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NFL Training Camp Injury Roundup, Lakers Ownership Infighting, and Nneka Ogwumike’s Retirement · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: So, before we talk LA hoops and there is quite a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot going on, we can get into the Lakers and
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  Speaker 2: the Sparks. We'll do a little training camp injury round up.
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  Speaker 2: So there's been a lot of injuries this preseason, throughout
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  Speaker 2: training camp, and if you are a gambler or if
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  Speaker 2: you play fantasy football like I do, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these things can really influence some of the decisions that
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  Speaker 2: you make. And obviously for these guys, this is devastating
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  Speaker 2: news for some of them. Some of them will only
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  Speaker 2: be out a few weeks or a few months, but
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  Speaker 2: there are some season ending injuries that have happened and
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  Speaker 2: pretty bad news overall.
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  Speaker 1: So, Alvin Kamara.
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  Speaker 2: Took a knock in joint practice with the Cowboys. It's
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  Speaker 2: an MCL that will keep him out for at least
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  Speaker 2: a month. According to reports, Colt's top target Tyler Warren
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  Speaker 2: to groin injury and joint practice with the Falcons. No
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  Speaker 2: details from the head coach Shane Steiken on the severity.
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  Speaker 2: The Texans suffered a major loss with wide receiver Jaden
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  Speaker 2: Higgins the Texans and their wide receivers Man suffered a
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  Speaker 2: torn ACL, so he is reportedly done for the season.
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  Speaker 2: He was supposed to line up as the Texans' second
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver. Janico Collins is the main target for C. J. Stroud,
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  Speaker 2: so now Houston will rely more heavily on white outs
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  Speaker 2: Xavier Hutchinson, Tank Dell and Jalen Noel. The Chargers are
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  Speaker 2: worried about their new center, Tyler Bioditch, who suffered major
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  Speaker 2: damage to his ACL and other injuries and joint practice
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  Speaker 2: with the Niners, who has paid thirty million this offseasons
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  Speaker 2: to come in in Bolster justin Herbert's protection, so that
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  Speaker 2: would be a massive loss for La Videvea. Did agree
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  Speaker 2: to a one year extension thirty million dollars with the Bucks,
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  Speaker 2: so that's some good news too, and this string of
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  Speaker 2: notes on but yeah, really disappointing for a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these guys, the Texans really, they just have all these
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  Speaker 2: wide receivers injuries, and the Chargers like that that injury
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  Speaker 2: is that's awful, Like your center, especially at this point
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  Speaker 2: in the preseason, going out with an injury like that
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  Speaker 2: that changes the whole season. So some interesting stuff going on. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: sorry to all of the guys who've got injured. And
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  Speaker 2: if you're paying attention for team purposes or for your
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  Speaker 2: fantasy football plans, it's something important to pay attention to
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  Speaker 2: staying in LA and switching to the more traumatic sport
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  Speaker 2: of men's basketball, where another episode of Lakers succession is
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  Speaker 2: unfolding and it is a lot so. Monday's announcements from
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  Speaker 2: the Bus family trust said that it's selling its final
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  Speaker 2: seventeen point eight percent stake in the Lakers, and it
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  Speaker 2: was met with immediate public counter from Lakers Governor Jeanie
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  Speaker 2: Buss through her lawyer. She is contending that a court
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  Speaker 2: ruled in twenty seventeen that no sale could be effectuated
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  Speaker 2: without approval by the co trustees Jeanie Janey and Joey Buss.
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  Speaker 2: So in a letter sent to the siblings on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: Jeanie's lawyer demanded that the family make clear that Genie
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  Speaker 2: Buses the controlling owner of the Lakers and take no
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  Speaker 2: action on the supposed vote to sell the seventeen point
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  Speaker 2: eight stick. According to reporting from Ramona Shelborne, the five
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  Speaker 2: other Bus siblings quote believe that they have a right
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  Speaker 2: to sell based on a taglong provision that have been
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  Speaker 2: included in the previous sale to Walter in June of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, because remember they sold last year. Reportedly,
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  Speaker 2: that provision gave the family rights to tag along any
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  Speaker 2: sale or any valuation that Walter secured for his shale shares.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolute mayhem.
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  Speaker 2: The siblings level down on Tuesday, releasing a second statement
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  Speaker 2: on this attempted final sale, and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of nothingness, just basically saying that they all
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  Speaker 2: of the siblings outside of Genie Bus have decided that
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  Speaker 2: they are going to intend to move forward with this sale.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really really messy.
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  Speaker 2: Things have been messy with the Bus family really since
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Bus passed, and even as recent as last off season,
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  Speaker 2: people suspected some infighting that impacted the siblings as far
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  Speaker 2: as the valuation of the team with the sale to
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  Speaker 2: Mark Walter. That deal with Genies is evidenced by her
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  Speaker 2: being the only one of the best families still involved
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  Speaker 2: with the team on a day to day basis, So
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  Speaker 2: now the other siblings are trying to get their deal. Reportedly,
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  Speaker 2: Genie is open to trying to buy out her siblings,
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  Speaker 2: so the fifteen percent needed to continue her governorship. I
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  Speaker 2: think that this is I mean, it's obviously a huge mess,
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  Speaker 2: but more importantly than that, big UPSI Lebron for getting
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  Speaker 2: out before this situation got worse. And this is a
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  Speaker 2: very serious situation for one of the largest and most
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  Speaker 2: popular sports franchises in the world.
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  Speaker 1: This could have really big implications on their future.
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  Speaker 2: Not always do new owners come in and cause problems,
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  Speaker 2: but there's always turnover. There's for a team like the
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  Speaker 2: Lakers that's basically been a family owned company for the
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  Speaker 2: entirety of its existing and you're talking about people who
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  Speaker 2: are in the building that are just a part of
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  Speaker 2: the fabric of the organization that will get moved out,
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  Speaker 2: that will cause turnover for the team, for the you know,
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  Speaker 2: front office, security, people like there's just things in place
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  Speaker 2: when you have ownership for as long as the Bus
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  Speaker 2: family has been in control, that change that people get
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  Speaker 2: used to that are very dramatic, and it's really difficult
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  Speaker 2: for a family to retain ownership of a team at
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  Speaker 2: professional a team of this magnitude these days, because the
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  Speaker 2: facilities and the checks that you have to write.
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  Speaker 1: To maintain a team like.
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  Speaker 2: The Lakers, you either need an ownership group or you
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  Speaker 2: have to have money that is outside of what the
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  Speaker 2: team generates generally.
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  Speaker 1: So you see that with a team like.
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  Speaker 2: The Clippers that Steve baumber own's and you still have
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  Speaker 2: money issues obviously, and the conversation around the Clippers which
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  Speaker 2: has been mayhem, so.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is pretty significant.
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  Speaker 2: The fighting obviously could cause a delay in the change
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  Speaker 2: of ownership. The NBA is going to have to review
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  Speaker 2: all this and see where it legally ends up lying.
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  Speaker 2: But it's always felt a little funny to me, even
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  Speaker 2: even last year with the sale to Mark Walter, it
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  Speaker 2: felt funny. Now this, you know, kind of an immediate
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  Speaker 2: turnover him making about two point five billion from this sale.
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  Speaker 2: If it goes through, it just feels it feels not right.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like there's something else going on here.
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  Speaker 2: And it sucks because the Lakers obviously have a huge
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  Speaker 2: fan base, and it's a massive franchise with major implications
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  Speaker 2: in the sports world, and a team that has one
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  Speaker 2: of the biggest players in the league in Luca Dantic.
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  Speaker 2: So I am very fascinated to see how this all
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  Speaker 2: plays out and what becomes of this, but I do
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  Speaker 2: not think that they're going to go quietly in the night,
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  Speaker 2: whatever way this ends up going.
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  Speaker 1: Staying in LA.
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  Speaker 2: One of the Sparks all time great players, announced that
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  Speaker 2: she will be retiring at the end of this season.
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  Speaker 2: Neca Agumakay will retire after fifteen incredible seasons with the
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  Speaker 2: WNBA and as the union leader on the court. She
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  Speaker 2: won MVP and led the Sparks of the championship in
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Career average average.
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  Speaker 2: Of sixteen point seven points, seven point six rebounds, and
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  Speaker 2: one point one steals per game. Nekka will end her
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  Speaker 2: professional career as an eight time All WNBA selection, eleven
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  Speaker 2: time All Star, which is tied for second most in
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  Speaker 2: league history, and of course, she will be a first
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  Speaker 2: ballot Hall of Famer. She served as Women's National Basketball
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  Speaker 2: Players Association President since twenty sixteen. Madame President played a
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  Speaker 2: huge role in leading negotiations for two separate cbas, including
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  Speaker 2: this deal that was put in place this season, which
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  Speaker 2: secured the single largest salary increase for players from one
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  Speaker 2: CBA to the next in all of professional sports, and
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  Speaker 2: expanded benefits for players, protections and resources for active and
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  Speaker 2: retired players in the league. She said, I quote, I've
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  Speaker 2: learned there's power knowing when to walk away for so
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  Speaker 2: long that strengthen finding a way to keep pushing. Now
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  Speaker 2: it means recognizing when you feel complete. I find myself grateful, fulfilled,
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  Speaker 2: and at peace with everything that this game has given
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  Speaker 2: me and everything I've poured into it. She sat with
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Rooks for boardroom talks to have this conversation. I
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  Speaker 2: think she's been able to leave the class successfully and
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  Speaker 2: she has had a major impact on.
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  Speaker 1: This game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what she's done as the players union president,
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  Speaker 2: what she's done to represent the WNBA over all these years,
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  Speaker 2: what she did negotiating this current CBA. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: these kind of negotiations are not easy. They're not easy
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  Speaker 2: on the corporate side, they're not easy on the money side.
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  Speaker 2: They're not easy to keep players united or to get
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  Speaker 2: you know, really kind of check every box for everyone,
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  Speaker 2: because you're not you're not going to make everyone happy,
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  Speaker 2: and you risk a lot being the one who's in
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  Speaker 2: the face of that and having those conversations. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think she would make an incredible commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: One day and Taylor asked her or if she'd ever
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  Speaker 2: consider being the WNBA commissioner, said, I don't close doors,
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  Speaker 2: but I do appreciate vacation. There's so much that I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, and so much that I would like to
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  Speaker 2: learn before even an opportunity like that were to come
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  Speaker 2: to me, to be ready for that.
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  Speaker 1: I think she'd be ready right away.
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  Speaker 2: I think she's being you know, gracious, and she probably
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  Speaker 2: does want a little bit of a break, but she
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  Speaker 2: would be an incredible commissioner, an incredible face for the league.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that there is a pretty heavy groundswell
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  Speaker 2: that the current commissioner is not going to be there
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  Speaker 2: for much longer. The players on every political and side
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  Speaker 2: of complaints about the leadership, and you know, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of the lack of control over narratives of her player
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  Speaker 2: protections and a whole bunch of other things. So I
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  Speaker 2: THINKNCA would do an amazing job in that role if
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  Speaker 2: it does become open, or when it does become open.
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  Speaker 2: And congrats on an absolutely incredible and legendary career. So
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  Speaker 2: excited to see what she does next, which I do
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  Speaker 2: hope includes some vacation.
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