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Unapologetically Angel

Episode Highlight: T-Spoon Reveals How She Got Her First Scolarship To Be Able To Play At Major Universities

Unapologetically Angel

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Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.4596 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Y'all already know who it is.

0:02.1

WMBA legend, the goal, my goal, my rookie coach, Ms. Teresa Wetherspoon, aka T. Spoon. How are you? I'm awesome. I'm glad to be here. Losing up. Oh, just, I'm just letting you get busy. I am excited to be here. Finally, let me say that. Let me add that word. Finally, I'm here. My bad, my bad. It's all right. You're doing your thing. I'm proud of you.

0:23.6

First of all, she got on the mirror. excited to be here finally let me say that let me add that word finally i'm here my bad my bad it's all right

0:21.7

you're doing your thing i'm proud of you first of all she got on amiri she got a big big body

0:27.1

watch on big old mac queen she getting money i don't know how she's talking about me she

0:33.8

gets me one of the games she came to the new york game last year where Balenciago on. She come fly. I came to see you. So, you know, you're a fly, so I wanted to at least, you know, show up some kind of way. Something, you know, I'm always in sweats all the time, so you want to kind of put something on sometimes. Okay, period. How was it for you growing up? Growing up down south, I think when I went

0:55.7

tell her, she was the first time I understood what like Southern House of Sality is and like, yes ma'am, no ma'am, and like how that is. How was it for you growing up down south? That was big. I grew up in a really small place, like 800 plus people. So it was big the way we were raised, you know, the yes ma'am, no ma'am, yes sir, no sir. It's the way we were raised. It was being polite and respectful. And it was a demand. It was demand on how we grew up. Yeah. But it was a great place to grow up as a child. You know, it was open space to be a kid, not afraid of something happening. Parents weren't afraid of you being out and about and afraid something was going to happen. But you got to be around each other all the time, knowing your neighbors and all this kind of great stuff. But it was great to be a country girl growing up in the country. Growing up with sisters, did you guys fight? How was it growing up? I was the baby, so I was the one doing all the fighting. Really?

1:44.5

Me, I'm the baby of six. Oh my gosh. So, yeah, I did all the fighting. I was the bad one. Did you know you gonna play ball though? Yeah. Like you didn't play in other sports? I played everything. Okay. I played everything. I played football. Really? I played everything. basketball.

2:00.0

Oh, really?

2:00.5

Much better.

2:01.1

I love baseball more than, I still do.

2:03.0

Yeah.

2:03.3

I love baseball more than I did basketball. Wow. Wanted to be a baseball player like my dad. Wow. So what made you want to just stick with basketball? Had to. I'm 800 and so many plus people. And that's all my school had. So I wasn't allowed to play with the boys during that time. The only thing I got a chance to play with the boys was like Little League Baseball.

2:20.1

So I got a chance to play that sport, and that's the sport I really love, but I couldn't play it in school. Was there like a, there was A.A. You growing up, did you guys, it wasn't like this? No, not at all.

2:31.9

And for me, growing up as hard as it was, growing up with six children, my mom and

2:36.7

dad had it very, very hard to raise us. So it was very hard for me to be a part of an AAU team.

2:41.8

So I didn't get a chance to do that. At the time, what was really close to me was

2:45.9

Domino's out of New Orleans, I believe it was. And I couldn't do it because it was too expensive for my family.

2:52.6

Yeah.

2:53.5

Yeah.

2:53.8

Yeah. Yes. We used to be on a corner. Like, I don't know if you ever had to do this on AAU. We used to have a bucket on a corner and begging for money. I don't know if you seen the kids. I've seen it. We used to do that all the time. I've seen it. expensive. It'd be like $900. It's bad. Like, I could have done it. Ever. Ever.

3:08.1

Yeah. Ever. That's why we stayed, I could have done it. Ever.

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