Welcome to all the smoke a production of the black effect and our hard radio in partnership with showtime welcome back to another edition of all the smoke

Jack we got a special guest here man a former player turned owner

Talk about that but how often does that really happen?

Welcome to the show Renee Montgomery. Thank y'all for having me

Thank you. Hey, I mean you had us both on your show so it was only right to you know come back around especially with all the amazing

News that's kind of surrounding you of late this. I mean get in the first to foremost congratulations. I'm becoming the first former player

Turn owner and executive

Tell us how this all all that came about

You know it started back in October

I felt like I wanted to do something something different and there was a lot going on

We know the a had a lot going on there was stacey Abrams shutting it down the hawks were very active with them

More than a vote so I just wanted to think all right. How can we take this a step further?

So then I thought I started to see about Atlanta dream maybe selling the team so I'm like, hmm

You know I started to just think about it talked to some some money people and see if we could get some coins together

It didn't really work out in the beginning, but then I saw a LeBron tweet

I'm like maybe they can get me in touch with the right people and he got me in touch with the commissioner of the WNBA

Kathy Engelbert and then after that it was off to the races

So leave it to LeBron, huh?

LeBron and it's crazy because like I had already kind of

Try to put in a proposal before but we had the funds there. We didn't have enough funds and so

It was more so of who's already in the bids and how can we figure it out from there?

Tell me what it feels like to think owner and executive when you literally just step away from the game

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