Episode 40: Rich hosts Sabrina Ionescu, the WNBA star and CC Sabathia, the former MLB All-star pitcher, and talks about playing in New York, realizing their athletic goals, and the childhood moments where they locked into their respective sports.

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ionescu, the budding WNBA superstar, and Sabathia, the recently-retired MLB All-star are at opposing junctures of decorated careers. Ionescu is just starting her WNBA career after putting together one of the most-decorated resumes in college basketball history. The child of Romanian immigrants, she shattered multiple college basketball records playing for the University of Oregon, where she ended up a Pac-12 all-time assists leader (breaking Gary Payton’s record), and the only NCAA D1 player ever to record 2,000 points, 1,000 assists and 1,000 rebounds. Named the best collegiate female basketball player in the nation, she was #1 pick in the 2020 WNBA draft, selected by the NY Liberty. Though injuries early in the pandemic-plagued season prevented her from realizing her first-year potential, she's ready to fulfill her promise as the league prepares for its '21 season. On the other side of the career spectrum is CC Sabathia, who helped the NY Yankees win a World Series in 2009, led MLB in wins in both ’09 and ’10, was a 6x All-Star, and struck out over 3,000 in a brilliant career. Now the host of the popular podcast, R2C2, with co-host, Ryan Ruocco, he's also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Rich talks to Sabathia and Ionescu about the pressures and joys of playing under the New York spotlight, the special relationship Ionescu had with Kobe Bryant, and how the WNBA Bubble revved up Ionescu's competitive juices. They also get into her career goals and Sabathia's post-career moves. This episode was recorded on April 22 as part of a live Boardroom University event.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody and welcome to another boardroom out of office podcast?
0:09.0	This is podcast number 40, the 4040 club.
0:13.0	We got a special one this week.
0:15.0	My man G ain't here with me right now, but we are going to bring you a recent boardroom university that we did we did it for over
0:23.0	10 schools in new york i think we had over 2,000 people signed on 3,000 people and we had
0:29.8	ceci sabathia and sabrina ianescu from the new york liberty incredible conversation we had a
0:37.0	Q&A at the end i asked a bunch of of questions. C.C. had to run at the very, very end. But it was a great combo. Nice hour talk with two New York City legends. And I think talking about New York sports is important. Right now, the climate in New York's incredible. Nets incredible. Nicks's incredible. Rangers may miss the playoffs, but they got great young players. My Mets are playing. I, but they look great. We got a great team, great ownership. Yankees, obviously, we'll always be all right. Jets had a good draft, great GM, Joe Douglas. You know, I like Darnold, but I think Zach Wilson will be a stud. And my Giants, I mean, say no more.
1:12.1	My Giants are going to rock.
1:13.2	So, you know, my Giants got a solid, solid draft. We have a lot of skill players from my man, Danny Jones. Our defense is solid. We got a great edge rusher from Georgia. All right, I'm done talking my shit. So listen, Boardroom University, Sabrina, Ionescu, Sabrina, Ianescu, Cici Sabathia, Cici, Sabatia. I'm saying everything twice, Richie, two times. Podcast number 40, enjoy.
1:39.7	I will just say thank you again to Boardroom University for letting Pepsi be a part of this.
1:44.4	We are so happy and thankful to do it.
1:46.5	And I will turn it back over to Rich for the main event and I'm really excited to hear with these guys have to say.
1:51.0	Thanks so much.
1:53.1	Thank you, Justin.
1:54.3	Thank you again for your support of the whole program.
1:57.3	And welcome everybody to Boardroom University.
1:59.8	Boardroom University is a program that we started within the Boardroom Sports Business brand
2:03.9	to allow college students direct access to some of the greatest minds in sports and business.
2:09.8	Represented with us today, we have over 10 schools for the New York area,
2:13.3	including my favorite college basketball team, the St. John's Red Storm.
2:17.3	We're going to take some questions at the end. If we have Storm. We're going to take some questions at the end.
2:19.9	If we have time, we're going to try to get to the last 15 minutes,
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