February 19, 2025 • 55 mins
In this episode of Full Circle, Lexie Brown and Mariah Rose catch up on their very, eventful weekends. Lexie shares how she found out about her trade to Seattle, what this could mean for her career going forward in the W and generally how she’s feeling about this big shift to the Storm. Just back from the West Coast, Mariah fills us in on all the antics from NBA All-Star Weekend. We hear about the dancing robots at half-time, Dame's 3-point shoot off with a fan and confusion surrounding why the audience expects such a serious All-Star game. Tune in next week to hear more basketball by the girls, for the girls.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Full Circle is an Iheartwoman's sports production and partnership with
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Welcome back to another episode of Full Circle, Lexing. Let's
just get right into it. Let's not even beat around
(00:21):
the bush.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I got a practice facility. Congratulations, laughing up, it's clap
it up. Just we got a practice facility.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, Lexie, what happened?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Girl?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
You know, I've been reading a lot and praying a lot,
and I've been learning that when you are putting things
into the universe, you're manifesting things, you're praying for things.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You have to be very specific.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
So amen, I've been putting out into the universe that
I want to practice facility.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I fail to say where.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Now I have one in Seattle with the Seattle storm.
I'm feeling good. Actually it's Tuesday. The trade happened on Friday,
I want to say, And I've had a few days
to like decompress about it and.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Think about it.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
My family was in town this weekend, thankfully, so I've
been able to like just be with them, and I'm
excited I feel good about it, but I mean, we've
been talking about it the last few episodes about the
business of sports and how hard it is sometimes personally
and just another little, another little detour to my ultimate destination.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But could you walk us through how you found out,
like the process and I know I found out on Instagram,
but could we you all this through how you found out?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I will say I thankfully received a phone call. I
was on my way to my game in Nashville. I
was literally in the parking garage and our GM called and.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I was like, this is not good.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I just I immediately knew it was going to be something
like this, so I answered the phone. The call was
one minute, that's it. So we got She got straight
to it. She said, the Seattle Storm have inquired about
you and we're going to trade you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And I was like.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Uh, in those exactly yeah, And then my gosh also
added that because the Storm had a player suffered an injury,
actually Jordan Horston, who's playing in athletes alimited right now,
had an injury that they're like, oh, yeah, they need
they need a roster spot because they lost the player,
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which I later found out was not the reason why
Seattle reached out, so she said that to me on
the phone, and I just said, okay, good luck, and
then that was. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I was like to you guys, like there was really.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
No conversation, and looking back, maybe I could have handled
that conversation a little bit better, but it caught me
so off guard.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
And I was getting ready to go play a.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Game myself, so I was really like, I need to
get to the gym, like that was like my first thought.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And then after that.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Deerica called me and she was just like, do you
feel like talking And I was just like, m sure,
let's talk. She had no idea that was going to happen.
So we talked for a second, and you know, it
was just we were both just really disappointed because we
really didn't get that much time together on the court
because I was dealing with what I've been dealing with,
and we really played well together. So I'm grateful for
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my time with Deerica for sure. But yeah, it like
from the call, I had to get my shit together
and go play a basketball game that I thankfully played
well in. We didn't win, but I walked into the
arena like very like there was a day I walked
into the arena.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I was late to the game to warm ups, and
I walk in.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And everybody's like looking at me, like are you okay?
And I'm like, yeah, I'm good. Like I stop my job,
like I'm okay. But like it's still like a lot
to process all at once. Now I have to come
in and show up for my teammates and play a
whole basketball game when I really wanted to like cry, but.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I mean, now you know, the smoke is clear a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I'm like really excited, but the whole process of it
was kind of like, I wish this went a little
bit better, honestly.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Definitely, what about you said that they told you the
reason was because Seattle inquired about you because somebody was
hurt and so they needed a roster spot.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
But then you later found out that wasn't the reason, right,
What was the reason that they've just really needed a
shooting guard. They have a gaping hole in their offense.
They don't have any three point shooting because Sammy Whitcomb left,
so they don't have a shooter right now. Which is
funny because when the Spark signed Plumb in Odyssey, I
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was like, oh, I need to show that I'm a
three level score more, which is what I've been doing
in AU the last two weeks, was not shooting as
many threes, getting to the basket, getting to the mid range,
playing the three, because I was like, Okay, if I
need it, if I'm going to have to be on
the court, potentially with Odyssey or Plumb or both, I
need to show that I can play that three position.
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But now, like I'm absolutely going to be a two
in Seattle, which is great because that is my position.
But I've been showing that i can do more than
just shoot threes, which I've been able to do that
for a long time. But I just had to, you know,
find a role in the w Like I always say,
sometimes you just got to find your role in live
in it for a little bit before.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You at your opportunity. So yeah, I spoke with the
GM and the coach. I've been texting with some of
the assistants and they're like really excited about me coming.
They've all been watching me in Nashville and they're just
really excited about how my game has grown in the
last two years. Despite me dealing with the illness, I've
like really worked hard to get back and come back
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better because a lot of people don't really know my game.
A lot of people really do think that I am
a podcaster full time. So when the news dropped, I
had more comments asking if I was still going to
be on Gils Arena.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That was gonna be my next question yecause obviously we
can do our podcast from anywhere, but as far as
everything else that you had going on in LA, because
you had a lot going on there, Yeah, how does
that change for you?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I mean, Seattle wasn't too far right.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
No, I mean, and I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't do Gills during the w season and then
the NBA season ends in June anyway, So last season
I would only go on Gills during the season if
we had like an off day or something. So I
typically don't even do Gills during the W season. I'm
completely locked in to what I'm doing, and then now
we will be locked into our show. So yeah, I mean,
I will still be in LA during the off season.
I just got a place out there. I love La,
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so I'm still there. I just got a place. So
my first thought was like another year summer of living
out of a suitcase. But at least I'm still on
the West Coast, So I'm grateful for that, but I'm
still very much going to be in LA in the
off season and still doing all my stuff there. And
then the Guilts, they've all been like super supportive about it.
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I heard from a few of them and they're like,
we see out to Storm fans now. So yeah, it's
just it was a lot, and it's just I've been
went through a lot in LA. Like I even wrote
it in my notes, Maria, hear you want to hear
some stats from my town in LA, I would love
to hear.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Okay, right, I have it. I've written down, guys.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Okay, Lexi's time in La, Lexi's time in LA and
three seasons in LA, three gms, three coaches, three strength
and conditioning coaches, two medical staffs, twenty two different teammates,
two practice locations, and three different apartments. Yeah, that's just
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like just like the light version of just how much
instability I faced as a player. And since my first
season there, it was me and Ray Burrell were the
only ones left from my first season there, and then
even that season, she was injured most of that season,
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so she didn't even really play. So from a business perspective,
I feel like, yeah, I probably was the last one
to like get out that was still like lingering from
the dysfunction of the past. So like, I can understand that,
I have to understand that. But I've been like seeing
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just a lot of dialogue about like me as a player,
a lot of dialogue about my health, which I think
is strange. I did not expect so much conversation to
come from me being so transparent about having Crone's disease,
considering it's such a misunderstood in underrepresented illness in even
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in just our community, black women, black people in general
dealing with autoimmune diseases, which it's running rampant in our community.
So I really feel like it was a good thing
that I started being so open about it, because the
people that I've met that also do with autoimmune diseases
often tell me how they feel unseen and misunderstood because
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it's not something that you can visibly see is bothering
you or affecting your life. So like, I've had people
tell me they have lost their jobs, they've had to
quit their job, they've fallen out with family members, things
like that. So I completely understand, and I'm just grateful
I have the support system that I have that has
kept me going because I do feel like I'm a
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face and an advocate for a lot of people, and
I do want to ensure people. Even though I ensure
people with Episode one that I am healthy, I feel great.
I actually was in a mini flare up over the
weekend while I was playing, like.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh my gosh, wait, I have a question. So basically
to clarify, you've been seeing a lot of dial what's
the dialogue that you've been seeing, Like, is it people
blaming the fact that like you're getting traded on.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Me being sick.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh, she can't stay on the court, she's not healthy,
She's never going to be able to finish the season,
just like weird things like that, which in my seven
seasons now about to be eight, I've been one hundred
percent available for six of them, and just because I
didn't get the minutes didn't mean I wasn't available. So
I respectfully can give people grace if they go look
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at my stats for my career and could see the inconsistency,
But that's not because I was not playing because I
was sick or injured.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I just wasn't getting an opportunity to play. And you know,
I had a.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Major leap from year one to year two, and then
it was COVID and then I got waived randomly, like
It's just been like one thing after another, and I'm
still here in dealing with now this autoimmune disease that
I now feel like I have conquered and I've completely managed.
My routine is like top tier. So I've honestly, like
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I said, the phone call was a minute. I don't
know the reason why I was traded. I didn't ask
to be traded. I'm grateful that I'm in a situation
that I'm in in Seattle because I wanted a facility.
I wanted to be around veterans, I wanted to win now,
I wanted to be in a professional environment. All of
the things that I've been wanting for the Sparks is
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already going on with the storm, and I wish the
Sparks all the best because they are, you know, entering
a new era and that's very exciting and that was
something I actually wanted to be a part of. But
I'm not, and that's fine because it happens.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
But again, this is another situation.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Almost every situation I'm believing with like Nick Young, mean,
like question.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Mark, like what happened? Like no one ever is like
straight up with me.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
And it's disappointing because us as players just have to
continue to be professional through it all, no matter what,
no matter how we feel, no matter how we've been
felt slighted or disrespected. I do feel like players are
owned a conversation, a meaningful dialogue, and a reason even
if it's bad, and you don't have to make that
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public knowledge, but and.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
They should be honest with you because that helps you
throughout your career. But also like is that a snaky
thing where it's kind of like why give you that intel?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Right? So yeah, I mean like you're not really one
of ours?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Are you going to give somebody that you're moving information
about your plans for the future? Like I don't know,
but like sometimes I'm just like you have to like
respect us as people. And you know that's something that
we've been all athletes have been more vocal on lately,
is like we're still humans. Like I know y'all think
that we're these athletic robots that run around that I
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have no emotions or feelings, But it's like this is
now my third team that I've been traded or moved
on from, and I'm believing with like what, like what
did I do? And there's just been like I just
had to just be like, all right, whatever, let's just
shock it to the game and keep it pushing. But
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it's like, after after so many times, it's just like
is this Like is this the business? And like I
just I honestly I just don't feel like this is
how business should be. And we're seeing it in other
leagues as well, that people are just like they say
what they want, People can feel how they want without
really knowing the truth, and organizations just let things be said.
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Players just let things be said and then just keep
it moving because business is business.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
But yeah, the call was very short, and I'm just like.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I feel like I probably deserved a longer conversation than that.
But again, I take ownership for part of that because
I kind of just was like I have a game
to get to, Like I don't really have time for
this conversation right.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Now, but you didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, I literally did not have time.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So you can't really blame yourself because you literally did
not have time. I think people forget that, you know,
when fans are looking at basketball as a whole and
we're like, oh, this person would be so good on
this team because of this like kind of using you
all as chess peace, Like, Okay, it does make sense,
and Seattle does need a shooter. Obviously, you make sense
to plug into their system. But at the same time,
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you're a person and you have a brand new apartment
and a life and jobs, and like it's uprooting you.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Essentially.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
We talk about it all the time with the NBA
because their trade deadline is like like we'd trade deadline,
like we don't, Like that doesn't really happen in the
W like once she rarely players get moved like mid season,
and if they do, it's like.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
One or two maybe.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
But I mean, yeah, I was like, oh, my apartment,
Like I kind of felt bad about that. And then
my next thing was like my doctors. My doctors are
in La Oh yeah. So it's just like it was
weird because like Seattle had been like coming to my
attention a lot lately, Like I had people in au
mentioning like Seattle like really has been liking how you've
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been playing, And I'm like, Okay, that's good to know
how do they know you're telling them like coaches talk.
I mean we have we have four WNBA coaches in
facilitator roles. Oh so you're like getting like you're getting
a little from people that are like, oh yeah, they
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really they really liking how you're.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Playing right now.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And I'm like, I mean that makes me happy because
you got to keep your value high, wherever that may be.
If your value is high and it's not on your team,
then they're going to find a way to get you.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
If you don't have any value at all, like then
that's like worst case scenario. So when I got the call,
I didn't think they were actually going to do it,
because they did trade me for the second round picks,
which on Twitter I said was equivalent to a bag
of popcorn because typically typically second round picks at that
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the number, like twenties, very hard to make a roster
at that number. It's possible, like you can very like
I don't want to say like if you're a secon
round pick, you can't a team, you absolutely can't, but
it's very hard. So for someone who finished the season
as one of your top three scores the last two
years and you.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Just give them away like that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Like, again, that's another thing that makes you kind of
feel like, was I ever valued here at all?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Because this is what happens, right.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I think part of that though, is probably the
turnover they were experiencing. It's like the people who were
there when you first got there. That not to say
that the people who are there now didn't value you,
but it was like they didn't really have time to
build that relationship with you or with anybody else. That's
why it was so unstable because there was so much turnover,
and so it's kind of like the people who are
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there now don't really have attachment to.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
And then I mean even our new GM, she came
in while I was I was already sick, like so
I will say, like she doesn't even know like the
type of player, the type of leader, the type of
worker that I really am because I was just dealing
with so much personally. And I will take that like
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that I will take for myself because the last two
years I was very into myself, and not selfishly, but
because I needed to exert so much energy to show
up every day. I could not be probably that locker
room person, that veteran that they needed me to be
and I'll take ownership for that because I was trying
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to get myself back, so like, I'm not gonna sit
here and be like I was perfect. I did everything right,
and I don't know why like this is happening, Like
there are instances where I like it can look back
and be like, well, yeah, I can see why they
would want to like just wipe their hands clean of
like just all of this to move forward.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
And yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Now I got people calling be ah old because I'm
and I'm like, oh, like, people don't know that, don't
know that.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'm young and turned Still.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I went to a class last night, a dance class
hip hop?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
How was that?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It was so much fun?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I put it on TikTok guys if you want to see.
It was a little beginning class.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
How was I?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Did you go by yourself?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
That was my friend and her friend that also like
teaches classes, so we just like went and did it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
It was a could workout.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Good for you. I'm actually excited for you.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
This is like going back to what we were just
talking about, but I'm excited for you to be in
more of a win now situation.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the last win now situation I
was in, we won a championship, so it's giving this.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Team could win a championship.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I think we have all the pieces, we have all
the resources. I know. I haven't had resources like this
since I was in Minnesota and I was in twenty nineteen,
So I'm very very excited about that. I might like
move incty. Yeah it's great, but yeah it's been it's
been like up and down, but again overall, very positive.
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From the Seattle Storm fans. I always have loved playing
in Seattle. Their fans are amazing, their arena is amazing.
Oh and then Neka, Like obviously I have to talk
about Mecca. Like we had a great relationship in La
She really was amazing while I was there, and like
I remember when I was first getting sick, she was
like one of the people who was like always trying
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to help me figure out what was going on, and
she was like very concerned about me when this all
started happening. So for me to be able to be
reunited with her and be feeling the way I'm feeling,
which is really healthy and really really happy, and then
mentally in a good place, like I'm just really excited
to be on the court with her again and then
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playing with somebody like Skyler, like I haven't played with
a player like that at that position in a minute.
So her competitive fire, her energy, Like I'm just very
excited to be on the court with people like that
because I'm not like outwardly like that all the time.
I kind of just like put my head down to
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work and do what I need to do. So to
have someone like that who's like more vocal, probably a
little bit more like outwardly like passionate, like, I'm really
excited to like maybe have some of that rub off
on me. And I know we're gonna we're gonna turn
up Seattle, So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I'm excited for you.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Thanks, and now your weekend we can pivot to All Star.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
How yeah, you guys. I was at All Star weekend.
It was great, it was fun. This was my third
All Star. My first one was Salt Lake, second one
was Indianapolis, and so this one was in San Francisco.
I felt like San Francisco is a much better location
than the previous two. No offense to those cities, but
it was way too damn cold in those other ones,
and like in San fran it was still cold, but
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it wasn't like when I was in Indiana it literally snowed,
So this is much better. I think let's just talk
about the All Star Game and like the complaints.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
For a second.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Seeing a lot of complaints, let me say something.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I don't know if I'm gonna get in trouble for this,
but like it has to be said, Okay, I think
that the fans are misinterpreting the fact that All Star
weekend for the players is literally just like spring break,
Like they they don't care, They're not gonna care, they
won't care, and like you see this on social media,
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so I.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Feel comfortable saying it.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
If y'all see them posting that they're at a spades
tournament the night before the All Star Game, do you
think they're gonna show up to the game and be
like yeah, like I'm gonna drive, Like no, Like they're
they've been partying all weekend, like this is like one
of the only times that they're all in the same
city at the same time.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
They're on break, like this is just one big he
haha celebration to them.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's like, yeah, I know the fans wanted to be
they want to.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Go to stock so bad.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
They think the All Star Game has never been that. Like,
I don't know what people are talking about. Like, yes,
Kobe Bryant was a psychopath on the court, but it's
like he didn't want to lose, okay, but like still
the scores were still like.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
One hundred and twelve to like one hundred and eighteen.
And that was.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Before all the threes. So that was before all the threes.
So alas, y'all are like, we want to see more
windmill dunks. Okay, they that's what they were doing in
twenty ten because they weren't shooting all the threes, yet
they still weren't playing any defense.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, they were just shooting more laps, I think, Yeah,
which is way more boring, by the way. So I
think fans are misinterpreting the fact that All Star weekend
is like an NBA family reunion and celebration of the
city in which it's being played. Like it was very
much as somebody being there. It felt like a celebration
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of Steph Curry's career and the.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Bay It was not.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Really It's never going to be about we want to
go at each other's throat, simple like they don't care
and they're not gonna like.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The fan experience I feel.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
So I've never been to NBA All Star, but I
went to w NBA All Star for the first time
last summer. The fan experience is I think it stops
at like you're seeing everybody at one place at one time. Yeah,
and you have all these activations and all of these
pop ups and all these things that you can just
get in one place.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
So like if you are a Steph Curry.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Fan and you live in New York City and the
All Star Game is in New York that year, for example,
now you get the opportunity you get to see Steph Curry.
You probably get to buy bunch of stuff that you
tip probably wouldn't be able to get because you live
so far you don't want to order it online. Like
that's the fan experience. The game is like the cherry
on top.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
The game is really like you said, it's about seeing
all of those players on the court.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
At the same time, it's not about y'all just had.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The Olympics, Like can we like where they were playing
really hard?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Where I will I feel like I'm like shitting on
the fans right now. And what I do understand about
the fans being pissed at the All Star Game because
I was at the game, but I mean I was working.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I didn't pay for those she gets hawd, I paid
for them. I would be so tight.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I've watched it on TV. It was very weird.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
The new format.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
They need to throw that out. I don't know what
that was. And no disrespect to the rising stars, but no.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I I was excited about it. I was really excited
about it because I thought, you know, a little something new,
and I thought that maybe it being so tight kind
of in the unrivaled as like three v three and like, yeah,
but like I thought it was gonna be more one
on one competition and like more ego involved, and it
just wasn't that.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
If anything, they cared a little bit less.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well, because and I even saw like a lot of
media members or people in the sports community just talking
about how All Star Weekend is no longer about basketball
being played.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
It's like jam packed with so much stuff and.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Even the players are exhaust like they're exhausted, Like, yeah,
you're talking about party. I don't even know if they
have time to party because they have so many other things,
engagements that they have to go to and appear at
in appearances in community and this and that, which is
also amazing, But for them to do all of that
and then you guys want them to like go crazy
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in the game when they have their real games in
a few days.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
The rest of the league is in Cabo chilling, and
they're they're All.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Star working and the fans are just like, play harder,
play harder, but like it's called All Star break.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I will say part of the problem though, part of
what the fans are so pissed off about.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And I think what would make the fans complain.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
About it a little less because what you said was
really good in the sense that the fantasy of what
the game used to be when Kobe and Jordan and
then we're playing isn't real. Like it wasn't this like
they weren' out there trying to kill each other. I mean,
there was more competition, but and they took it more.
They definitely took it more seriously. But it wasn't what
It wasn't commercialized back then.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Either.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
It was like, yes, really about the like I remember
growing up, everyone couldn't wait to watch the All Star
game and like also it's like.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Saturday Night is part of the problem. I think the
fans would be less annoyed if the three point contests
and the dunk contest were less pooh pooh. Yeah, you know,
like they they probably would be able to get over
the fact that the players aren't trying in the game.
If John Moran and Anthony Edwards were, They're like.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Are y'all tired? And Mac mcclug is amazing.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Don't get me wrong, what he does is impressive three
straight years. Let's see, he's a G League player, which,
let's disrespect to G League players, but this is.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
NBA All Star weekends, and y'all no disrespect.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
I have a young G League player caring because it's
not like he's doing a great job, like it's he's
not bs ing.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
He's incredible. He's incredible. I was so impressed, what are
we doing? But also I.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Would be so for real when I say this. First
of all, if I were Mac, I would never do
that shit again.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I'm not sure Adam Silver, I hope they pay him
for that.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
But also number two, part of the thing with the
mac McClung thing is like.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
No ship, He's dunking over a.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Car and doing these crazy never before seen insane dunks.
When he's not technically a full time NBA player, he
spends the whole year practicing for the Dunk Contest, like
and that's no disrespect for him. It's just like he
pops up once a year for the Dunk Contest. That's
where that's when we see him. That's like what he
is riding on for endorsements and blah bla blah blah.
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It's like the Dunk Contest. So no shit, Like he
is killing it at the Dunk Contest. And if he
goes up against like an NBA player that's like full
time in the NBA, obviously they're not going to be
doing as good as him because he knew three years
ago that he was gonna have to carry the Dunk
Contest for the next three years.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
You know. Yeah, I don't know why the dunkers don't
want to participate, like.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You know, they don't want to do nothing outside of
the outside of the career past.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
The last year, Jalen Brown tried my dad's dunk. He
attempted it, and I don't know if he did it right.
He tried, and my dad loved the fact that he
like attempted it. He has Brown seven like every time
we watch him play, but like it's so crazy that
he like just has year number and whatever. So the
fact that he did that, like my dad loved it,
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but I don't think he successfully did it. But people
were like so mean of people were so mean, and
like I'm just like, I guess I understand why guys
don't want to put themselves out there like that because
you don't like they're quite literally they quite literally do
not have to.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You don't want to put yourself out there and do
the contest your skin.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
They do need to have thicker skin, right. It's just like,
if I can choose.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
To avoid all this, I probably will because that But
like people are I have.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Lost their minds on the internet.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
That just proves though what everybody says about them. Also,
I mean, in the nineties, early two thousands, they didn't
have the internet, So I get that exactly when those
players say that the players today are soft and you're
saying here saying to me, well, maybe they don't want
to do the dump contst with people are gonna be
mean to them.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Bro get out of here with that. I'm not trying
to hear that.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Do you not think in like in the early two thousands,
if like Vince Carter did bullshit in the dunk contest.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
People will be making fun of him to his face.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
In person, sending him letters to the arena, always a
tweet or someone sending you a postcard.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You demand need to be fighting at the games, like, bro, no, no,
you know what.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
You know what's crazy? If I opened up a fan
mail and it was all I said was you suck,
and it hurt me more than a tweet. Like that
would definitely hurt me more than a tweet. So bruh,
I mean, and many of the guys to step up.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
You know what else I'm mad about?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
And I realized that it was because actually there's a
few things about a week I'm mad about. Number one,
why wasn't Steph Curry in the three week Contest? I
don't care what. I don't care what the situation was
with Sabrina or she. First off, I were her, I
wouln't want to do it either. Second of all, like
it's in the bay, and they were like, yeah, buddy,
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healed represents the bay.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Hell no, I did not know. He didn't even do
the three point contest.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Bro, do you know how this and I'm Steph Crey's
my favorite basketball player. I literally bought an eighteen dollars
collectible Steph Curry popcorn bucket. Like I'm not playing, but
so when I got Imagine my surprise when I get
to All Star Saturday night and I see Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Street in his clo Yeah, hell no, don't like that?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Who would want to buy? Like, who would want to
buy that ticket? You know what I'm saying, Like if
I were a fan that spent my hard earned money
to see I'm in the bay.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
This is where we're from.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
This Steph Curry is getting older, like we might never
have an All Star weekend with him here again.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
And he's not doing the damn three works.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Please, Okay, what else you're not at?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Last thing? This is the last thing I'm not at.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And this this got me so tight. We're calling it
eight second violation in the All Star.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Game time out, we have a conversation about these referees
just across the board, just across the board. I don't
think I can get in trouble for talking about refs
on my own show like you do in the media.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
But we'll see, y'all are this is not y'all's show.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Are they please?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
But in AU it's a mess. An NBA it's a mess,
and unrivaled it's a mess. What are y'all doing? Did
y'all have a meeting?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Let me tell you to be yelled at all.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
The time, which I can understand because they do get
yelled at all the time.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I could never be a rep personally. I would. I would.
No way you're screaming to be like that. Never a
basketball game.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Hell no, we're just talking. But like they got us,
you're calling an eight second violence. It's the All Star
This doesn't.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Matter who they call it on Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Not have Steph Curry.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
It was like the rules of basketball do not apply
to Steph Curry in the All Star Game in San Francisco, Please,
I don't even.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Like okay, if I remember correctly, he was dribbling the
ball of the court and it.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Was like everybody was like Steph, Steph.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Like the crowd was going wild because it was like
they had to get to forty points to win the game,
and Steph Curry had the ball.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
His team had thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Like yes, I'm telling you. They want to be the
center of attention.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
So and you want to know how the game en did,
Like see, this is what I'm so pissed about.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Then blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
The international team I think it was Chuck's Global All Stars.
Whatever they miss, they somehow fumble their opportunity whatever, and
then Steph's team gets the ball back. I'm sitting there going, okay,
get the ball to Steph Curry. Get the ball to
Steph Curry. Jason Tatum's going in the game on a layup. Bro,
Jason Tatum, Bro, Jason Tatum, Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Are you? Said Jason? Nobody's even plays said.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Nobody's even playing defense. Just get the ball to step
like we all know what's going on here, Like that happened.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
My last thing about All Star how are the teams?
They didn't completely make sense. So you got you got
the ogs right, uh huh? And you have the young
the Young Stars. We have two ogs, my Boston boys
who are twenty six.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I think they're not ogs. It is not an OG.
And then you have.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Is not a Global Star.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You have a twenty eight year old Jalen Brunson on
the Young Stars.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Like I knew what they were trying to do, but like,
once y'all saw that that didn't match up, that y'all
should have just eliminated the names and just.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Kept Team Chuck Team Shack like we would have been
okay with that.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeacause I remember I saw a press conference of Jalen Brunson.
He was like, yeah, they said that like we were
the young stars, and then everyone looked at directly at me.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And I was like, he's like, yeah, I'm twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
But like I will say, side note, the crowd was
going crazy for Jaylen Brunson all weekend like they loved him.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
He just loved him.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Like there were people that the crowd the crowd went
mild for, like they really didn't care. Obviously, they went
crazy for Staff every time he did anything, but I
would say second to Staff was Jaylen Brunson.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
They were up.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
That's fire and he deserves them because people always shut
on him for being, you know, a small fish in
a big market, but he's definitely a big.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Fish in a big market.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
No, I love Jaylen Bronson. I was rooting for him
in the three point contest. I don't know what the
hell he had going on.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Who won? He right?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, yeah, it was Taler hero and Buddy Hill at
the end.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
That's that's why fans are mad at All Star weekend.
I'm gonna be real like, that's why.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
It's just very It just seemed very unserious. And I
hope next year is better.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
It's in LA.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Well, we'll letting Lebron better play. Because what the hell
was that too?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I forgot about that day of day of.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
I was on the bus on the way to the
game when I found that out.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I was saying, he's just like, yeah, I feel like it.
And Edwards didn't play either.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
He first of all, I forgot he was there. He
just disappeared. I don't even think I really saw him
sitting on the side.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Well, you saw in media he said I don't want
to be the face of anything. He said that what
he said, he said, I don't want to he said,
that's what y'all got win before.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
That's what he said in media. I love Aunt, He's just.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
He's just so.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
He's just so unhinged.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
So I went to Georgia and Aunt went to Georgia,
and I remember he was like very much on a
microscope when we were there. Because we don't have basketball
players like that for men's our women's team.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Absolutely dusts them.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
But I will say while he was there, one thing
I learned is that I can't remember if it was
like his trainer or somebody very personally close to him
during his draft process, because he kept making it seem
like he didn't care about basketball. Was saying that because
he's been through so much in life, he kind of
not sets himself up for rejection. But he's not like
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one who's gonna be like, I'm gonna be the face
of the NBA just in case.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
That doesn't happen. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
So he kind of right exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I think that his Adidus commercials are fired fire.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I think him selling himself short in that way is
kind of just that, like he's selling himself short to
kind of like prepare himself.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Like I don't defect me. It's like a defense mechanism.
He doesn't want to look at Jesus.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Like he kind of said it with like a smart though,
like exactly, I'm asking me that, like you already know
I'm one of them, Like exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Do you want?
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Like it's like it's like, but that's the thing with media,
They like try to set you up so you can
say things so in the occasion that you're not living
up to what you say, they can.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Be like see exactly whereas now.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
And that's what I'm saying about Ant, Like he's smart,
Like they're the athletes are smartening up when it comes
to media, because that's something that I personally have been
grateful for. Like I've never really been a media darling,
which is why now I'm in media myself, because I
feel like it's possible to uplift all players but also
be critical of their game, but like a in a
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respectful way.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
But when someone is doing something.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Really well, like you should be able to like unbiasedly
appreciate what that person is doing.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
But if you talk so.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Crazy about them in the past, you can't really say
anything good about them ever because you'd have to apologize
for being an asshole.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
But I've been there.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Trust these athletes are like smartening up.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
You're not gonna get me caught up in saying something
that you can turn and flip on me in a
year or in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I think the craziest example of that is Ben Simmons
whole rise, Like before he got drafted. There's a clip
of I believe it's callin coward in the media being like.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Lebron, we don't need you anymore. Ben Simmons is here.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Like like that's gonna like hot.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Ben Simmons Like why would he say that? So I
think yeah said it.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Like when when when Ant started getting the Michael Jordan comps,
We're like, oh they finished, try and pack him up
in a few months, like oh.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yeah, don't. Like I just always have thought that was
the weirdest thing about me.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
They were compared Jimmy Butler to Michael Jordan.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Yeah, like we put everybody on this pet instead of
just appreciating who they are, just to kick them off
of it when you feel like it.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
So it's like I.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Will say I'm guilty of that.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Just because somebody listen, and we do not judge when
somebody is going so crazy, like in a moment, you
get recentcy biased, you know what I'm saying. You get
so excited, like and so you're like, yeah, this person's
gonna be the next blah blah blah blah blah. And
if they don't, if they don't amount to that, you're
like you're kind of like, oh, you're not that, And then.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
You yeah, yep, yeah, and I've seen it happen. I personally,
I've gotten like the reverse of it. Like people have
like just been so awful and mean to me from
the beginning that when I'm starting to.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Do good, they can't. There's nothing they don't want to say,
nothing exactly, which is okay.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Because I've been able to build a very thick skin
and a crazy work ethic and not play for the
validation of others or accolades or awards. I really do
play because i love playing basketball and I love working hard.
But I'm just like it's okay, Like I'm not really
gonna I'm not gonna accept it. It's not going to
mean anything to me. If all of a sudden everybody's like, oh,
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Letxie is actually like a pretty decent basketball player, I
don't care. But it's like, why is it so hard
for people to just be like, you know what, we
might have been wrong about how we felt about her game.
And it's just like anybody who's been watching me in
AU the last two weeks, like, there's no way y'all
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can say that I'm not an elite WNBA player And
and if you don't feel that way, whatever, that's on you.
But like whatever, you can look at the stats, blah
blah blah blah, go look at the go look at.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
The film, go look at the videos.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Like I passed the eye test, but for some reason
what I did in college doesn't matter. You know, how
I play in the games that I have had opportunities
that shit don't matter or like it's just been kind
of like weird. But like that's just the media in
a nutshell. But again, like like I said, it doesn't
really bother me. It hasn't prevented me from like working
really hard and.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Trying to do what I want to do with the
All Star Game.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Back to that, I saw that next year that they're
going to try and put in a one on one
on one. I wonder where y'all got that from, bruh.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
First of all, that is that was lit.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I was pleasantly surprised by the unrival of one on one.
I do have some critiques of it, though, what are
your critiques? If anybody has played one on one in
any workout or anything. Dribble limit, you have a dribble
limit and you get one one shot. There are no
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offensive rebound put backs in ones, so outside of those
two things.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
I mean, I think the seven second shot clock was.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Cool, but like if you were really an elite one
on one player, you don't need more than.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Four dribbles five dribbles to score.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
So that would be my only thing. Dribble limit and
you only get one one shot. You don't get to
throw the ball at the rim and go jump over
your person and put it back, like you don't get
to do that in ones. But other than that, it
was really fun to watch. I was.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
I was.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
I will say I had my hesitations about it because
I was like one on one, like how is this
gonna look?
Speaker 3 (43:34):
But it actually was like really enjoyable. I really liked
watching them.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Yeah, that was fun. Your your your teammate Skyler, she
like I watched her in the couple. Great, that's gonna
be exciting.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
It was so funny just saying that the guards go
against the bigs, like they didn't stand a chance with
those rules. Like I saw like mislayup rebound, miss layup rebound,
like that's not allowed in one on one.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Yeah. Also that's part of that is like the fans
picking how it seeded.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Yeah, or they should separate guards and posts.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
That makes sense like for sure, because I'm sorry and
I think I do think Fee is one of the
best ISO players in the league.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
I picked her to win that, yeah, on how Highlights
go go go watch, y'all, because I kicked her to
win that.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
I will say that Fee is definitely, absolutely one of
the best ISO players in the league.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
But to say that a Rique is not the best
one on one.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Player, like like we all know because we all have
to freaking guard her, Like, she is probably the best
one on one player in the league.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
But she didn't win.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
She came in second, which still with all those post players,
is still very impressive that she made it to the
final round because yeah, the guards like they were, they
were literally just getting beat up and out rebounded. Yeah,
but now the quid media going around also our weekend,
asking the guys they would play in a one on
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one tournament, Like these guys play one on one all
off season, that's all they do.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
But they also play pick up and they play hard
play doing the All Star game, so that doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
So I mean, you know what I got asked, I
want to check out him because you already took in
season tournament from us. You're finish take on one on
one right.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
And he trying to get Kaitlyn.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
He was trying to get Kaitlyn, like they're using all
y'all ship. But I got asked doing another show about
basically they had me do like a bracket of it
was like Caitlyn Clark and Steph Curry, Damian Lillard and Rique.
It was like a co ed tournament basically, and like
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the tournament, yeah, but it.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Was a guy and it was like a guy that's cool.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
I was gonna say, what do you think about that?
Because I thought that that sounded lit. I don't know
that would be lit.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
Just come do it at ours, Yeah, just come do
it at ours, but like make it like a fun thing,
like that's the thing, Like basketball is fun everything.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
I thought when Stephan Sabrina shot against each other, that
was so fun.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
I thought, everything doesn't have to be like hyper competitive
think PC. Sometimes things can just just be fun. And yes,
someone at the end of the day has to win
and someone has to lose. But in like certain situations,
entertainment does trump competitiveness. But like some some fans just
cannot comprehend that and just want to just be mean
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about everything.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
They do and that's gonna be. That's gonna be it forever.
That's gonna be the case forever.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
There's like those people who choose to do that and
be mean about everything.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
There's nothing that we can do about them, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (46:45):
Yeah, I will say the last thing I will say,
pissed me off. Vows are weekd be Cause I forgot
to mention this earlier. Why are we having full blown
ceremonies in the middle of the games?
Speaker 3 (46:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Like I was in there and I was use like, okay,
this it felt very long because of this. First of all,
y'all got Dame shooting against a random.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
From the crowd, my gosh, and the whole thing was weird,
and little thing was weird.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
I lose, That's what I was saying. I knew Dame
was missing no shots purpose if Dave.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Looked at that kid one hundred grand and just went
three in a row, like nope, no money for you
little kids, Like what's the kid?
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Once mister bees asked the kid who gives me the
hebgb's by the way, But that's a whole conversation for
another day. Once mister Bees I asked that kid what
he wanted the money for and he was.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Like for college and to help my family. I was like, damn,
can't be him.
Speaker 4 (47:43):
But I was just like, okay, like what was there
a single benefit of Dame winning that competition? Like that
the day would Dame get that money, because that's not
life changing money for Dame.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
He has had Dick had he I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
Like, so I was like, was mister B's like trying
to like oki dok the NBA? Like I'm like, I
was watching it and I was just like, wait, so
if Dame makes more shots than the kid, if the
professional basketball player makes more shots than the regular kid,
then the regular kid gets no money, right.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
I actually think that the competition lowki No, it was
a bear that was stupid. Hello, But I think that
if it would have it would have ate like it'd
actually been a cute, little energy breakup because it was
a lot shorter than the ceremony they had later if
they had him shooting against another random yeah, or they
should have had like Dame shoot against Steph Curry and
had a kid represent a kid.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
Yes, Like that just makes it like.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Are you trying to make Dame of dumb?
Speaker 4 (48:46):
The fact that Dame had to make three and the
kid only had to make one. Like, I think, you
don't know what I think. After Day made like the
first one, I think he had like a light bulb
moment it well, I keeped it Day. It was I
waited one, yeah, because then he started missing.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
I feel like being there watching it, you could clearly
tell that Day made his first two okay, and that
kid still had a made one. And that's when mister Beast, like,
I guess to make it climactic. Mister Beasts, after Day
made a second one, was like, so what what do
you want to use the money for? And then he
said college and his family and then it's like Dame's like, okay,
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I'm not going to make this last one.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
So he just kept missing.
Speaker 4 (49:29):
I think mister Beast like thought. He was like going like,
I bet you he had a video on Dick. This
is why NBA players are. This is like I bet
like mister BS does like I don't know, I agree
with you. Mister Beasts is like and he like gives me.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
I'm scared of him. He gives me very weird And
why do you have so much money? Every time I
see him, he give it away a million dollars?
Speaker 3 (49:52):
Why and why are you always recording it?
Speaker 2 (49:56):
Just give it away sometimes I always find sus.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Yeah, that was odd and like rewatching it back because
when I was watching it in real time, I was
just confused because I was like, wait, so Dame wins
and the like then the money, No one gets money, so.
Speaker 3 (50:12):
Would then know why would Dame win? Like why would
he want to win?
Speaker 4 (50:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (50:16):
They told him before it started that they have to
love the get. They had the one hundred thousand. It
wasn't the real one hundred thousand dollars, I hope, but
they had the one hundred thousand dollars on the court
like they were gonna give.
Speaker 4 (50:25):
It to Shon. Gave me squid Games vibes.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
Yes, this is weird.
Speaker 4 (50:31):
Speaking of squid Games and AI and all that. Why
did why did Shaq walk out with that robot?
Speaker 3 (50:38):
That was terrifying?
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Was it on television how they had all the robots
do the do a dance?
Speaker 4 (50:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (50:44):
I didn't, or if it was, I missed it.
Speaker 4 (50:46):
I just saw that robot walk out with Shaq and
I immediately thought of an episode of Black Mirror, and
I was like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (50:53):
Robots are not our friends?
Speaker 1 (50:54):
What people don't know is there there was like five
of those little dog robots and I guess it was
drunk commercial break or something, you know how they do
stuff in the arena. They had the dog robots do
like a dance, and I was.
Speaker 4 (51:10):
There's literally an entire episode of Black Mirror with those dogs,
those robot dogs.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
And then they had another one race and they said
do you have anything to say?
Speaker 2 (51:20):
And then the robot went makes some noise.
Speaker 4 (51:23):
Nah nah, I tweeted. I said, y'all not afraid enough
of robots for me. I watched too many movies. I
read too many books. I mean, y'all just literally have
to watch Terminator. That's all you really have to watch.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
I was, I'm ready for w All Star WEEKD because
w Allstar wikid was lit.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
It was so fun. It was so fun, and I
think the USA All Star format also was really.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
Fun because they don't they tried.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
Yeah, But I'm like, because then I saw that Yannis
was like they need to do like a World versus USA,
which that could be not great because like snubs will
absolutely happen. So like, I don't know, like when people
are like people are like obsessing about fixing All Star weekend.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
I think everyone they just need.
Speaker 4 (52:08):
To like peel it all the way back to like
it's our basic form and then go from there instead
of adding like all these trinkets and bells and whistles.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
People want to watch basketball.
Speaker 4 (52:21):
So that's why they love WNBA All Star because they
were hooping. I was there, You were there, that the
environment was amazing, Like they was out there hooping and
like that's what people want to see.
Speaker 3 (52:34):
So I think that that's the fix. Adam Silver, I
don't know, but.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
He don't do nothing simple. Everything is always up.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
He's obsessed with tournaments. Maybe he has like a baby,
he has like a problem, Like I don't know, but
everything is a tournament now, Like, can we just play basketball,
Adam Silver?
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Just one game?
Speaker 3 (52:58):
Like Kathy, don't start that ship. Gosh, mis cuff is fun,
but that's all we need.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
That's enough.
Speaker 3 (53:04):
Yeah, that's enough.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Well, Lexi, I'm so excited for you in this next chapter.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
And I can't wait to be doing breakdowns in your
win now era, Like that's when now the content, that's.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
What absolutely is.
Speaker 4 (53:18):
And I am telling the Seattle fans like this show
is not going to be like messy. It's not gonna
tell secrets of the locker room, good or bad.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
Like this is like quite literally a journey.
Speaker 4 (53:30):
Oh and another full circle moment that I want to
drip in here. I think the Seattle Storm, We're supposed
to draft me, and they ended up not drafting me,
which was okay, but I remember talking to the Seattle Storm.
I was very sure I was going through the storm
and I ended up going to Connecticut, which still was
a blessing to get drafted. But I mean, if my
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life ain't the name of this damn podcast, Like it's
just full circle moment after full circle moment, Like, so
this is to be fun and now I have you
coming on this journey with me and our iHeart family,
so like this is just gonna be really fun and
I'm really excited.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
No, I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
I don't worry, guys, Seattle fans, LEXI won't be messy.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
We will not be messy.
Speaker 4 (54:15):
We're gonna be fun and it's going to be a
time and I'm so excited. And thank you guys so
much for coming to another episode of Full Circle.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
We will see you next week.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
Bye, thanks for listening to Full Circle.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
We'll be back next week with more Basketball for the Girls,
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Welcome back to another episode of Full Circle, Lexing. Let's
just get right into it. Let's not even beat around
(00:21):
the bush.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I got a practice facility. Congratulations, laughing up, it's clap
it up. Just we got a practice facility.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, Lexie, what happened?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Girl?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
You know, I've been reading a lot and praying a lot,
and I've been learning that when you are putting things
into the universe, you're manifesting things, you're praying for things.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You have to be very specific.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
So amen, I've been putting out into the universe that
I want to practice facility.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I fail to say where.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Now I have one in Seattle with the Seattle storm.
I'm feeling good. Actually it's Tuesday. The trade happened on Friday,
I want to say, And I've had a few days
to like decompress about it and.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Think about it.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
My family was in town this weekend, thankfully, so I've
been able to like just be with them, and I'm
excited I feel good about it, but I mean, we've
been talking about it the last few episodes about the
business of sports and how hard it is sometimes personally
and just another little, another little detour to my ultimate destination.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But could you walk us through how you found out,
like the process and I know I found out on Instagram,
but could we you all this through how you found out?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I will say I thankfully received a phone call. I
was on my way to my game in Nashville. I
was literally in the parking garage and our GM called and.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I was like, this is not good.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I just I immediately knew it was going to be something
like this, so I answered the phone. The call was
one minute, that's it. So we got She got straight
to it. She said, the Seattle Storm have inquired about
you and we're going to trade you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And I was like.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Uh, in those exactly yeah, And then my gosh also
added that because the Storm had a player suffered an injury,
actually Jordan Horston, who's playing in athletes alimited right now,
had an injury that they're like, oh, yeah, they need
they need a roster spot because they lost the player,
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which I later found out was not the reason why
Seattle reached out, so she said that to me on
the phone, and I just said, okay, good luck, and
then that was. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I was like to you guys, like there was really.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
No conversation, and looking back, maybe I could have handled
that conversation a little bit better, but it caught me
so off guard.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
And I was getting ready to go play a.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Game myself, so I was really like, I need to
get to the gym, like that was like my first thought.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And then after that.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Deerica called me and she was just like, do you
feel like talking And I was just like, m sure,
let's talk. She had no idea that was going to happen.
So we talked for a second, and you know, it
was just we were both just really disappointed because we
really didn't get that much time together on the court
because I was dealing with what I've been dealing with,
and we really played well together. So I'm grateful for
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my time with Deerica for sure. But yeah, it like
from the call, I had to get my shit together
and go play a basketball game that I thankfully played
well in. We didn't win, but I walked into the
arena like very like there was a day I walked
into the arena.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I was late to the game to warm ups, and
I walk in.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And everybody's like looking at me, like are you okay?
And I'm like, yeah, I'm good. Like I stop my job,
like I'm okay. But like it's still like a lot
to process all at once. Now I have to come
in and show up for my teammates and play a
whole basketball game when I really wanted to like cry, but.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I mean, now you know, the smoke is clear a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I'm like really excited, but the whole process of it
was kind of like, I wish this went a little
bit better, honestly.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Definitely, what about you said that they told you the
reason was because Seattle inquired about you because somebody was
hurt and so they needed a roster spot.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
But then you later found out that wasn't the reason, right,
What was the reason that they've just really needed a
shooting guard. They have a gaping hole in their offense.
They don't have any three point shooting because Sammy Whitcomb left,
so they don't have a shooter right now. Which is
funny because when the Spark signed Plumb in Odyssey, I
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was like, oh, I need to show that I'm a
three level score more, which is what I've been doing
in AU the last two weeks, was not shooting as
many threes, getting to the basket, getting to the mid range,
playing the three, because I was like, Okay, if I
need it, if I'm going to have to be on
the court, potentially with Odyssey or Plumb or both, I
need to show that I can play that three position.
(05:40):
But now, like I'm absolutely going to be a two
in Seattle, which is great because that is my position.
But I've been showing that i can do more than
just shoot threes, which I've been able to do that
for a long time. But I just had to, you know,
find a role in the w Like I always say,
sometimes you just got to find your role in live
in it for a little bit before.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You at your opportunity. So yeah, I spoke with the
GM and the coach. I've been texting with some of
the assistants and they're like really excited about me coming.
They've all been watching me in Nashville and they're just
really excited about how my game has grown in the
last two years. Despite me dealing with the illness, I've
like really worked hard to get back and come back
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better because a lot of people don't really know my game.
A lot of people really do think that I am
a podcaster full time. So when the news dropped, I
had more comments asking if I was still going to
be on Gils Arena.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That was gonna be my next question yecause obviously we
can do our podcast from anywhere, but as far as
everything else that you had going on in LA, because
you had a lot going on there, Yeah, how does
that change for you?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I mean, Seattle wasn't too far right.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
No, I mean, and I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't do Gills during the w season and then
the NBA season ends in June anyway, So last season
I would only go on Gills during the season if
we had like an off day or something. So I
typically don't even do Gills during the W season. I'm
completely locked in to what I'm doing, and then now
we will be locked into our show. So yeah, I mean,
I will still be in LA during the off season.
I just got a place out there. I love La,
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so I'm still there. I just got a place. So
my first thought was like another year summer of living
out of a suitcase. But at least I'm still on
the West Coast, So I'm grateful for that, but I'm
still very much going to be in LA in the
off season and still doing all my stuff there. And
then the Guilts, they've all been like super supportive about it.
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I heard from a few of them and they're like,
we see out to Storm fans now. So yeah, it's
just it was a lot, and it's just I've been
went through a lot in LA. Like I even wrote
it in my notes, Maria, hear you want to hear
some stats from my town in LA, I would love
to hear.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Okay, right, I have it. I've written down, guys.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Okay, Lexi's time in La, Lexi's time in LA and
three seasons in LA, three gms, three coaches, three strength
and conditioning coaches, two medical staffs, twenty two different teammates,
two practice locations, and three different apartments. Yeah, that's just
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like just like the light version of just how much
instability I faced as a player. And since my first
season there, it was me and Ray Burrell were the
only ones left from my first season there, and then
even that season, she was injured most of that season,
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so she didn't even really play. So from a business perspective,
I feel like, yeah, I probably was the last one
to like get out that was still like lingering from
the dysfunction of the past. So like, I can understand that,
I have to understand that. But I've been like seeing
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just a lot of dialogue about like me as a player,
a lot of dialogue about my health, which I think
is strange. I did not expect so much conversation to
come from me being so transparent about having Crone's disease,
considering it's such a misunderstood in underrepresented illness in even
(09:28):
in just our community, black women, black people in general
dealing with autoimmune diseases, which it's running rampant in our community.
So I really feel like it was a good thing
that I started being so open about it, because the
people that I've met that also do with autoimmune diseases
often tell me how they feel unseen and misunderstood because
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it's not something that you can visibly see is bothering
you or affecting your life. So like, I've had people
tell me they have lost their jobs, they've had to
quit their job, they've fallen out with family members, things
like that. So I completely understand, and I'm just grateful
I have the support system that I have that has
kept me going because I do feel like I'm a
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face and an advocate for a lot of people, and
I do want to ensure people. Even though I ensure
people with Episode one that I am healthy, I feel great.
I actually was in a mini flare up over the
weekend while I was playing, like.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh my gosh, wait, I have a question. So basically
to clarify, you've been seeing a lot of dial what's
the dialogue that you've been seeing, Like, is it people
blaming the fact that like you're getting traded on.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Me being sick.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh, she can't stay on the court, she's not healthy,
She's never going to be able to finish the season,
just like weird things like that, which in my seven
seasons now about to be eight, I've been one hundred
percent available for six of them, and just because I
didn't get the minutes didn't mean I wasn't available. So
I respectfully can give people grace if they go look
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at my stats for my career and could see the inconsistency,
But that's not because I was not playing because I
was sick or injured.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I just wasn't getting an opportunity to play. And you know,
I had a.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Major leap from year one to year two, and then
it was COVID and then I got waived randomly, like
It's just been like one thing after another, and I'm
still here in dealing with now this autoimmune disease that
I now feel like I have conquered and I've completely managed.
My routine is like top tier. So I've honestly, like
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I said, the phone call was a minute. I don't
know the reason why I was traded. I didn't ask
to be traded. I'm grateful that I'm in a situation
that I'm in in Seattle because I wanted a facility.
I wanted to be around veterans, I wanted to win now,
I wanted to be in a professional environment. All of
the things that I've been wanting for the Sparks is
(12:03):
already going on with the storm, and I wish the
Sparks all the best because they are, you know, entering
a new era and that's very exciting and that was
something I actually wanted to be a part of. But
I'm not, and that's fine because it happens.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
But again, this is another situation.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Almost every situation I'm believing with like Nick Young, mean,
like question.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Mark, like what happened? Like no one ever is like
straight up with me.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
And it's disappointing because us as players just have to
continue to be professional through it all, no matter what,
no matter how we feel, no matter how we've been
felt slighted or disrespected. I do feel like players are
owned a conversation, a meaningful dialogue, and a reason even
if it's bad, and you don't have to make that
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public knowledge, but and.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
They should be honest with you because that helps you
throughout your career. But also like is that a snaky
thing where it's kind of like why give you that intel?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Right? So yeah, I mean like you're not really one
of ours?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Are you going to give somebody that you're moving information
about your plans for the future? Like I don't know,
but like sometimes I'm just like you have to like
respect us as people. And you know that's something that
we've been all athletes have been more vocal on lately,
is like we're still humans. Like I know y'all think
that we're these athletic robots that run around that I
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have no emotions or feelings, But it's like this is
now my third team that I've been traded or moved
on from, and I'm believing with like what, like what
did I do? And there's just been like I just
had to just be like, all right, whatever, let's just
shock it to the game and keep it pushing. But
(13:54):
it's like, after after so many times, it's just like
is this Like is this the business? And like I
just I honestly I just don't feel like this is
how business should be. And we're seeing it in other
leagues as well, that people are just like they say
what they want, People can feel how they want without
really knowing the truth, and organizations just let things be said.
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Players just let things be said and then just keep
it moving because business is business.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
But yeah, the call was very short, and I'm just like.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I feel like I probably deserved a longer conversation than that.
But again, I take ownership for part of that because
I kind of just was like I have a game
to get to, Like I don't really have time for
this conversation right.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Now, but you didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, I literally did not have time.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So you can't really blame yourself because you literally did
not have time. I think people forget that, you know,
when fans are looking at basketball as a whole and
we're like, oh, this person would be so good on
this team because of this like kind of using you
all as chess peace, Like, Okay, it does make sense,
and Seattle does need a shooter. Obviously, you make sense
to plug into their system. But at the same time,
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you're a person and you have a brand new apartment
and a life and jobs, and like it's uprooting you.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Essentially.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
We talk about it all the time with the NBA
because their trade deadline is like like we'd trade deadline,
like we don't, Like that doesn't really happen in the
W like once she rarely players get moved like mid season,
and if they do, it's like.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
One or two maybe.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
But I mean, yeah, I was like, oh, my apartment,
Like I kind of felt bad about that. And then
my next thing was like my doctors. My doctors are
in La Oh yeah. So it's just like it was
weird because like Seattle had been like coming to my
attention a lot lately, Like I had people in au
mentioning like Seattle like really has been liking how you've
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been playing, And I'm like, Okay, that's good to know
how do they know you're telling them like coaches talk.
I mean we have we have four WNBA coaches in
facilitator roles. Oh so you're like getting like you're getting
a little from people that are like, oh yeah, they
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really they really liking how you're.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Playing right now.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And I'm like, I mean that makes me happy because
you got to keep your value high, wherever that may be.
If your value is high and it's not on your team,
then they're going to find a way to get you.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
If you don't have any value at all, like then
that's like worst case scenario. So when I got the call,
I didn't think they were actually going to do it,
because they did trade me for the second round picks,
which on Twitter I said was equivalent to a bag
of popcorn because typically typically second round picks at that
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the number, like twenties, very hard to make a roster
at that number. It's possible, like you can very like
I don't want to say like if you're a secon
round pick, you can't a team, you absolutely can't, but
it's very hard. So for someone who finished the season
as one of your top three scores the last two
years and you.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Just give them away like that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Like, again, that's another thing that makes you kind of
feel like, was I ever valued here at all?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Because this is what happens, right.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I think part of that though, is probably the
turnover they were experiencing. It's like the people who were
there when you first got there. That not to say
that the people who are there now didn't value you,
but it was like they didn't really have time to
build that relationship with you or with anybody else. That's
why it was so unstable because there was so much turnover,
and so it's kind of like the people who are
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there now don't really have attachment to.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
And then I mean even our new GM, she came
in while I was I was already sick, like so
I will say, like she doesn't even know like the
type of player, the type of leader, the type of
worker that I really am because I was just dealing
with so much personally. And I will take that like
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that I will take for myself because the last two
years I was very into myself, and not selfishly, but
because I needed to exert so much energy to show
up every day. I could not be probably that locker
room person, that veteran that they needed me to be
and I'll take ownership for that because I was trying
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to get myself back, so like, I'm not gonna sit
here and be like I was perfect. I did everything right,
and I don't know why like this is happening, Like
there are instances where I like it can look back
and be like, well, yeah, I can see why they
would want to like just wipe their hands clean of
like just all of this to move forward.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
And yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Now I got people calling be ah old because I'm
and I'm like, oh, like, people don't know that, don't
know that.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'm young and turned Still.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I went to a class last night, a dance class
hip hop?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
How was that?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It was so much fun?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I put it on TikTok guys if you want to see.
It was a little beginning class.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
How was I?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Did you go by yourself?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
That was my friend and her friend that also like
teaches classes, so we just like went and did it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
It was a could workout.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Good for you. I'm actually excited for you.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
This is like going back to what we were just
talking about, but I'm excited for you to be in
more of a win now situation.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the last win now situation I
was in, we won a championship, so it's giving this.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Team could win a championship.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I think we have all the pieces, we have all
the resources. I know. I haven't had resources like this
since I was in Minnesota and I was in twenty nineteen,
So I'm very very excited about that. I might like
move incty. Yeah it's great, but yeah it's been it's
been like up and down, but again overall, very positive.
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From the Seattle Storm fans. I always have loved playing
in Seattle. Their fans are amazing, their arena is amazing.
Oh and then Neka, Like obviously I have to talk
about Mecca. Like we had a great relationship in La
She really was amazing while I was there, and like
I remember when I was first getting sick, she was
like one of the people who was like always trying
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to help me figure out what was going on, and
she was like very concerned about me when this all
started happening. So for me to be able to be
reunited with her and be feeling the way I'm feeling,
which is really healthy and really really happy, and then
mentally in a good place, like I'm just really excited
to be on the court with her again and then
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playing with somebody like Skyler, like I haven't played with
a player like that at that position in a minute.
So her competitive fire, her energy, Like I'm just very
excited to be on the court with people like that
because I'm not like outwardly like that all the time.
I kind of just like put my head down to
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work and do what I need to do. So to
have someone like that who's like more vocal, probably a
little bit more like outwardly like passionate, like, I'm really
excited to like maybe have some of that rub off
on me. And I know we're gonna we're gonna turn
up Seattle, So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I'm excited for you.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Thanks, and now your weekend we can pivot to All Star.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
How yeah, you guys. I was at All Star weekend.
It was great, it was fun. This was my third
All Star. My first one was Salt Lake, second one
was Indianapolis, and so this one was in San Francisco.
I felt like San Francisco is a much better location
than the previous two. No offense to those cities, but
it was way too damn cold in those other ones,
and like in San fran it was still cold, but
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it wasn't like when I was in Indiana it literally snowed,
So this is much better. I think let's just talk
about the All Star Game and like the complaints.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
For a second.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Seeing a lot of complaints, let me say something.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I don't know if I'm gonna get in trouble for this,
but like it has to be said, Okay, I think
that the fans are misinterpreting the fact that All Star
weekend for the players is literally just like spring break,
Like they they don't care, They're not gonna care, they
won't care, and like you see this on social media,
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so I.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Feel comfortable saying it.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
If y'all see them posting that they're at a spades
tournament the night before the All Star Game, do you
think they're gonna show up to the game and be
like yeah, like I'm gonna drive, Like no, Like they're
they've been partying all weekend, like this is like one
of the only times that they're all in the same
city at the same time.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
They're on break, like this is just one big he
haha celebration to them.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's like, yeah, I know the fans wanted to be
they want to.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Go to stock so bad.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
They think the All Star Game has never been that. Like,
I don't know what people are talking about. Like, yes,
Kobe Bryant was a psychopath on the court, but it's
like he didn't want to lose, okay, but like still
the scores were still like.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
One hundred and twelve to like one hundred and eighteen.
And that was.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Before all the threes. So that was before all the threes.
So alas, y'all are like, we want to see more
windmill dunks. Okay, they that's what they were doing in
twenty ten because they weren't shooting all the threes, yet
they still weren't playing any defense.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, they were just shooting more laps, I think, Yeah,
which is way more boring, by the way. So I
think fans are misinterpreting the fact that All Star weekend
is like an NBA family reunion and celebration of the
city in which it's being played. Like it was very
much as somebody being there. It felt like a celebration
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of Steph Curry's career and the.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Bay It was not.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Really It's never going to be about we want to
go at each other's throat, simple like they don't care
and they're not gonna like.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The fan experience I feel.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
So I've never been to NBA All Star, but I
went to w NBA All Star for the first time
last summer. The fan experience is I think it stops
at like you're seeing everybody at one place at one time. Yeah,
and you have all these activations and all of these
pop ups and all these things that you can just
get in one place.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
So like if you are a Steph Curry.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Fan and you live in New York City and the
All Star Game is in New York that year, for example,
now you get the opportunity you get to see Steph Curry.
You probably get to buy bunch of stuff that you
tip probably wouldn't be able to get because you live
so far you don't want to order it online. Like
that's the fan experience. The game is like the cherry
on top.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
The game is really like you said, it's about seeing
all of those players on the court.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
At the same time, it's not about y'all just had.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The Olympics, Like can we like where they were playing
really hard?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Where I will I feel like I'm like shitting on
the fans right now. And what I do understand about
the fans being pissed at the All Star Game because
I was at the game, but I mean I was working.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I didn't pay for those she gets hawd, I paid
for them. I would be so tight.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I've watched it on TV. It was very weird.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
The new format.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
They need to throw that out. I don't know what
that was. And no disrespect to the rising stars, but no.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I I was excited about it. I was really excited
about it because I thought, you know, a little something new,
and I thought that maybe it being so tight kind
of in the unrivaled as like three v three and like, yeah,
but like I thought it was gonna be more one
on one competition and like more ego involved, and it
just wasn't that.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
If anything, they cared a little bit less.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well, because and I even saw like a lot of
media members or people in the sports community just talking
about how All Star Weekend is no longer about basketball
being played.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
It's like jam packed with so much stuff and.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Even the players are exhaust like they're exhausted, Like, yeah,
you're talking about party. I don't even know if they
have time to party because they have so many other things,
engagements that they have to go to and appear at
in appearances in community and this and that, which is
also amazing, But for them to do all of that
and then you guys want them to like go crazy
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in the game when they have their real games in
a few days.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
The rest of the league is in Cabo chilling, and
they're they're All.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Star working and the fans are just like, play harder,
play harder, but like it's called All Star break.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I will say part of the problem though, part of
what the fans are so pissed off about.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And I think what would make the fans complain.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
About it a little less because what you said was
really good in the sense that the fantasy of what
the game used to be when Kobe and Jordan and
then we're playing isn't real. Like it wasn't this like
they weren' out there trying to kill each other. I mean,
there was more competition, but and they took it more.
They definitely took it more seriously. But it wasn't what
It wasn't commercialized back then.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Either.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
It was like, yes, really about the like I remember
growing up, everyone couldn't wait to watch the All Star
game and like also it's like.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Saturday Night is part of the problem. I think the
fans would be less annoyed if the three point contests
and the dunk contest were less pooh pooh. Yeah, you know,
like they they probably would be able to get over
the fact that the players aren't trying in the game.
If John Moran and Anthony Edwards were, They're like.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Are y'all tired? And Mac mcclug is amazing.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Don't get me wrong, what he does is impressive three
straight years. Let's see, he's a G League player, which,
let's disrespect to G League players, but this is.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
NBA All Star weekends, and y'all no disrespect.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
I have a young G League player caring because it's
not like he's doing a great job, like it's he's
not bs ing.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
He's incredible. He's incredible. I was so impressed, what are
we doing? But also I.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Would be so for real when I say this. First
of all, if I were Mac, I would never do
that shit again.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I'm not sure Adam Silver, I hope they pay him
for that.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
But also number two, part of the thing with the
mac McClung thing is like.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
No ship, He's dunking over a.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Car and doing these crazy never before seen insane dunks.
When he's not technically a full time NBA player, he
spends the whole year practicing for the Dunk Contest, like
and that's no disrespect for him. It's just like he
pops up once a year for the Dunk Contest. That's
where that's when we see him. That's like what he
is riding on for endorsements and blah bla blah blah.
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It's like the Dunk Contest. So no shit, Like he
is killing it at the Dunk Contest. And if he
goes up against like an NBA player that's like full
time in the NBA, obviously they're not going to be
doing as good as him because he knew three years
ago that he was gonna have to carry the Dunk
Contest for the next three years.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
You know. Yeah, I don't know why the dunkers don't
want to participate, like.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You know, they don't want to do nothing outside of
the outside of the career past.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
The last year, Jalen Brown tried my dad's dunk. He
attempted it, and I don't know if he did it right.
He tried, and my dad loved the fact that he
like attempted it. He has Brown seven like every time
we watch him play, but like it's so crazy that
he like just has year number and whatever. So the
fact that he did that, like my dad loved it,
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but I don't think he successfully did it. But people
were like so mean of people were so mean, and
like I'm just like, I guess I understand why guys
don't want to put themselves out there like that because
you don't like they're quite literally they quite literally do
not have to.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You don't want to put yourself out there and do
the contest your skin.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
They do need to have thicker skin, right. It's just like,
if I can choose.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
To avoid all this, I probably will because that But
like people are I have.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Lost their minds on the internet.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
That just proves though what everybody says about them. Also,
I mean, in the nineties, early two thousands, they didn't
have the internet, So I get that exactly when those
players say that the players today are soft and you're
saying here saying to me, well, maybe they don't want
to do the dump contst with people are gonna be
mean to them.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Bro get out of here with that. I'm not trying
to hear that.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Do you not think in like in the early two thousands,
if like Vince Carter did bullshit in the dunk contest.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
People will be making fun of him to his face.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
In person, sending him letters to the arena, always a
tweet or someone sending you a postcard.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You demand need to be fighting at the games, like, bro, no, no,
you know what.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
You know what's crazy? If I opened up a fan
mail and it was all I said was you suck,
and it hurt me more than a tweet. Like that
would definitely hurt me more than a tweet. So bruh,
I mean, and many of the guys to step up.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
You know what else I'm mad about?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
And I realized that it was because actually there's a
few things about a week I'm mad about. Number one,
why wasn't Steph Curry in the three week Contest? I
don't care what. I don't care what the situation was
with Sabrina or she. First off, I were her, I
wouln't want to do it either. Second of all, like
it's in the bay, and they were like, yeah, buddy,
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healed represents the bay.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Hell no, I did not know. He didn't even do
the three point contest.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Bro, do you know how this and I'm Steph Crey's
my favorite basketball player. I literally bought an eighteen dollars
collectible Steph Curry popcorn bucket. Like I'm not playing, but
so when I got Imagine my surprise when I get
to All Star Saturday night and I see Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Street in his clo Yeah, hell no, don't like that?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Who would want to buy? Like, who would want to
buy that ticket? You know what I'm saying, Like if
I were a fan that spent my hard earned money
to see I'm in the bay.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
This is where we're from.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
This Steph Curry is getting older, like we might never
have an All Star weekend with him here again.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
And he's not doing the damn three works.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Please, Okay, what else you're not at?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Last thing? This is the last thing I'm not at.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And this this got me so tight. We're calling it
eight second violation in the All Star.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Game time out, we have a conversation about these referees
just across the board, just across the board. I don't
think I can get in trouble for talking about refs
on my own show like you do in the media.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
But we'll see, y'all are this is not y'all's show.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Are they please?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
But in AU it's a mess. An NBA it's a mess,
and unrivaled it's a mess. What are y'all doing? Did
y'all have a meeting?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Let me tell you to be yelled at all.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
The time, which I can understand because they do get
yelled at all the time.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I could never be a rep personally. I would. I would.
No way you're screaming to be like that. Never a
basketball game.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Hell no, we're just talking. But like they got us,
you're calling an eight second violence. It's the All Star
This doesn't.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Matter who they call it on Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Not have Steph Curry.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
It was like the rules of basketball do not apply
to Steph Curry in the All Star Game in San Francisco, Please,
I don't even.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Like okay, if I remember correctly, he was dribbling the
ball of the court and it.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Was like everybody was like Steph, Steph.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Like the crowd was going wild because it was like
they had to get to forty points to win the game,
and Steph Curry had the ball.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
His team had thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Like yes, I'm telling you. They want to be the
center of attention.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
So and you want to know how the game en did,
Like see, this is what I'm so pissed about.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Then blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
The international team I think it was Chuck's Global All Stars.
Whatever they miss, they somehow fumble their opportunity whatever, and
then Steph's team gets the ball back. I'm sitting there going, okay,
get the ball to Steph Curry. Get the ball to
Steph Curry. Jason Tatum's going in the game on a layup. Bro,
Jason Tatum, Bro, Jason Tatum, Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Are you? Said Jason? Nobody's even plays said.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Nobody's even playing defense. Just get the ball to step
like we all know what's going on here, Like that happened.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
My last thing about All Star how are the teams?
They didn't completely make sense. So you got you got
the ogs right, uh huh? And you have the young
the Young Stars. We have two ogs, my Boston boys
who are twenty six.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I think they're not ogs. It is not an OG.
And then you have.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Is not a Global Star.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You have a twenty eight year old Jalen Brunson on
the Young Stars.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Like I knew what they were trying to do, but like,
once y'all saw that that didn't match up, that y'all
should have just eliminated the names and just.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Kept Team Chuck Team Shack like we would have been
okay with that.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeacause I remember I saw a press conference of Jalen Brunson.
He was like, yeah, they said that like we were
the young stars, and then everyone looked at directly at me.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And I was like, he's like, yeah, I'm twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
But like I will say, side note, the crowd was
going crazy for Jaylen Brunson all weekend like they loved him.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
He just loved him.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Like there were people that the crowd the crowd went
mild for, like they really didn't care. Obviously, they went
crazy for Staff every time he did anything, but I
would say second to Staff was Jaylen Brunson.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
They were up.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
That's fire and he deserves them because people always shut
on him for being, you know, a small fish in
a big market, but he's definitely a big.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Fish in a big market.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
No, I love Jaylen Bronson. I was rooting for him
in the three point contest. I don't know what the
hell he had going on.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Who won? He right?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, yeah, it was Taler hero and Buddy Hill at
the end.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
That's that's why fans are mad at All Star weekend.
I'm gonna be real like, that's why.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
It's just very It just seemed very unserious. And I
hope next year is better.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
It's in LA.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Well, we'll letting Lebron better play. Because what the hell
was that too?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I forgot about that day of day of.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
I was on the bus on the way to the
game when I found that out.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I was saying, he's just like, yeah, I feel like it.
And Edwards didn't play either.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
He first of all, I forgot he was there. He
just disappeared. I don't even think I really saw him
sitting on the side.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Well, you saw in media he said I don't want
to be the face of anything. He said that what
he said, he said, I don't want to he said,
that's what y'all got win before.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
That's what he said in media. I love Aunt, He's just.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
He's just so.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
He's just so unhinged.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
So I went to Georgia and Aunt went to Georgia,
and I remember he was like very much on a
microscope when we were there. Because we don't have basketball
players like that for men's our women's team.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Absolutely dusts them.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
But I will say while he was there, one thing
I learned is that I can't remember if it was
like his trainer or somebody very personally close to him
during his draft process, because he kept making it seem
like he didn't care about basketball. Was saying that because
he's been through so much in life, he kind of
not sets himself up for rejection. But he's not like
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one who's gonna be like, I'm gonna be the face
of the NBA just in case.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
That doesn't happen. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
So he kind of right exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I think that his Adidus commercials are fired fire.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I think him selling himself short in that way is
kind of just that, like he's selling himself short to
kind of like prepare himself.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Like I don't defect me. It's like a defense mechanism.
He doesn't want to look at Jesus.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Like he kind of said it with like a smart though,
like exactly, I'm asking me that, like you already know
I'm one of them, Like exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Do you want?
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Like it's like it's like, but that's the thing with media,
They like try to set you up so you can
say things so in the occasion that you're not living
up to what you say, they can.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Be like see exactly whereas now.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
And that's what I'm saying about Ant, Like he's smart,
Like they're the athletes are smartening up when it comes
to media, because that's something that I personally have been
grateful for. Like I've never really been a media darling,
which is why now I'm in media myself, because I
feel like it's possible to uplift all players but also
be critical of their game, but like a in a
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respectful way.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
But when someone is doing something.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Really well, like you should be able to like unbiasedly
appreciate what that person is doing.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
But if you talk so.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Crazy about them in the past, you can't really say
anything good about them ever because you'd have to apologize
for being an asshole.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
But I've been there.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Trust these athletes are like smartening up.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
You're not gonna get me caught up in saying something
that you can turn and flip on me in a
year or in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I think the craziest example of that is Ben Simmons
whole rise, Like before he got drafted. There's a clip
of I believe it's callin coward in the media being like.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Lebron, we don't need you anymore. Ben Simmons is here.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Like like that's gonna like hot.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Ben Simmons Like why would he say that? So I
think yeah said it.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Like when when when Ant started getting the Michael Jordan comps,
We're like, oh they finished, try and pack him up
in a few months, like oh.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yeah, don't. Like I just always have thought that was
the weirdest thing about me.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
They were compared Jimmy Butler to Michael Jordan.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Yeah, like we put everybody on this pet instead of
just appreciating who they are, just to kick them off
of it when you feel like it.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
So it's like I.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Will say I'm guilty of that.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Just because somebody listen, and we do not judge when
somebody is going so crazy, like in a moment, you
get recentcy biased, you know what I'm saying. You get
so excited, like and so you're like, yeah, this person's
gonna be the next blah blah blah blah blah. And
if they don't, if they don't amount to that, you're
like you're kind of like, oh, you're not that, And then.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
You yeah, yep, yeah, and I've seen it happen. I personally,
I've gotten like the reverse of it. Like people have
like just been so awful and mean to me from
the beginning that when I'm starting to.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Do good, they can't. There's nothing they don't want to say,
nothing exactly, which is okay.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Because I've been able to build a very thick skin
and a crazy work ethic and not play for the
validation of others or accolades or awards. I really do
play because i love playing basketball and I love working hard.
But I'm just like it's okay, Like I'm not really
gonna I'm not gonna accept it. It's not going to
mean anything to me. If all of a sudden everybody's like, oh,
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Letxie is actually like a pretty decent basketball player, I
don't care. But it's like, why is it so hard
for people to just be like, you know what, we
might have been wrong about how we felt about her game.
And it's just like anybody who's been watching me in
AU the last two weeks, like, there's no way y'all
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can say that I'm not an elite WNBA player And
and if you don't feel that way, whatever, that's on you.
But like whatever, you can look at the stats, blah
blah blah blah, go look at the go look at.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
The film, go look at the videos.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Like I passed the eye test, but for some reason
what I did in college doesn't matter. You know, how
I play in the games that I have had opportunities
that shit don't matter or like it's just been kind
of like weird. But like that's just the media in
a nutshell. But again, like like I said, it doesn't
really bother me. It hasn't prevented me from like working
really hard and.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Trying to do what I want to do with the
All Star Game.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Back to that, I saw that next year that they're
going to try and put in a one on one
on one. I wonder where y'all got that from, bruh.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
First of all, that is that was lit.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I was pleasantly surprised by the unrival of one on one.
I do have some critiques of it, though, what are
your critiques? If anybody has played one on one in
any workout or anything. Dribble limit, you have a dribble
limit and you get one one shot. There are no
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offensive rebound put backs in ones, so outside of those
two things.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
I mean, I think the seven second shot clock was.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Cool, but like if you were really an elite one
on one player, you don't need more than.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Four dribbles five dribbles to score.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
So that would be my only thing. Dribble limit and
you only get one one shot. You don't get to
throw the ball at the rim and go jump over
your person and put it back, like you don't get
to do that in ones. But other than that, it
was really fun to watch. I was.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
I was.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
I will say I had my hesitations about it because
I was like one on one, like how is this
gonna look?
Speaker 3 (43:34):
But it actually was like really enjoyable. I really liked
watching them.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Yeah, that was fun. Your your your teammate Skyler, she
like I watched her in the couple. Great, that's gonna
be exciting.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
It was so funny just saying that the guards go
against the bigs, like they didn't stand a chance with
those rules. Like I saw like mislayup rebound, miss layup rebound,
like that's not allowed in one on one.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Yeah. Also that's part of that is like the fans
picking how it seeded.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Yeah, or they should separate guards and posts.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
That makes sense like for sure, because I'm sorry and
I think I do think Fee is one of the
best ISO players in the league.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
I picked her to win that, yeah, on how Highlights
go go go watch, y'all, because I kicked her to
win that.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
I will say that Fee is definitely, absolutely one of
the best ISO players in the league.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
But to say that a Rique is not the best
one on one.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Player, like like we all know because we all have
to freaking guard her, Like, she is probably the best
one on one player in the league.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
But she didn't win.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
She came in second, which still with all those post players,
is still very impressive that she made it to the
final round because yeah, the guards like they were, they
were literally just getting beat up and out rebounded. Yeah,
but now the quid media going around also our weekend,
asking the guys they would play in a one on
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one tournament, Like these guys play one on one all
off season, that's all they do.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
But they also play pick up and they play hard
play doing the All Star game, so that doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
So I mean, you know what I got asked, I
want to check out him because you already took in
season tournament from us. You're finish take on one on
one right.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
And he trying to get Kaitlyn.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
He was trying to get Kaitlyn, like they're using all
y'all ship. But I got asked doing another show about
basically they had me do like a bracket of it
was like Caitlyn Clark and Steph Curry, Damian Lillard and Rique.
It was like a co ed tournament basically, and like
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the tournament, yeah, but it.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Was a guy and it was like a guy that's cool.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
I was gonna say, what do you think about that?
Because I thought that that sounded lit. I don't know
that would be lit.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
Just come do it at ours, Yeah, just come do
it at ours, but like make it like a fun thing,
like that's the thing, Like basketball is fun everything.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
I thought when Stephan Sabrina shot against each other, that
was so fun.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
I thought, everything doesn't have to be like hyper competitive
think PC. Sometimes things can just just be fun. And yes,
someone at the end of the day has to win
and someone has to lose. But in like certain situations,
entertainment does trump competitiveness. But like some some fans just
cannot comprehend that and just want to just be mean
(46:33):
about everything.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
They do and that's gonna be. That's gonna be it forever.
That's gonna be the case forever.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
There's like those people who choose to do that and
be mean about everything.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
There's nothing that we can do about them, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (46:45):
Yeah, I will say the last thing I will say,
pissed me off. Vows are weekd be Cause I forgot
to mention this earlier. Why are we having full blown
ceremonies in the middle of the games?
Speaker 3 (46:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Like I was in there and I was use like, okay,
this it felt very long because of this. First of all,
y'all got Dame shooting against a random.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
From the crowd, my gosh, and the whole thing was weird,
and little thing was weird.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
I lose, That's what I was saying. I knew Dame
was missing no shots purpose if Dave.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Looked at that kid one hundred grand and just went
three in a row, like nope, no money for you
little kids, Like what's the kid?
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Once mister bees asked the kid who gives me the
hebgb's by the way, But that's a whole conversation for
another day. Once mister Bees I asked that kid what
he wanted the money for and he was.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Like for college and to help my family. I was like, damn,
can't be him.
Speaker 4 (47:43):
But I was just like, okay, like what was there
a single benefit of Dame winning that competition? Like that
the day would Dame get that money, because that's not
life changing money for Dame.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
He has had Dick had he I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
Like, so I was like, was mister B's like trying
to like oki dok the NBA? Like I'm like, I
was watching it and I was just like, wait, so
if Dame makes more shots than the kid, if the
professional basketball player makes more shots than the regular kid,
then the regular kid gets no money, right.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
I actually think that the competition lowki No, it was
a bear that was stupid. Hello, But I think that
if it would have it would have ate like it'd
actually been a cute, little energy breakup because it was
a lot shorter than the ceremony they had later if
they had him shooting against another random yeah, or they
should have had like Dame shoot against Steph Curry and
had a kid represent a kid.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
Yes, Like that just makes it like.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Are you trying to make Dame of dumb?
Speaker 4 (48:46):
The fact that Dame had to make three and the
kid only had to make one. Like, I think, you
don't know what I think. After Day made like the
first one, I think he had like a light bulb
moment it well, I keeped it Day. It was I
waited one, yeah, because then he started missing.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
I feel like being there watching it, you could clearly
tell that Day made his first two okay, and that
kid still had a made one. And that's when mister Beast, like,
I guess to make it climactic. Mister Beasts, after Day
made a second one, was like, so what what do
you want to use the money for? And then he
said college and his family and then it's like Dame's like, okay,
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I'm not going to make this last one.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
So he just kept missing.
Speaker 4 (49:29):
I think mister Beast like thought. He was like going like,
I bet you he had a video on Dick. This
is why NBA players are. This is like I bet
like mister BS does like I don't know, I agree
with you. Mister Beasts is like and he like gives me.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
I'm scared of him. He gives me very weird And
why do you have so much money? Every time I
see him, he give it away a million dollars?
Speaker 3 (49:52):
Why and why are you always recording it?
Speaker 2 (49:56):
Just give it away sometimes I always find sus.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Yeah, that was odd and like rewatching it back because
when I was watching it in real time, I was
just confused because I was like, wait, so Dame wins
and the like then the money, No one gets money, so.
Speaker 3 (50:12):
Would then know why would Dame win? Like why would
he want to win?
Speaker 4 (50:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (50:16):
They told him before it started that they have to
love the get. They had the one hundred thousand. It
wasn't the real one hundred thousand dollars, I hope, but
they had the one hundred thousand dollars on the court
like they were gonna give.
Speaker 4 (50:25):
It to Shon. Gave me squid Games vibes.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
Yes, this is weird.
Speaker 4 (50:31):
Speaking of squid Games and AI and all that. Why
did why did Shaq walk out with that robot?
Speaker 3 (50:38):
That was terrifying?
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Was it on television how they had all the robots
do the do a dance?
Speaker 4 (50:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (50:44):
I didn't, or if it was, I missed it.
Speaker 4 (50:46):
I just saw that robot walk out with Shaq and
I immediately thought of an episode of Black Mirror, and
I was like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (50:53):
Robots are not our friends?
Speaker 1 (50:54):
What people don't know is there there was like five
of those little dog robots and I guess it was
drunk commercial break or something, you know how they do
stuff in the arena. They had the dog robots do
like a dance, and I was.
Speaker 4 (51:10):
There's literally an entire episode of Black Mirror with those dogs,
those robot dogs.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
And then they had another one race and they said
do you have anything to say?
Speaker 2 (51:20):
And then the robot went makes some noise.
Speaker 4 (51:23):
Nah nah, I tweeted. I said, y'all not afraid enough
of robots for me. I watched too many movies. I
read too many books. I mean, y'all just literally have
to watch Terminator. That's all you really have to watch.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
I was, I'm ready for w All Star WEEKD because
w Allstar wikid was lit.
Speaker 3 (51:41):
It was so fun. It was so fun, and I
think the USA All Star format also was really.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
Fun because they don't they tried.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
Yeah, But I'm like, because then I saw that Yannis
was like they need to do like a World versus USA,
which that could be not great because like snubs will
absolutely happen. So like, I don't know, like when people
are like people are like obsessing about fixing All Star weekend.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
I think everyone they just need.
Speaker 4 (52:08):
To like peel it all the way back to like
it's our basic form and then go from there instead
of adding like all these trinkets and bells and whistles.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
People want to watch basketball.
Speaker 4 (52:21):
So that's why they love WNBA All Star because they
were hooping. I was there, You were there, that the
environment was amazing, Like they was out there hooping and
like that's what people want to see.
Speaker 3 (52:34):
So I think that that's the fix. Adam Silver, I
don't know, but.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
He don't do nothing simple. Everything is always up.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
He's obsessed with tournaments. Maybe he has like a baby,
he has like a problem, Like I don't know, but
everything is a tournament now, Like, can we just play basketball,
Adam Silver?
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Just one game?
Speaker 3 (52:58):
Like Kathy, don't start that ship. Gosh, mis cuff is fun,
but that's all we need.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
That's enough.
Speaker 3 (53:04):
Yeah, that's enough.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Well, Lexi, I'm so excited for you in this next chapter.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
And I can't wait to be doing breakdowns in your
win now era, Like that's when now the content, that's.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
What absolutely is.
Speaker 4 (53:18):
And I am telling the Seattle fans like this show
is not going to be like messy. It's not gonna
tell secrets of the locker room, good or bad.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
Like this is like quite literally a journey.
Speaker 4 (53:30):
Oh and another full circle moment that I want to
drip in here. I think the Seattle Storm, We're supposed
to draft me, and they ended up not drafting me,
which was okay, but I remember talking to the Seattle Storm.
I was very sure I was going through the storm
and I ended up going to Connecticut, which still was
a blessing to get drafted. But I mean, if my
(53:52):
life ain't the name of this damn podcast, Like it's
just full circle moment after full circle moment, Like, so
this is to be fun and now I have you
coming on this journey with me and our iHeart family,
so like this is just gonna be really fun and
I'm really excited.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
No, I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
I don't worry, guys, Seattle fans, LEXI won't be messy.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
We will not be messy.
Speaker 4 (54:15):
We're gonna be fun and it's going to be a
time and I'm so excited. And thank you guys so
much for coming to another episode of Full Circle.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
We will see you next week.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
Bye, thanks for listening to Full Circle.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
We'll be back next week with more Basketball for the Girls,
by the girls.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
We want to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
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is Jesse Katz. Our supervising producer is Grace Fuz. Our
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