memories overseas as well.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I had the opportunity to play basketball overseas and
Speaker 1: I was in Australia, Germany, Czech Republic, and I really
Speaker 1: think about what I've had those opportunities to travel and
Speaker 1: see the world in that way, Like it's just really
Speaker 1: different and I appreciate every moment of it and I
Speaker 1: would do it again if I had new knees.
Speaker 2: So, so where can we watch the games? You can
Speaker 2: watch the games on YouTube.
Speaker 3: The entire tour of Project B is accessible via YouTube,
Speaker 3: so that every fan everywhere can watch. There's no barriers.
Speaker 3: So I'm so excited that it'll be accessible for everybody.
Speaker 2: Congrats again to a Z. Shout out to her. You
Speaker 2: know you said the ogs.
Speaker 1: She's one of the first young US based born players
Speaker 1: to sign with the league.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, let me tell you az motion motion, I.
Speaker 2: Adore you cannot get exactly you know what.
Speaker 3: I really don't drink. I really don't drink. No, I
Speaker 3: just like girl, I listen to your show. I've been
Speaker 3: excited to like join and I just want to say
Speaker 3: for Azy, like, I am so proud of her. She
Speaker 3: handled you know, because I cover the game, going to Yukon,
Speaker 3: the injuries, the highs, the lows, getting to the pinnacle,
Speaker 3: being a professional, like the grace that she exudes as
Speaker 3: she's navigating her transition, and also like finding her game,
Speaker 3: which is found by the way, like it's there, like
Speaker 3: she's doing her thing. I just I met her mom,
Speaker 3: I met her brother during the tournament. I think she's
Speaker 3: just one of a kind. She I love that she is,
Speaker 3: you know, one of the stars of the league because
Speaker 3: I think she brings it so much positivity, joy, class
Speaker 3: and just represents like everything that's good in hoops. So
Speaker 3: she ain't here, but I gotta say for her people.
Speaker 4: Listen today, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for saying that, because they love
Speaker 1: you back one, But also I was gonna say, you
Speaker 1: always show support, Like I watch you the way you
Speaker 1: cover the game. I think your feedback is always fair
Speaker 1: and like positive and awesome. And my question was going
Speaker 1: to be, like, what about asy resonates with you, like
Speaker 1: either as a player or as a person, And any
Speaker 1: advice for our girl that you got in her rookie season.
Speaker 2: I got you, okay.
Speaker 3: So One, it's kind of ironic that I'm wearing this
Speaker 3: Shady the Stanford hoodie.
Speaker 2: Close your ears.
Speaker 3: I know Yukon is great, but like, the reason why
Speaker 3: I love Azy is because she reminds me of my teammates.
Speaker 3: She feels like a Stanford thoroughly. For me, she's a
Speaker 3: student of the game. She's a great teammate, she's a specialist.
Speaker 3: One thing that I knew playing for tar vand of
Speaker 3: Beer Hall of Famer was that she said, whatever you do,
Speaker 3: do it to the best of your ability.
Speaker 2: For me, I was athletic.
Speaker 3: I could finish, I could run, I could rebound, and
Speaker 3: I would just go at it moniacally.
Speaker 2: Right. Asy is a phenomenal shooter.
Speaker 3: She has some other she has other skills that are
Speaker 3: like more underrated because her shooting is so great. And
Speaker 3: so I think, as she's the type of player that
Speaker 3: I look at and I'm like, dang, I wish I
Speaker 3: could have played with her if these knees were different,
Speaker 3: you know, And that's what I admire. Let me tell
Speaker 3: you so that as a player, and then also it
Speaker 3: is not easy to be a number one pick, to
Speaker 3: be thrown into the fire and a circumstance with a
Speaker 3: new coach, with a number of players and teammates that
Speaker 3: are veterans that you know have the ball, and then
Speaker 3: to be able to go into that circumstance.
Speaker 2: Because when I was drafted.
Speaker 3: Number one, I was in the good my team, we
Speaker 3: were at the bottom of the league. I knew I
Speaker 3: was about to play forty minutes a game. I knew
Speaker 3: I could shoot how many shots I wanted. Girl, we
Speaker 3: were going through.
Speaker 2: It, you know what I mean. But I was telling
Speaker 2: you got to go through it to get to it right.
Speaker 3: And so they're different as she has the like anomaly
Speaker 3: because she's a number one pick going to a good
Speaker 3: situation and that is so hard to navigate. And one
Speaker 3: thing I would advise her is like, don't let anyone.
Speaker 3: Don't make yourself small to make anybody else comfortable. Don't
Speaker 3: let anyone dim your shine because when she is great,
Speaker 3: she's the type of player that you win. Everyone else
Speaker 3: plays better because she's so smart. She doesn't turn over
Speaker 3: the ball like when she is aggressive. It's a better
Speaker 3: thing for the team. And so I learned this lesson
Speaker 3: in a big way. When I left, and I said left,
Speaker 3: I traded, but I sort of forced my way out
Speaker 3: of Connecticut to Los Angeles. And when I was there,
Speaker 3: I was an All Star already. I was so excited
Speaker 3: as a number one pick. But I was playing with
Speaker 3: Kandice Parker, I was playing with Mekka, I was playing
Speaker 3: with Chelsea Gray, and I sort of made myself small
Speaker 3: mentally because I didn't want to disturb what they had done.
Speaker 3: They want a championshi up in twenty sixteen, like I
Speaker 3: want to win a championship Like so, I it was
Speaker 3: cool coming off the bench, but I think I made
Speaker 3: myself small to make others comfortable instead of just being
Speaker 3: like when I'm I know I play the right way,
Speaker 3: like I know I hustle, I know I can lead, Like,
Speaker 3: let me take up space. And that's my advice to her,
Speaker 3: don't be afraid to take up space. And because she's
Speaker 3: such a pure hooper in all aspects of how she
Speaker 3: is coachable and how she approaches reads like, so that
Speaker 3: is my heart to heart sister advice to Azy.
Speaker 2: She already got it though, Like she got it good.
Speaker 2: She got it good.
Speaker 3: It's just about you know, taking a day by day,
Speaker 3: possession by possession, and just submitting to the process. And
Speaker 3: you know, Neck and I always talk about this because
Speaker 3: she's navigating her own journey as well. It's like when
Speaker 3: you do things the right way, that is what truly
Speaker 3: is sustainable, not only for you playing a game, but
Speaker 3: also for your entire career. And so everything ends up
Speaker 3: working itself out and I'm sure everything will work out
Speaker 3: for her.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh my goodness, girl, I'm feeling motivated.
Speaker 4: Like that is really great advice for real.
Speaker 1: And yeah, like Asy plays the game the right way,
Speaker 1: Like as he plays the game the right way.
Speaker 4: I love the advice about taking up space.
Speaker 1: Like full stop, full stop and fully who you are
Speaker 1: in take up space.
Speaker 4: I love that she's gonna love that. Thank you got, y'all.
Speaker 1: So I do want to talk about more of what
Speaker 1: you got going on. Let's tell us more about today. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Today is a new digital show with Omaha and ESPN,
Speaker 3: and I'm thrilled because, as you know, I'm on my
Speaker 3: fifty eleven shows. Okay, and it is a lot, but
Speaker 3: it is a blessing and I don't take these opportunities
Speaker 3: for granted. My primary responsibility is being on NBA Today
Speaker 3: every day. Then I'll be on Sports Center. I'll be
Speaker 3: debating first Take right, stephen A. I'll DONBA Countdown. I
Speaker 3: used to do NBA Countdown right, So I did a
Speaker 3: lot of shows and primarily I covered the NBA. But
Speaker 3: the last four years, you know, I've been waiting for
Speaker 3: this opportunity, but like finally they free me a little bit,
Speaker 3: and so I got to go back to covering the
Speaker 3: W and women's basketball.
Speaker 2: Lord, I was just like, you know, but hey, it
Speaker 2: all worked.
Speaker 3: Out, and I just started realizing that the same way
Speaker 3: that you can love what Asia Wilson is doing, or
Speaker 3: what As is doing, or what Page is doing, or
Speaker 3: what anybody in the W is doing, is the same
Speaker 3: way that you could have just followed the New York
Speaker 3: Knicks and love Jalen Brunson and Ognaobi and victuawebbing Yama.
Speaker 3: When you're a hoops fan, it all can exist in
Speaker 3: one conversation. And so that's what I'm trying to create
Speaker 3: with Shane today because that's my existence.
Speaker 2: One hour, I'm.
Speaker 3: Talking, oh my gosh, what does this mean for the
Speaker 3: future of the San Antonio Spurs, And the other hour,
Speaker 3: I'm saying, all right, we've got the New York Liberty
Speaker 3: taken on the Los Angeles Sparks, right, But whop fans
Speaker 3: now understand both because like it's been a fight for
Speaker 3: so long for people to realize like the power, potential
Speaker 3: reality of what women's basketball players are doing. Like you right, Amaka,
Speaker 3: But but now I think we're out of playing fields
Speaker 3: where people like the divide has been bridged and you
Speaker 3: can be a fan of both. And I think more
Speaker 3: people are actually loving the w and women's basketball because
Speaker 3: you know, we got we got storylines, We've got people
Speaker 3: like playing the right way, Like you can see all
Speaker 3: aspects of the game, and it's like on the rise.
Speaker 3: So you're getting in at a time where you're on
Speaker 3: the rise with these players. And so TOAY Today is
Speaker 3: a digital show where we bring all of that together.
Speaker 3: If you're a hoop fan, we talk about all hoops.
Speaker 3: Everything gets covered, and then of course we talk about
Speaker 3: you know, some tea likes, you know, so cultural thing,
Speaker 3: come on, just some fun stuff.
Speaker 1: You have the audience who really want to hear about
Speaker 1: the stats and the hoops, and then the audience who
Speaker 1: want to hear about the little bit of the tea like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like they want to be like, oh did you
Speaker 3: see did you get to see Jordan Woods clutch?
Speaker 2: I was like, yes, I saw that, And I was like,
Speaker 2: dank when you drop it?
Speaker 1: Come on, come on she I'm surprised she didn't have
Speaker 1: them ready to go, like selling them outside of them.
Speaker 3: I would have been I would have been like this,
Speaker 3: like to my distributors like, can we expedite this ship?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: In New York, they already got that clutch on the streets, like, hey,
Speaker 3: you see the clutch here.
Speaker 2: This is one hundred percent this We'll get into it.
Speaker 2: But this shirt.
Speaker 1: Why Right after the win, I go outside of the
Speaker 1: watch party and they're already selling it. Championship. They were ready,
Speaker 1: they were ready. New York never plays, never play.
Speaker 2: Doesn't miss an opportunity to get a dollar. I respect it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm excited and they can look forward to
Speaker 1: seeing that twice a week.
Speaker 3: Yes, twice a week on ESPN, on YouTube everywhere. So yeah,
Speaker 3: check it out today. Subscribe comments like review, I appreciate
Speaker 3: you all.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait, I do want to know who is your
Speaker 1: dream guest, Like who do you want to interview? Like
Speaker 1: you have no it could be dead or alive. It
Speaker 1: all mattered dream guests number one guests.
Speaker 3: I have my I have my intruth, I have my
Speaker 3: intrusive thoughts, but I probably should keep my intrusive thoughts away.
Speaker 2: The first thing I said, the.
Speaker 3: Second thought, I'm gonna say my second thought. Okay, but everyone, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll do that for the side side. So my my,
Speaker 3: I think, like what came to my mind was Beyonce.
Speaker 3: I'm from Houston, you know, so like literally when I
Speaker 3: blinked close my eyes, I saw Beyonce.
Speaker 2: I would love to learn.
Speaker 3: From her, her work, ethic, her path, like her decision
Speaker 3: making all these things. Beyonce, by far is probably number one.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of who else, but yeah, Beyonce
Speaker 3: is the person I want to interview.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, that's a good one. Girl.
Speaker 1: That's pretty hard to top. Honestly, Beyonce, if you hear this,
Speaker 1: please come on this show too. Yeah, we can do
Speaker 1: a home at home please, I pray it right now.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we did tap on a little bit. You
Speaker 1: have a lot going on, you have your show coming out,
Speaker 1: doing the NBA Finals. I mean, as someone who has
Speaker 1: watched you and supported your career for many years and
Speaker 1: also another woman in sport, I want to know more about,
Speaker 1: like what life is like for you, like on the
Speaker 1: road traveling, krying of make these different shows different.
Speaker 2: You know, you got to cover so much.
Speaker 1: You're in New York, one day, you're in la and
Speaker 1: another day you're in Africa.
Speaker 4: The next day, so like tell us what that's like.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for this question, because it feels
Speaker 3: like a wellness check and people that ask this I
Speaker 3: appreciate because it feels like they care about Chinee the
Speaker 3: person and not Chaney like who they see on air,
Speaker 3: and so I get to sort of share what my
Speaker 3: day to day is.
Speaker 2: Whoo, so should we?
Speaker 3: I'm going to put in the context of probably the
Speaker 3: past three weeks.
Speaker 2: To be honest, from.
Speaker 3: February to now, I probably haven't been at my place
Speaker 3: here in LA for more than two nights in a row.
Speaker 2: That's how crazy the grind is.
Speaker 3: Because February we have Women's College Game Day, so we're
Speaker 3: leading into these big games. March we have the tournament.
Speaker 3: April we have the tournament that leads into the WNBA Draft.
Speaker 3: May starts the NBA playoffs, and then we go on
Speaker 3: the road for the Eastern or Western Conference finals and
Speaker 3: the NBA Finals. And then I'm also an ambassador for
Speaker 3: the Basketball Africa League, which I love and adore. As
Speaker 3: you know, I'm a Nija girl, best of the both worlds.
Speaker 3: I always tell people, you know, born and raised in Houston, Texas,
Speaker 3: but with Nigerian blood, American opportunities have helped transform me.
Speaker 3: But the Nigerian spirit of determination, African spirit, that essence
Speaker 3: has helped me like stay motivated and has changed my
Speaker 3: perspective on so much. But yeah, Drop popped over to
Speaker 3: Rwanda for the Basketball Africa League Finals, came back to
Speaker 3: work the NBA Finals. It's a lot. A day of
Speaker 3: my life is probably like on a slow day, I
Speaker 3: wake up, I go do hot yoga here in La
Speaker 3: I by around eight, so that's a six or six
Speaker 3: fifteen or like I stop playing girl. Let me tell you.
Speaker 3: Hot yoga gets me right. The sculpt class is it,
Speaker 3: and so I do that. I have a peloton treadmill
Speaker 3: over here. I'll like work on the treadmill. Then around
Speaker 3: by a I'm talking to my agent, disrupt the game.
Speaker 3: Just trying to make sure I have my businesses in
Speaker 3: order and like my meetings and my opportunities all in order.
Speaker 3: And then I have a show call every day at
Speaker 3: nine thirty in the morning to prepare for NBA today.
Speaker 3: I travel to NBA today downtown around ten, get there
Speaker 3: by ten thirty. I do research. I sit down with
Speaker 3: the researchers. So everything that you see on air, you
Speaker 3: know Jeremy Lynn actually asked me this during cause he's
Speaker 3: like stepping more into broadcasts. He's like, how do you
Speaker 3: do what you're doing? Like do you memorize you do this?
Speaker 3: I think because like I'm a creature of habit. I
Speaker 3: have a system. And also, let's be real here, Okay,
Speaker 3: as a woman, when I started where people didn't understand
Speaker 3: why a woman would be speaking on the NBA as
Speaker 3: a sports center analyst, I realize that people cannot deny
Speaker 3: facts and figures, and if I had an opinion like
Speaker 3: all the guys that played in the NBA, they would
Speaker 3: be like, what does she know?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: So I will always give you a format like saying,
Speaker 3: you know, Jalen Brunson is the best Knicks player in
Speaker 3: you know, NBA history. He's the best person to wear
Speaker 3: neck jersey. Why because his usage was this. His blah
Speaker 3: blah blah was that like, I will hit you with
Speaker 3: the numbers to support my theory. And that's largely because
Speaker 3: I realized that people would question my knowledge despite probably
Speaker 3: being like the highest quote unquote ranked like player like
Speaker 3: two time I'll start compared to like Perk or Richard
Speaker 3: or you know, but those guys are champions, so I
Speaker 3: can't even say that, but I guess my point is
Speaker 3: that I'll sit down with a researcher and that's my process,
Speaker 3: like my sacred time.
Speaker 2: For at least thirty to forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: I'm like looking at the numbers and then you know,
Speaker 3: go and do hair and makeup, do the show from
Speaker 3: twelve to one. At times I'm doing first take or
Speaker 3: get up as early as five in the morning, seven
Speaker 3: in the morning doing sports, and as late as ten PM.
Speaker 3: So it's a lot of TV. But I will say this,
Speaker 3: that's high season. In other seasons it gets at a
Speaker 3: little bit chill. But like you know, I feel bad
Speaker 3: because I'm not a good communicator despite what you see
Speaker 3: on air. So like, for example, Shanty, if you text
Speaker 3: me like, hey, girl, what's that how you doing? I'll
Speaker 3: be on air for a first take hit at eight
Speaker 3: in the morning. I'll see that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, what's that girl like?
Speaker 3: But I mentally respond, but I don't text you back,
Speaker 3: and then I'll go and do my job and then
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I got to get to shout a chancy.
Speaker 2: And then by the time I get home.
Speaker 3: Later that night, around like four, I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 3: got late night sports and I was like I'm hit.
Speaker 3: I'm like, dang, it's too late to hit her back.
Speaker 3: So it ends up snowballing. And so everyone knows if
Speaker 3: you want to catch me, sis, call me, because like
Speaker 3: call me and then my phone is ringing. I'm like,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just a different brain cell. So I'll
Speaker 3: be like, Okay, you know I'm a call girl. I'm
Speaker 3: not a text girl because text just get snowballed. So
Speaker 3: like that's my life. Or like I was in almost
Speaker 3: a different city, so I flew and I know this
Speaker 3: is getting super long, so please forgive me, but I.
Speaker 2: Was hearing keep going.
Speaker 3: I was here in La working in studio, just finished
Speaker 3: working WNBA. Then I go to San Antonio for Games
Speaker 3: one of the NBA Finals. I'm there for two days
Speaker 3: and then I fly to Bristol to go do two
Speaker 3: WNBA countdowns in Bristol, so I missed Game three of
Speaker 3: the finals. But then in the middle of that, I
Speaker 3: do Sports Center for Game three in Bristol, Connecticut. I
Speaker 3: make Thank God, Lord Jesus, I was assigned for Game four.
Speaker 3: I was there Game four at the Garden. Made that
Speaker 3: yes girl, And then I went home to LA to
Speaker 3: do studio shows on standby to travel back if it
Speaker 3: was going to be Nixon six. So that was a
Speaker 3: ping pong And then I'm back here and I'm doing
Speaker 3: studio work this week, but then I have to go
Speaker 3: do Bristol to do countdown for this weekend.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. Oh, I forget that. I'm
Speaker 2: like spilling so much tea because this is like early whatever.
Speaker 2: But it's okay, I'm eating it up. It's a crazy life.
Speaker 3: But like I you know, and I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 3: like I wish I had more control of like cause
Speaker 3: I'm a homebody.
Speaker 2: I don't get outside much.
Speaker 3: I just love, you know, watching these games at my house,
Speaker 3: eating food, watching TV shows. I wish I was able
Speaker 3: to be more intentional with like the other aspects of
Speaker 3: my life. But I get fulfilled its because like Mecca's
Speaker 3: back home in LA and so I get to see
Speaker 3: her a lot, get to go to her game.
Speaker 2: So like, life is good, but it is.
Speaker 3: A little chaotic. That's the super long answer. But that's
Speaker 3: like a little bit of my life.
Speaker 1: Well one, thank you for taking the time to chat
Speaker 1: with us, Okay, in that very busy scuest role.
Speaker 2: I do recognize this.
Speaker 1: And then two, how do you like take time to
Speaker 1: fill your cup?
Speaker 2: Girl? Like that's a lot.
Speaker 1: And I know your sister's back at home and you
Speaker 1: mentioned that, and I know you do a little bit
Speaker 1: of hot yoga, but it seems like you can't put
Speaker 1: two days together where you're not working. So how do
Speaker 1: you make sure you're not pouring from like an empty cup?
Speaker 3: To be honest, I am, and it's actually interesting that
Speaker 3: I'm like playing with my necklace. I am not good
Speaker 3: at that, and I'm trying to be more intentional about that.
Speaker 3: I'm even like trying to get a therapist because I
Speaker 3: feel like I need someone to hold me accountable to
Speaker 3: fill my cup. I just feel blessed because my name
Speaker 3: is chin So. Chinanya is Ebo and it means God gives.
Speaker 3: And my middle name is joy and so my mom
Speaker 3: always tells people be careful what you name a child,
Speaker 3: that's what they become every day. I feel so grateful,
Speaker 3: like to live my life, to have this job, to
Speaker 3: have this platform, that it just energizes me. It's just natural, right,
Speaker 3: But I've realized that, like I need to fill my cup, right,
Speaker 3: So I this is the like small things that I do.
Speaker 2: I'm not a late person because clearly I do too much.
Speaker 3: But like I'll go and have a solo lunch situation
Speaker 3: and I'll go to my favorite place because I don't
Speaker 3: live far from like Rodeo. It's called Ovra. I'll go
Speaker 3: have a lunch there, sit, bring a book, bring my computer.
Speaker 3: So I'm trying to like get outside more because I
Speaker 3: feel like being in La. I'm going at one point,
Speaker 3: at some point in my life, I'm gonna be like
Speaker 3: I lived in La, but I'm not like seeing the
Speaker 3: ocean and I not feeling the breeze. So I'm trying
Speaker 3: to intentionally get myself outside do things. I have like
Speaker 3: bucket lists of things. I want to go to one
Speaker 3: of those Candle Light Symphony kind of cool turnt up concerts,
Speaker 3: and so like that's my goal. That's definitely my goal.
Speaker 3: But I need help. So if you got ideas to
Speaker 3: help me, like, please pass them alone.
Speaker 1: Girl, that therapy that's gonna get you right, Start there.
Speaker 1: Start with that therapy.
Speaker 2: Right. You don't have to be on standby for work
Speaker 2: every second of every day. And I'm like, but.
Speaker 3: Okay, But to be honest, I get a lot of
Speaker 3: my joy from like you know, and my piece from
Speaker 3: like my home being at home because I'm not there
Speaker 3: that much.
Speaker 2: Girl. Let me tell you what makes me happy. I
Speaker 2: watched TV.
Speaker 3: I am If I was not a broadcaster or basketball player,
Speaker 3: I would be a TV critic. I would have TV
Speaker 3: shows about TV shows. I watch everything everything, and I
Speaker 3: have takes. I do listen to the podcast like I
Speaker 3: am a nerd for some good TV. Like I was
Speaker 3: at the finals and I freaked out because I saw
Speaker 3: John Taturo, who's like Severence.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, I love you on Severns.
Speaker 2: And everyone's running around.
Speaker 3: To like French Montana and all these people, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to like the acting nerds and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: watched the show.
Speaker 2: That's how it came.
Speaker 3: That's how I became friends with Common because oh there
Speaker 3: was there was a whole long situation about that because
Speaker 3: someone that works for Lloyd works for Common, and so.
Speaker 2: Mutual friends. And I was like comment yo, he was
Speaker 2: like heye.
Speaker 3: First of all, I said, hey, you cooked with your
Speaker 3: Amazon intro because he made the music of Amazon on MBA.
Speaker 3: I was like, bro, you cooked, and he's like, oh,
Speaker 3: thank you so much. And then I said, by the way,
Speaker 3: I watch you on Silo and you are amazing. You
Speaker 3: are amazing in that role. And so that's how we
Speaker 3: became friends because of me. He's like, oh, you really
Speaker 3: watched that show. It's kind of niche. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 3: all the way tapped in. I'm ready for the new season.
Speaker 3: It's out right now. He's like, you should come see us,
Speaker 3: like we I'm like out here getting invite it to
Speaker 3: London to go to them PROMI because so, like as
Speaker 3: you can tell, if there's a good show hit me,
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: So that's my life.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, wait quick sidebar.
Speaker 2: Have you watched Paradise? Have I watched Paradise and Sterling
Speaker 2: k Brown Chocolate Cardinals? Of course? God, so good. So
Speaker 2: I have so many theories.
Speaker 3: Love that man down same respect to his wife, his
Speaker 3: beautiful wife.
Speaker 1: Well one hundred percent, we're not even talking like that,
Speaker 1: Like he is in a phenomenal actor who is also handsome.
Speaker 2: Girl.
Speaker 1: I have some theories as well as far as that's
Speaker 1: gonna go for the listeners.
Speaker 2: Paradise is it is a TV show.
Speaker 1: It's on I believe Hulu, and I think there's some
Speaker 1: like time travel that's been going on.
Speaker 3: Oh and speaking of time travel, speaking of yes, girl,
Speaker 3: speaking of time travel. I just finished Outlander and I
Speaker 3: was I was in Outlander world for about a month after.
Speaker 3: I've watched probably the same seat, like I watched the
Speaker 3: whole show, the favorite seasons.
Speaker 2: See what does it seems like over and over girl.
Speaker 3: Jamie Fraser, James Fraser, James Malcolm Xander, Mackenzie Fraser.
Speaker 2: Do you watch the Government? Yes, I watched Oh my God,
Speaker 2: Hello and Claire Claire.
Speaker 1: But like, I'm not usually caught up, don't tell me anything.
Speaker 2: I was spoiling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay me that song. I'm not gonna do that
Speaker 3: gilded age down to you hit me like PhD and
Speaker 3: TV over here. Okay, but I know on this point.
Speaker 3: So the reason why it happened actually, and this is
Speaker 3: probably like part of my coping mechanism aka therapy. When
Speaker 3: I was at Stanford, I we were working so much,
Speaker 3: you know how it is like we're in the gym
Speaker 3: in class, like we had time for nothing. And so
Speaker 3: I started watching t G, I t Thank God It's Thursdays,
Speaker 3: How to Get Away with Murder, Gray's Anatomy, and Scandal.
Speaker 3: I used to have a blog y'all, and it's still
Speaker 3: up there somewhere on like WordPress.
Speaker 2: I used to have a blog called t TV Buffet
Speaker 2: with China.
Speaker 3: I don't know why made that that that name, like
Speaker 3: and this TV girl, I don't know, but I used
Speaker 3: to like it became appointment television for me to watch
Speaker 3: all those shows, and it was my life and that
Speaker 3: was like my escape and we'd like watch parties and
Speaker 3: so like that's where my fandom or TV doom came from.
Speaker 2: So fun facts, guys.
Speaker 1: Ooh okay, we low key went off a little bit
Speaker 1: of a crazy tangent. I do want to ask a
Speaker 1: couple questions about these NBA and the NBA finals.
Speaker 2: And we're going to get into some of our fun
Speaker 2: and games. Okay, okay, all right, you got so much
Speaker 2: to cut girl. Sorry, guys, no love it. It's amazing. Okay. So,
Speaker 2: there aren't a lot of analysts who cover both the.
Speaker 1: WNBA and the NBA at all equally, at least, so
Speaker 1: coming off the NBA Finals, how does it feel like
Speaker 1: to cover the w versus the NBA parallels in these leagues? Like,
Speaker 1: tell us about that because none of us, not a
Speaker 1: lot of us, have that experience.
Speaker 3: So there are so many parallels between the timelines of
Speaker 3: the NBA and the WNBA. A lot of people talk
Speaker 3: about thirty years into the NBA, you know, like where
Speaker 3: was it make those comps?
Speaker 2: All those types of things.
Speaker 3: I think currently, because of expansion, we are seeing those
Speaker 3: parallels in real time, and also because of the fouling
Speaker 3: and the refereeing and the points of emphasis. With expansion,
Speaker 3: we're getting more international players into the WNBA, which is
Speaker 3: awesome because there have been so many great players around
Speaker 3: the world that deserve to be able to make a
Speaker 3: name for themselves. More teams, more roster spots, and so
Speaker 3: now those top players that people have been playing with
Speaker 3: for years have the opportunity to come here and have
Speaker 3: more of a shot, right, And that's why we're seeing
Speaker 3: some of these like most Improved or Rookie of the
Speaker 3: Year conversations. Having a lot of these international players make
Speaker 3: a parallel to the NBA. The last eight NBA MVPs
Speaker 3: have been I think international players. A number of them
Speaker 3: in a row have been international players. Shae Gilt with
Speaker 3: Alexander Alexander from Canada, Right, So the international game is
Speaker 3: actually like shows a healthy, viable league.
Speaker 2: People like this is the destination.
Speaker 3: This is the top league in the world, and these
Speaker 3: top players are getting better because the NBA made a
Speaker 3: very concerned effort, you know, I would say decades ago,
Speaker 3: particularly under David Stern, to make it a global game.
Speaker 2: That's why we have the Basketball Africa League.
Speaker 3: That's why we have conversations about NBA Europe potentially, Like,
Speaker 3: that's why all these teams go and have these you know,
Speaker 3: they go to the Middle East store, they go to
Speaker 3: Asia to do these promotionals because they're huge, rapid fan bases.
Speaker 3: And so I think we're going to start seeing a
Speaker 3: very similar situation with the W and so like.
Speaker 2: That to me is cool. And then just the parallels
Speaker 2: and coverage.
Speaker 3: Oo lord, I don't know where I can get started,
Speaker 3: but like in the I think what I've seen is
Speaker 3: in the NBA, things tend to be like inbounds, Oh,
Speaker 3: he had a horrible game. You'll get some jokes off
Speaker 3: about him having a horrible game. But there's not so
Speaker 3: much of a social tie to those players that I
Speaker 3: see in the W. And I think it's largely because
Speaker 3: the W like these women are advocates, are leaders, they
Speaker 3: stand on causes, they have businesses, you're women are you know,
Speaker 3: multifaceted multitasking like bosses, right, and so when we show up,
Speaker 3: our existence literally opens the doors to so much whereas
Speaker 3: the guys is poor point I'm a hooper, you don't
Speaker 3: have these passions, but like they kind of just like
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And I think that was
Speaker 3: a survival necessity, right, because like as we experience in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty with social injustice and all those things, like
Speaker 3: who is going to advocate for us other than us?
Speaker 3: Like we you know, we know we have to, and
Speaker 3: so we put on so many hats and I think
Speaker 3: because of that, when we see the coverage, it can
Speaker 3: cross boundaries in ways that are great to help elevate
Speaker 3: players fans. We love to see it, right, like these
Speaker 3: women are walking in Victoria's Secret fashion shows, love Angel,
Speaker 3: like love Asia, like all these things that are happening.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, I think the hard part
Speaker 3: is sometimes we blur the lines with like criticism where
Speaker 3: things can get cruel at times and it's more personal,
Speaker 3: whereas I don't see it being as such, you know,
Speaker 3: on the other side, And to me, that's like the
Speaker 3: part that has been hard to negotiate. But it's also
Speaker 3: part of the process. Like I always tell people, with
Speaker 3: rapid growth comes growing pains, and so we'll take the
Speaker 3: good and we'll take some of the you know, improvement
Speaker 3: areas as we continue to grow. But like it's been
Speaker 3: hard as a broadcaster because there's so like there's so
Speaker 3: many different sensitivities. But I always focus on the game.
Speaker 3: I focus on uplifting the players. I focus on being
Speaker 3: a resource to those that like need to learn, that
Speaker 3: need access, that need information. While that may not be
Speaker 3: a hot take to me, it's like much more sustainable.
Speaker 2: So I hope that answers your question.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely, So where the game is now tons of improvement.
Speaker 1: Where do you want to see the game in the
Speaker 1: next three to five years.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're already there.
Speaker 3: Like we used to joke Naka and I when she
Speaker 3: was with Seattle at her own practice facility because the
Speaker 3: Storm have their own practice facility and they were flying
Speaker 3: charter jets. She's like, man, I didn't know I'd be
Speaker 3: around to see all the perks and to experience all
Speaker 3: the perks, But here we are. And we'd laugh about
Speaker 3: that because that was never a guarantee. It was a
Speaker 3: dream that has now become a reality. And so where
Speaker 3: do I see the league? These women are freaking amazing
Speaker 3: every year, like it gets better and better, and like
Speaker 3: not to circle back to the other conversation because I
Speaker 3: mentioned the fouls and the referees. What we're seeing in
Speaker 3: the W right now is what the NBA experience probably
Speaker 3: about ten or so years ago. They want free flowing games.
Speaker 3: You're gonna this is a year where the highest I
Speaker 3: think teams are averaging like ninety something points or maybe
Speaker 3: it's like high eighties, low nineties, the highest scoring average
Speaker 3: that we've ever experienced. Why because fans that want to
Speaker 3: come want to come and see good hoops. Not good hoops,
Speaker 3: they want to come see points. The more buckets, the
Speaker 3: more butts in seats, that's like a that's a statistic
Speaker 3: that clearly drives revenue at the league office. So the
Speaker 3: NBA made this auto correction a couple years ago, and
Speaker 3: that's where you know, we saw the point explosion, the
Speaker 3: three point explosion. Like the analytics and all those types
Speaker 3: of things. The W is starting to turn that corner
Speaker 3: and you can see they're was I was there at
Speaker 3: a game where there was seventy five free throws being taken.
Speaker 3: You know, I was there at the opening of the
Speaker 3: season between the Wings and the Fever where both teams
Speaker 3: scored one hundred, the highest ever scoring you know, opening day,
Speaker 3: And so I say that, like that's a parallel, that
Speaker 3: is the future of the WNBA that the players are
Speaker 3: gonna have to adjust to. And so like those are
Speaker 3: the things that like swirl around in my head that
Speaker 3: I think are like, really it's good for the game,
Speaker 3: but it just takes a little bit of a reset
Speaker 3: for these players.
Speaker 2: But like future, these women are dropping.
Speaker 3: Like haven't you seen the We've seen forty five, We've
Speaker 3: seen forty three, we've seen thirty eight, we've seen thirty six, we.
Speaker 2: Save fifty three?
Speaker 3: What asia Like, oh yeah, well, more like there's nothing else.
Speaker 2: The women are doing their part now.
Speaker 3: I think it's now like the business and the infrastructure
Speaker 3: we're seeing like freaking the Golden Set and you're gonna
Speaker 3: begin turned the Golden State. Valkyrie is becoming the first
Speaker 3: potential billion dollar valuation team. Toronto Tempo going crazy, representing
Speaker 3: an entire country, right like the Detroit You're on the clock, Cleveland,
Speaker 3: You're on the clock, Filly, you on the clock, Like Houston, Hello,
Speaker 3: you know, you know like what you know, we kind
Speaker 3: of like where the money reside, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: the future, the investment, right, So so what the players
Speaker 3: are doing their part? I think it's now getting the businesses,
Speaker 3: the owners, the teams. All those teams that aren't invested
Speaker 3: in facilities, y'all gonna get left. All those owners that
Speaker 3: are not investing in their team, y'all not gonna have players.
Speaker 3: Like that is where I see the growth coming, like
Speaker 3: the infrastructure, because the players are some badasses.
Speaker 2: They doing the thing.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited and I'm so glad we get to
Speaker 1: see it, and I believe we're gonna see this in
Speaker 1: our lifetime.
Speaker 2: So I can't wait. Thank you so much. Wait, I
Speaker 2: have a question for you. I have a question for you.
Speaker 3: And I noticed just around, but around and find out right,
Speaker 3: So like you can't say dubtas all right, but if
Speaker 3: you like, are you a season two?
Speaker 2: Are you a season ticket holder?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: What's your dream?
Speaker 3: Like you you rich auntie, you rich boss lady, you
Speaker 3: get to like pickote, what's your dream? I'm getting courtside
Speaker 3: season tickets scenario?
Speaker 2: Like what's your dream? Cause mine?
Speaker 3: Like when I'm done, Houston, I'm gonna be there like
Speaker 3: Houston comments support.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's the hometown.
Speaker 1: Oh what about you, that's easy, Liberty. I'm from New York.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, you're a Liberty girl.
Speaker 2: Liberty girl. Listen, I'm already at the games.
Speaker 1: I just I need to get season tickets for the
Speaker 1: full season, but I'm already gonna be at every game,
Speaker 1: every home game.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be there if I'm in town.
Speaker 1: We heard that.
Speaker 2: You hear that?
Speaker 1: Uh huh, yeah, already they've already been You want me
Speaker 1: about that? You know when she came, she played the
Speaker 1: Liberty and gave them major buckets and beat them, and
Speaker 1: I'm over here gagged. But honestly, I already told her.
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for my girl no matter what. But I'm
Speaker 1: from New York. I've been a Liberty fan my whole
Speaker 1: entire life.
Speaker 2: So wait, should I say congrats to you also for
Speaker 2: the next then? Oh, my goodness, thank you for saying that.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, you're trying to compose yourself. Okay, I am
Speaker 1: a nick. I am so proud. I almost lost my
Speaker 1: voice and couldn't do this. I have been in the
Speaker 1: city streets all week, all week, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Excited for the parade.
Speaker 1: By the time this comes out out, Listen, if you
Speaker 1: catch me on a float, listen, I'm manifesting it.
Speaker 3: Do you know how many babies they're gonna be like, Oh, look,
Speaker 3: there's baby Brunson. Oh, here's baby NICKI, here's baby og Like,
Speaker 3: here's baby Josh.
Speaker 2: My child's middle name is gonna be og like. I
Speaker 2: don't know what to tell them. Okay, well you got
Speaker 2: that sixty percent, so you need it. It's not og.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be oh googlea so baby, Yes, every baby
Speaker 1: o Googla Yep, but I.
Speaker 2: Think he's Ebo too. Girl, I think he too.
Speaker 3: Look yeah, out here we out here here. And by
Speaker 3: the way, if you listen to this, you probably you
Speaker 3: both will you.
Speaker 2: Better look it up? You probably would us I put
Speaker 2: my money on it.
Speaker 1: You probably eat boys will It's a lot happening in
Speaker 1: the city, like uh so the Knicks just one.
Speaker 2: It was Puerto Rican Day parade.
Speaker 1: When this comes out, June teenth will be this Friday.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I don't know, Jue. I always love
Speaker 3: to celebrate if they give me a day off. So
Speaker 3: let me just tell you.
Speaker 2: I think I'm I might celebrate for you. You know
Speaker 2: what's kind of funny. I am going.
Speaker 3: I think it's a travel day for me, So maybe
Speaker 3: I'll travel a day early because June Teeth, New York
Speaker 3: City post Knicks parade might be a movie, might be
Speaker 3: a girl.
Speaker 1: If you're not here, I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be here for the parade? No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I know It's okay. I'm gonna tell them I'm not
Speaker 1: doing it for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. Let me wait. Do you want
Speaker 2: to know something?
Speaker 3: This is too much to you, but like, don't yo
Speaker 3: if you listen, don't clock me, okay, don't like spill
Speaker 3: a tea. I still carry one of Neca's old driver's
Speaker 3: license licenses from like when she was eight team because
Speaker 3: I don't know how I got it because Neck and
Speaker 3: I used to do some things like funny like this,
Speaker 3: and so anytime i'd be going to a hotel and
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, like I'm not home.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not at the hotel on the road.
Speaker 3: I say, don't worry, I got it. So they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: let me see I d They don't really look at
Speaker 3: the date like that, they just see the name, and
Speaker 3: so they'd be giving me keys Also when I was
Speaker 3: at Stanford, I remember I was sick and I couldn't
Speaker 3: make a class.
Speaker 2: Was like, necka, you pull up for me? NECKA pulled
Speaker 2: up for me. No one notices that. One person. One
Speaker 2: person was like, hold on a second. So, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna maybe I'll just ship you my little
Speaker 3: driver's license thing.
Speaker 1: And they'd be like, girl, our cratteas if I got
Speaker 1: a jock slice, but let me get I swear I'm planning.
Speaker 2: Everyone thinks we're the same anyways.
Speaker 4: I mean at this point, ah, girl, okay, that's.
Speaker 1: That our w NBA, our Juneteenth, our NBA all the tea.
Speaker 1: I want to move into our fudding games. Now we
Speaker 1: are at life fifty, so I think what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do is are what the fud of the week? Okay,
Speaker 1: so what the fun of the week? Is something that
Speaker 1: happened this week that made you say, what the fud?
Speaker 1: You are our guests, so you can go first if
Speaker 1: you like.
Speaker 2: That's so easy.
Speaker 3: This week, coming off the NBA Finals, what the fud?
Speaker 3: The Knicks come back from down twenty nine, go crazy.
Speaker 3: I was there in the arena. It was bunkers running
Speaker 3: into celebrity here, celebrity there. And the thing is I
Speaker 3: literally run into them because I'm wearing heels at like
Speaker 3: sixty three, and so I almost need Spike because he
Speaker 3: was down there.
Speaker 2: What the fud?
Speaker 3: The New York Knicks make the biggest NBA playoff, NBA
Speaker 3: final comeback and just light the city on fire.
Speaker 2: Like it just what? How does this? I still can't process?
Speaker 3: Come on, what I experienced on top of watching Game five,
Speaker 3: I still can't process fifty three years.
Speaker 2: Fifty three years? So yeah, what the fu three? New York,
Speaker 2: New York? You different New York? Is? They always say, oh,
Speaker 2: we built different New York. No, no, no, y'all really built different.
Speaker 2: Yes we are.
Speaker 1: I am so proud I am. And listen, work is
Speaker 1: right now. We are already insufferable. Now we are super insufferings.
Speaker 2: Okay, like people are like, no, no, but it's been good.
Speaker 2: It's been good. Yes, thank you, thank you for saying
Speaker 2: it's been good. I've been seeing it. Y'all been joyful.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much for saying that.
Speaker 3: But you got to We're gonna give you like two
Speaker 3: more weeks of this, all right, two more weeks then.
Speaker 1: Then what I guess we could move on from that,
Speaker 1: but let me say something. I'm stuck on this one
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. I'm telling my grandkids
Speaker 1: I was there at this point. I'm telling my grandkids
Speaker 1: I scored.
Speaker 2: I was in the game. Oh.
Speaker 3: I cannot ride the high until W and Ba all sudden,
Speaker 3: W and Bay all say we shift gears.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh absolutely, okay we are aligned on that, and
Speaker 1: then after all star I'm back.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine, that's fine, that's fine to the w playoffs.
Speaker 2: But I got you girl.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for joining us today. It
Speaker 1: is an honor to have you be a part of
Speaker 1: our show.
Speaker 2: What this was a pleasure.
Speaker 3: And thank you for having a therapy session for me,
Speaker 3: doing a wellness check on me, because clearly your girl
Speaker 3: needs to take a break. But this has been a joy.
Speaker 3: You have been a delight. A shawnte anything you need,
Speaker 3: anything you want. I'm here for saying thing for a
Speaker 3: Z so I'm a resource. I'm gonna throw you myself
Speaker 3: when we done.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, Girta, ma me crowd camera.
Speaker 3: You ca.
Speaker 2: I really really appreciate h. This was so fun, So
Speaker 2: thank you anytime.
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