Interview: Inside a paradigm-shifting WNBA offseason with Jackie Powell
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Burn It All Down
4.5 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Lindsay Gibbs and The IX's Jackie Powell discuss the exhausting, tumultuous road to the new WNBA's historic new CBA, Cathy Engelbert's draft-night own-goal, million-dollar free agency moves and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to burn it all down. My name is |
| 0:17.8 | Lindsay Gibbs, and I am thrilled to be joined on this hot take episode bonus pod. |
| 0:24.2 | I guess we're calling them now by the great Jackie Powell of the nine sports and NBC sports, |
| 0:31.0 | WNBA and New York Liberty and women's basketball and all the things. |
| 0:36.2 | And most importantly, to me, a longtime friend of the show, Jackie, |
| 0:40.3 | welcome to burn it all down. |
| 0:42.3 | Hey, Lindsay, thank you so much for having me back. |
| 0:46.3 | And yes, I have been a longtime friend of the show. |
| 0:49.3 | I am so happy that you all are back. |
| 0:52.3 | And I just wanted to say congratulations because you guys are |
| 0:57.0 | really needed in this space and I'm just I'm really happy that you guys are back. |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you. We are too and friends our Kickstarter campaign was a success of your new here. |
| 1:08.0 | So we will be officially relaunching with shows with the five of us |
| 1:11.6 | co-host in June. But we've got some bonus podcast stuff coming until then. We'll be active on |
| 1:20.7 | socials. We're just kind of still building the machine as we really launch it, you know, solidly. |
| 1:28.7 | So anyways, we're thrilled to be here. |
| 1:31.4 | But we just had to talk. |
| 1:33.1 | I've been texting Jackie about coming on for three weeks now. |
| 1:36.0 | But apparently I'm not great at actually getting things done |
| 1:39.8 | when I am actively covering this last month in women's basketball news, anything other than |
| 1:46.3 | my CBS stuff just kind of got shoved to the side. |
| 1:49.5 | And that's understandable, I think, when you look back at this timeline. |
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