South Beach Sessions - Nancy Lieberman

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Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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“I go, ‘No, Mr. Muhammad, I'm the greatest of all times.’” Nancy Lieberman is a legend. She’s conquered basically every court, in women’s and men’s basketball, from playing to coaching in the WNBA, NBA, and BIG3. Now, when women’s basketball has reached new heights, Nancy looks back on how far the game has come… and how brightly the stars of the current day – Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark, A’ja Wilson, and more – shine when the spotlight is finally put on them. Nancy also speaks about her unthinkable path from an impoverished upbringing, finding her confidence and community at Rucker Park as a teenager, to befriending her idol… Muhammad Ali, who served as a guiding light over the course of her life and career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.7	Surely in the history of South Beach sessions, we have never had anyone tougher than this human being right here, Nancy Lieberman, two-time Olympian, two-time Hall of Famer, Big Three Coach, champion, and a pioneer, a trailblazer.
1:14.3	I don't know if you feel like one of those.
1:18.6	Did you feel like a trailblazer while you were trailblazing, or does that come afterward?
1:20.3	That is way after.
1:24.0	You know, you play sports because you're having fun.
1:27.2	You're with your friends, and it gets you out of the house. So you could never think you're going to be in Olympian. You could never think you're having fun you're with your friends and it gets you out of the house so you could never think
1:28.8	you're going to be in olympian you can never think you're going to maybe change the world or be a
1:34.1	pioneer a trailblazer and when it's all over and you can exhale and you look back and go maybe i did
1:41.3	something right so i mean it just makes you feel good that maybe you set the plate for people coming, you know, behind you.
1:49.7	You've written several books, but I don't know that people necessarily know how difficult it was or how it started.
1:55.9	So let's go back to Brooklyn and the very earliest stages of you grabbing a basketball. What was your life like
2:03.3	before that happened? Well, I always love sports, but I had a very dysfunctional family. A lot of
2:09.6	people do, but my father left when I was eight, and I was just miserable. There were days. We had
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