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Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

Lisa Leslie

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Sports, Arts

5.03.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got Lisa Leslie, Miss Smoooooth herself, on this week’s show to chop it up with the guys L.A. style! A hoops journey that starts with her scoring 101 points in a high school basketball game — in 16 minutes of a high school game — and ends with her name in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. She’s a fierce competitor at everything she does — from basketball to backgammon — a two-time WNBA champion and legend in her own right ...  this week it’s the Lisa Leslie story on Knuckleheads. Tune in.  Playing with Magic Johnson in L.A., scoring 101 points, choosing USC [6:30] Playing overseas, 1996 Olympic Team, first ever WNBA game [21:25] Tina Thompson, L.A. Sparks, back-to-back WNBA champions [36:00] Candace Parker, coming back after having a baby, Hall of Fame [57:00] Acting career, first dunk in the WNBA, friendship with Kobe [1:17:10] About Our Hosts: NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls. Other places to find Knuckleheads:  Subscribe on Youtube Follow on Instagram Follow on FacebookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

You first made it to the WNBA. Who's the first person to bust?

0:06.6

I don't know that there's a list for that, sir.

0:12.3

To be real honest though, I don't feel like it was one individual person. I feel like I really wasn't ready.

0:17.8

I didn't even understand what the WBA was going to be. I had signed a modeling contract.

0:23.1

I was living in New York trying to, you know, do my fashion thing and they said the WNBA was going to start.

0:29.0

They assigned me to LA contrary to what people believe that I was drafted at some certain number.

0:34.6

I was assigned to LA and I just told them, yeah, when I come back to LA, I'll play no problem.

0:39.7

But I was thinking it was going to be more like a summer league with reversible jerseys,

0:44.2

you know, kind of in a global situation. So since I was not in a gym, getting ready at all.

0:49.0

So to be really honest, I wasn't ready the first season and it really took me about two seasons to understand

0:55.4

what it meant to be a professional player playing in the summer, right? Because we are, I'm used to playing like

1:01.3

everybody else, you know, we played during the winter. The summer is like, we off. Man, I'm not trying to be in the gym.

1:07.2

And so it took me a while to really reverse.

1:09.7

I never looked at it like that. I never thought about it like that. That's absolutely the complete reverse of what we used to.

1:15.7

Yeah, and that was our first year. So it was like, we're going to play ball in the summer.

1:19.6

But you wait, you have to bring in cameras, hold on.

1:21.3

And everybody tell me about the game like, oh, and you know what I mean? So I really wasn't ready.

1:27.6

I mean, I was decent. I was, you know, I was blocking shots. I was scoring and stuff.

1:30.9

But I wasn't like locked in ready to go prepare to just lead my team to a championship.

1:37.9

Like all of that, it really took me a while to give up some of my freedom to really prepare.

1:44.4

And yeah, and be ready for the summer. Like to really be ready.

1:48.5

You came out the groundway, you was nothing, get your model on.

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