Yo yo! Welcome to Stargazing, a show about the figures and influencers that surround

the superstars in NBA culture. I'm Yo-Van Buhat, NBA reporter at the athletic. Joining us

now is Victoria Jacobi, aka Count on Vic. Vic is a professional dot connector. Like this year's

best picture, she is everything, everywhere, all at once. She knows every NBA player works with

every brand and attends just about every event. There's no one way to describe what she does,

but we're gonna try on today's episode. Thank you for doing this. How are you today?

Of course, you're the homie. Anybody who doesn't know Yo-Van is the homie. I'm just happy,

I'm just happy to be here. I'm happy this show is here now. I feel like we've talked about this

many times and thank you for having me on. And thank you for that introduction. I feel like you

shouldn't be my agent or something. It's very flattering. I try, I try. Let's start with this.

This is my favorite question. How and when did you fall in love with basketball?

Oh wow, this is actually my favorite question. It's not the oh, what does she do exactly?

I feel like it was very early on for me to the point where I don't even remember exactly how old I was.

I grew up for those who don't know. I'm not from here from the US. I grew up 20 minutes out of

Tel Aviv and you know, my dad and I used to watch Laker games in the morning because the time

different. So he would he would always record them and we would watch them like over the weekends.

And he was a big Shaq fan when I was a Kobe fan. So just kind of grew up with the Lakers and loving

the Lakers and I'm such a New Yorker and every other way in my life and how how I am and everybody

is so surprised that I'm not a Nick's fan. Thank God. I mean, they're doing great. You know, I've

always been Laker's nation on this side. What drew you to Kobe over Shaq? I think his style of play.

I just my my dad was a Shaq fan because he was like, how is this guy so big and so dominant at

the same time? You know, it would almost be too hard to move when you're that big, but he was so

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