Hey everyone, welcome into another edition of the WojPod, and this is one I've been looking

forward to for a very long time.

Becky Hammond, the WMBA's coach of the year this past season, and the coach of the WMBA champion

Las Vegas Aces.

And now, my colleague, I have champion Las Vegas Aces.

And now my colleague, I have not joined the Aces coaching staff, Becky, of course.

We might invite you.

Come on.

You'll be, yeah, you won't be winning any Coach of the Awards if you had me around.

But Becky's here with us now at ESPN this season, which is great and fairly uneventful first day for you at ESPN, right? Becky, you came in, you broke down some

games. Yeah. Nothing going on. Well, you guys put me in with a good mix, good mix of pros. So I'm

green. I'm the rookie here in the room, but I'm certainly happy to be

on your guys' team and look forward to working with you all. And also learning, you know,

just trying to be a sponge and learn the lingo. I already learned new words today, like A-block,

G-block, all that stuff. That's right. But obviously, Becky, the Britney Griner news today that we all awoke to this morning about the prisoner trade and her getting on a plane after 10 months of detention in Russia and returning home.

And you spent, it was one of my favorite episodes of NBA today, you and Chenet and, of course, Malika and an array of guests spending the afternoon on that show and you've been on all day from Stephen A on through sports centers.

Just awaking to that news today and how I think especially the WNBA and that community what a crusade

it's been really to play as much of a role as you can't you could in keeping her name in the forefront

and fighting in every way possible to get her home what was that like to wake up up to and just your initial reaction this morning to it?

Yeah, well, we talked to a lot of people throughout the day, interviewed a lot,

and I think the word that kept coming up was just relief.

You're just a sigh of relief that she's coming home.

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