An Interview with Sylvia Fowles, former WNBA MVP and future mortician
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🗓️ 9 February 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Former WNBA MVP Sylvia Fowles joins Dave DuFour in Serbia to talk international women's basketball, the new game-changing WNBA CBA, and what is behind Fowles' drive to become a mortician as her post-playing career.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the back-to-back pod on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Nerder She Wrote with your host, Dave Dufour. |
| 0:11.0 | With Mo DeKiel and Seth Partnack. |
| 0:13.0 | Are you ready to be entertained? |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of NERder She Wrote. |
| 0:22.2 | I don't do interviews like this very often, but I happen to be in Belgrade, Serbia at the same time as the women's U.S. national team. |
| 0:31.9 | And they were playing their Olympic qualifier. |
| 0:33.9 | And I had an opportunity to sit down with WNBA MVP two-time champion Sylvia Foles so I took |
| 0:41.3 | it so here's that little sit-down interview hope you guys enjoy it as much as I enjoyed talking to her |
| 0:47.3 | hey how's Serbia so far Serbia has been good so far um I'm a little homesick just a tad tad bit, but for the most part it's been good. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah. You guys had a nice game last night? We had a nice game last night, but also it helps too |
| 1:01.6 | being around these women that you like and you enjoy and you get to be in a present for this |
| 1:06.9 | brief moment, so it also helped being with them. Well, you guys have a ton of continuity coming into the Olympics. |
| 1:12.0 | Yes. |
| 1:12.7 | And it shows, I mean, there are a few advantages you guys have, obviously. |
| 1:16.7 | I mean, you're just a better basketball team than any other team you're going to run into. |
| 1:20.9 | But the continuity shows quite a bit when Skyler was on fire in the third quarter last night you guys just kept feeding |
| 1:29.3 | her and you know that's the kind of stuff that you know because you guys have been together so |
| 1:33.9 | much um yeah and then I think that's the beauty about USAB um coming in here you know any night is |
| 1:40.4 | your night yeah and we see that like when you on, we make sure we want to feed you |
| 1:44.8 | as quickly and as often. And it so happened to be Skylon Night and that's like, and she was |
| 1:49.0 | filling in it. And we just making sure that we get her to ball, making sure we do everything to |
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