All Things Basketball with GD - 2023 Season, WNBA All Star Weekend

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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the All Things Basketball Podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode I will break down WNBA All-Star Weekend, the Skills Challenge, the 3-point

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contest and of course the All-Star game.

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So we'll break that down, we'll talk about everything.

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So just sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay guys, it's your boy GD back once again with All Things Basketball Podcasts and this

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episode I'll be doing will be all about the WNBA.

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I will be covering All-Star Weekend and then also I will cover What's Ahead as far as

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the second half of the season and so forth.

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Now I may have to break it up into 2 episodes we'll see.

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Once again it's producing on the fly so we'll see how it goes.

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Alright so without any further delay let's get into it.

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So we had All-Star Weekend that just passed for the WNBA.

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We had Friday in the afternoon, we had the Skills Challenge and then following that we

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had the 3-point contest.

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Let me just say this right quick.

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Friday afternoon in the summer, maybe not the best idea.

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Friday evening in the summer maybe you can do a little better with that.

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So in the afternoon, who's watching in the afternoon?

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People still at work, all those sort of things so yeah I didn't understand that thinking

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as far as that goes.

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But nonetheless the contests were done and we'll talk about each of them.

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First up the Skills Challenge.

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Skills Challenge, well they changed it from last season.

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Last season it was an individual but this year they did like a team of 2.

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What they did was of course you have the host team, team aces with Chelsea Gray and Kelsey

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Plum and then you had team Wings with Erika Agumbawale as well as Sato Sabali and then

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you had Team Dream who had Alyssa Gray and Cheyenne Parker.

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Then you had Team Liberty with Sabrina Inescu as well as Courtney Van Dessloot.

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After the first round both the Team Liberty as well as team aces emerges out of it.

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So they move on to the final round and then in the final round Team Liberty goes first

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and then team aces will follow and they pretty much crushed the time because they timed it

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off.

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So in the end Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum prevail.

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So you have the first set of contests and it goes to team aces and of course Las Vegas

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is the host team so of course everyone's happy about that.

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Now we move on to the 3 point shootout.

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Now the 3 point shootout that had 6 players involved and it went in this order.

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Dejanay Carrington for the Connecticut Sun followed by Erika Agumbawale of the Dallas

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Wings and then followed that with Kelsey Mitchell of the Indiana Fever.

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Then Sabrina Inescu of course New York Liberty, Sammy Whitcomb of the Seattle Storm and then

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the last person is Jackie Young of the home team the Las Vegas aces.

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Dejanay goes first and she scores an 18 which normally in a contest like that that score

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may hold.

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She started out pretty cold.

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It wasn't until she got to about the second rack to where she started kind of heating

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up but Dejanay Carrington she scores an 18.

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So that's how you start and then she's followed by Erika Agumbawale and she scores a 21.

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Then Kelsey Mitchell she fires up a 15 so that puts her in a precarious spot and then

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comes Sabrina Inescu and Sammy Whitcomb.

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Both of them just obliterated the thing.

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26 for Inescu and Whitcomb she had 28 and then also Jackie Young the last one to go

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only scores a 15.

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It seems like with her shot she has to dribble and shoot so it was kind of difficult for

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her in that regard.

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And then she missed one of the starry ball I guess that's what they call it.

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She missed one of those so who knows what her score could have been if she got that

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in second.

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So nonetheless so in the end Dejanay, Kelsey and Jackie Young they're all eliminated.

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So it's on to the second round and your finalists are Erika Agumbawale followed by Sabrina Inescu

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and then Sammy Whitcomb who had the best score of the round she went last.

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So Erika Agumbawale she scores a 11 she was ice cold she was one who said added dribble

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and she would have shot better but you know they're not doing that.

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Then comes Sabrina Inescu who had a pretty good first round.

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The second round was a thing to behold guys.

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She missed the first shot she went on to sink 20 straight shots guys and in the end she

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ends up sinking 25 of 27 shots with a score of 37 out of a possible perfect score which

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is 40.

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So you talk about a performance for the ages.

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Oh man.

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Cut this.

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Yeah so Sabrina Inescu with a racket breaking round for either men or women.

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I'll get into that when we're done with this.

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So Sabrina Inescu obliterates the record and now she's the one ahead putting major pressure

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on Sammy Whitcomb to surpass what she did in the first round with the 28.

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And then after a while it became pretty much how we say a non factor.

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So she missed a few early on and then after that that was it.

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So in the end Sabrina Inescu she wins the three point shootout.

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Sabrina Inescu.

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Whew.

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And it was an amazing performance.

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I couldn't believe what I was seeing guys.

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She really shot it well.

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And to the people who say oh she's shot with a smaller ball so it doesn't matter.

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I don't care if she's shot that thing with a Nerf ball.

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She sank 25 or 27 shots man from long distance the same distance as the NBA so missed me

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with that nonsense.

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That performance was incredible.

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Any way you slice it.

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So much so that Steph Curry while he's on the golf course he facetimes her and congratulates

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her and so forth.

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So much now that they challenge each other to a three point shootout.

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They're having fun with it.

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Which you know the weekend is a fun weekend so why not have some fun.

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And Steph Curry would go the next day on the golf course and sink a hole in one.

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That's a story for another day.

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So Sabrina Inescu she wins the three point contest.

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Congrats to her.

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Congrats to of course team Aces as well for winning the skills challenge.

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But that was a performance I don't think I'll ever see.

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It was amazing.

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It was amazing.

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So all props to Sabrina Inescu.

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So with that said guys that is your Friday night events.

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Let us move on to Saturday.

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The official game which I couldn't watch in real time by end up watching the replay which

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was great.

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It was no commercials or anything.

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It was wonderful.

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The game itself.

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Well let me first go to the roster because I believe I talked about the reserves.

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I didn't talk about the draft any.

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Well you could talk about the draft right quick.

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So on July 8th there was the draft with Asia Wilson and with Breonna Stewart.

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So they begin the draft and Asia goes first.

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Of course she's going to take her point guard.

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Chelsea Gray.

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Breonna Stewart with her first pick.

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She picked Brittany Garna.

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So the draft kind of fell the way I thought it would for the most part with Asia Wilson

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taking a lot of her teammates a lot of South Carolina alumni as well.

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She took also two of the Connecticut Suns players.

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Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner.

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Then for Breonna Stewart you know she took her teammates as well and players that she's

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played with before like a jewel Lloyd of course.

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Eze Magbeth Gore and even players that she played with overseas like she played with

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Brittany Garna overseas.

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So in amongst the reserves Breonna Stewart went first and with her first pick she took

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her point guard Courtney Van Nesslou which opened the door for Asia Wilson to take her

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player and that was Kelsey Plum amongst the reserves.

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And then you know it went back and forth so forth.

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And then the last player ended up getting picked for Asia Wilson was Elena Deladon.

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And unfortunately Elena Deladon was unable to play she's still dealing with the ankle

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issues.

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I'll talk about that when I talk about the mystics in the second half of the season.

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So her replacement ends up being Ryan Howard which was fitting because she was tearing

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it up since she got snubbed so it was just fitting for her to get the All-Star knot.

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So you had all three of your Lana Dream in the game.

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So that's how it shook out guys.

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Now let's talk about the game itself.

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The game itself was close in the beginning but actually after the first quarter team

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Breonna was up by a point.

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And then come the second quarter in the third quarter they just blew the doors open.

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At the half they lit by 10, 73, 63 and then your final score when everything is set and

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done.

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143, 126.

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In the game you had your moments of course.

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You had Brittany Granna of course putting down a dunk so you know that'll get the folks

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excited.

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And you know she was doing her thing talking her stuff.

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You know they miked her up as well.

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So just throughout that weekend because she was there for the Friday festivities as well.

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You know it was just nice having her back and involved in All-Star weekend.

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And you know they asked her about what the players did for her last year and so forth

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and she's like you know she felt it and you know she appreciated it.

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You know she's just taking the time to smell the roses sort of speak.

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Good for her.

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I was glad to see it and Friday she was sitting with Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner.

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They was just having fun over there.

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That's what you want to see.

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It's a fun weekend.

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It's laid back.

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You know everybody's interacting.

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Players from other teams and so forth.

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You want to see all that.

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So it was a good weekend for that.

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It was very good weekend for that.

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So I talked about the Brittany Granna dunk in the game.

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Then you had other moments in the game.

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You had Aja Wilson.

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She was cutting up the whole game.

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And then it was weird because twice in the game you had the ball being stuck.

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It hit the top of the backboard and got stuck.

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You could have bet that it made a ton of money if you did a prop bet.

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But that's another story.

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So the second time they had Aja do it.

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Gave her the broom.

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They were throwing Chelsea Greys over there and they break out into the dance and stuff.

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So it was cute stuff for the fans and everybody there and so forth.

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So you know you got folks.

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Oh just play the game.

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Listen to that.

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And I'll just take a line from the movie Stripes.

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Lighting up Francis.

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It's a four star game.

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So just what are we doing here?

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Nonetheless you're there to have fun.

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That's the whole thing.

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You're there to have fun.

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Then you got other people.

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Oh they didn't play any defense.

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Hello.

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I mean you could poke problems with each and every all star game if you want to.

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Even the baseball all star game you can poke holes in that.

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The fact that you have to take a player from every team.

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I mean you could go back and forth about all these all star games.

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Keep it central on basketball.

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The cry is oh they don't play any defense.

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So forth.

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I hear you.

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It seemed like they tried to get in there and defend.

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But in the end offense is what excites the fans.

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Now ask yourself this.

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Would you be happy with a 90 to 88 all star game?

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No you wouldn't be happy with that.

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So I say go ahead.

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All the three point shots.

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The four point shots even.

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That's fine.

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That's fine.

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I'm not going to kill that.

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You want to add these extra things to the game.

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It's no problem.

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I guess that's my rant.

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I'll just leave it at that.

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So let's just go through each of the players that played in the game.

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So again team Stuart 143 team Wilson 126.

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Brianna Stuart didn't score a lot in this game.

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Only nine points.

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Didn't shoot it all that great.

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But I tell you what guys she was a distributor of the basketball nine assists with six rebound.

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If you're Brianna Stuart you'll take that as long as your team wins you'll take that.

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Jewel Lloyd of course she ends up being the MVP of the all star game 31 points.

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She shot everything from three point range guys.

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So that's how you get 31 points along with six assists and four rebounds.

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So Jewel Lloyd had one heck of a game.

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And of course you know Jewel Lloyd is known as the gold mamba.

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Oh by the way, Kobe Bryant rubber stamped that name to her.

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So he has his blessing on that for everybody who's got their panties in a bunch over that.

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Relax.

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Sato Sabali she had a nice game.

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19 points for her with eight rebounds.

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Necca Awumake she had a quiet game six points 11 rebounds though and five assists.

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Brittany Griner had a very nice game.

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18 points along with 13 rebounds two blocks one of which she got on Kelsey Plum.

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Oh boy that was such an emphatic block.

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And then it was funny because there was a moment in the game with Brittany Griner that

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is where like four of the players from team Wilson came and surrounded her.

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I was like what in the world and she of course threw it out to the open person and they knocked

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down the shot that was the end of that.

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But Brittany Griner had a very good game on their bench.

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The Fija Collier man she had a nice game 20 points for her along with six rebounds Sabrina

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Nescu doing her thing.

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She shot everything from three five or 12 from three 18 points for her as well as a

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couple of four pointers.

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And she had oh by the way eight assists as well.

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Khalia Copper had a nice game 16 points shot it well three rebounds and then Courtney

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Vanus Lute as he Mac McGurk and Kelsey Mitchell each of them had two points so quiet games

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from them.

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So that is your story as far as team Stuart goes for team Wilson.

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Adrian Wilson with a nice game 20 points five rebounds.

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Aliyah Boston I thought she was going to have a very nice game.

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She started off quick with the six points after that you didn't hear from her.

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But she did pull down 11 rebounds Chelsea Gray bit of a quiet game for her five point

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seven assists though along with six rebounds.

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Marika Agumbale 18 points you know she's going to get her points no matter how many

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shots she put up there and she put up a lot guys along with six rebounds five assists.

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Jackie Young quiet game for her six points didn't shoot it all that well three rebounds.

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Then your bench Kelsey Plumb has been on a tear guys and she's carried that to the

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All-Star game 30 points for her along with five assists and she nearly oh by the way

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I kind of buried a lead with Jewel Lloyd those 31 points are the most in a All-Star game

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which is surprised I thought it'd be more but she got 31 and Kelsey Plumb had a chance

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to break that record but she was unable to.

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Ryan Howard with a nice game replacing Elena Deladon with 16 points along with three rebounds

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three assists Cheyenne Parker her teammate 14 points along with six rebounds shot it

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well too and Alyssa Gray the other teammate 10 points and then it was weird.

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DeWanna Bonner and Alyssa Thomas DeWanna Bonner zero points for her Alyssa Thomas only two

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points I guess if you're the coach for team Stuart definitely white you're pretty happy

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because your players didn't exert themselves too much nonetheless quiet game from those

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two but Stewie gets her revenge and on ages home court nonetheless so that is your All-Star

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game guys some news coming out of All-Star weekend a few news items Dwayne Wade becomes

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part owner of the Chicago Sky Dwayne Wade a Chicago native so the Chicago native now

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is a part owner of the Chicago Sky so kudos to him for investing and you know putting

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his money for to be part of this franchise he has a affinity for women's basketball very

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much an advocate for it so he put his money where his mouth is so I give him all the props

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for that we'll see what happens with that now this man's got his money spread all over

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the place he's got part ownership here with Chicago Sky he has part ownership with the

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Utah Jazz the man is all over the place there but nonetheless he's a part owner now so congratulations

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Dwayne Wade for next year's All-Star game it will be held in Phoenix Arizona guys so

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the All-Star game coming to the Valley of the Sun and the Phoenix Mercury will be the

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host team so that should be pretty fun it'll be pretty hot as well but that's the way it

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goes guys Phoenix Mercury will host it next year so that's your bit of news there the

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Los Angeles Sparks there to release Destiny Henderson who they signed to a hardship contract

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they're gonna release her and then activate Lacia Clarentin because she was out with

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the foot injury but now she is healthy now coming out of the All-Star break she missed

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14 games with the foot injury so the Sparks will get Clarentin back and you know I'm

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pretty sure they're happy to have her back but they had to release Destiny Henderson

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who knows maybe Destiny can latch on somewhere else before the season ends but she played

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well for the Sparks I thought she played well in the limited time she played there so listen

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she has game man she just has to find a spot that's right for her we'll see what happens

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with her but again we circle back to expansion having those additional teams maybe you don't

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see a Destiny Henderson bouncing around like that so we'll see how that goes so alright

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guys that is it for All-Star weekend so we tie a bow on that it was a fantastic All-Star

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weekend again the fans everybody was happy with the end product and Juleoi All-Star MVP

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she got the nice big heavy trophy as opposed to last year Kelsey Plum she got the T cup

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but yes so the league did right in that regard oh before I go Kelsey Plum speaking of her

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she did bring up the issue of tickets for All-Star game how the players weren't given

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tickets for the game and I'm like wait a second what's up with that and I broke it down actually

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on social media okay so you have 144 players right 22 of those players make the All-Star

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team that leaves you with that's 120 tickets and if the person want to bring a plus one

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240 tickets in a 12,000 seat arena commissioner can we give your players a ticket at least

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I mean come on some people say oh you know they complain about the lack of pay now they

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complain about this they all they do is complain no this is the right thing to do let the players

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be allowed to come to the game on a ticket that you give them I don't see any harm in

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that you want to tell me oh that's a ticket we could sell I don't go along with that yeah

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yeah you gotta do right by the players there give them a ticket for crying out loud and

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if you know they want to bring somebody fine give them a second ticket so at least give

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them two tickets in a 12,000 seat arena you can spare it alright guys that is it the next

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episode I do we'll be looking at the second half of the season and also my mid-season

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awards I'll give those out as well so alright guys once again I thank you for listening

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