Nneka Ogwumike

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Comedy, Arts, Sports

5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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It's Cali’s finest on the show today, y’all! Nneka Ogwumike has been tearing up the league since 2012. WNBA Champion, MVP, 8x All-Star - it’s all on the resume! Q and D trace Nneka’s basketball journey from becoming “The Ogwumike sisters” back in Cypress, Texas, to helping break UConn’s 90 game winning streak while at Stanford, to winning a championship against Maya Moore in 2016. Tune in to hear more from the WNBPA president who deserves all the flowers for her impact on the women’s game!

Cypress, Texas, KG influence, basketball growth (1:40)
Her sisters, choosing Stanford over Duke, Tara Vanderveer (11:45)
UConn rivalry, Chiney to Stanford, March Madness (21:45)
2012 WNBA Draft, Candace Parker, ROY (28:15)
Overseas, 2016 Sparks/Lynx series, Olympic snub (34:33)

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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.

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0:00.8	First of all, thank you for being on our show.
0:03.6	You won our favorite players.
0:05.8	I feel like you won the most underrated players out there.
0:09.4	I love watching you play,
0:10.4	but thank you for being on the show.
0:11.9	Thanks for having me.
0:12.7	It's our respect up in here.
0:13.7	We did a great job, man.
0:15.6	When you first got to the WNBA,
0:17.4	who was the first person to bust your ass?
0:19.4	Oh, man.
0:23.4	I mean, outside of my teammates,
0:26.0	I was playing with the deletion mill and Jones,
0:28.7	CP, of course, Ebony Hoffman.
0:31.9	I'd probably have to say it was catch,
0:34.0	to make a catchings, for sure.
0:36.4	Yeah.
0:37.2	Yeah, they all around.
0:38.3	And it was just never thought moving.
0:40.0	Never.
0:40.8	It was just so tiring, because you could do everything.
0:45.1	I always had to guard her.
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