Bucks are Champions + The Power of WNBA’s Layshia Clarendon

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🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Bucks are NBA Champions! Pablo reacts to the win in Milwaukee and why a title takes skill, not luck. Then, Layshia Clarendon is a WNBA all-star now with the Minnesota Lynx, parent to an infant, activist off the court, and they’re the first openly nonbinary and transgender player in the league. ESPN’s Katie Barnes shares their story, from how faith impacted Clarendon’s upbringing to the complex road to self-discovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This booker turns, shoots fires, shot won't go, Tucker the rebound, and that'll do it.
0:08.0	It's over.
0:10.0	The Bucks have done it.
0:12.0	The long wait has ended after a half century.
0:15.0	The Milwaukee Bucks are NBA champions once again.
0:19.0	It took a half century for a singular superstar, Janus Antecoompo, to bring an NBA title
0:28.1	back to Milwaukee.
0:30.5	So first, a look at what all of that means for Janus and for history.
0:37.2	Then.
0:38.5	I realized my story, opened the door to help other people.
0:42.8	Leisha Clarendon is new to the Minnesota links, but not new to pushing the WNBA forward,
0:49.5	by living a life unlike anyone else's in basketball, breaking boundaries, both behind the scenes
0:57.3	and out on the floor.
1:00.7	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, July 21st. This is ESPN Daily, presented by UKG.
1:10.5	Our purpose is people.
1:17.9	I'm sure Janus Anadacompo is way too good for pettiness right now, having just dropped
1:24.7	50 and 14 and 5 on the Phoenix Suns and enrapturing the 65,000
1:31.3	ravers in the Deer District and giving his customary post-game TED talk, this time with
1:38.1	Chris Middleton by his side.
1:40.3	We've been together for eight years and I'm happy that I was able to do
1:45.0	it with him.
1:46.0	I'm happy that I was able to do with this team from Milwaukee and how Coach Bad say, we've
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