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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The big storyline is that Paige is going to be
reunited with Azy Fudd out of Yukon, and that would
be crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We know their Page and Asy are dating.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I want to talk about dating your teammate real quick.
If your top two players are in a relationship, right,
does this not have the potential to go awry? After
an abysmal twenty twenty five w NBA season, Dallas Wings
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have won the honor of getting the number one draft
pick in the twenty twenty six w NBA draft. Now,
they did have the Rookie of the Year Page Beckers
played absolutely insane this past year, but it didn't mean
anything because they stunk like Chitlin's Somrio. What are your
thoughts on the Dallas Wings winning the number one overall
draft pick?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
You know you need this, you need this.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's really given Indiana the last couple of years how
they were able to kind of get some really quality
picks in Washington. Washington has also had some good quality
picks in the last couple of.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Seasons, and you can build a core around that.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's some storylines though.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
The big storyline is that Paige is going to be
reunited with Azy Fudd out of Yukon, and that would
be crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Why is that crazy?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We know their page and as are dating.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Okay, they are a couple.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And so this is going to be one of those
interesting storylines.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And Asy right now is playing out of her mind.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I know it's early in the season, but I think
she's averaging like twenty one points a game for Yukon.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yukon, of course, is one of the best teams right now.
So I mean getting someone like.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That for Dallas, I think they probably still need some
more pickup or more pieces.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Excuse me, but I think that that's still a really
good get.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I want to talk about dating your teammate real quick, okay,
and then.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We're going to get in the mock draft. We'll get
into the mock draft. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Cool. So if your top two players are in a relationship, right,
does this not have the potential to go awry in
the event that the relationship ends or there's tension between
the two. These are still two very young women, still
developing their own personalities and characteristics and attributes. Let's just
say some hypothetically, let's just say somebody cheats on the other.
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How does that play out on the basketball court, How
does the negative things that take place in a normal,
healthy relationship impact the infrastructure of an entire organization. When
I was growing up and I used to have jobs
at the mall and so on and so forth, there
was a no fraternizing rule, and it was because they
wanted to keep the work environment safe and healthy and
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without both. And I'm just saying, these two young women
are dating at twenty two, twenty three years old, at
twenty five, they might not like each other, and they
are now the faces of an entire WNBA team. I
think this is extremely higher risk, high risk, potentially extreme
high reward. But we just got to be honest about
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the fact that these young relationships sometimes sizzle out and
a lot of things can take place that that mess
up the entire ecosystem around.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Them, especially because now they are public. We know that
in college there is that that rule. Uh Gino said, no,
don't don't do that. We know we saw it with
with when I was just saying the listen DJ day
when they was at Baylor, Kim Wlke was like, oh, no,
we're not doing it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And now they're more out.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I don't think that they're together anymore siety, but they
whatever they had behind the scenes that uconm work. They
just want a national championship.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Different a lot more free time.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And that's what I'm saying. I'm like, it is for one,
they're out.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Now they're out, and people are actually aware of what's
going on, So you're gonna have people chirping or whatever,
and this is the I mean, I'm hoping that this
is the pros and that you know how to handle
yourself if in the event of an argument or separation
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yo, people try to be divisive in normal teammate situations.
Imagine if Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum were in a relationship.
Imagine if they were dating and people trying to be like, yo,
who's the batman and who's the robbin? Like who? I'm
just saying, you gotta be honest. If I get if
I get certain sponsorship and partnership deals as the one
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A player and you as the one B, you don't
get there's a lot of business.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So you're saying that you think that Dallas maybe should
look at other needs and not get easy with the
number one overall people.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm not saying this. I feel like what I'm saying
is they might need to do you saw Forever on Netflix. Yes,
s Marl Brocker k. They might need to do like
the two main characters in Forever and before or they
even get to the w NBA, they might need to
just break up and just be friends to start things off. Yeah, work,
what's the what the priorities should be? The professionalism at
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this stage?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Like, but it's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
A healthy breakup is better than a diabolical one. So
if you have a.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Mature break, they're still gonna be you know, if you wantn't.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Hit it every now and again, I understand that getting
little taste, taste get you a little.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Let's get into the mock draft. Let's get into the
mock draft.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, so obviously we know that according to this ESPN
mock draft, asy.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Foot is going number one overall to the Dallas Wings.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Like I mentioned, she's average twenty one points fifty one
percent right now shooting. That's crazy, fifty four percent from
three My god, girl, what are you doing. Minnesota has
the number two overall pick. They're projected to get a
center from Spain. She's six foot four. Seattle has the
number three pick and according to this mock draft, they're
gonna get Olivia Miles was now at TCU. What do
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you think about that?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, you know what, To be honest, I was watching
so much hand on her Doggle, who had a game
winner this weekend. She went crazy. So I haven't even
tapped into TCU quite yet. And you know, Olivia and
both and Hen are both in Jersey, so I salute
to them. Whatever happened happened, it doesn't matter. So it's
hard for me to give a I don't want to
just be talking on my ass. So I haven't seen
what Olivia Miles looks like outside of the infrastructure of
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Notre Dame yet, So until I do, I want to
reserve the right to make a comment on that.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And she does.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, we saw that her and Hannah had a little,
a little rift, you know that that Allegedly some things
happen in the Seattle locker room sometimes, So as long
as she can hold her own up there, Yeah, she's
kind of quiet, so I don't know. You know, personalities
are really important when you think about draft picks. I
don't think that people think about that, but they have
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scholestrong personalities.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, So the Mystics have the fourth pick and they
are projected to get Lauren Bett's center out of UCLA.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I didn't even realize she was six seven.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
My Yeah, she's a mountain. She's a mountain of a woman. Yeah,
she's really good. She's not that athletic though, she's a
little bit slower, So I'm always it's like the young
lady Audi Cooks. She's she was put up like forty
five points in the game. Yes, yes, and you know,
on the collegiate level it looks great, but on a
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professional level, I don't know whether or not she'll be
able to keep up with the athletes in the w NBA. So,
you know, Lauren Bett's kind of a similar thing. She
kind of reminds me of Stephanie Doson when she first
entered the w NBA. Uh, she's seventy. Docon has had
a phenomenal career, so she'd have to really expand her
her offensive game out to the three point line to
be really effective. But Lauren Betts's she could hoop though. Sure.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, and she's going to be joining Sonya in KIKI,
So they like I was just mentioning Washington already has
a pretty solid young core.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Uh, they kind of be one to watch.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay, so Chicago has the fish overall pick and they
are projected to get Flaje.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Johnson Spicy out of LSU.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Now the question is going to be is Angel Rees
going to still be a Chicago Sky come next season?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I think so, I think so. I think what this
was her second year? Yeah, second and third year, Angel.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
For a second because then last year they went and
picked up Hailey.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So it's a lot of lsus.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's a lot. It's a lot, and we know how
that situation kind of imploded when they were all last
on the team together. Angel should still be a member
of the Chicago Sky solely because after two years, you
shouldn't be able to dictate whether or not you want
to be on an organization. In an organization, it's too
soon for her to be that polarizing within the infrastructure
of that team, especially considering what she brings to the
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team on the court. Like, she's not she's a she's
a superstar and brand. Her game is star, you know,
for the sake of star talent on the court. But
she shouldn't be able to dictate where she plays quite
yet I think it's a little bit too early, and
I'm not for I love player empowerment, but that would
be giving her too much, too much rope. The flow
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j thing is is interesting though, because her and her
and Angel don't get along. Allegedly they're not They're not
cool how you want to frame it.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, seeing them say some stuff or parents have said
things on social media.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, that's not like you.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Y'all got to think about these.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Things when you when you draft a player. It's like,
I know that they they paired well together when they
were at LSU, but you just don't want unnecessary drama.
But if they think that she's the best shooting guard,
or maybe not the best, because I think A's a
the best. But if they think that she's one of
the best shooting guards, then they want to get her
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because of talent. But like I said, personalities is just
as important.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, let me ask you a question. Now, I mean
no harm when I asked this question, but because you
are a woman, I do want to get your perspective
on it. Do you feel like women are more or
less likely to have static and let static like really
exist between them in a professional locker room environment.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I really don't know. I think it's a toss up
because I think that with men too, there's there could
be some static but maybe like the men just fighting.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I mean, we've seen Shaq and Kobe, We've seen teammates
not being able to remain in close proximity to each other.
But I just I wonder men and women are different,
and you know, and I just wonder like if you,
as a woman feel like sometimes it is the more
it's more challenging for you to work in the midst
of like contention.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Then see I've never I mean, like I was a cheerleader,
but I wasn't. I didn't play a sport like that, you.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Know what I mean, Like it was you heard me
say like that.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
What I'm saying is it's a very like it's a
tight group when you're playing like basketball, right, Like, yes,
I don't want who's picking me up and we're doing
stunts to have beef with me. I don't want that
because they could drop me. You know, that's the whole thing.
But I just think that it's just more important when
it comes to like basketball, like you really have to
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like leave it in the locker room, like you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Like keep it real culture man costing people opportunities. You
got to stop with the keep it realness of it all.
Let's get back to playing politics, especially when you are
somebody of stature and promise, you know, like you can't
operate the same way as the person who's working at
FedEx and ups when you're about to be drafted into
a league and you're a part of a one percent
of the population who gets to do so, you got
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to carry it a little bit differently. And I think
we need to do a better job of ingratiat or
ingraining that into the minds of young people especially, but
even their parents because it gets some more crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, we need to go back to the days of
media training. And that's with anything. I mean literally anything.
All of our superstars right now have no media training.
That's across all sports, artists, musicians, whoever. Like, we need
to go back to the days of you going to
camp and preparing yourself for the media. But anyway, you
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all dropped down in the comments and you let us
know your thoughts on the Dallas Wings once again getting
the number one overall. Pick shit they get easy or
is that a little questionable?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Is it too spicy, ask the dam of questions, Samaria.
Is it too spicy to have your top two players
be lovers? Is that a recipe for disaster? Y'all? Let
us know your thoughts in the comments section, and then
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Speaker 2 (13:01):
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