April 29, 2026 • 36 mins
With Myles on vacation, Breanna Stewart is joined by Mariah Rose from Hoops for Hotties and the iHeart Women’s Sports Network’s Full Circle podcast for a wide-ranging, culture-meets-hoops conversation.
They dive into everything from viral moments on TikTok to Justin Bieber at Coachella, and what it really takes to cover men’s and women’s sports equally. Plus how to deal with internet critics in a world of constant opinions.
On the court, they break down major WNBA storylines, including the impact of Angel Reese heading to Atlanta and Satou Sabally landing in New York, and debate whether it’ll be A'ja Wilson or Stewie taking home MVP this season.
Mariah shares how her mom inspired her path into sports media and offers a unique perspective on athlete parenting, while Stewie shows love to New York Liberty fans and reveals a gameday ritual you definitely won’t see coming.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The most important thing for me from day one is
like I never have seen women's sports as like this
secondary thing to like men's sports. It's just sports like period.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome to Game Recognized Game. I'm Brianna Stewart Miles is
on a much needed vacation after a long NBA season,
so I'm here today joined by a special guest. She
is the host of Hoops for Hotties as well as
Full Circle with Lexi Brown on iHeart Women's Sports Network.
She has over a million followers on social media, and
I'm excited to welcome Riah Rose to Game Recognized Game.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yay, yes, period, thanks for having me see what. I'm
so excited? Like you ate that? You ate that. I
know I need to like wake up to that to
hype me up for my dad every day.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Honestly, if you need it, I can. I could record it.
You could just use it as your ringtone or whatever
you need, Like, no problem, I got you, period. Okay. So,
Like I wanted to go right off the top and
ask you this because this is something that I struggle with.
You have you have two shows, not just one show,
two shows. How do you have enough time in the
day to get this done record, get guests, like like
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tell me give me some tips please.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
To be honest, duie, Like I feel like having my
job be to make fun videos on the internet about
basketball is such a blessing and like this is what
I did in my free time anyways, like with my
friends when I was in college, like making videos talking basketball,
talking sports, Like that's been my passion ever since I
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can remember. So it's not hard, you know what I mean,
Like this feels like FaceTime to me, Like this isn't yeh,
it's fine. So it just you fit it in where
you can. And like, at the end of the day,
it's my job, so you kind of got to perfect
your craft. And you know, sometimes you're working while other
people are leisuring. You know, it's sports obviously, you know this,
like you're everyone's there to watch you play and they're
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all having a good time and having their beers and whatnot.
You got to show up and play. So it's just
kind of the same thing, like you make sacrifices where
you can. But at the end of the day, I
love it and it's fun.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well I love that. Okay. That gets me into my
next question. Basically, you touched on it a little bit.
You started doing this in college, but like, how did
you know that this was going to be where you
wanted to be? Like you were doing it as a
as a friend, like with your friends and stuff, but
now you're taking on an even more serious role, and
like what got you to make that decision?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, I this didn't exist when I was in school,
you know what I'm saying. So I think I'm thinking
I'm going to be like a sidelined reporter. I'm going
to be like Malika or like doing like what you
may and never doing like I'm thinking, like that's like
the one path into making your voice hurt in sports.
And then the pandemic hit and I didn't really have
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the opportunities to go to games and get content for
my reel and like do the traditional reporter thing. And
TikTok musically became TikTok and I just started making videos
for fun. Like my first viral video was about Joanna
Santantakumbo signing a super Max deal with the Bucks, and
like I just was talking and as you know, I
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started getting more views and more likes. I realized, oh
my gosh, like I could get paid to do this,
and it just kind of spiraled from there. But I
didn't go into it with an intention of like being
a content creator or making money, because that didn't really
exist when I started.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I know, you bring up COVID and I'm like, oh,
my gosh, Like, what's the craziest thing that you remember
from COVID? Like, right now, what's the craziest thing. What's
the thing You'll always think about?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
School getting canceled, seeing that the NBA and WNBA were
going to be playing in bubbles, like the Bubble experience,
I was like, what is this and what is going on?
I can only imagine it was crazy for y'all. But
a fan, I'm like, oh, this is real, Like they're
taking this seriously, no more fans and games like that
was crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
This is crazy. This is wild. But like what I
remember is like we were we were in this in
between period of like we didn't know if we were
gonna have a season or not, right, so we had
to work out. Everybody had to work out separately, and
I was I just came back from Russia. I was
playing overseas, like season got canceled, and my mom was
living with me, and I was putting my mom through
the hardest workouts, like outside, like living in Seattle, running
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running up hills and being like that's not good enough,
Like your effort is not good enough for me. So
I'll always remember COVID as like my boot camp for
my mom. Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I couldn't imagine living with a professional athlete during COVID.
I'd be like, girl, you got it, like cold, I
have the whistle it can I cheer you on because
this ain't.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Okay? So I know side now we got sidetracked a
little bit. Okay. You said your post about Giannis and
his Supermax. Was that in like your first viral moment
or what was your first first viral moment?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, well, actually, so my first viral moment had nothing
to do with for us. Actually, I there was this
trend on TikTok where people were I mean it was COVID.
We were all nuts at the time, and people were
drinking brown listerine, not drinking it, but like tasting it
for the first time, and like it was a viral
trend and I thought everybody was gassing it. Like I was, like,
it can't taste that bad, Like I gotta try it.
(05:29):
So that was my first viral video, was I went out.
I bought the the brown listerine at the store and
I tried it on camera and I literally said it
tasted like I think it tasted like I said, it
tastes like Jesus Christ brush my teeth or something like.
I like, I will never have bad breath again. I
wouldn't even be able to imagine bad breath anymore. And
people thought it was funny, and so it went viral
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and it tasted horrible. No, it tasted like gasoline left
for real, but but my breath was I was like, oh,
like it was amazing, but it tasted horrible. And then
it went viral and I was like, I could flip
this into talking about sports, like to help me get
eyes on me for my job. So then I started
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making the sports videos.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I have never tried the brown listening, and I'm not
gonna try it. I take your word for it, honestly, Like.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You're not missing nothing, now, Okay, cool?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I like the I like the blue one and the
purple one like and that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Okay. So, because you're like basically all over the content
creation and like everything social media, have you ever posted
something and instantly regretted it and like, what's what's your
advice with that?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh, my gosh, I've never been asked out a word.
I'm glad you asked me that. Yes, I've posted several
things that I regret posting. I regret like the first
year I count because when you're when you first start posting,
you don't know how big it can get, so you
don't know, like the TikTok algorithm, all of that was new,
So I'm not thinking, you know, my day to day
(07:13):
I'm seeing like other nineteen year olds at college, Like
I'm not thinking, oh, Stewie is scrolling and she might
actually see my posts. Oh that person I actually see
my post and I don't exactly, Like I didn't think
of there being any consequences to anything I was saying,
and I didn't really have the grasp of the concept
of like having a platform, and like what I was
(07:35):
saying mattering, like I was just talking like I would
normally talk. And now I'm more careful about the kind
of things I say obviously, like I'm a normal person.
I'm not a celebrity, and at the end of the
day always say, like my my boss is my audience,
Like if they really want to hear about something, I
got to talk about it because that's what they want
to hear about. But I can control the verbiage I use.
(07:57):
I can control how I frame things, like I could
control like seeing everyone involved as a human being and
making sure everything I'm saying that's true. But I've I've
definitely been reckless a few times, and I've regretted my
post for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But you're not, just like basically you're thinking about it
a little bit more before, just like you know, like
putting it out there. Yes, because unless it's something you
put out there and then you regret it, then you
have to like have a statement behind it, you know
what I mean? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I just did that like a week ago. Actually this
wasn't even serious, but I posted about Jesse Bieber's Coachellup's performance.
I'm a believer. I love Justin Bieber. I was a
little bit disappointed in his first Coachell up performance and
I posted about it, and I was like, that didn't eat,
Like I'm sorry, I'm glad I wasn't there, Like it
didn't e And then for some reason, like it was
like keeping me up at night because again I loved
(08:47):
Jesse Beber and I was just thinking about, like all
he's probably gone through to like get to the point
of even performing again like that in front of all
those people, and I was like, I came back and
made another video the next day, and I was like
I should have said that, honestly, good for him, and
I apologize, like I love Jessin Bieber and he can
perform whatever he wants. Because I was looking sleep over it,
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like I felt so bad.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Your your believer conscience was like really getting to you. Yes, yes, okay,
let's let's okay. Shout out to Justin Bieber. I thought
Coachella was great. I saw the clips from both weekends
and wish I was there, but definitely weekend two better
than we can one. Same, okay.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So why is it important for you to cover not
just women's sports, but sports from a woman's perspective.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh my gosh. I think it's started with the women's
sports thing. I've always been interested in women's sports. I
was a volleyball player, and volleyball will forever be one
of my favorite sports. And like, I was the manager
for the women's and men's basketball teams when I was
in school, and I worked for the women's basketball team
when I was Georgia and so I always loved and
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appreciated women's basketball. And at the beginning of my account,
when I would talk about things like the two K
characters and like the differences or even like just covering
the w like not a lot of people were doing that,
like it just it wasn't like the thing. And I
just remember like that year when college was popping off
(10:23):
and it was like everybody was like Angel Caitlin, Angel Caitlin,
and everybody was talking about that, and then like there
was just like this boom and it just became like
everybody wanted to know more about women's sports. Everybody watches
women's sports, but everyone wanted to know more about women's
sports because it was like it was on everyone's timeline.
(10:44):
It was genuinely becoming like it was like the cool
thing people want to talk about. I still say now
like when I post women's sports videos, people get more
excited and want to know more because like people want
somebody to just like kind of give them the information
or they want somebody else to talk to about it.
And I just think like the most important thing for
me from day one is like I never have seen
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women's sports as like this secondary thing to like men's sports,
it's just sports like period, Like it's just sports. And
so I always thought it was really important to cover
both with the same amount of like honesty, transparency, to
not just like when you're covering the NBA playoffs, you're
not just talking about one team or two teams or
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trying to put pit two players against each other. You're
talking about all of the teams that are playing. You're
talking about all of the series, like you're trying to
like there's interesting storylines in all of them. And I
think that that should exist in women's sports too, And
I think in some cases it coming from a woman
who like is actually seeing y'all as athletes, as people
and athletes and not just like, oh, like the secondary
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headline is like what's going on in the women's game.
Like I think sometimes it's easier for that to come
from a woman because we like see each other and
we get it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
No, for sure, I mean, I think all of that
makes sense, and I think that, you know, what's interesting,
one thing that you said was like the boom of
women's sports, but specifically women's basketball as of late, like
there's so much attention, but until we're exactly where we
want to be. It's going to be like you have
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to take the good and also you have to be
able to take the bad and like because like these
NBA players they're not all getting this good stuff. They're
like they're getting the bad stuff too, and it's like
we have to like be able to take that, like
take it, take it to the chin, and and keep
keep it pushing basically exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I think more eyes on anything comes with more criticism
as well. But I also like can be conscious of
like I don't want to be that place, you.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Know, yeah, but like does it ever mentally is it
like training to you because you're getting criticism too, I'm assuming.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh my gosh, yes. But honestly, to be honest, my
view on like people on the internet, like I genuinely
have passed the point of caring what they're saying. I
just think that people are going to have something negative
to say about everything. Like two of my favorite artists
in the world are Beyonce and Drake, and I always
think about like how much hate they get in their comments,
and like, what could you have bad to say about Beyonce?
(13:21):
If people if people can find something bad to say
about Beyonce. They gonna find something bad to say about me,
so I can It's fine. I'll live.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You're like, I'm fine, Beyonce can do it. I'm fine. Okay,
before we before we wrap this segment, what's a take
that you've had recently that you got a lot of
pushback on but you continue to stand by. Give me
some spice go on.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
First of all, throughout the entire CBA negotiation, I was
getting like torn up by man on the internet. They
did not like me for like six months, and I
didn't care, and like, I like sometimes when that happens
to me, like I get worse and I try to
like really press it. And I think one of my
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big videos that like they didn't really didn't like and
got on the wrong side of Twitter was I was
talking about what Steph Curry would make if he were
a WNBA player, because it was like I had read
an article about that and they were comparing it. Because
I think people always hear like, oh, like y'all want
to get paid exactly what NBA players get paid, no,
(14:29):
blah blah blah, And I think, like putting it in
perspective in terms I can understand I'm like, okay, so
if Joel embiid we're playing in the WNBA, like based
on this split da da da da dad, this is
exactly what this would look like. And it's like, even
when I played the facts like that out there in
front of them, they still were like, you're stupid. This
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doesn't make any sense. Da da da dah. So I
think that whole era, so I can only imagine how
it was for the actual players and like that that
everybody like actually like in the fight, but for me
on the internet, I felt like I was fighting for
my life too. I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, the CBA was a lot, but we made it
through and now we have a historic deal to talk about,
so we don't have to do that comparison thing anymore.
You know what, Like the NBA, they can have what
they have and we got what we got. Hey man,
all right, time for a quick break. Next up, we'll
talk WNBA season NBA playoffs. Please rate, review, and subscribe
(15:26):
to Game Recognized Game with Studian Miles wherever you get
your podcasts. Welcome back to Game Recognized Game with Stullian Miles. Today,
(15:52):
I'm joined by Mariah Rose and we're gonna do a
few rapid fire questions. I'll give you a few seconds
to think about it, but like not a lot. Okay, Okay,
I got you. Okay. Who is your favorite basketball player
to cover right now in the men's and women's side.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, my favorite basketball player to cover on the women's side,
I will probably say Asia because that's my twin, Like
everybody be saying, I just she all all of the
just cool stuff she's got going on right now, like
that ad of her the other day in the late
night chair. I'm just like she on on the court,
off the court, like girls got it going on, so
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she's always fun to talk about. And then on the
men's side, I gotta say Steph Curry, like just because
that's Steph Currey is the bigger reason I felt level
basketball and he's not even playing and he's still my favorite.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I know. I'm sad that the Warriors are not in
the playoffs. We'll talk about that later, Okay. Most under
rated player in terms of personality, Like who's someone that
has a lot of personality. Let's stick to the woman's side,
the w side, like tons of personality, but you don't
always see it, or maybe people don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Oh my god, that's a really good one. Honestly, like
this is kind of a cop out answer, I'll give
you a real answer. But what pops into my head
is I think women are so good at like celebrity.
I think that now that people are seeing y'all more,
it feels like, oh my god, like this is so cool.
There's so much going on. But it's always been like
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y'all always have been talking trash always. That was always
a thing. Always, like the Buds, There's always been like
storylines like people thinking like y'all playing hard defense and
everything is a new thing, not a new thing. It's
always been that way. So I honestly just think like
overall as a league, there is a lot of personality
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going on in the W I do. I am looking
forward to people getting to know this new dry class.
I've gotten an interview a few of them. I thought
Oliia Miles like hyping herself up at the draft a
lot of people. That got a lot of people off
guard that they were like whoa, Like, how could she
say that look about herself? And It's like, no, they
got they got confidence. So I'm excited for people to
get to know this new draft class.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I was I was thinking that this draft class too,
Like there's a there's a few, there's a few personalities
that you do know like Flaw, you know, like you
know her personality and that's gonna come across. But there's
some something that we haven't really seen on the college
level that I think we'll see at this stage now. Agreed, Okay, okay,
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preseason w NBA MVP. This is like the early, early,
early pick. And then I want to know who your
NBA MVP is.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Ooh, okay, God, I can't believe you know, honestly talking
to you.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You you're up there right, so that's already like you
like that's I if I were to like flip a
coin and like I would be like doing probability, like
it's like you or Asia, Like I.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Would be wrong either way, you know what I'm saying,
Like if I had to guess and I was like
throwing a rock and like guessing, but honestly that that
team you got. Listen, Stewie, you could make a case
for yourself, girl.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Thank you. Honestly, Perry and Mariah come on my show
and say that's too cool about that? Yes, okay, but
who do you think is gonna win the NBA MVP.
Me and Miles argue about this.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Shake Guilds Alexander, Shakegill's Alexander's gonna win it. I He's
gonna win it, like he's gonna win it. And I
think Wimby is gonna He's gonna make a strong case
for himself for like the rest of his career. Definitely
for Defensive Player of the Year, they might as well
just rename the award. The victor will be, yeah, a
Defensive Player of the Year award because that's his for
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the foreseeable future. But SHA's winning it this year. I
don't think there's if any if answer bust about it.
And if he doesn't, I am going to be shocked.
Him winning Clutch Player of the Year kind of like
made me be like, whoa is he gonna win it?
But I still think he's gonna want it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I told Miles that I think Katie's gonna win it.
Really he said that he met the criteria. He because
of his collapse long they said that he still is
available for postseason awards. The team is the number one team,
let's see.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And I wouldn't be mad at that, Like it's not
like he's undeserving, you know, like I want to be
mad at that.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Okay, we're just gonna we're gonna see what happens later. Okay,
what what free agency move was the one that like
caught you the most surprised.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Angel to Atlanta because I live here and I did
not see that coming. And to go from a situation
where you're on a team that's just not winning, right
to being in a situation on a playoff team that
like really should have gone farther than we did, to
be honest, like that was an upset against the fever.
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But to go from the situation she was into being
in Atlanta, and I just think she fished the culture
so well. And then I also just have to say
so to really that gag me, y'all, gag me down.
I did not see that coming. So those two, those
were the ones that I got that notification and my
jaw dropped.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So we're going to see you Atlanta at the Dream
game versus Liberty, Right, We're going to see you there.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I was at y'all season opener last year, so y'all
definitely see me.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And what'd you think I mean? We we yeah, we
we smoked them, not game, we smoked by gainst that game.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Y yeah, y'all got one of the best environments like
in sports. Like I'm not talking women towards. I'm talking
like in general, y'all's fan base is mad that they
love y'all in New York I love. I like Barclays
just in general, Like the vibes are so good, but
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the fans like they don't play and for it to
be like you said, y'all, y'all, it was convincing. It
wasn't like it was like we were on the edge
of our ceast whole time and it was still loud
in there, like the whole thing. I had a great time.
And Ellie, of course, like come.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
On, I know, literally shut up. Shout out to our
fans because they literally show up for us all day
every day. And like you said, not all places are
like that. Like some places are loud, right, but they're not.
Like our fans are invested, like every single play, what's happening,
what's going on in the court, what's going to happen next?
And as players, we feel that mm okay, I'm trying
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to think of my tricky rapid fire questions. This is
my last one.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Let it ask me anything, Ask me anything.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What's the biggest story in basketball that's not being talked
about enough?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Honestly, I think that people beat the mess out of
some basketball stories that are like unnecessary. But you know
what I think is interesting, Stewie. I think with the
with the expansion teams within the W I think that
it's interesting, Like then nobody's really mentioning how much harder
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it's going to continue to be to make the playoffs,
because like, are they gonna like they're not gonna add
more playoff teams, right, so it's just gonna continue to
be more difficult to make the playoffs. That's what I
think is really interesting. And like I feel like it's
just gonna become more and more of a dogfight every
single year, Like there will be like it will get
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to a point and like what the last one that
we know about is coming in twenty twenty nine or
twenty thirty, Like we're gonna get to a point where
there's gonna be no mediocrity at all, not saying there
is now, you know what I mean. Like in the playoffs,
it's gonna be like a dogfight to just be in
and then once you're in the playoffs themselves are going
to continue to just rise in competition because like the
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competition in the w is already so stiff because there
are still little opportunities. There's so many talented women's basketball
players and there's only so many spots in the WNBA,
and with the influx of international players as well, because
the money's up, honey, Like, there's just gonna be more
people and more competition and it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I mean you you literally just made me think about it.
Like seven teams are not gonna make the playoffs this year.
That's nuts.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, we have.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Fifteen teams in this league and half of them are
not gonna make the playoffs unless they like change the format,
which I haven't heard anything about. Like that's a lot exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
So I think, like a lot of people, I'm thinking
that like the impact of the CBA and more players
like from overseas and stuff are gonna definitely be more
like it enticed to come in and YadA, YadA, YadA.
And then on top of that, you got half the
league is about to not be in the playoffs and
more teams are coming.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
So I don't know, We're gonna have to just keep
thinking about that one time for one more break. Next up,
we go off the court and get personal. Welcome back
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to game recognized game with three and Miles and I'm
with Mariah Rose and it's time to get a little
bit personal, Okay, so just jump right into it. Who
in your life inspired you the most to become the
person you are today?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
My mom, It's not even close. It's not even a competition,
I think with part of I always tell people me
falling in love of basketball was like my brother being
a basketball player and just hearing what my mom would
say to him when we would get in the car
after his games, like just like all of like, you know,
her her being so invested is so in it made
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me so in it as well. And I think the
mom of a player is such an interesting perspective because
they they know everything that's going on with the coach,
with the players, with the teams, with their child, like
and she just overall is just such a strong and
powerful woman with so strong of opinions that she isn't
afraid to share so.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Her Okay, shout out to moms. Honestly, Mother's days coming up,
so Happy Mother's Day. To all the moms, exactly, get
your president. If you haven't gotten your president, better.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Listen and you let your mom have the day off.
No workouts, no boot camp on Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I know, I know, Sorry mom, mm hmm. What's something
that you're like most proud of in your career so far?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Oh? Thats just so, that's such a funny question. I
haven't been asked that before. I think Number one, the
relationships I've been able to build with some of my
favorite people, like athletes and just people who've like reached
out to me that they love my stuff. I always
get nervous when people see by stuff that I'm like,
are they gonna hate me like that I'm talking about
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this or like whatever. People like the attention you're bringing
to sports and like your perspective. And I think another
thing is just like helping women feel seen in this
world of sports, Like so many women have been have
told me, like I was able to talk to my
boss about sports, to enter a conversation, to be able
to get a raise because of you. I've had moms
that have reached out to me and said, I literally
have nothing to speak to my teenage son about and
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like your NFL video gave me something to talk to
him about a dinner or it's just stories like that.
You never realize how your content or what you're doing
is going to impact other people. And the fact that
I've been able to impact other people positively through sports
has just been beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's super inspiring, just the way that you're able to
like reach people through all types of different sports and
communities and the mom stuff, Like the mom stuff is cool,
being able to to kind of talk to their kids
about sports when they have really no idea in their
informed because of you. So shout out to you. Really,
you're doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You're welcome. Okay, So, like what's like, what's your next goal?
What's your next like you know, like as athletes, I'm like,
all right, well I want to win this and then
I want to win this and I want to do this.
So like for you, like, what's what's next, Like what
you want to do next.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Whenever people ask me that I'm not gonna lie, I
always say my job didn't exist when I would when
I got to college and they asked me what I
want to do. When I grew up, there was no TikTok,
So I never know what's coming for me, and God
has always filled my cup with plenty of opportunity. My
biggest thing, and you bring up the athlete thing, is
like getting one percent better every single day, Like making
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sure I'm on my grind at being consistent. Like I
can't control the numbers. I can't control which brands want
to work with me, I can't control with which athletes
want to talk to me, Like I can't control any
of that. But what I can control is I'm getting on.
I'm getting up, I'm doing my research, I'm making sure
my content is accurate, and I'm making sure like I'm
getting out there as much as possible. I think my
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biggest thing this year really has just been consistency too.
We like, I just want to make sure that I'm
getting up and as long as I'm doing everything I
can do to make sure I'm putting myself in the
right positions for success, I feel like the right opportunities
are going to come to me. But that's my biggest thing,
is just staying consistent.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I love it. I feel like I feel like you're
like on it, like you know nobody sees all the
behind the scenes stuff that you're doing. You know, with
all the information you're putting out there, you're like really working.
It's like a grind. It's not a nine to five.
It's like literally a twelve to twelve. Sports never stops.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, it's twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Okay, So I have a question. You've called yourself an
athlete kid before.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Right, Yeah, I have yeah for sure as an.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Athlete kid, what advice would you give to me as
an athlete parent?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh my gosh, I love this question, Like might be
my favorite question I've ever been asked. Ever. I think
the biggest thing ever is communication with your children, like
just talking to them about what you got going on, like,
because to them, you're just mom. Like they don't care
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about they don't care about how many championships you won,
they don't care where you went to college, they don't
care about none of that. They just want to know,
what did mom do today? What's going on? So I
would say communication is the biggest thing. And I think
when you're committed to a craft, right and you're great
at something, it's hard to like do everything, especially as moms,
Like there's so much like guilt women get for like
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you know, chasing after your dreams and like being a
good parent and whatnot. So I would just say for you,
I think the biggest example is like standing in your
truth and being great at what you do and like
having a good relationship with your children walk through that,
Like they're gonna really appreciate the fact that you like
win after your goals and that you accomplished so much,
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Like they're gonna be like such fire people because of you.
So I think continuing to like be on your grind
and let them know like what it takes and like
bring them along with you on the journey rather than
like it be like I'm just doing this and you're
just kind of like finding out what the rest of
the world Like, Nah, you're in it with me, is
going to go so far, and like you're just gonna
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be super super woman to them.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
That's that's like my biggest thing is like they have
no idea all the things that we're doing, but I
want them to be a part of it. Because even
when they went to the preseason game the other day
and they were like, we went to the basketball game,
and they're so so so excited because they don't come
all the time because the games are so late and
they just love it, you know, they love to be around.
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They don't know what's happening on the court. Like my
kids think I win all the time, which like some
usually I do win, but like sometimes when I lose,
it's nice to have that perspective of them being like,
great job. You know, I.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Wouldna say they think you win all the time, because
you kind of do, I know.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
But when I go home and I have a loss,
they're like, oh, mommy, you did great. Like Ruby, Ruby
the other day was like Mommy, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
And I was like that's thank you, like and that like,
oh that is so sweet. And I think, like what
kind of person you are off the court is always
gonna go farther, Like you know, you can have seventeen
million signature shoes and you could do and you could
suck like I mean, being in like the industry or whatever,
like you meet people. People are different all time ways,
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but like your kids, they know you and they see
you so as long as like you're being an exemplary
human off the court, which of course, like you're you've
been great obviously, but they can see things other people
can and like, I think that You're gonna be great.
I mean, moms are already superheroes. I can only imagine
if my mom was winning championships and MVPs and out
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here grinded like you.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
No, I appreciate that. Okay, My last question is do
you have any questions for me?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
My gosh, there's such a good, good one, I guess. Okay,
what I want to ask you is number one, what
do you think is like the toughest thing about your
job that nobody sees? And number two, do you have
any crazy pregame rituals?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Okay, Number one, the toughest thing about my job that
nobody sees is pro probably like the time management, you know,
being able to kind of make it all work in
the day and not cutting my workout short or anything
like that. Like Tomorrow, for example, I'm gonna wake up
and I have like a panel to go to in
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the morning from like eight to nine, But then I
got to go to the gym because we have film
at ten thirty, and then we have practice, and then
I have another dinner at night. And it's like, you know,
you want to be putting your hands in a lot
of different buckets to continue to meet people and also
things that you're really wanting to be a part of,
but making sure that it's balanced and having me time
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as well. So like I've learned a lot about how
to say no, even when I don't want to say no.
It's just like my body needs it a little bit.
And the second question my pregame ritual, Like this is
one that I just like always do. I drive to
the gym, I drive to Barclays and I'm listening to
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Meek Mills Championships album from the top to the bottom,
Like that's all I want to hear. If you come
in my car, if you come in my car, if
my grandpa, you come in the grandpa. We are listening
to this album, Like whoever it is, this is what
we're listening to. This is how I get like locked in.
Like that's my like game day album. I don't listen
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to it any other time.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That's iconic. Have you been doing that forever?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
I've been doing that for like a while, I think,
like basically since all my w Championships.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Wow, yeah, you're like, okay, I won this album's plan
where it's this album? Like I was in anohing else.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You know, when you just have something and you're like,
this works for me.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
That works right period. I did not think you're gonna
say that, but that eight.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Thank you and that's a wrap. Thanks for checking us out.
Please rate, review and subscribe to gain recognized game. And
we'll see you next time. And Mariah, see you at
a Liberty game in New York.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I'll be there.
The most important thing for me from day one is
like I never have seen women's sports as like this
secondary thing to like men's sports. It's just sports like period.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome to Game Recognized Game. I'm Brianna Stewart Miles is
on a much needed vacation after a long NBA season,
so I'm here today joined by a special guest. She
is the host of Hoops for Hotties as well as
Full Circle with Lexi Brown on iHeart Women's Sports Network.
She has over a million followers on social media, and
I'm excited to welcome Riah Rose to Game Recognized Game.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yay, yes, period, thanks for having me see what. I'm
so excited? Like you ate that? You ate that. I
know I need to like wake up to that to
hype me up for my dad every day.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Honestly, if you need it, I can. I could record it.
You could just use it as your ringtone or whatever
you need, Like, no problem, I got you, period. Okay. So,
Like I wanted to go right off the top and
ask you this because this is something that I struggle with.
You have you have two shows, not just one show,
two shows. How do you have enough time in the
day to get this done record, get guests, like like
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tell me give me some tips please.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
To be honest, duie, Like I feel like having my
job be to make fun videos on the internet about
basketball is such a blessing and like this is what
I did in my free time anyways, like with my
friends when I was in college, like making videos talking basketball,
talking sports, Like that's been my passion ever since I
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can remember. So it's not hard, you know what I mean,
Like this feels like FaceTime to me, Like this isn't yeh,
it's fine. So it just you fit it in where
you can. And like, at the end of the day,
it's my job, so you kind of got to perfect
your craft. And you know, sometimes you're working while other
people are leisuring. You know, it's sports obviously, you know this,
like you're everyone's there to watch you play and they're
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all having a good time and having their beers and whatnot.
You got to show up and play. So it's just
kind of the same thing, like you make sacrifices where
you can. But at the end of the day, I
love it and it's fun.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well I love that. Okay. That gets me into my
next question. Basically, you touched on it a little bit.
You started doing this in college, but like, how did
you know that this was going to be where you
wanted to be? Like you were doing it as a
as a friend, like with your friends and stuff, but
now you're taking on an even more serious role, and
like what got you to make that decision?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, I this didn't exist when I was in school,
you know what I'm saying. So I think I'm thinking
I'm going to be like a sidelined reporter. I'm going
to be like Malika or like doing like what you
may and never doing like I'm thinking, like that's like
the one path into making your voice hurt in sports.
And then the pandemic hit and I didn't really have
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the opportunities to go to games and get content for
my reel and like do the traditional reporter thing. And
TikTok musically became TikTok and I just started making videos
for fun. Like my first viral video was about Joanna
Santantakumbo signing a super Max deal with the Bucks, and
like I just was talking and as you know, I
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started getting more views and more likes. I realized, oh
my gosh, like I could get paid to do this,
and it just kind of spiraled from there. But I
didn't go into it with an intention of like being
a content creator or making money, because that didn't really
exist when I started.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I know, you bring up COVID and I'm like, oh,
my gosh, Like, what's the craziest thing that you remember
from COVID? Like, right now, what's the craziest thing. What's
the thing You'll always think about?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
School getting canceled, seeing that the NBA and WNBA were
going to be playing in bubbles, like the Bubble experience,
I was like, what is this and what is going on?
I can only imagine it was crazy for y'all. But
a fan, I'm like, oh, this is real, Like they're
taking this seriously, no more fans and games like that
was crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
This is crazy. This is wild. But like what I
remember is like we were we were in this in
between period of like we didn't know if we were
gonna have a season or not, right, so we had
to work out. Everybody had to work out separately, and
I was I just came back from Russia. I was
playing overseas, like season got canceled, and my mom was
living with me, and I was putting my mom through
the hardest workouts, like outside, like living in Seattle, running
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running up hills and being like that's not good enough,
Like your effort is not good enough for me. So
I'll always remember COVID as like my boot camp for
my mom. Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I couldn't imagine living with a professional athlete during COVID.
I'd be like, girl, you got it, like cold, I
have the whistle it can I cheer you on because
this ain't.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Okay? So I know side now we got sidetracked a
little bit. Okay. You said your post about Giannis and
his Supermax. Was that in like your first viral moment
or what was your first first viral moment?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, well, actually, so my first viral moment had nothing
to do with for us. Actually, I there was this
trend on TikTok where people were I mean it was COVID.
We were all nuts at the time, and people were
drinking brown listerine, not drinking it, but like tasting it
for the first time, and like it was a viral
trend and I thought everybody was gassing it. Like I was, like,
it can't taste that bad, Like I gotta try it.
(05:29):
So that was my first viral video, was I went out.
I bought the the brown listerine at the store and
I tried it on camera and I literally said it
tasted like I think it tasted like I said, it
tastes like Jesus Christ brush my teeth or something like.
I like, I will never have bad breath again. I
wouldn't even be able to imagine bad breath anymore. And
people thought it was funny, and so it went viral
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and it tasted horrible. No, it tasted like gasoline left
for real, but but my breath was I was like, oh,
like it was amazing, but it tasted horrible. And then
it went viral and I was like, I could flip
this into talking about sports, like to help me get
eyes on me for my job. So then I started
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making the sports videos.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I have never tried the brown listening, and I'm not
gonna try it. I take your word for it, honestly, Like.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You're not missing nothing, now, Okay, cool?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I like the I like the blue one and the
purple one like and that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Okay. So, because you're like basically all over the content
creation and like everything social media, have you ever posted
something and instantly regretted it and like, what's what's your
advice with that?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh, my gosh, I've never been asked out a word.
I'm glad you asked me that. Yes, I've posted several
things that I regret posting. I regret like the first
year I count because when you're when you first start posting,
you don't know how big it can get, so you
don't know, like the TikTok algorithm, all of that was new,
So I'm not thinking, you know, my day to day
(07:13):
I'm seeing like other nineteen year olds at college, Like
I'm not thinking, oh, Stewie is scrolling and she might
actually see my posts. Oh that person I actually see
my post and I don't exactly, Like I didn't think
of there being any consequences to anything I was saying,
and I didn't really have the grasp of the concept
of like having a platform, and like what I was
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saying mattering, like I was just talking like I would
normally talk. And now I'm more careful about the kind
of things I say obviously, like I'm a normal person.
I'm not a celebrity, and at the end of the
day always say, like my my boss is my audience,
Like if they really want to hear about something, I
got to talk about it because that's what they want
to hear about. But I can control the verbiage I use.
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I can control how I frame things, like I could
control like seeing everyone involved as a human being and
making sure everything I'm saying that's true. But I've I've
definitely been reckless a few times, and I've regretted my
post for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But you're not, just like basically you're thinking about it
a little bit more before, just like you know, like
putting it out there. Yes, because unless it's something you
put out there and then you regret it, then you
have to like have a statement behind it, you know
what I mean? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I just did that like a week ago. Actually this
wasn't even serious, but I posted about Jesse Bieber's Coachellup's performance.
I'm a believer. I love Justin Bieber. I was a
little bit disappointed in his first Coachell up performance and
I posted about it, and I was like, that didn't eat,
Like I'm sorry, I'm glad I wasn't there, Like it
didn't e And then for some reason, like it was
like keeping me up at night because again I loved
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Jesse Beber and I was just thinking about, like all
he's probably gone through to like get to the point
of even performing again like that in front of all
those people, and I was like, I came back and
made another video the next day, and I was like
I should have said that, honestly, good for him, and
I apologize, like I love Jessin Bieber and he can
perform whatever he wants. Because I was looking sleep over it,
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like I felt so bad.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Your your believer conscience was like really getting to you. Yes, yes, okay,
let's let's okay. Shout out to Justin Bieber. I thought
Coachella was great. I saw the clips from both weekends
and wish I was there, but definitely weekend two better
than we can one. Same, okay.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So why is it important for you to cover not
just women's sports, but sports from a woman's perspective.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh my gosh. I think it's started with the women's
sports thing. I've always been interested in women's sports. I
was a volleyball player, and volleyball will forever be one
of my favorite sports. And like, I was the manager
for the women's and men's basketball teams when I was
in school, and I worked for the women's basketball team
when I was Georgia and so I always loved and
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appreciated women's basketball. And at the beginning of my account,
when I would talk about things like the two K
characters and like the differences or even like just covering
the w like not a lot of people were doing that,
like it just it wasn't like the thing. And I
just remember like that year when college was popping off
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and it was like everybody was like Angel Caitlin, Angel Caitlin,
and everybody was talking about that, and then like there
was just like this boom and it just became like
everybody wanted to know more about women's sports. Everybody watches
women's sports, but everyone wanted to know more about women's
sports because it was like it was on everyone's timeline.
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It was genuinely becoming like it was like the cool
thing people want to talk about. I still say now
like when I post women's sports videos, people get more
excited and want to know more because like people want
somebody to just like kind of give them the information
or they want somebody else to talk to about it.
And I just think like the most important thing for
me from day one is like I never have seen
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women's sports as like this secondary thing to like men's sports,
it's just sports like period, Like it's just sports. And
so I always thought it was really important to cover
both with the same amount of like honesty, transparency, to
not just like when you're covering the NBA playoffs, you're
not just talking about one team or two teams or
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trying to put pit two players against each other. You're
talking about all of the teams that are playing. You're
talking about all of the series, like you're trying to
like there's interesting storylines in all of them. And I
think that that should exist in women's sports too, And
I think in some cases it coming from a woman
who like is actually seeing y'all as athletes, as people
and athletes and not just like, oh, like the secondary
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headline is like what's going on in the women's game.
Like I think sometimes it's easier for that to come
from a woman because we like see each other and
we get it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
No, for sure, I mean, I think all of that
makes sense, and I think that, you know, what's interesting,
one thing that you said was like the boom of
women's sports, but specifically women's basketball as of late, like
there's so much attention, but until we're exactly where we
want to be. It's going to be like you have
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to take the good and also you have to be
able to take the bad and like because like these
NBA players they're not all getting this good stuff. They're
like they're getting the bad stuff too, and it's like
we have to like be able to take that, like
take it, take it to the chin, and and keep
keep it pushing basically exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I think more eyes on anything comes with more criticism
as well. But I also like can be conscious of
like I don't want to be that place, you.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Know, yeah, but like does it ever mentally is it
like training to you because you're getting criticism too, I'm assuming.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh my gosh, yes. But honestly, to be honest, my
view on like people on the internet, like I genuinely
have passed the point of caring what they're saying. I
just think that people are going to have something negative
to say about everything. Like two of my favorite artists
in the world are Beyonce and Drake, and I always
think about like how much hate they get in their comments,
and like, what could you have bad to say about Beyonce?
(13:21):
If people if people can find something bad to say
about Beyonce. They gonna find something bad to say about me,
so I can It's fine. I'll live.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You're like, I'm fine, Beyonce can do it. I'm fine. Okay,
before we before we wrap this segment, what's a take
that you've had recently that you got a lot of
pushback on but you continue to stand by. Give me
some spice go on.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
First of all, throughout the entire CBA negotiation, I was
getting like torn up by man on the internet. They
did not like me for like six months, and I
didn't care, and like, I like sometimes when that happens
to me, like I get worse and I try to
like really press it. And I think one of my
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big videos that like they didn't really didn't like and
got on the wrong side of Twitter was I was
talking about what Steph Curry would make if he were
a WNBA player, because it was like I had read
an article about that and they were comparing it. Because
I think people always hear like, oh, like y'all want
to get paid exactly what NBA players get paid, no,
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blah blah blah, And I think, like putting it in
perspective in terms I can understand I'm like, okay, so
if Joel embiid we're playing in the WNBA, like based
on this split da da da da dad, this is
exactly what this would look like. And it's like, even
when I played the facts like that out there in
front of them, they still were like, you're stupid. This
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doesn't make any sense. Da da da dah. So I
think that whole era, so I can only imagine how
it was for the actual players and like that that
everybody like actually like in the fight, but for me
on the internet, I felt like I was fighting for
my life too. I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, the CBA was a lot, but we made it
through and now we have a historic deal to talk about,
so we don't have to do that comparison thing anymore.
You know what, Like the NBA, they can have what
they have and we got what we got. Hey man,
all right, time for a quick break. Next up, we'll
talk WNBA season NBA playoffs. Please rate, review, and subscribe
(15:26):
to Game Recognized Game with Studian Miles wherever you get
your podcasts. Welcome back to Game Recognized Game with Stullian Miles. Today,
(15:52):
I'm joined by Mariah Rose and we're gonna do a
few rapid fire questions. I'll give you a few seconds
to think about it, but like not a lot. Okay, Okay,
I got you. Okay. Who is your favorite basketball player
to cover right now in the men's and women's side.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, my favorite basketball player to cover on the women's side,
I will probably say Asia because that's my twin, Like
everybody be saying, I just she all all of the
just cool stuff she's got going on right now, like
that ad of her the other day in the late
night chair. I'm just like she on on the court,
off the court, like girls got it going on, so
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she's always fun to talk about. And then on the
men's side, I gotta say Steph Curry, like just because
that's Steph Currey is the bigger reason I felt level
basketball and he's not even playing and he's still my favorite.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I know. I'm sad that the Warriors are not in
the playoffs. We'll talk about that later, Okay. Most under
rated player in terms of personality, Like who's someone that
has a lot of personality. Let's stick to the woman's side,
the w side, like tons of personality, but you don't
always see it, or maybe people don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Oh my god, that's a really good one. Honestly, like
this is kind of a cop out answer, I'll give
you a real answer. But what pops into my head
is I think women are so good at like celebrity.
I think that now that people are seeing y'all more,
it feels like, oh my god, like this is so cool.
There's so much going on. But it's always been like
(17:34):
y'all always have been talking trash always. That was always
a thing. Always, like the Buds, There's always been like
storylines like people thinking like y'all playing hard defense and
everything is a new thing, not a new thing. It's
always been that way. So I honestly just think like
overall as a league, there is a lot of personality
(17:55):
going on in the W I do. I am looking
forward to people getting to know this new dry class.
I've gotten an interview a few of them. I thought
Oliia Miles like hyping herself up at the draft a
lot of people. That got a lot of people off
guard that they were like whoa, Like, how could she
say that look about herself? And It's like, no, they
got they got confidence. So I'm excited for people to
get to know this new draft class.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I was I was thinking that this draft class too,
Like there's a there's a few, there's a few personalities
that you do know like Flaw, you know, like you
know her personality and that's gonna come across. But there's
some something that we haven't really seen on the college
level that I think we'll see at this stage now. Agreed, Okay, okay,
(18:40):
preseason w NBA MVP. This is like the early, early,
early pick. And then I want to know who your
NBA MVP is.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Ooh, okay, God, I can't believe you know, honestly talking
to you.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You you're up there right, so that's already like you
like that's I if I were to like flip a
coin and like I would be like doing probability, like
it's like you or Asia, Like I.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Would be wrong either way, you know what I'm saying,
Like if I had to guess and I was like
throwing a rock and like guessing, but honestly that that
team you got. Listen, Stewie, you could make a case
for yourself, girl.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Thank you. Honestly, Perry and Mariah come on my show
and say that's too cool about that? Yes, okay, but
who do you think is gonna win the NBA MVP.
Me and Miles argue about this.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Shake Guilds Alexander, Shakegill's Alexander's gonna win it. I He's
gonna win it, like he's gonna win it. And I
think Wimby is gonna He's gonna make a strong case
for himself for like the rest of his career. Definitely
for Defensive Player of the Year, they might as well
just rename the award. The victor will be, yeah, a
Defensive Player of the Year award because that's his for
(20:00):
the foreseeable future. But SHA's winning it this year. I
don't think there's if any if answer bust about it.
And if he doesn't, I am going to be shocked.
Him winning Clutch Player of the Year kind of like
made me be like, whoa is he gonna win it?
But I still think he's gonna want it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I told Miles that I think Katie's gonna win it.
Really he said that he met the criteria. He because
of his collapse long they said that he still is
available for postseason awards. The team is the number one team,
let's see.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And I wouldn't be mad at that, Like it's not
like he's undeserving, you know, like I want to be
mad at that.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Okay, we're just gonna we're gonna see what happens later. Okay,
what what free agency move was the one that like
caught you the most surprised.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Angel to Atlanta because I live here and I did
not see that coming. And to go from a situation
where you're on a team that's just not winning, right
to being in a situation on a playoff team that
like really should have gone farther than we did, to
be honest, like that was an upset against the fever.
(21:18):
But to go from the situation she was into being
in Atlanta, and I just think she fished the culture
so well. And then I also just have to say
so to really that gag me, y'all, gag me down.
I did not see that coming. So those two, those
were the ones that I got that notification and my
jaw dropped.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So we're going to see you Atlanta at the Dream
game versus Liberty, Right, We're going to see you there.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I was at y'all season opener last year, so y'all
definitely see me.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And what'd you think I mean? We we yeah, we
we smoked them, not game, we smoked by gainst that game.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Y yeah, y'all got one of the best environments like
in sports. Like I'm not talking women towards. I'm talking
like in general, y'all's fan base is mad that they
love y'all in New York I love. I like Barclays
just in general, Like the vibes are so good, but
(22:18):
the fans like they don't play and for it to
be like you said, y'all, y'all, it was convincing. It
wasn't like it was like we were on the edge
of our ceast whole time and it was still loud
in there, like the whole thing. I had a great time.
And Ellie, of course, like come.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
On, I know, literally shut up. Shout out to our
fans because they literally show up for us all day
every day. And like you said, not all places are
like that. Like some places are loud, right, but they're not.
Like our fans are invested, like every single play, what's happening,
what's going on in the court, what's going to happen next?
And as players, we feel that mm okay, I'm trying
(22:58):
to think of my tricky rapid fire questions. This is
my last one.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Let it ask me anything, Ask me anything.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What's the biggest story in basketball that's not being talked
about enough?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Honestly, I think that people beat the mess out of
some basketball stories that are like unnecessary. But you know
what I think is interesting, Stewie. I think with the
with the expansion teams within the W I think that
it's interesting, Like then nobody's really mentioning how much harder
(23:33):
it's going to continue to be to make the playoffs,
because like, are they gonna like they're not gonna add
more playoff teams, right, so it's just gonna continue to
be more difficult to make the playoffs. That's what I
think is really interesting. And like I feel like it's
just gonna become more and more of a dogfight every
single year, Like there will be like it will get
(23:54):
to a point and like what the last one that
we know about is coming in twenty twenty nine or
twenty thirty, Like we're gonna get to a point where
there's gonna be no mediocrity at all, not saying there
is now, you know what I mean. Like in the playoffs,
it's gonna be like a dogfight to just be in
and then once you're in the playoffs themselves are going
to continue to just rise in competition because like the
(24:14):
competition in the w is already so stiff because there
are still little opportunities. There's so many talented women's basketball
players and there's only so many spots in the WNBA,
and with the influx of international players as well, because
the money's up, honey, Like, there's just gonna be more
people and more competition and it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I mean you you literally just made me think about it.
Like seven teams are not gonna make the playoffs this year.
That's nuts.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, we have.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Fifteen teams in this league and half of them are
not gonna make the playoffs unless they like change the format,
which I haven't heard anything about. Like that's a lot exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
So I think, like a lot of people, I'm thinking
that like the impact of the CBA and more players
like from overseas and stuff are gonna definitely be more
like it enticed to come in and YadA, YadA, YadA.
And then on top of that, you got half the
league is about to not be in the playoffs and
more teams are coming.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
So I don't know, We're gonna have to just keep
thinking about that one time for one more break. Next up,
we go off the court and get personal. Welcome back
(25:44):
to game recognized game with three and Miles and I'm
with Mariah Rose and it's time to get a little
bit personal, Okay, so just jump right into it. Who
in your life inspired you the most to become the
person you are today?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
My mom, It's not even close. It's not even a competition,
I think with part of I always tell people me
falling in love of basketball was like my brother being
a basketball player and just hearing what my mom would
say to him when we would get in the car
after his games, like just like all of like, you know,
her her being so invested is so in it made
(26:19):
me so in it as well. And I think the
mom of a player is such an interesting perspective because
they they know everything that's going on with the coach,
with the players, with the teams, with their child, like
and she just overall is just such a strong and
powerful woman with so strong of opinions that she isn't
afraid to share so.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Her Okay, shout out to moms. Honestly, Mother's days coming up,
so Happy Mother's Day. To all the moms, exactly, get
your president. If you haven't gotten your president, better.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Listen and you let your mom have the day off.
No workouts, no boot camp on Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I know, I know, Sorry mom, mm hmm. What's something
that you're like most proud of in your career so far?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Oh? Thats just so, that's such a funny question. I
haven't been asked that before. I think Number one, the
relationships I've been able to build with some of my
favorite people, like athletes and just people who've like reached
out to me that they love my stuff. I always
get nervous when people see by stuff that I'm like,
are they gonna hate me like that I'm talking about
(27:29):
this or like whatever. People like the attention you're bringing
to sports and like your perspective. And I think another
thing is just like helping women feel seen in this
world of sports, Like so many women have been have
told me, like I was able to talk to my
boss about sports, to enter a conversation, to be able
to get a raise because of you. I've had moms
that have reached out to me and said, I literally
have nothing to speak to my teenage son about and
(27:52):
like your NFL video gave me something to talk to
him about a dinner or it's just stories like that.
You never realize how your content or what you're doing
is going to impact other people. And the fact that
I've been able to impact other people positively through sports
has just been beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's super inspiring, just the way that you're able to
like reach people through all types of different sports and
communities and the mom stuff, Like the mom stuff is cool,
being able to to kind of talk to their kids
about sports when they have really no idea in their
informed because of you. So shout out to you. Really,
you're doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You're welcome. Okay, So, like what's like, what's your next goal?
What's your next like you know, like as athletes, I'm like,
all right, well I want to win this and then
I want to win this and I want to do this.
So like for you, like, what's what's next, Like what
you want to do next.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Whenever people ask me that I'm not gonna lie, I
always say my job didn't exist when I would when
I got to college and they asked me what I
want to do. When I grew up, there was no TikTok,
So I never know what's coming for me, and God
has always filled my cup with plenty of opportunity. My
biggest thing, and you bring up the athlete thing, is
like getting one percent better every single day, Like making
(29:09):
sure I'm on my grind at being consistent. Like I
can't control the numbers. I can't control which brands want
to work with me, I can't control with which athletes
want to talk to me, Like I can't control any
of that. But what I can control is I'm getting on.
I'm getting up, I'm doing my research, I'm making sure
my content is accurate, and I'm making sure like I'm
getting out there as much as possible. I think my
(29:30):
biggest thing this year really has just been consistency too.
We like, I just want to make sure that I'm
getting up and as long as I'm doing everything I
can do to make sure I'm putting myself in the
right positions for success, I feel like the right opportunities
are going to come to me. But that's my biggest thing,
is just staying consistent.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I love it. I feel like I feel like you're
like on it, like you know nobody sees all the
behind the scenes stuff that you're doing. You know, with
all the information you're putting out there, you're like really working.
It's like a grind. It's not a nine to five.
It's like literally a twelve to twelve. Sports never stops.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, it's twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Okay, So I have a question. You've called yourself an
athlete kid before.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Right, Yeah, I have yeah for sure as an.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Athlete kid, what advice would you give to me as
an athlete parent?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh my gosh, I love this question, Like might be
my favorite question I've ever been asked. Ever. I think
the biggest thing ever is communication with your children, like
just talking to them about what you got going on, like,
because to them, you're just mom. Like they don't care
(30:39):
about they don't care about how many championships you won,
they don't care where you went to college, they don't
care about none of that. They just want to know,
what did mom do today? What's going on? So I
would say communication is the biggest thing. And I think
when you're committed to a craft, right and you're great
at something, it's hard to like do everything, especially as moms,
Like there's so much like guilt women get for like
(31:01):
you know, chasing after your dreams and like being a
good parent and whatnot. So I would just say for you,
I think the biggest example is like standing in your
truth and being great at what you do and like
having a good relationship with your children walk through that,
Like they're gonna really appreciate the fact that you like
win after your goals and that you accomplished so much,
(31:22):
Like they're gonna be like such fire people because of you.
So I think continuing to like be on your grind
and let them know like what it takes and like
bring them along with you on the journey rather than
like it be like I'm just doing this and you're
just kind of like finding out what the rest of
the world Like, Nah, you're in it with me, is
going to go so far, and like you're just gonna
(31:45):
be super super woman to them.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
That's that's like my biggest thing is like they have
no idea all the things that we're doing, but I
want them to be a part of it. Because even
when they went to the preseason game the other day
and they were like, we went to the basketball game,
and they're so so so excited because they don't come
all the time because the games are so late and
they just love it, you know, they love to be around.
(32:10):
They don't know what's happening on the court. Like my
kids think I win all the time, which like some
usually I do win, but like sometimes when I lose,
it's nice to have that perspective of them being like,
great job. You know, I.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Wouldna say they think you win all the time, because
you kind of do, I know.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
But when I go home and I have a loss,
they're like, oh, mommy, you did great. Like Ruby, Ruby
the other day was like Mommy, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
And I was like that's thank you, like and that like,
oh that is so sweet. And I think, like what
kind of person you are off the court is always
gonna go farther, Like you know, you can have seventeen
million signature shoes and you could do and you could
suck like I mean, being in like the industry or whatever,
like you meet people. People are different all time ways,
(33:00):
but like your kids, they know you and they see
you so as long as like you're being an exemplary
human off the court, which of course, like you're you've
been great obviously, but they can see things other people
can and like, I think that You're gonna be great.
I mean, moms are already superheroes. I can only imagine
if my mom was winning championships and MVPs and out
(33:25):
here grinded like you.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
No, I appreciate that. Okay, My last question is do
you have any questions for me?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
My gosh, there's such a good, good one, I guess. Okay,
what I want to ask you is number one, what
do you think is like the toughest thing about your
job that nobody sees? And number two, do you have
any crazy pregame rituals?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Okay, Number one, the toughest thing about my job that
nobody sees is pro probably like the time management, you know,
being able to kind of make it all work in
the day and not cutting my workout short or anything
like that. Like Tomorrow, for example, I'm gonna wake up
and I have like a panel to go to in
(34:15):
the morning from like eight to nine, But then I
got to go to the gym because we have film
at ten thirty, and then we have practice, and then
I have another dinner at night. And it's like, you know,
you want to be putting your hands in a lot
of different buckets to continue to meet people and also
things that you're really wanting to be a part of,
but making sure that it's balanced and having me time
(34:37):
as well. So like I've learned a lot about how
to say no, even when I don't want to say no.
It's just like my body needs it a little bit.
And the second question my pregame ritual, Like this is
one that I just like always do. I drive to
the gym, I drive to Barclays and I'm listening to
(34:58):
Meek Mills Championships album from the top to the bottom,
Like that's all I want to hear. If you come
in my car, if you come in my car, if
my grandpa, you come in the grandpa. We are listening
to this album, Like whoever it is, this is what
we're listening to. This is how I get like locked in.
Like that's my like game day album. I don't listen
(35:19):
to it any other time.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That's iconic. Have you been doing that forever?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
I've been doing that for like a while, I think,
like basically since all my w Championships.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Wow, yeah, you're like, okay, I won this album's plan
where it's this album? Like I was in anohing else.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You know, when you just have something and you're like,
this works for me.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
That works right period. I did not think you're gonna
say that, but that eight.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Thank you and that's a wrap. Thanks for checking us out.
Please rate, review and subscribe to gain recognized game. And
we'll see you next time. And Mariah, see you at
a Liberty game in New York.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I'll be there.
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