ALL FACTS NO BRAKES: WNBA star Kia Nurse on Caitlin Clark advice, Cameron Brink, UConn, Olympics & Jordan Brand
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Emmanuel Acho
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:34.0 | There are a lot of narratives. There's a lot of talk around the WMBA. It's great that people are talking about it. I think the big thing is to talk about the WMBA. It's okay to be new. It's okay to say that you're new and that you might not understand everything. Ask us. Like we're here. There's 144 of us, not just one of us. We're here. We're willing to share our stories. We're willing to tell you kind of how it was when we came in. What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? This key shot and welcome to my show All Facts and No Breaks. |
| 0:47.8 | Joining me on today's show is W MBA Superstar of the L.A. Sparks, Kia Nurse. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, Kia, how you doing? How's it going? |
| 0:57.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:58.0 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:01.0 | Are you back in LA or are you still on the road somewhere? We are still on the road. We are right in the middle of our |
| 1:07.1 | eight games 19 days seven cities so we're in Connecticut full on East Coast now. |
| 1:12.9 | So you've come from a richness of athletes and your family, |
| 1:16.2 | huh? |
| 1:16.5 | Your dad played football, I guess your mom played basketball, |
| 1:20.3 | your brother played football and basketball. Am I missing anybody? |
| 1:24.0 | No, honestly, we've got, well we do have a lot in our family. My sister also played basketball. |
| 1:29.0 | She played for the University of Oregon and the University of Bowling Green. |
| 1:32.0 | My brother's on the Edmonton Oilers, my cousin |
| 1:35.4 | Sarah Nurs plays for P.W.L. Toronto. And my uncle is Donovan McNabb, who was a long time |
| 1:40.4 | quarterback in the NFL. So we've got a lot going on around here but it's fun. |
| 1:44.5 | Oh is that right? I don't know if Donovan McNabb was your uncle. How did that happen? |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah he actually he's married into the family. He married my dad's sister they both went to |
| 1:52.1 | Syracuse and we're college sweethearts from there. So we grew up having Uncle Dawn around all the time going to Eagles games and that was kind of one of the really exciting moments for us growing up being able to see him in his prime and shining on that bright stage. |
| 2:06.0 | So you are from Canada that show your home country and you are in the WBA and since Canada did not have a team at the point in time, |
| 2:16.7 | but they're going to be getting one here in the near future. |
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