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Speaker 1: Jump mission with Jones and Amanda. Do you know the term.

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Speaker 2: Great is much overused in sport, but there's no doubt

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Speaker 2: that Lauren Jackson is an athlete that deserves.

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Speaker 1: That description and more.

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Speaker 2: After bursting onto the scene as a teenager, she went

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Speaker 2: on to play in the world's top basketball league in

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Speaker 2: the States, captaining her country, winning medals at four Olympic Games,

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Speaker 2: helping the Opals to a World Cup victory in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and six, and now she's said to become the

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Speaker 2: first Australian player inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: The extraordinary Lauren Jackson Hula.

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Speaker 3: She's a big deal.

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Speaker 2: She sure is.

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Speaker 1: Hello, how are you going?

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Speaker 2: Oh so well? And congratulations to you. When I look

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Speaker 2: at the list of names in the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Dennis Rodman, Scottie People, Michael Jordan,

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Speaker 2: how do you feel you're there now? And it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's a dream come true, that's no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Like it's something that you know, was always in the

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Speaker 1: back of my mind, especially when I was playing in America,

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Speaker 1: and you know, as I was growing up as well,

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Speaker 1: I idolized those players, so you know, to be up there

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Speaker 1: alongside them, it's just so special.

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Speaker 2: When you were growing up, there wasn't much visibility for

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Speaker 2: women in women's sport. I know your mum was one

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Speaker 2: of the first athletes to go out and play in

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Speaker 2: America in the college system, but you it must have

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Speaker 2: been unusual for you to have the trajectory you've had.

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Speaker 1: Ah, Look, Mom and Dad, I guess I watched the

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Speaker 1: NBA all the time when I was growing up, a

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Speaker 1: kid of the eighties. You know, Bluck Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls.

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Speaker 1: But you know, my first biography was LK. Chamberlain's and

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Speaker 1: I used to read a lot about him. And because

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Speaker 1: I was so tall as well and he was so

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Speaker 1: I guess I kind of affiliated with him in that sense.

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Speaker 1: But Mom and Dad always like, you know, I'd say

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Speaker 1: to them, I'm going to play for Australia, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be the first woman in the NBA. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to do this. I'm going to do that. And they

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Speaker 1: never said you can't do that, so I would like

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Speaker 1: go for it, you know, So I you know, that

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Speaker 1: was my path. I felt like I was meant to

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Speaker 1: be a basketballer from a really young age, and I'd

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Speaker 1: had it all set out in my head. You know,

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Speaker 1: by the time I was in year seven, I was

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Speaker 1: telling people I was going to be playing at the

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Speaker 1: Australian Institute of Sport when I was fifteen. I was

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Speaker 1: going to be doing this, that and the other. So

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Speaker 1: it was I don't know, I think I planned it out.

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Speaker 2: Wow did basketball help? Like being tall was an asset,

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Speaker 2: which isn't always. I know a lot of girls as

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Speaker 2: teens it's hard to be tall this How did you

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Speaker 2: feel about all of that?

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Speaker 1: Ah, well, you know, I come from Aubrey and my

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Speaker 1: mom she, like you said, she was an Australian basketballer

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Speaker 1: and quite well known. So my family was very well

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Speaker 1: known around the basketball circles. And I felt like a

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Speaker 1: lot of pride walking around with my parents just because

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Speaker 1: I knew how good at basketball they were, and they

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Speaker 1: sort of I followed my mom around basketball stadium since

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Speaker 1: I was two weeks old, and so I just I

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Speaker 1: don't know, I think I just s took it in

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Speaker 1: my stride. It was more at school, you know, school

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Speaker 1: was tough. Mom and dad wouldn't let me play school

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Speaker 1: sport because I was struggling getting good grades. And things

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Speaker 1: like that. So nobody at school really knew, you know,

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Speaker 1: that I was, that I was an athlete and stuff.

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't until mom and dad let me play

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Speaker 1: in year ten that we ended up winning a national

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Speaker 1: championship and all of a sudden, I, you know, people

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Speaker 1: won't route to me anymore.

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Speaker 3: But so you can actually be tall and terrible at basketball, though,

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Speaker 3: can't you? Like It's two coaches look at they see,

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Speaker 3: say a kid that's about seven foot tall, and they'll go, Wow,

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Speaker 3: let's get this kid. He'd be a great basketballer. But

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Speaker 3: it's not that simple, is it.

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Speaker 1: No, you need there's definitely a skill set there. And

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Speaker 1: I think that you know, anyone, if you work hard

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Speaker 1: and you practice and practice and you've put that desire

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Speaker 1: and more to do it, like you know, you can

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Speaker 1: get it. It's you know, it's something that you're not

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Speaker 1: born with it. But I feel like for me, I

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Speaker 1: always born to play. You know. My parents sort of

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Speaker 1: gave me the very best of both of their games.

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Speaker 1: And then my little brother never even he hated it.

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Speaker 1: He hated basketball. So I feel like I was, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was blessed for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you retired in twenty sixteen. You're playing social basketball. Now,

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Speaker 2: how do you how do you trip back that competitive

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Speaker 2: nature or are you the Are you the hardest playing

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Speaker 2: social player there is?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's hard for me to be the hardest playing

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Speaker 1: player because I actually can't run anymore and I can't jump,

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Speaker 1: and twisting and moving is very difficult for me. So

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Speaker 1: I'm still very competitive. I do a bit of trash

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Speaker 1: talking out there, but you know, it is like I

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Speaker 1: definitely turn into a different person. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: I haven't stopped smiling since I started, So I'm just

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Speaker 1: going to stay with it. And yeah, my knees hurt,

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Speaker 1: but I don't really care. I'm just enjoying it and

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Speaker 1: I love the game and it's fun to be back

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Speaker 1: out there.

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Speaker 3: Well, good on you, Lauren, and no doubt you'll be

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Speaker 3: telling everyone what you're doing in the future. You seem

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Speaker 3: to know you're like a you're like a soothsayer.

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Speaker 2: Well that's right, what have you seen for yourself?

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Speaker 3: And what's happening is no.

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Speaker 1: Well it doesn't work anymore. It only worked when I

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Speaker 1: was a kid. I think when I retired, I had

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Speaker 1: no idea what I was getting myself into. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: like that was hard the transition part was hard, but no,

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Speaker 1: I don't have that sort of I wish I had it,

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Speaker 1: but I don't.

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Speaker 2: There you go, well, Lauren, we are just so so

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Speaker 2: proud of you. Congratulations and thanks for talking to us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for having me.

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Speaker 3: Nothing but nett Lauren.

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Speaker 2: Listen to you as if you know.

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Speaker 3: Around. I mean, we're having a jam.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about Jonesy and Amanda's Nation,