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WNBA All-Star Buzz, Paige Bueckers’ Big Season & Miami Heat’s New Era With Giannis · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Let's deep dive into the WNBA All Star rosters. So
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  Speaker 1: they have been rolling it out along with the reserves
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  Speaker 1: over the past week, and this season of the w
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  Speaker 1: has had a ton of excitement, a ton of drama.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost been like a reality show and we've been
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  Speaker 1: covering it. But there is NonStop news, NonStop drama, and
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  Speaker 1: NonStop great ball. And the All Star Game is almost
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  Speaker 1: here and there are a lot of players generating buzz
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  Speaker 1: for the league. A league on the rise, Angel Rees's
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Dream and Kitlyn Clark's Indiana Fever led the way
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  Speaker 1: with three selections each. Reese and Dream teammates Ryan Howard
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  Speaker 1: and Alicia Gray were named as reserves, and Kitlyn Clark
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  Speaker 1: and Fever teammates Leah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell were named
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  Speaker 1: as All Star starters. And of course you have your
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  Speaker 1: superstars like Asia Wilson, Brienna Stewart, and Meka Gloom, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: John Quel Jones, Kelsey Plumb, and there's also some vets
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  Speaker 1: getting some shine for the first time, Jessica Shepherd of
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Wings, Gabby Williams of the Valkyries, Marina Maybury
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  Speaker 1: of the Tempo, and there are also some young guns
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  Speaker 1: of course, Caitlin Angel and Paige, but they are making
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  Speaker 1: a huge impression. Page. We haven't actually really talked about
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  Speaker 1: that much this year because there has been so much drama,
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  Speaker 1: but kind of quietly, I guess Page has had an
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  Speaker 1: amazing season. It's their second All Star selection consecutive season.
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  Speaker 1: She actually received the most votes from fans in the
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  Speaker 1: WNBA All Star voting for twenty twenty six, and the
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  Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the twenty twenty five WNBA
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  Speaker 1: draft and KIA WNBA Rookie of the Year last season.
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  Speaker 1: Ranks eighth in WMA in scoring, seventh and assist, and
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  Speaker 1: she has scored more than twenty points in ten games
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  Speaker 1: this season. So she is living up to all the
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  Speaker 1: hype and she's been the star that we expected her
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  Speaker 1: to be. I'm really really excited about it. All the
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  Speaker 1: top four picks from the twenty twenty five drafts, two
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  Speaker 1: of them Mystics, made the twenty twenty six WWA All
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  Speaker 1: Star Team. Paige Becker's Dominique Malonga of the Storm, Sonya
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  Speaker 1: Citron of the Mystics, and Kiki Riyathan of the Mystics
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  Speaker 1: all made the team. So the WNBA All Star Weekend
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  Speaker 1: is going to be really exciting. I'm really looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it. I am going to be there. I it
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  Speaker 1: can't wait. It's my first WAA All Star as well,
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  Speaker 1: so you can follow us on social We'll definitely be
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  Speaker 1: posting from there, and I'm looking forward to it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to see all these women perform, and look, I
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  Speaker 1: am an Olivia Miles fangirl this point, so I cannot
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  Speaker 1: wait to get an opportunity to see her play. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm really really looking forward to it, and the future
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  Speaker 1: future is bright. Also little extra notes WA Legends and
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  Speaker 1: the special thirtieth season All Star General managers are two
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  Speaker 1: women that I was absolutely obsessed with growing up, Cynthia
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  Speaker 1: Cooper and Teresa Witherspoon. They're going to draft the All
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  Speaker 1: Star rosters, so that's incredibly cool. And Teresa Witherspoon to me,
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  Speaker 1: was like she was kind of like my AI. Like
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  Speaker 1: obviously there was also Ai, but I modeled my young
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  Speaker 1: Hoop game so much after her, So I'm really excited
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  Speaker 1: about this and it looks like it's shaping up to
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  Speaker 1: be a great All Star and the men's NBA. The
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  Speaker 1: Heat is on. I'm just having a really selfish show
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  Speaker 1: because I'm talking about Miami now. Giannis has made the
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  Speaker 1: move to Miami. I know everyone wants to say South Beach,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't actually play in South Beach. They play
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  Speaker 1: in downtown Miami. But Semantics and Tim Hardaway Junior was
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  Speaker 1: introduced as well this week. He will be wearing number
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  Speaker 1: ten that was retired for his father, Tim Senior for
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  Speaker 1: his time with the Heat, so that means a Hardaway
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  Speaker 1: ten will be in the rafters in on the floor
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  Speaker 1: for the Heat this season. He said, once the call came,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was kind of a no brainer. It's
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  Speaker 1: the right fit, not only for this franchise, for me personally,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you have two guys out there that definitely
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  Speaker 1: need spacing for them to go out there and do
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  Speaker 1: and operate what they do best. My job here is
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  Speaker 1: just to make their life easy, and that's to knock
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  Speaker 1: down shots. He was born and raised in Miami, and
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  Speaker 1: the Heat will be his sixth NBA team in the
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  Speaker 1: city that he still calls home. He said, I've been
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  Speaker 1: praying for this day. I've always wanted this day to
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  Speaker 1: come ever since I was a kid. Listen, I am
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  Speaker 1: so excited about the Miami Heat this year. I am
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  Speaker 1: so excited about the Eastern Conference. I cannot wait for
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  Speaker 1: the NBA season to get back. I know it literally
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  Speaker 1: just ended and we are just in free agency, but
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait. Ends. And as we're talking about the Heat,
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  Speaker 1: it is the anniversary of the Miami Heat intro press
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  Speaker 1: conference when Bron and Bosh joined Wade sixteen years ago.
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  Speaker 1: That was yesterday, maybe the most iconic piece of media
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  Speaker 1: and sports moment ever. I vividly remember this press conference.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it was sixteen years ago. That's absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so aging myself, but sixteen years ago, to think
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  Speaker 1: of everything that has happened and what that moment was.
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  Speaker 1: I literally remember them saying not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, guys, don't do this.
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  Speaker 1: The pressure and it happened immediately because they hadn't played
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  Speaker 1: one second of basketball together. But listen, four straight years
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  Speaker 1: of finals and two championships. I'll take it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be an absolutely iconic NBA season that
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  Speaker 1: is coming up, so many moves, really exciting, exciting young rookies,
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  Speaker 1: and I am really really looking forward to it. So yeah, wait,
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