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You number one I think is absolutely insane that you’ve never beeno approached about coaching the WNBA team those things to me doesn’t make sense like you know I I have a I have a strong appreciation for the WNBA because of the talent like I think uh the women in the WNBA are
Extremely talented um what I love the most is how fundamentally sound the WNBA is I watch college basketball some NBA basketball and it baffles me that guys do not have basic fundamentals and you just don’t have that problem in the WNBA at least we can’t see it you know like
I’m sure if you’re in the practice you’re like man this this girl got no fundamentals but for for the most part like fundamentally sound yeah um but I think and and me and you have actually spoke about this a little bit before I think some things that the WNBA do they shoot themselves
In the foot this being one of them like why have you not been approach the Pioneer that you are in the WNBA I think you’re you I mean I don’t think you are the first real star of the WNBA and yet your first real star you never go back
And say hey like do you want to come back and Coach like so we can have you so close to this league because of what you know you’ve seen it from the very beginning you know all of these things we can have you so close to this league
It’s things like that that when it comes to the WNBA I don’t understand those things like you’re not helping yourself in all the ways that you can help yourself that to me is baffling well I’m G be really honest with you because I don’t think I ever really articulated
This publicly but I do believe that we get it wrong when it comes to the veterans of the WNBA um all of us not just me you know swoops Cooper um you know we can make a whole list because there’s obviously a la your
List of us but um we don’t get it right and for whatever reason and I don’t know if it’s a women’s thing I’m not sure but we get pushed out because they’re like well if you’re here taking up the spotlight people can’t see the next ones coming however I’m like well the NBA
Have like 75 100 like great players that come and support and it’s like a um it’s a fraternity right absolutely and absolutely we we don’t create a sorority and I’ll tell you that from the Sparks that behind the scenes conversations the WNBA I have tried trust me so it’s not
Like it’s not like I have haven’t tried it’s not like I haven’t reached out it’s not like even when I was in LA I’m like there’s anything that I can do I wasn’t even trying to be paid to to help but it was just one of those things where I was
Like you know what this is my last time I’m gonna like really put myself out there to try to help and then I’m done and that’s when I was like I’m done I’ll go coach I can coach in the big three but I wasn’t even trying to do it like
It wasn’t even like a money thing really just trying to help and lend my services like you’re saying like to think about growing the game to be able to give back I saw that the attendance was dropping off you know things like that and so
It’s not that I didn’t think of it or try but I’m sure um a lot of the women who are veterans of the league feel that way and we could do a much better job as a whole of finding ways to support veteran women players bringing them back and I
Kid you know I’ll tell you one story I went to go watch a practice and I was like oh and you can let them know if they want me to talk to the players right I will go after the practice and I’ll talk to the players if if they
Want Draymond when I tell you I mean I was like oh okay I mean I don’t know I’m just saying of service I’m not saying to be there to like oh you know I’m Le like this is what I did like that’s not even my personality but
If there’s some words that I can give you to motivate you to like come out work hard like man the paint like you guys need to crash the boards whatever it is like whatever was in that moment I would have given it to that team just
Because I’m a spark for life like I’m not just visiting y’all like I really care about what happens with the purple and gold and they were like no that’s okay no he or she didn’t want you to say anything I’m like not a problem get in on the action with the draftking sports
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Crown is yours and I leave it at that like that’s it so I just say that to you not to be like a hater on the outside but I but but to confirm with you we need to do a better job as not just a league but also individual teams of how
They support their veterans and bringing them back to be a part of it and I’ll tell you two programs that do an excellent job of it da Staley does excellent job with South Carolina and in connecting her players to her other players and just creating a community
That supports one another and Gina Ora does a very good job at Yukon that you see their returning players coming back 30 40 players that is how you build that type of chemistry it’s a culture and I tried to even I’m glad that we’re starting to see that back with USC
Because we had those problems before in the past we have a new coach and ju guu is doing so amazing I’m so proud of her and you’re starting to see other Trojans come back and support and that’s what it’s about like if we’re not building community and we’re not pouring into one
Another like what are what are we really doing I I don’t I don’t know so it’s bigger than basketball to me but we haven’t completely figured that out and I hope that we can do a better job of that in the future because I love our
Sparks I love our Sparks fans like every time I’m there the people are so amazing the the other sure like I hug and so you know I just see people that you really care about and it’s just unfortunate that I didn’t have that opportunity to do that because I would have absolutely
Now 100% And by the way and saying that and that’s why it’s no surprise that Don is having the success that she’s having year after year at South Carolina and that Gino has had the success that he’s had over the 30 years or whatever it’s been that he’s been at Yukon I think
Yeah that was one of the reasons I actually went to Michigan State is because Tom ISO creates a Brotherhood he creates a family and I’m like oh I get to be a part of this family like I was It was kind of down to them in Michigan and I didn’t feel like Michigan
Basketball I was a family but when you look back at it they weren’t you see how they did Chris Weber you know you see how they kind of outcast the five five like yeah they had their issues whatever but what they did for that program to
Not honor them I mean we’re it’s 2024 2023 and it takes Jim Harbaugh to bring Chris Weber back like that doesn’t make sense to me you know and so uh it’s no surprise that those teams have that type of uh essentially the pedigree that they have in the history because they’re
Doing it that Way
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