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World Cup Kicking off in North America, Caitlin Clark’s Clutch Moment, and Wemby Embraces the Villain Role · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joid Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me. Make sure you hit
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  Speaker 1: joyd Taylor. So we are just one day from the
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  Speaker 1: kickoff of the twenty twenty eight World Cup right here
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  Speaker 1: in North America. Mexico gets things started on Thursday, before
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  Speaker 1: the US men's national team gets a chance to make
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  Speaker 1: US proud starting with their first group stage game against
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  Speaker 1: Paraguay on Friday. I love the World Cup and the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for different stories from different cultures to be shared,
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  Speaker 1: the competition, the passion the fans, and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: idea of it being in North America and particularly in
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  Speaker 1: the United States as a melting pots of a country
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  Speaker 1: would normally very much track and unfortunately that is not
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  Speaker 1: exactly how things are going down. I do think that
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  Speaker 1: there is a major lack of hype around this particular
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  Speaker 1: World Cup for a lot of very political and cultural reasons.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a huge problem with the cost of tickets
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  Speaker 1: for fans. But I do feel like once the games
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  Speaker 1: start being played and we get into the action, the
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  Speaker 1: hype will begin to build and the focus will get
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  Speaker 1: back on the game I hope that it is a
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  Speaker 1: clean and smooth World Cup, and I hope that obviously
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  Speaker 1: our men's team does really well. This is a talented team,
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  Speaker 1: probably the most international US squad ever. The tournament has
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  Speaker 1: expanded from thirty two to forty eight teams, so there's
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  Speaker 1: an even better chance to make it out of the
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  Speaker 1: group stage. Now, listen, the women's team obviously has a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous job World Cup. After World Cup, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: to sing their praises. We already know that they are extremely,
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  Speaker 1: extremely dominant. We would love to see the men's team,
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  Speaker 1: the US men's national team catch up to what the
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  Speaker 1: women have been able to do. It will be a
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  Speaker 1: tall task, but as it is with every World Cup
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  Speaker 1: that the men play in, I will be rooting for
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  Speaker 1: them and I am excited for play to get underway.
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  Speaker 1: So Kaylyn Clark is having a great season for the
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Fever, who are currently sixth in the w and
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, she did what she is famous for, which
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  Speaker 1: is hitting a clutch three pointer, this one being a
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  Speaker 1: game winning three pointer to beat the Washington Mystics. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Stephanie White, who drew up a play that got Kayln
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  Speaker 1: Clark that shot from deep said after the game that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we take great players and certainly generational talent. For granted,
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  Speaker 1: what she did was incredible for us. She's going to
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  Speaker 1: have many more moments like that. I know she is,
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  Speaker 1: and we needed this one tonight. This is great for
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  Speaker 1: two reasons. One, Kayln's a star and we love to
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  Speaker 1: see stars shine. But also, and perhaps more importantly, this
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  Speaker 1: is just one of the stories this season. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the only storyline. But with the rookies bawling, Olivia Miles,
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  Speaker 1: who has the Links at ten and two atop the league,
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  Speaker 1: Asia Wilson and the Aces are back playing great basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Angel Reach just went for seventeen and seventeen and A
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  Speaker 1: went over her former team, the Liberty, the Wings, Valkyries.
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  Speaker 1: So many teams and so many cities are really playing
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  Speaker 1: great basketball right now. And the buzz around Kaylen Clark,
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  Speaker 1: the constant conversation around Kaitlyn Clark, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it being not really related to her play. I do
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  Speaker 1: like to see her come through with moments like this. Look.
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  Speaker 1: Kaitlyn has become an incredibly controversial figure in sports. She
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  Speaker 1: has a very feral fan base, not always necessarily the
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  Speaker 1: most educated fan base when it comes to the w
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  Speaker 1: and how all these things work, and the difference and
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  Speaker 1: the culture and the style of play. We've certainly seen
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  Speaker 1: that there's been a lot of complaints about her and
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  Speaker 1: her relationship and antics with on the court and also
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  Speaker 1: particularly with the referees. I hope that the way that
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the season goes, it really gets back
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  Speaker 1: to basketball with her. So I like seeing this moment
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  Speaker 1: and her having the opportunity to get that win. So
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  Speaker 1: flipping over to men's basketball victory Women Yama and the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs pulled off a crucial win in Game three to
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  Speaker 1: get their first win of this NBA Finals. Wenby was
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  Speaker 1: everywhere on Monday nights, scoring, assisting, walking shots, pushing Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brunson around, getting the Knicks fans pretty upsets. But whatever
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs needed from their big man, he provided and
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  Speaker 1: they held on no matter what kind of push the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks gave them. And reporters began asking Wenby if he
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  Speaker 1: is now the Knicks' newest and biggest villain, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm nowhere near Trey Young level, though. So
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  Speaker 1: what I love about Wemby is that he gets it
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  Speaker 1: like he gets the trash talk. He gets the lore,
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  Speaker 1: he gets the moment. He truly loves basketball and the
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  Speaker 1: culture of basketball and the history of basketball, just even
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  Speaker 1: him mentioning Trey Young like he knows what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: and the Knicks and the New York City are It's
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  Speaker 1: a place in a culture, in a team that really
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  Speaker 1: digs in with villains, which is something that I love.
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  Speaker 1: I think you need villains. I think you need someone
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  Speaker 1: to root against in a healthy way. I think you
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  Speaker 1: need story lines. You need to pitch and sell the fight.
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  Speaker 1: And we have gotten a really old school battle between
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  Speaker 1: the Nicks and Spurs, both physically, both with trash talk.
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  Speaker 1: You can see the animosity. Obviously, I don't endorse any
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  Speaker 1: of the violence that's going on outside with you know,
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  Speaker 1: fans fighting, but there is tension, and I like tension.
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  Speaker 1: I like tension in the story, and I think it
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  Speaker 1: leads to so much more of a moment when things
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  Speaker 1: finally come to the culmination. So I love that he
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  Speaker 1: is self aware enough to make this joke and to
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  Speaker 1: understand that he now is in that position of being
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  Speaker 1: the villain in New York and embracing it, rather than,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just giving some line about how it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter and we're just focused on the game. This is
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  Speaker 1: the type of stuff that really builds up rivalries, and
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  Speaker 1: we're constantly complaining about how there are no rivalries, So
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  Speaker 1: this is this is exciting. I can't wait to see
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  Speaker 1: how the rest of this series goes. I really hope
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  Speaker 1: it's a long one. But as I've said, I think
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  Speaker 1: that the Spurs have to play perfect for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of this series in order to get out of here
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  Speaker 1: with a championship. But we will see. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining me on The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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